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In this video, I’ll show you an incredible toilet trick that you probably didn’t know about yet! This simple bathroom hack can help make toilet cleaning easier, fresher, and more effective without wasting too much time or effort.
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In this video, I’ll show you an incredible toilet trick that you probably didn’t know about yet! This simple bathroom hack can help make toilet cleaning easier, fresher, and more effective without wasting too much time or effort.
If you love easy home hacks, clever cleaning tips, and simple tricks that actually work, this video is for you. Watch until the end to see how this toilet trick works and why so many people should know about it.
Don’t forget to like the video, subscribe, and turn on notifications for more useful home cleaning tricks, bathroom hacks, and everyday tips that make life easier.
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00:00There is a tube of the cheapest toothpaste at the store, the kind that costs about a dollar,
00:05that will keep your toilet bowl scrubbing itself clean and smelling minty fresh with every single
00:10flush for weeks on end without your lifting the brush between times. You have walked past that
00:17tube a thousand times thinking it was only for your teeth. It is one of those small clever tricks
00:24that turns a thing you already know into a thing that saves you money and labor both.
00:30And once you have done it, you will wonder why anyone buys the bright blue clip-on blocks at all.
00:36Let me show you how it is done, plain and simple. So here is the thing to understand, for it
00:42is why
00:43the trick works. You think of a toilet as clean when the bowl looks clean, but a toilet does not
00:49stay clean on its own. Every flush leaves a little film, and between your scrubbings, the staining
00:55and the smell creep back. So you are forever either scrubbing or living with a bowl gone dull
01:01and sour. What you want is not to scrub harder, but to have the bowl freshening and cleaning itself
01:08a little with every flush. So the film never gets a chance to build, and the smell never gets a
01:14chance
01:14to start. And that is exactly what a bit of toothpaste, set to release slowly into the flush water,
01:21will do for you. Toothpaste is made to scrub and to freshen. A mild scouring paste with a clean mint
01:28to it,
01:29and set where the water runs over it, it lends a little of that scrubbing and that freshness to every
01:35flush.
01:35Quick word before we go further. My name is Esther Yoder, and the old household ways handed down to me,
01:42the kind I am sharing today, and many more besides, are far more than I could fit into any one
01:48video.
01:49I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
01:55If today's tip serves you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught me lives,
02:00all in the one place. Now, back to it. Now, toothpaste itself my grandmother never had, of course,
02:08so I will not dress this up as some old Pennsylvania Dutch secret, for it is not. It is a
02:14clever modern trick,
02:15and I give it to you as that, plainly. But the principle under it is as old as her kitchen,
02:21and that is the thing I want you to carry away, for the principle is worth more than the trick.
02:27My grandmother believed in the little constant tending that keeps a thing from ever getting bad,
02:32over the big hard scrubbing that fixes it once it has. She kept a bit of vinegar in the rinse
02:38water,
02:38so the wash never soured. A sprig of something sweet in the linen, so the press never went musty.
02:44A lump of chalk in the tool drawer, so the damp never rusted the good scissors. A thing always working
02:50quietly in the background, so the trouble never took hold at all. She would say,
02:55at this very sort of task, that it is far easier to keep a thing clean, than to get it
03:01clean,
03:01once it has gone bad. And she was right, and I have found it true my whole life. The woman
03:07who lets
03:07a thing go filthy, and then fights it clean with a hard afternoon's labor, works twice as hard as the
03:14woman
03:14who keeps a little something always at work, so it never goes filthy in the first place. That is the
03:20whole wisdom
03:20under this toothpaste trick, and it is worth far more than the trick alone. For once you hold that
03:26principle, you will find a hundred uses for it all through your house. You are setting a little cleaner
03:32to work quietly with every flush, so the bowl never gets the chance to go bad. And that is her
03:38principle
03:38exactly, only with a tube of toothpaste standing in for her vinegar, and her sweet herbs, and her lump of
03:45chalk.
03:45The trick is new, the wisdom is old, and it is the wisdom I most want to hand you.
03:51Here is how you do it, and there are two ways, so I will give you both, and you may
03:56take the one that suits you.
03:57The plainest way needs nothing but the tube. You take that cheap tube of plain toothpaste, the white paste,
04:05not the gel, and not the striped kind, for the plain white paste has the scouring in it, and the
04:11gels do
04:11not. And you take a needle or a pin, and you prick a row of little holes down through the
04:17tube, through
04:18both sides, near the bottom end of it, several small holes, a half dozen or so. Prick them small,
04:25for small holes, let the paste seep slow, and make the tube last, where big holes would empty it too
04:32fast. Then you take off the cap, so the tube is open at the top, and you set the whole
04:38tube, holes
04:39and all, down inside the tank at the back of the toilet, the big part that holds the water, resting
04:46at the bottom where the water sits, laid on its side so the water moves over the holes. Now with
04:52every
04:53flush, as the water rushes through the tank, a little of the paste seeps out through those little holes
04:59into the water, and goes down into the bowl with the flush, lending its scrubbing and its mint to the
05:05water. One tube set up this way can last you a good while, weeks and weeks, slowly releasing a little
05:13at each flush, and all that while your bowl is getting a touch of cleaning and a breath of mint
05:19every
05:19time it is used, and the room stays fresher for it. You will see the water take on a faint
05:25cloudiness at
05:26first, as it finds its measure, and then it settles to a steady, gentle release. When at last the tube
05:33runs empty and light, you take it out and set in another, and a cheap tube is about a dollar,
05:39so this
05:39costs you next to nothing for weeks of freshening. Now I will give you the second way, which I favor
05:45a
05:46little myself, because it keeps the paste out of the workings of the tank, and here I owe you a
05:51word of
05:51plain caution. The tank at the back holds the flapper and the valve that make your toilet flush, and over
05:58a long time a paste seeping about in there could gum those workings or leave a residue on them, and
06:04a
06:04fouled flush valve is a nuisance to mend and no small bother. So if you would rather not set the
06:10tube in
06:11among the workings, do it this way instead, and make yourself little drop-in tablets of the paste.
06:17You squeeze out small dabs of the toothpaste onto a plate or a bit of waxed paper, little dabs the
06:23size of a coin, spaced apart so they do not run together, and you leave them out a day or
06:29two in
06:29a dry spot to harden. They dry into firm little cakes, minty and hard. Then you keep them dry in
06:36a jar
06:36with a lid, and drop one into the bowl itself when you want it, of a morning or before the
06:41family is
06:42home, and it slowly softens and dissolves and foams a little, and scrubs and freshens the bowl as it
06:48goes, and you give a quick swish with the brush and let it sit a few minutes and flush it
06:53through.
06:54This way the paste never touches the tank workings at all, only the bowl, which is where you want the
07:00cleaning anyway. A tube will dry you a good many of these little tablets, a jarful, so again a dollar
07:06goes a long way. Either way serves, the tube in the tank is less bothered to set up and tends
07:12itself
07:13for weeks. The dried tablets are gentler on the workings and let you freshen just when you please,
07:19and you may choose whichever suits your toilet and your liking. Let me tell you plainly what this does
07:24and does not do, so you use it well and are not disappointed. What it does is real and worth
07:30having. It keeps a light film and the fresh staining from building in the bowl between your cleanings,
07:36because a little scouring paste is working at the water with every flush, and it keeps the room
07:41smelling clean and minty fresh, which is no small thing in a bathroom. What it does not do is take
07:48the
07:48place of your proper cleaning altogether. It is a keeping fresh between scrubbings, not a substitute for
07:54ever scrubbing again, and it will not by itself lift a heavy old ring that is already built up hard.
08:00So you still give the bowl its proper clean now and then, and this keeps it fresh and holds the
08:05film
08:06back in between, which means you scrub far less often, and the bowl is pleasant to walk into every
08:11day. That is the plain truth of it, and it is a fine thing at that. Cheap and easy and
08:17truly useful,
08:18without my having to promise you it does more than it does. And I will tell you, for the heavy
08:24old ring
08:25that the toothpaste will not lift on its own, the thing that clears it is a cup of plain white
08:30vinegar,
08:31poured into the bowl and left to sit an hour, for the vinegar is a mild acid, and it eats
08:37the lime
08:37scale that the paste cannot. So the two together make your whole plan, the vinegar now and again to
08:43clear the hard build up, and the toothpaste working quietly between times to keep the fresh film and
08:49the smell from ever coming back. Clean with the vinegar, keep fresh with the toothpaste, and your
08:56bowl stays bright and sweet the year round for a dollar or two. Now think a moment about who profits
09:02from your never being told this. There is a whole shelf of the bright blue clip-on blocks and the
09:09drop-in tablets and the sprays, each one bought again every few weeks, month upon month, for as long
09:16as you keep a house, and each one dear for the little bit it does. And the plain truth the
09:22shelf will
09:23never carry is that a dollar tube of the cheapest toothpaste, pricked with a needle and set in the
09:29tank or dried into little tablets, freshens your bowl with every flush for weeks for a fraction of
09:36what the blocks cost. There is a great deal of money in a freshener you must rebuy forever in its
09:43little plastic cage. There is none at all in teaching you that the cheap tube already in your cupboard
09:50will do the same and better. I do not say there is a plot in it, a room of folks
09:56scheming to keep your
09:57toilet costly. It is quieter and sadder than a plot, for no one had to scheme at all. A whole
10:04trade
10:05simply grew up around selling you a freshening you must buy again and again, and the plain little
10:11cleverness of making your own from something cheap just never got passed along, because no one anywhere
10:18makes a dollar by the telling. It is worse than a conspiracy, in a way, for a conspiracy would at
10:24least
10:25have to be arranged, and this arranged itself, a shelf of dear little blocks crowding out the plain
10:31knowing that a tube of toothpaste would serve. My grandmother's principle, the little thing working
10:37quietly so the trouble never takes hold, got dressed up and sold back to us as a plastic block at
10:4410 times
10:45the price. The mending of it is small, and it is in your own two hands. You take the dollar
10:51tube,
10:52you prick it with a needle and set it in the tank, or you dry its dabs into little tablets
10:57for the bowl,
10:58and you have your toilet freshening and lightly cleaning itself with every flush for weeks, for pennies,
11:05and never another bright blue block bought. That is how it comes home, one cheap tube, one little tablet
11:13at a time, the keeping of your own house back in your own hands and off the store shelf.
11:20So here is what I would ask of you. Try it this week, prick a cheap tube and set it
11:25in the tank,
11:26or dry yourself a few little tablets, and then come back and tell me in the comments how long your
11:32tube
11:32lasted and whether the bowl stayed fresh between cleanings the way I promised. And tell me too,
11:39what scent of paste you used, the plain mint or one of the others, for I am curious which everyone
11:45favors.
11:46And while you are there, tell me your county and the age of your house. For the old houses have
11:51the
11:52old plumbing and the hard water that rings a bowl so. And I learn from every one of you how
11:58it runs
11:58where you live against the new. I read every comment. I learn from you the way the old women learned
12:05from one another across the fence line, one house and one season at a time. Next time I will show
12:14you
12:14the plain old way to keep the whole bathroom fresh with a few cheap things from the pantry, the scouring
12:21and the sweetening and the keeping of the damp from turning a room sour, so you need almost nothing
12:28from the store shelf at all. There is a right and an old way to keep a home clean and
12:34sweet that runs on
12:35vinegar and baking soda and a little cleverness and almost none of it comes in a plastic cage.
12:42But this week you start with the one cheap tube. You prick it with a needle and set it in
12:48the tank or you
12:50dry its little dabs into tablets for the bowl and you let a dollar of toothpaste keep your bowl
12:56freshening and cleaning itself with every flush minty and bright for weeks on end. And you will
13:03understand as my grandmother did at her own wash tub that it is easier to keep a thing clean than
13:10to
13:10get it clean and that a little something working quietly in the background is worth more than all
13:16the hard scrubbing in the world. The bathroom kept the plain clever way is the one that remembers how
13:23the old women kept a whole house fresh with a little thing always quietly at work and that is a
13:30thing
13:30we are only just starting to remember.
13:32You are only just starting to look at the wall and you are only just starting to look at it.
13:32Here we go.
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