I have tried to clean my room several times but I always end up feeling overwhelmed and often end up making a bigger mess. I dont know where to start or how to keep myself from just giving up after getting overwhelmed.
It's like these lingering thoughts we all universally share, but never discuss, only ponder to ourselves. My roommates will go to the bathroom and there is like a smudge on the back of the seat constantly. At first I was like omg is that me. I've been super vigilent in monitoring lol. So I'm not sure how to approach. A conversastion like this makes me feel really uncomfortable and I think my delivery would be distrastrious because I would be nervous. I'm not sure why it's happening. Any advice?
In short, i broke large mirror with my foot
It’s extremely demoralizing, in that i kept this mirror over a for year!!
We were to hang it tomorrow!
I have to get over the mirror!! Because now, my foot is just writing chaotic love letters to the mirror, all over this rug!!’ In blood!
How do i get my free/falling blood out of a woolish fiber carpet?
Thank you!
My left foot is immaculate
It’s like i’ve left mentrual stain on an antique, but with my foot?
TLDR: My best friend since middle school has a cat pee problem, and struggles a bit to keep the house tidy. Looking for advice on the best approach to talk about the situation, or help her in any way!
I need some advice on how to handle a situation with my best friend since middle school. We've been close forever, and I've always known her place was pretty messy, but I guess I've become desensitized to it over time. Recently, I brought another friend over and she was grossed out, saying she'd have rather stayed in a hotel. She didn't like openly embarrass my friend in that instance, but that really opened my eyes to the reality of the situation.
I want to be able to visit her and feel comfortable, but I'm worried about her social life too. Part of me thinks they might be lonely because they avoid having people over, likely because of how the house looks and smells (but I'm opted out because I'm probably one of the few who just ignores it).
Another thing is that she is going to be having a big family & friends Halloween party celebration this October. It just got me thinking that as a friend maybe I should say something to her? Or is this the type of thing where I should just say not my circus not my monkies?
More context: I did realize things were pretty bad when I did help her move out of her last house. I have to say it was almost hoarder level the amount of garbage and just stuff that they had in their house(she is married- and it is a combo of the both of them). At one point we literally just had to start throwing stuff away because we couldn't find anything to do with it or fit it in any amount of trucks that we took off of the property. There was a mound of stuff left outside the house on the last day, and a whole trailers worth or two of garbage. But she is my best friend and I really care about her and her health and safety, and so even if I have to get down and dirty I'm going to help them if I can, and I did.
I don't have the money for a big cleaning service (because I'd love to like gift her a few months of a cleaning service or a deep clean to help get them off on the right foot), but I'd love to help her in a practical way without making her feel embarrassed. Any suggestions on how to approach this?
I’m wondering what you guys do for your home to keep it always clean and smelling good but without it smelling like an overpowering fragrance.
Things I currently like to do:
(1) change the air filters regularly
(2) rinse my vacuum filter monthly (so the sucking power stays)
(3) vacuum all my floors and baseboard once a week
(4) sweep my kitchen and bathroom or other high traffic areas once a day or every other day
(5)wipe down all my counters daily (bathroom & kitchen)
(6) wash my sheets / bedding / bath mat weekly
(7) I try to stick to consistent fragrances like lemon/citrus and lavender
Pet specific:
(1) hide the litter boxes out of eye sight.. mostly
(2) clean litter boxes daily, duh
(3) use an ozone odorizer and odor gels near the litter boxes
(4) use a litter genie
(5) every two weeks completely dump out litter and rinse the litter boxes, litter genie, litter mats and scoopers
Thank you in advance for your tips!
I bought one of those vacuum cleaners “for sofas and beds” that claimed to blow hot air. Total scam, because it doesn’t have much suction or suction power, and it certainly doesn’t blow real hot air.
To kill dust mites, it has been proven that they need to be exposed to air at at least 65°C (149°F) for several seconds or even minutes. The vacuum blows the air out to the side, where it immediately disperses, so it’s basically useless for that.
So the solution is a heat gun. Or, alternatively, a hair dryer that can reach at least 70°C (158°F), but I don’t have one. If you keep the heat gun at a distance, the airflow shouldn’t be hotter than around 80°C (176°F). Up close, it can reach around 100–150°C (212–302°F), which could damage the upholstery. But if you move it farther away, you can simply put your hand in the airflow and tell that it isn’t coming out excessively hot.
In my case, it’s also a 90 cm wide foam mattress, so wet vacuum cleaners aren’t suitable either, because the foam shouldn’t be dampened.
I grew up with neat freaks and as such I hate cleaning. My partner is building me a house and I’m designing it, I’m already doing dark tile that hides hair and dirt so I don’t feel like I have to clean it every single day but what other features would you have in a home to make it easier/less stressful to clean?
Would you do a solid banister for stairs to make dusting easier? How would you design washrooms? Would you do rimless glass showers to prevent mold? Would you do a dark tile for a shower? Would you have the shower be heated to prevent standing moisture?
He’s building it all himself and can engineer or figure out anything. I genuinely want a dream home that doesn’t require the daily cleaning I grew up with.
Please tell me I am not the only one whose ceiling fans become embarrassing. The rest of the room looks fine, but the fan has a full dust blanket.
My maid says she will clean it "next time" every week. What do you guys do?
I left trash inside a grocery bag inside a cardboard bag for eight days. I was away, I thought I'd be back way sooner, and I left in a hurry.
I removed the excess, scrubbed the stain, mopped the whole floor, mooped the stain again with considerably more water.
The stain is almost gone, but there is still a vague smell.
What could I do in regards to it? I desperatly want to eat here, is this going to affect my health?
I work from home a few days a week, and by the time 5 PM on Friday hits, my desk is usually a mild disaster. It's just a slow accumulation of stry coffee mugs, random sticky notes, and a weird amount of snack crumbs.
I used to just shut my laptop and immediately run away for the weekend. But then monday morning would roll around, and sitting down to a mess instantly put me in a bad mood before I even opened an email.
So recently, I started forcing myself to do a 10-minute desk reset right before logging off. I put on the same short jazz playlist, clear out the mugs, toss the useless post-its, and run my little hoto vacuum over the keyboard and the dusty cable corners.
honestly, nothing about the actual cleaning changed, but giving it a fixed order and a soundtrack stopped it from feeling like an annoying chore. It feels like a physical way of telling my brain that the work week is ACTUALLY over.
Do you guys have any weirdly specific rituals for dumb household tasks?
Just cleaned the top of my fridge and... yeah. I don't wanna talk about it.
Hi all. I moved into this apartment about 3 months ago and ever since I moved it it definitely had a certain smell. My family and I agree it kinda smelled like a cat. Well fast-forward to now, I’m doing a deep clean of my baseboards and I find an extreme amount of cat hair stuck to the baseboard under my dishwasher. I hate my apartment smelling bad so what do I do now? I bought a wall mop, but what do I even clean with? I have an air purifier too, but no luck. Please help!
I have a lot of clutter in my room and I struggle to get rid of items because everything looks worth keeping. Are there any methods to figure out what's actually important enough to keep? Any other advice is greatly appreciated, too.
We see perfect homes on social media all the time, no mess, no clutter, no dust, no stains, no dishes and windows so clean they almost look brand new.
I try my best to keep my home clean and organized, but with pets and kids, there's only so much I can do. Every room seems to have a small pile of stuff somewhere. I'm trying to tidy up, but there are always areas that get overlooked.
Sometimes I wonder… do people really live like this every day, or is it just the side of their homes they show in photos?
I cleaned up all the pop bottles and other trash but now I don't know where to put all my belongings. What should I do with everything I have? My tables are a mess, I tried plastic containers but I still can't fit everything. The problem is how do I store everything somewhere easy to access and have it neat too? I'm 19 and I just don't know what to do here. I've been through cleaning routines at least twice a month but the problem is knowing where to put everything.
Without a hangy thing over the shower head, and no suction cups. The shelf is too narrow for a wooden soap holder. I'm a horrible housewife, so I need it to be easy to clean and I hate mold so I need it to be mildew-resistant. I don't have a dishwasher to throw things into to sanitize them.
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I just moved into a new apartment a few days ago and my husband and I had been noticing a stale urine smell in the main bathroom. I thought it was just the toilet and the floor surrounding it, so I deep cleaned the toilet and the floor. I took apart the toilet seat and hinge and removed the bolt caps, soaked all the parts in hot water and cleaning solution, and vigorously cleaned the outside of the toilet with Clorox Urine Remover. There was so much built up old pee in the seat hinge and around the bolts, it was awful. I grew up with two younger brothers and I've never ever seen anything like this in a private bathroom.
A few hours later, I can still smell the pee. I'm pretty sure it's in the wall and/or the baseboards surrounding the toilet (it's in a corner unfortunately). It's definitely fainter now and I'm confident it's no longer coming from the toilet or the toilet seat. How can I clean the wall and the baseboards without ruining them? The wall is textured (knockdown, I think it's called) and the baseboards appear to be run of the mill. I live in the US so any product recommendations that are available here would be best.
Having a vacuum cleaner for every specific task:
Having several air purifiers throughout the house.
Once you discover that clean, neutral, dust-free air smells better than any air freshener, you get addicted to air purifiers.
Hey, so not sure if this is the right sub to post this but I’m wondering how to get the body oil smells and body odors out of my bed sheets, pillowcases and towels. They get washed regularly and I wash with Gain liquid detergent. We also have a brand new washer and dryer set but they never come out smelling like the detergent.
we do janitorial for a few small offices, just me and one other person. mold keeps popping up in the bathroom corners and around the caulk and we usually just grab whatever is cheapest at the store. it never fully works and comes back within a few weeks.
we dont have alot of money to throw at this. what mold remover actually works without needing to reapply constantly?