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Now that you've detoxed your body and cleaned out your closets, it's time to go for the fridge. Looking into an over filled fridge can be as stressful as looking into a cluttered closet. Every meal that you aimlessly gaze into the never ending horizon of past date food allows more time to build unnecessary anxiety in your mind. Follow my steps to get rid of the food that's gone rancid in the fridge as well as the food that is not doing a body good.
Green Cleaning the Fridge
- First pick out the foods that are past date or you know you don't plan on eating and get rid of them. Recycle or reuse as many containers as possible. Note what you're throwing out and cut back on purchasing so much of those items in the future.
- Remove all the food from the fridge so that you can really get to scrubbing it. Put the food that needs to stay cold in a cooler.
- Using white vinegar and baking soda along with a few old rags really get down and dirty. Scrubbing every last bit of the monster. Making sure not to skip the shelves or drawers and realizing that after this it will be a very long time until you have to go through this misery again.
- Unplug and move the fridge away from the wall vacuuming under the fridge as well as the coils behind it. This is a good way to increase efficiency. The refrigerator consumes about 8 percent of a home's electricity. It's far and away the single most energy-intensive appliance. Fridges use up a lot of energy while making the coldness. You can do things to make your fridge more efficient. Here are five easy steps to make your refrigerator run more efficiently.
- Use vinegar in a spray bottle to give the outside of the fridge a good scrub as well.
Source: Green Daily
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