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3. Extend the life of your brooms!

This is especially helpful for new brooms: Mix salt and warm water and dip the broom into this liquid. Make sure to keep the hair of the broom submerged for at least one hour, once a week.

There are commercial ammonia and soap solutions available for this purpose but they have the obvious drawback of ammonia’s aggressive and potentially harmful side effects (especially a problem if you have kids in your home)