Avoid These Common Car Washing Mistakes
Once you’ve invested in the necessary supplies, washing your car yourself—as opposed to taking it to a car wash—can save you money. But beyond that, it also gives you more…
Avoid These Common Window-Cleaning Mistakes
It’s not just you: Getting windows streak-free and crystal-clear is harder than it looks. Although it seems like a few spritzes of an all-purpose cleaner and a quick swipe of…
Use an Umbrella to Catch Dust While Cleaning a Ceiling Fan
Photo: SaiArLawKa2 (Shutterstock) If you’re not careful, cleaning ceiling fans, chandeliers and other hanging light fixtures can leave dust and gunk on everything down below, which is basically the opposite…
You Can Clean Your Oven Without Scrubbing a Thing
Photo: brizmaker (Shutterstock) When it comes to cleaning your oven, you have a lot of options, but they all involve major elbow grease, whether you’re using Bar Keepers Friend, a…
Stop Cleaning Your Granite This Way
Photo: Dragon Images (Shutterstock) In the wide world of cleaning products, so many of them are multipurpose—but even the most versatile of products are not good for cleaning granite. You…
All the Ways You Can Use Bar Keepers Friend (but Aren’t)
Photo: Red Herring (Shutterstock) Let’s talk about Bar Keepers Friend, the inexpensive, acidic scouring powder in a can that’s been around over 100 years. In that time, people have found…
What You Should Clean in Your House After Someone Gets Sick
Photo: Becky Wright Photography (Shutterstock) When a sickness is tearing through your home, you may not feel like cleaning, whether because you’re down and out yourself or you’re taking care…
The Easiest Way to Clean Cooking Grease
Photo: Yevhen Prozhyrko (Shutterstock) Broadly speaking, there are two ways to deal with messes in the kitchen: Everyday tidying up—like after cooking, eating, or spills—and then, the type of deep…
You Don’t Need a Separate Stain-Removing Spray for Your Laundry
Photo: Pinkasevich (Shutterstock) When it comes to laundry supplies, the number of products we have, verses the ones we actually need don’t necessarily match up. And with storage space in…
10 of the Best (and Worst) TikTok Cleaning Trends of 2022
While you don’t actually need to do laundry stripping if your clothes are washed correctly every time, your clothes may not always be washed right—and laundry stripping is harmless at…