Dirty Talk

To clean silver line the bottom of the with aluminum foil, add several spoonfuls of baking soda and fill the pan with boiling water. Now drop in your silver pieces and watch the tarnish disappear.

when cleaning a silver metal sink they can look dull to get them shining again after cleaning scrub the sink down with dry newspaper

Keep your sterling "sterling" pristine, your gold, gold. Do not keep gold jewelry together in the same box as sterling. Or either, in the same box as costume jewelry. First, clean the gold and sterling; then keep them completely separate. You won't have to shine and polish as often.

run out of silver cleaner? use toothpaste to clean the tarnish off your silver

I have some antique silverware which i've just bought some super expensive cleaner for, but my mum used to use toothpaste on hers. Aparently you use a bit of water and don't scrub too hard. I'm sticking with my expensive stuff though

Another tip for cleaning silver. I coat it with toothpaste and then rinse it off with warm water.

If you're lucky enough to have sterling silver then you can clean it with a bit of baking soda and water that's been rubbed to form a paste...

clean aluminium window frames with cream silver polish