Spring Cleaning Hacks You'll Wish You'd Found Out Years Ago

Clean Metal with Olive Oil

As well as being a great source of B vitamins and healthy fat, olive oil is an awesome cleaning product. You can use it to shine stainless steel and coat the outside to avoid future messes. Not to mention that olive oil has a pleasant smell.

The More You Know

Instead of spending hours untangling your Christmas lights every year, simply wrap them around the bar portion of a pants hanger and clip each end—they'll remain untangled all year.
Next time you oversalt a soup, toss in a few wedges of raw apple or potato. Simmer for 10 minutes and discard the wedges to get the flavor back to normal.
While using a clothes iron to straighten hair is an old trick, using a hair straightener on collars and that space between buttons also works
Help keep your home office space organized by using PVC pipe to hide cords. Just wrangle all those computer, mouse, monitor and phone cords and hide them in some PVC pipe.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.