:) How Do You Clean The Sink? :) A Tutorial for the Housekeeping Impaired

These simple rules will help you get your sink clean and shiny.

1. Remove all dishes, trash, food, and debris from the sink. Make sure to run the disposal with lots of hot soapy water if you are cleaning your kitchen sink.

2. Stop up the drain using whatever method you use to catch water in your sink. Fill the sink with warm, sudsy water (regular dishwashing detergent works great). Using a dish scrubber, brillo pad, or steel wool, scrub the sides of the sink while leaving the warm water in the sink. Make sure you also scrub the sink faucet, nooks and crannies around the edge of the sink bowl, and any area between the back of the sink and the wall.

3. I like to add Clorox bleach to the warm sudsy water AFTER I finish scrubbing the sides of the sink (otherwise the Clorox will hurt your hands and bleach your clothes). On a side note, it is always a good idea to wear rubber gloves while doing intensive sink cleaning! Let the Clorox sit for as long as possible, preferably at least one hour and up to eight hours for quite dirty sinks.

4. Drain the water from the sinks and rinse completely.

5. Polish the faucet and rim of the sink until dry and shiny.

5. For an extra shiny sink, you can try putting a thin layer of car wax on your clean sink. Make sure your sink is dry before you apply the wax.

6. Voila! A beautiful, clean, shiny sink! Great job!