Avoid These Bad Cleaning Habits That Make Your Home Even Dirtier
Photo: Sasin Paraksa (Shutterstock) Cleaning, for most people, isn’t their idea of a good time. It’s a chore: Something we do because we have to. And in our quest to…
9 Things You Should Take Off Your Kitchen Counters (Because It’s Grossing People Out)
Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) Think about it: Where do backpacks, gym bags, and purses live throughout the day? Bus aisles, train seats, public school desks, lockers, locker room benches, the…
Clever Household Uses for Sponges That Don’t Involve Doing Dishes
Photo: Seamm (Shutterstock) As long-time Lifehacker readers may recall, we’re not always the biggest fans of sponges. The most obvious example of this sentiment is a 2019 post by former…
Can a Microwave Really Sanitize Your Dirty Sponges?
Photo: eanstudio (Shutterstock) Let’s just start here: Kitchen sponges are disgusting. A 2017 study published in Nature.com’s Scientific Reports found that used kitchen sponges harbored a whopping 362 different types…
8 Cheap Fidget ‘Toys’ Your Pop-It Loving Kid Will Play With
Photo: Viktor Osipenko (Shutterstock) One of my most traumatic childhood memories was a Halloween party in elementary school. We went to a haunted house in the library, were blindfolded, and…
Use Magic Erasers to Clean Sneakers, Grout, and Keyboards
We know Mr. Clean “Magic Erasers” as the white pads with a shiny bald man telling you to remove scuff marks from walls. But these little scrubbers—known generically as “melamine…
13 Ways to Spring Clean When You’re Lazy
Photo: Photographee.eu (Shutterstock) If you can afford it, hiring someone else might be worth the investment. Spring cleaning comes once a year, and you can save plenty of time by…
12 Neglected Household Items You Should Clean More Often
Photo: No Mimimi (Shutterstock) Kids’ toys get a lot of use and come in close contact with their faces ands, often, their mouths. While it sounds like a recipe for…