I live in a messy house. You do, too, unless you just showed up here because you’re one of those super neat people and you’re curious what it’s like to live in a messy house. Well, it’s not the worst thing in the world! A messy house is a house where people feel comfortable making …
Rule #1. Start at the top. This one is kind of a no brainer, I know. But don’t wash your lower cabinets before your uppers. Don’t wash the floor of the tub before you wash the sides. Don’t wash floors before you wash walls. Why? Gravity. All the mess you cleaned from up above is …
Ooh that title will get some faces, won’t it? First of all, when I say housekeeper I’m referring to a woman in a family who does the cleaning and cooking and whatever else was traditionally considered a woman’s work circa 1950. Or perhaps still now if you are particularly backwards. Here’s what I have to …
Motivation is a fickle friend. If you’re relying on motivation to accomplish any task that is important to you, I have bad news for you. You are doomed to fail. Because motivation, by definition, comes and goes. You don’t need motivation. Consider motivation a nice little bonus where you might get even more done than …
My gran loves her tea – specifically 5 Roses black tea. And when I say loves her tea, I mean 3 cups within the first hour of waking loves. (Yes, she happens to be British, which you might have guessed.) The copious cups of tea would leave her cups stained. Her trick to get the …
I’m going to be honest, a black man writing about a 1950’s Cleaning Schedule seems… well… Different. Yeah, let’s go with different. So what brought me to this place? Because I work from home, I try to stay on my feet as much as my feet and legs allow because for the past 15 years …
There are some places in your home that you forgot to clean. Or you remembered to clean them, but who has time for that, really? I’ve got a list for you that you can go through and tick off and feel so much better about having a really clean home. Don’t feel like you have …
The Mr. Clean Eraser is one of my all time favorite cleaning tools. I mean, it’s not like I have a huge list of favorite cleaning tools, but I really do love the Magic Eraser because it is kind of, well, magical. It can totally take on the stuff that your normal sponge just can’t …
You know I love the Magic Eraser for cleaning lots of things. It works REALLY, REALLY well on loads of things that you would expect it to work on. Like crayon off of walls, the inside of the microwave, plastic stuff. It’s awesome. But I found a bunch of Mr. Clean Eraser hacks that looked …
When you are in the mood to clean or even if you’re not in the mood to clean but you HAVE to clean because it’s going to be Thanksgiving soon and you HAVE to clean, it’s nice to have a method to the cleaning madness. I like cleaning tips that take me room by room …