1. Cleaning the oven –
Several sites suggested cleaning the oven using baking soda. I made a baking soda and salt paste, kept it moist during the day by spraying it with water, and left it in the oven overnight. It did get a lot of gunk out of the bottom of the oven, however, getting all of the baking powder out of the oven was like getting sand out of the carpet of your car – it took a while. I had to wipe down the oven multiple times

Adding baking soda to the sponge and scrubbing down the racks also helped get the build-up of gunk off the oven racks as well.

2. Cleaning fried, dried, gunk off of pots and pans
I’ve found that either spraying down a pot with vinegar or using baking soda on a metal pan (not on a non-stick pan though) helps to make washing the dishes go faster.

3. the toilet
spraying down the toilet lid, ring, and outside the bowl with a vinegar solution has really helped me keep the toilet disinfected.

I've also tried spraying down the toilet with hydrogen peroxide and then with vinegar (creates a weak acid which helps boost the disinfectant power) and quickly wiping it up. This worked as well. (again, do not mix these two together in a container keep them seperate). If you have hydrogen peroxide (3%) in a clear spray bottle, keep the bottle in a closet as h2o2 needs to be kept out of the light.

Trying to clean the inside of the toilet with vinegar didn’t really work. Though I suspect if I had let the vinegar sit for a while it would have done the trick, but I could only stand the smell of vinegar so long. Baking soda did help to clean the inside though.