Save a fortune on household cleaning products and help the environment at the same time.
All your cleaning product can be made from the same few products. I have listed the prices that are current to Sainsburies:

Lemon juice (squeezey bottle) - £0.32p
Bicarb of soda - £0.75p
Distilled vinegar 1l (not malt) - £1.38p
Table salt - £0.42
Tea tree oil - £4.13p
Total - £7.00p

These will last a about two months, you will also need a couple of left over spray bottle from your original cleaners.

Surfaces, sinks, toilets and hobs: 1/3 vinegar, about three table spoons of lemon juice (or a good squirt), two teaspoons of teatree oil and fill the rest up with water (shake well before use).
This will clean all surfaces around the house including the kitchen, hobs, sinks and toilets.
When cleaning toilets and sinks spray and then lightly sprinkle (I use an icing sugar shaker) bicarbonate of soda over the bowl or sinks and then give a good scrub. This method also shine taps and household metal up a treat. The lemon makes the it smell nice and acts as a bleach, the vinegar disinfects as does the tea tree oil but gives a great shine. The foaming action of the bicarb lifts dirt and works with the lemon to smell nice and fresh.

Windows and mirrors: Use the same mixture on the hob, if you have stubborn stain pour half/half salt and bicarb and make a paste with the spray. That works as a great scourer.

For windows and mirrors use a 50/50 vinegar and water mix and use old newspaper not a cloth (although this tends to have issues with Windows Vista but what doesn't). The paper soaks up the water and stops streaking while the vinegar shines. Most window and mirror cleaners are vinegar based anyway.

Wood and non carpeted floors: Use half a cup of vinegar in half a bucket of warm water.

There was many more uses for these products including carpet stain removers and air freshers just to name two but those are the basics.

So if you assume these will last you two months, that's your household cleaning for 88p a week assuming that you clean your house everyday. If you only do it once a week then we're talking 12p a week.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Sun 21 Jun 2009, 11:22, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Are you my nanna?

(i should have joined myspace, Sun 21 Jun 2009, 22:46, Reply)

Yes. I am indeed your nanna
Now would you like one of the chocolates I've had in the dresser since 1953?
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 9:15, Reply)

Most window cleaning solutions are detergent-based.
To best clean windows, use the smallest drop of the cheapest possible washing-up liquid, a squeezed-out dishcloth to wash with as little liquid as possible and a lint-free cloth to polish down.

/Ex window cleaner
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 5:37, Reply)

Personally i find you can't beat lard.

( riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 9:16, Reply)

Haha

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:01, Reply)

you obviously aren't whisking vigorously enough

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 10:45, Reply)

Clean your house every day??
What brand of fresh lunacy is this?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 15:42, Reply)

I have a youth hostel
It has to be cleaned everyday.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 21:25, Reply)

Kim and/or Aggie AICMFP

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 24 Jun 2009, 4:27, Reply)