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IKEA's new collection is meant to tidy up your home in no time.

One more reason to do the dishes.

You deserve it.

Here's to kicking off 2020 on a clean and tidy note!

Your floors are going to sparkle!

A guy is enjoying his day off by sleeping in, but wakes up to his girlfriend loudly cleaning the house, and wonders if maybe, just possibly, he could be the asshole.

And each one is under $50.

Say hello to your new best friend.

Clean your screen in a matter of seconds.

In the case of my double-duty hamper, it doesn’t hold whites in one and color in the other, but serves as a separator for my clothes from my fiancé’s.

Who doesn't wash the top AND bottom of a plate?

Including Instant Pots, mattresses, vacuums, and more.

For a while now, wellness experts have been encouraging the masses to practice clean sleeping, which essentially means taking healthy measures to ensure that you receive quality rest on a regular basis. Obviously, the type of pillow you use play a large role in whether you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day, or like you need to hit the snooze button five (hundred) times before finally wrestling yourself out of bed.

We all have our favorites and least favorites when it comes down to household chores. And now thanks to a new survey from Yelp, we know the most hated one. No, it's not cleaning the bathroom (kind of shocking, right?).

Joanna and Clea talk about their new show, Master the Mess, share clips, and how anyone can get organized.

The Internet loves a good decluttering trend: We’ve long extolled the value of KonMari-ing your stuff, for instance, keeping only the things that “Spark Joy” and discarding the rest. But this year the latest big thing in cleaning and organizing philosophies has taken a decidedly darker tone: Swedish Death Cleaning.

Once in a blue super blood moon, a blogger comes along and from the first time you see them on video, you want them to move into your house and be your best friend. For me, that moment came this year when “meeting” delightful wish-she-would-adopt me mama Tonya Payne of Hey Tonya, whose YouTube tutorial documenting her complete overhaul of a tiny rental laundry room using only dollar store products is going viral. Because it’s genius — and she’s just plain adorable.

Since its debut at the Olympics in 1998, perhaps no winter sport has captivated our collective curiosity quite like curling. Turns out, thanks to two fans watching at home, all you need to get in on the action and try it out for yourself is hiding right in your cleaning closet.

Taylor Swift is approaching a milestone birthday this year—the big 3-0. And while she still has a couple of months to go (her birthday is December 13), she penned a piece for ELLE, “30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30,” in advance of the occasion. Turning 30 can be a milestone year that gets you reflecting on the rights and wrongs that have happened within your 10,950 days of life.

As we all know by now—and boy, do we know it well: the world of Twitter is basically one big ball of unpredictable savagery. But amid that chaos, humorous and heartwarming threads appear, and that’s why we’re here today. One recent thread on Twitter started by Dan Diamond asked users, “What’s the best advice your parents ever gave you?” The responses make for a good read, some of which offer solid home-related tips, too.

Here is an entirely true story about my first week in my NYC studio. I was cleaning the kitchen (because I am a certified grown-up), and I got out the vacuum to get the nooks and crannies beneath the dishwasher and cabinets. Before moving in, I had gone a full year without experiencing more than a spider in my living quarters and I was not going to entice any new friends with crumbs from my Cheerio-based dinner. As I moved the vacuum under the stove, it caught something.

Out with the toxic, in with the sustainable!

NBD wants to be the next big cleaning brand. But right now, NBD is literally no big deal—because it doesn’t exist yet. If you search this startup cleaning brand’s name, the first page is all unrelated results like one from Urban Dictionary that defines the internet acronym NBD as “no big deal.

I can’t begin to tell you how relieved I am that the Year of the Dog is almost over. For Chinese people, the year of one’s zodiac sign is traditionally the unluckiest year for them with warnings of trouble and danger at every turn. So as a Dog person, I am looking forward to welcoming that first day of the Year of the Pig (February 5) with all the new positive energy that comes with it. But first, I have to sweep the past year away—literally.

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Being an adult means tackling things we’d rather not do, and that is especially true when it comes to certain household chores. According to a new survey compiled by the American Cleaning Institute, over half of Americans rank this task their most hated out of all of them—do you agree? When it comes to cleaning tasks people dread cleaning the most, the top answer is (understandably) the bathroom, which scored 52 percent of the vote.

There is no better smell than laundry fresh out of the dryer. You will never want to get out of bed after putting fresh sheets on your mattress. That smell is to die for! Apparently, one celebrity loves laundry so much, they decided to branch out of their career path to create their own laundry collaboration. Did you know that John Mayer loves laundry? Yes, the man who sings the song “Your Body Is A Wonderland” has his own laundry detergent.

Every once in a while we come across disappointing bits of information about some of our childhood favorites. I’m sorry to say, today is one of those days. According to TIME, a study published in the journal Biofilms and Microbiomes showed that the rubber duckies that have kept kiddos entertained during bath time for generations hoard “potentially pathogenic bacteria.

Nothing strikes terror into the hearts of millions like one simple word: bedbugs. Thankfully, new research published yesterday reveals how to avoid bringing the creatures home with you, and therefore infesting your apartment. Instances of bedbugs have been on the rise, in part because of increased international travel. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, has found that there are some things you can do to prevent the pests from coming home with you.