General Home Cleaning

This is great general housekeeping advice that friends pass along to one another. Just general, good-to-know stuff about keeping house.

This topic might sound a little overly simple to some of you,  however, as cold and flu season quickly approaches, I thought it would  be an important one to touch on - no pun intended. Now admittedly, before I got into this wacky cleaning gig, I really didn't pay much...
Cleaning doesn't really come naturally for kids, does it? It sure didn't for me.  So it's no surprise that we get asked about the best ways to get kids to clean quite a bit. Now, Chad and I don't have kids yet, but we’ve done a lot of research and have asked...
A few weeks back we made a video all about washing dishes using your hands. Following this, I received 73,240 requests for a video on washing dishes using your dishwasher, and because we here at Clean My Space do absolutely everything that we are told, here is a video all...
Who doesn't love Halloween?! Nothing is better than getting free candy, am I right? As an adult I still love Halloween because now I get to hand out treats to all the little ones (and some not so little ones from time to time). But, along with all the...
There are only two things in this world more monotonous than hand-washing dishes: watching grass grow, and watching paint dry. However, for most of us, washing dishes is a tedious reality. Even if you have a dishwasher, you still have to deal with items that aren't dishwasher safe, along with...
A streaky mirror is not a clean mirror, despite the number of times you've tried cleaning it. Streaks are frustrating, unsightly and off-putting.  We all think we know how to clean mirrors, but once you learn my secret product and technique you'll have the shiniest mirrors on the block. For starters,...
The simplest things are often the most impactful.  I love when things are easy! If you notice a smell coming from a room, area or enclosed space, consider creating a small room deodorizer that will neutralize the smell. All you need to create this powerful little treat is the following: Baking...
For those of you who brown bag it everyday, you probably are quite familiar with the plastic container. For those of you who have ever used one or worse, microwaved some delicious spaghetti sauce in one of these - you also know what a pain they are to keep clean. The...
Well, I'll admit it, I love my cats. I never liked cats before I had my own; in fact I remember being horrified when I used to babysit kids with cats.  After calming the kids down from their night-time fears, my own would set in.  Any sound, glow or creek...
Bathrooms are such a hot topic with our community. I don't know many people that love cleaning bathrooms, and I'd have to say I don't really like the job myself (although it's vacuuming I dislike doing the most).  So, because of this, I have devised a strategy that helps me...
"Clean your rooooooom!" Man, if I had a dollar for every time my parents yelled this very phrase at me when I was growing up, I'd probably still be doing this but I'd be doing it from a big old beach house along the California coast. It seems most of...
I've been asked a lot lately about cleaning windows and in particular 'what's the best way to clean a window' - so today, I'm going to show you how to clean your window like a professional... Do you know why professional window cleaners use microfibre pads and squeegees to clean...
This comprehensive step-by-step cleaning, deodorizing and care guide covers everything under the covers.
What do shoes, carpets, drapes, dogs, chairs, onions, dirty laundry, beds and fish have in common? They all make your house smell bad and believe me when I say there's like 150 other things in your home right now that are adding to what's called the 'scent signature' of your...
Toasters, the unwanted wedding gift, the college dorm necessity, and the perpetuator of our addiction to carbs. Anyway, that aside,we get asked all kinds of toaster cleaning questions.  And, I can’t blame you, because the toaster is this compartmentalized gadget that gets placed neatly in a corner and all the...
In the military, a neatly-made bed is a reflection of a soldier's discipline and attention to even the smallest details - they have beds which are made so crisply, one can bounce a quarter on them. Now I've never been in the military, but I do understand the value...