October 20, 2020 5:25 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 2, which means most of us in North America (with the exception of you rebels in Hawaii, Arizona and Saskatchewan) will be adjusting our clocks to “fall back” an hour. The starting and ending dates of Daylight
October 20, 2020 5:35 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
If getting an extra hour of sleep this fall is going to help you breathe a little more easily, our biannual cleaning tips will make sure the air you inhale is all the better for you and your family. Take a few moments out of your recharged day to purify your home with
December 4, 2020 2:34 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
With the news exploding with stories about Enterovirus-D68 and Ebola, it’s no wonder folks are in a panic about killing germs. The truth is, even if an illness didn’t make the daily headlines, it’s a perfect reminder to take stock of your daily hygiene and home
October 1, 2014 3:43 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
The Internet is full of information that can both change your life or distract you from it, which is especially true of cleaning blogs. While we strive to give you the best information and trending topics about organizing and cleaning, we recognize that there are many
September 22, 2021 3:23 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
We spend a lot of time in our homes and cars and we enjoy them more when they’re clean and decluttered. But busy schedules can make it tough for many of us to keep up with the housework, much less keeping a car clean. Professional car detailers may know how to
September 18, 2014 3:20 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Are you ready? Here it is: Make the kids do it. Here’s the thing. Bathrooms are small spaces that can get ridiculously dirty if given half the chance. If you have even one child who occasionally, ahem, misses the boat, then bathrooms need constant attention. Teaching
September 10, 2014 3:03 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
“Hi!” I say to you as you walk through my yellow front door. “So good to see you! Come in. Have a seat. We have so much catching up to do.” I want to hold your eye contact to prevent you from looking around, but I can’t. It’s inevitable. I can practically see the
September 5, 2014 4:09 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Unexpected guests? Friend in the neighborhood? Date go unexpectedly well? When you have a less-than-presentable house and exactly five minutes to clean it, race through these six tips as quickly as you can: 1. Clean the toilet. Give it a quick spray with cleaner
August 28, 2014 9:28 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Franchise Story
Shhhh… did you hear that? That was the collective sigh of relief from parents all over the country. School is back in session. Thank goodness. As life settles into the new normal, it’s important to get a grip on as much as you can as the school year picks up speed.
August 20, 2014 4:35 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Hours of sunshine and gentle winds make for some beautiful memories in the summer, and that’s just the start of it. Now is the time to take advantage of all that free energy (I’m talking about the sun and having kids at home) and see how using a clothesline can really
August 15, 2014 7:23 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Is there anything like the sights, sounds, and smells of back-to-school season? The first crack of a brand new notebook, laying out that inaugural outfit, smelling the slightest tinge of fall in the maple leaves—all signs that a new season of regularly scheduled
August 8, 2014 3:16 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Readers of this blog know that occasionally I find myself needing to confess something publicly. Like how I feel about window washing. And how I really feel about spring-cleaning. Today is another one of those days. I’ve stopped folding underwear. It was a
July 23, 2014 4:06 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
With many of the nation’s schools starting up classes in early to mid-August, a brand new school year is right around the corner. And, for families with kids, the start of a new school year comes with more fervor, goals and dreams than anything that could happen come
July 16, 2014 5:03 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
We get it. Hiring a cleaning service can be a tough decision. We’re not even talking about our regularly scheduled services, although we obviously do those, too; we also provide “one-hit-wonder” services all the time for special situations, like the ones below. Do any
September 22, 2021 3:24 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
We all know how effective mosquito insecticides like DEET can be, but the harsh chemicals can aggravate your skin, lungs, and eyes. If you feel you’re trading one nuisance for another when you use commercial bug sprays, why not try a more natural method? From
July 2, 2014 4:31 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
I’m going to tell you all something I wish I would have learned years ago, a lesson so important that I sometimes wish I would have tattooed it backwards on my forehead so I would be reminded every time I looked into the mirror.** Here it is: There’s nothing wrong
July 2, 2021 12:18 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Poor indoor air quality due to mold can impact the health of everyone in the home. Symptoms are wide spread and can be serious, ranging from allergies to
October 12, 2020 4:22 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
There’s a reason why our “How to Get Fingernail Polish Out of Carpet and Fabric” post is popular—accidents happen! Especially when it comes to drippy, brightly colored nail polish. So what do you do when you’re ready to paint the town red and you accidentally
January 11, 2022 1:17 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
We know the challenges of getting—and keeping—a house clean, and we are constantly pinning our favorite cleaning tips, hacks and sanity savers on Pinterest.
May 28, 2014 8:25 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Laundry. Whether you love it or hate it, chances are there are times you wish you could go to bed and wake up with it all washed, dried, folded, and put away. (You mean I should have wished for something else on my last birthday?). While I can’t bring enchantment to
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