I prep my microwave oven for cleaning by putting water and lemon juice in a little bowl, then running the oven on High for 2 minutes. The scented steam loosens stuck on food and knocks out the cooking odors. After I clean the oven, I stick the bowl back in on High again for a minute to finish off.

My husband and I have live in a World War 2 era apartment with no bathroom ventilation. Worse yet, all the rooms are accessed through a single hallway running the length of the apartment. This means that when either one of us sits and delivers, so to speak, there's almost a visible miasma hovering about the bathroom for several minutes. We've tried home remedies like burning a match, but the combined odor was actually worse, especially when it clung to us.

We read about a product called Just a Drop in a business magazine and risked CDN$9 on it. It seems to be a eucalyptus scented highly concentrated deodorant/disinfectant and works incredibly well. It doesn't matter whether you squeeze a drop of it in the bowl before or after use as it does a phenomenal job of actually neutralizing the odor, leaving only a bit of that eucalyptus scent behind.