Your washing machine needs routine cleaning to help keep your clothing clean. When you wash things like dirty kitchen towels and heavily stained clothes, germs and bacteria can linger and grow inside the washing machine. This is even truer if you wash only in cold water. Laundry detergent isn't designed to sanitize, but to clean clothes. To sanitize your washing machine, pour a cup of bleach and run a full wash cycle using hot water with an empty drum.

The next time you open a can of garbanzo beans, don't throw away the water in the can. The fiber-rich water is actually a fantastic plant-based egg replacer for baking. It's called "aquafaba," and it can be used in a variety of recipes. To replace one egg when baking, use 3 tablespoons of aquafaba. You can soak dried chickpeas and use the residual water as aquafaba, too.

When it comes to composting, organic matter like vegetable and fruit peels are great items to add to your bin. But when it comes to citrus peels from fruit like lemons and oranges, it's best to minimize the amount you put into the compost. Since all-natural pesticides often use citrus oil, adding citrus can actually inhibit worms from thriving in your compost. Scatter citrus peels around the bin to let them degrade and to act as a natural pest repellent.