Stain Be Gone

There's this guy that used to be shown on PBS named Graham Haley that showed all kinds of cleaning tricks. Of course I was never smart enough to sit there with a pen and write it all down before they stopped showing the series during pledging periods. He really only uses a few household things to clean an array of items like toothpaste to whiten white shoes and lemon with salt to polish copper. He has a few tricks using water softener but for some reason I could never find the stuff in our stores here. Well, I guess HERE we don't have a really big hard water problem but now I've completely forgotten what the use was for to begin with! So frustrating...anyway, I may have to pick up his book so that we can try to be slightly more eco-friendly around here.