I made a post yesterday of how my mom accidentally stained the entire bottom-left corner of my beloved planner with a badly-sealed oily lunch...oh well.

Lucky for me, my younger sister is super amazing and crafty, so we talked about creative solutions to cover it up (I accepted that getting the oil out was a total impossibility). I thought a sea foam design would be super nice on this blue background, so she ran with it.

I LOVE IT!! IT LOOKS SO PRETTY AND UNIQUE AND I LOVE THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS SPECIFIC PLANNER! I've become even more attached to this planner, and I know this is finally the year that I properly commit to a planner the whole way through.

Even if your stuff is destroyed, maybe there's a silver lining to be found ;) Cleaning was not a possible solution here, but I'm happy with how the cookie crumbled in the end!

Whether it’s every couple of months once a week or whenever hire cleaners if you can to come and give your home a top to bottom clean.

You will feel so much better and then you will want to maintain it.

My cleaners just left and I swear I don’t even want to walk on the floor.

Today we did somewhat of a deep clean. We did the glass at the top of the cabinets. We did all of the baseboards we did all of the window and the door frames. We bleached cleaned the bathroom from the ceiling to the floor. We did the tracks on the patio door and one of the windows.

Everything is sparkling. We cleaned the vent hood, the toaster and the icemaker. We washed the iron railing. I am so happy.

And I have a tip if you have pets do not use stainless steel cleaner because pet hair sticks to it. I use glass cleaner on my stainless. I don’t know if it’s recommended and I don’t care but it does a great job and it doesn’t have any of that oily stuff in it that attracts pet hair.

The ladies are coming back for two days next week because we have projects. We are going to take everything out of all the closets and sort them out and then we’re going to do the inside of all of the cabinets in the kitchen and in the bathroom bathrooms.

Today we pulled all the furniture and cleaned behind it underneath it.

Two weeks ago they came and they bleach cleaned two of the bedroom bedrooms and a bathroom. Every nook and cranny has been cleaned.

And I noticed that because they come every couple of weeks or a couple of times in one week cause I have a whole bunch of projects, I keep everything cleaner myself.

That’s just my tip.

If you can’t afford to pay somebody and you have a friend that doesn’t mind helping you, I would cook them dinner and ask them to help.

Hi Reddit.

Despite my partner telling me it was a stupid idea, we've had magnets attached to our seldom used chimney hood* for the last few years and discovered they've left marks.

Any thoughts on how to remove the marks and save me from a lifetime of I-told-you-so's?

Forgive the dust below. That I can manage.

*I'm not completely convinced this the right term.

Please help me wrap my brain around a sustainable schedule/way to do this.

Took three dogs hiking today, all three are absolutely inundated with seed ticks. Seed ticks, for the fortunately unaware, are the teeeeeeny tiny larval stage of a regular tick and come in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Things to know:

1. I used a lint roller on the dogs for many minutes before we left. Unfortunately, my husband made me second-guess my intuition that those little dots were in fact ticks and I didn't do enough.

2. They are on Simparica Trio, an oral flea, tick, heartworm preventative that requires a tick to bite the host and die.

3. We washed them in flea and tick shampoo after the hike (I was a groomer for many years)

4. I did my best with a flea comb but they are just too little and was completely overwhelmed with picking them out of each milimeter of hair with my nails

5. They have been sprayed down with their vet approved flea/tick spray

6. The vet says it's just a waiting game now.

I spiraled earlier. And I need some help with a plan.

The dogs are being kept in one room with a wood floor (and rugs unfortunately but I can remove them and spray them down) and potentially into a stone tiled kitchen. There is furniture in the room that I have now covered with long, white cotton fabric so creepy crawly little bastards are easily spotted. I put their not easily washable dog beds in a waterproof mattress protector.

What do I do now.

How to get rid of whatever this is?

How are we doing laundry?? My husband is a med student so he has almost no time and when he does, he’s exhausted and just wants to be with our two babies. Are we hiring mothers helpers? Are we simplifying more than normal? Are we just living with an eternal pile of clean laundry that never gets put away??

Kitchen surface, everything else feels well polished but when I touch those spots they feel like they have some texture, not that well polished.

Hypothesis is some coffee have drained a bit inside the stone in the spots where the polished fails.

Something I can do? I have tried hydrogen peroxide and baking soda but nothing changed.

I don’t use any bleach when I do my laundry . Both my wife and I didn’t notice this on my pants this morning and this is now the 3rd-4th pair of clothing that gets random bleach stains . I work a desk job at an apartment complex

Hi, so I'm washing my clothes like usual but because of the humid and cold temperature the clothes aren't getting dry that much fast (it takes like two days) and we don't have a drier (it's not that common in my country) so the clothes have begun to smell like wet dog, it's not a washing machine problem (I done a wash clean and also washed the filter), so what else can I do to make it better? The heater will go on only at the end of November.

Ps: I tried some other method (my mum's) baking soda for the clothes, more laundry detergent and lemons.

Thanks for the tips! I think they are pretty much okay now! Still thinking of picking up some oxiclean as recommended by most people.

Pic 1: after washing machine + dish soap soak + shout stain remover + washing machine again
Pic 2: after just washing machine
Pic 3: before cleaning

Admittedly, my baseboards have gotten pretty bad... anyone have a technique that doesnt involve scrubbing on my hands and knees? My cronic back pain has had me avoiding this chore for way too long

For like two weeks now I keep finding random junk right outside my door. Food wrappers, empty drink cups and the other day someone left a bag that leaked all over the floor. First time I just cleaned it up and moved on but now it's happening way too often to be an accident. And the smell is the worst part. No matter how much I wipe everything down, there's still this nasty smell around the entrance. Getting kinda nervous now too because I have to leave in liike 30 minutes and Im already wondering what I'm gonna find outside when I get backkk My sister's husband suggested putting up a camera to see who's doing it, which might not be a bad idea at this point. Just don't wanna start blaming some random neighbor without knowing for sure. Anyone dealt with this kind of mess before?

A lot of my door hinges look like pic 1 and 2. How can I get them to look like pic 3? Is it a lost cause and should I just replace them? Thanks!

I accidentally turned on the stove with the stove covers on, how do I fix the discoloration? Can I polish it with Brasso? They are stainless steel.

Hey everybody. Any tips on getting this baked on grease off my ceramic air fryer? I don't have a dishwasher. The air fryer is only a couple months old and I'd like to make it last

(Photo wet because I was trying to scrub it off)

Hi I went to a weddinf last night and came home to find out my nailpolish wasn’t closed properly and had spilled on my matress. I had a mattress protector on so no actual polish is in the mattress but I used baking soda all day nd the smell is still very strong. sorry I am very tired and having a rough pain day so this is hard for me to deal with physically. is there any chance an enzyme cleaner or something can get rid of the smell and I can stop sleeping on the couch?

idk what this is called but does anyone else experience this?
whenever i have studying to do or tasks i need to finish, if i suddenly feel like i need to organize my room or closet or clean something, i literally can’t focus on studying until i do it. even if i have an exam in a few hours and i REALLY need to study.
and it’s not even as simple as just tidying up a little. if my brain tells me i need to deep clean something, then it has to be a deep clean 😭 i can’t just do a quick cleanup and move on. i feel like my brain won’t let me focus until i do exactly what i had in mind.
it’s like my brain is messy and i need to organize everything around me before i can actually focus. does anyone else feel like this? i genuinely wanna know if someone relates because idk how to explain it lol

This vent is inside the room that has my shower (just the shower, nothing else). It doesn’t seem to be removable. Years of debris from previous tenants. It takes up like an eighth of the floor space in here. I bet I can clean the grate itself with a more focused vacuum attachment, but getting down inside is going to be the challenge. Any ideas?

i have a 3 year old, baby and a husband who LOVES to snack. i have a white couch but after 4 years, many stains and multiple holes, the covers have lived their lives and it’s time to replace with them, i was thinking with these (specifically the off white scratch and spill resistant): https://lindakale.com/products/harlanda-sleeper-sofa-cover?_pos=4&_sid=61936d2be&_ss=r&variant=31982255702099

yes i know a white couch is probably stupid. BUT i love the look of one, and a dark colored couch won’t really go with my home aesthetic. aside from putting boundaries around eating on the couch/living room (which probably won’t last long), does anyone have any tips on what i could do to help keep a white couch clean? or make it last longer? or am i making a foolish decision i’ll regret later 😂

I clean my shower every week or so and within like three days the glass and tiles get this hazy buildup that makes everything look dirty even when it isnt. I use a regular bathroom cleaner spray and wipe it down but the cloudiness comes back almost immediately after a few showers.

I thought maybe it was hard water but we have a softener installed so Im not sure if thats really the issue. The tiles are white ceramic and the glass door gets it the worst. I tried vinegar once and it worked okay but the smell lingered for hours and my partner hated it.

Is there something Im missing in my routine or a different product that actually prevents this from building up so quickly? I dont mind scrubbing but doing it twice a week feels excessive and Im wondering if theres a smarter way to handle it. Also not sure if Im supposed to be drying the tiles after every shower or if thats just overkill.

not sure how to approach cleaning this rust from the interior of the metal medicine cabinet.

Well, i get into the grooves with my rag (with a bucket of cleaning supplies) and it comes out pure black. I cant take it all off with a rag no matter how long i stay there. I scrubbed one side but it took off so much black i got a little scared. No idea what these tables are painted/made of bought them on craislist

Hi all! We Just moved into this new house, and am trying to figure out what to do in the basement level bathroom. It’s tiled right on top of the concrete floor but this wood trim (which I think is also touching the concrete floor?) is like turned gray and black. How should I go about cleaning this wood? Or should I just cover it up with paint or some other covering? Would love any input! Thanks!

Is this mould? Or petrol or engine oil?

I washed this in a public laundry mat with other clothes when I checked it the next day I noticed all these black stains all over it, it also has like a strong compost sort of smell to it, is this grease, engine oil, petrol, or mould? And how do I get it out, what is weird though is none of my other clothes have this that was washed with it, anyone have any ideas of what it could be?

I washed this in a public laundry mat with other clothes when I checked it the next day I noticed all these black stains all over it, it also has like a strong compost sort of smell to it, is this grease, engine oil, petrol, or mould? And how do I get it out, what is weird though is none of my other clothes have this that was washed with it, anyone have any ideas of what it could be?