Home Cleaning

While we can't come do your laundry for you, we can try to make it easier by rounding up a big list of our very favorite hacks, tricks, and techniques for making laundry day go a little bit easier.

My days of hand-washing wine glasses are numbered.

Keeps dentures bright and clean? Check. Lifts stains from your toilet bowl? Check! Drop a tablet in your toilet and let the effervescent powers of denture cleanser do the hard work. There are only three things needed and here’s how to do it. Denture cleansing tablets Toilet brush Gloves Drop one cleansing tablet into the toilet bowl and let sit for 20-30 minutes, the water will turn blue as it starts to effervesce. Use your toilet brush to work off any rings or stains in the bowl.

Including one way to kick up dust without lifting a finger.

You’ll truly be amazed at how quickly the transformation happens, it’s simple, and totally effective.

At least for now.

I also asked a plumber to explain what was up.

And how to avoid it.

It turns out, choosing to use a traditional liquid dish detergent or a tablet isn't simply a matter of personal preference.

Investing in vinegar isn’t as straightforward as you’d think.

Now, it's a frequent cleaning tool I use.

This will replace your old-school mop — for good!

You'll never travel without it ever again.

It’s been a game-changer on laundry day.

While there are myths aplenty about the curing, caring, and cleaning of cast iron, I subscribe to very few of them.

Here's a genius tip that will make cleaning with the vacuum cleaner even more effective.

You really don’t want to forget to do this.

Are you tired of your home smelling like chemicals when you clean? You shouldn’t have to leave the room in the middle of scrubbing down the counter because the smell of bleach is singeing your nose hairs. A better way to deal with this is concocting your own cleaning products with the use of natural ingredients and essential oils, including tea tree oil.

Loading the wrong way can cause laundry items to twist and become entangled, or to create a “dome” or “bubble” in the washer. Here's how to prevent that problem.

There’s nothing more annoying than a bathtub accumulating water from a clogged drain. (I mean, if you wanted a tub full of water, you’d probably just take a bath, right?) But before you call a plumber for help with your shower drain or a clogged sink, you can do a little DIY plumbing in your bathroom. You’ll only need a few things: a rag, a wet-dry vacuum, and maybe a screwdriver.

It always works.

And what they’ve learned from them.

It takes cleaning shared spaces to a whole new level.

Finally, a home for clothes too clean to wash and too dirty to put away.

I asked a chemist, just to be sure.

Here's why.

The hero ingredient was such a surprise.

Stick a light-colored, porous material between tiles—where spills are likely to settle and mildew is undoubtedly going to grow—and you can bet it’s not going to be a pretty situation. And once stains set in, scrubbing them clean is no one’s idea of a fun afternoon. But the promise of fresh, gleaming grout? It keeps us fighting the good fight.

You can't un-know what you're about to read.

Achieving a spotless (or crumbless) laptop isn’t as easy as sucking it all out with a vacuum like you would beneath your dining room table.

Is your bathroom guest-ready?

Here's how it went.

My go-to cleaner for tile and grout.

When you have a big mess, it's tempting to want to bring out all of the big guns and throw at it every cleaning product you've got. But don't!

Over time spot cleaning just doesn’t do it. You turn around one day, and your carpets are a shade darker than when you had them installed. Or, you do a great job spot cleaning only to reveal how dirty the rest of the carpeting really is. Here’s a way to give your carpets a deep clean using a few household ingredients, a vacuum, and a steam cleaner. Ingredients: Salt, borax, and white vinegar.

They are a bright spot in my routine.

Good news: You're not utterly doomed if you didn't clean a stain right away.

Ingenious uses you'll wish you'd known sooner.

According to experts.

You NEED to see the vacuum that empties itself.

It's no bigger than a water bottle.

According to pest experts.

It's given me such a mood boost.

Here’s what I liked and didn’t like about it.

It’s inexpensive and better than anything I’ve ever tried.

And it's quick and easy, too.

I tried her surprisingly easy method and discovered that it really works.

And happier, too!

I recently saw a TikToker venting about the fact that no matter how often she cleans her pre-war New York City rental, it’s never not dusty — which I absolutely (and unfortunately) couldn’t relate to more. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Brooklyn apartment and wouldn’t trade my current living situation for the world, but my building’s old-school charm also comes with I-literally-just-cleaned-this-hours-ago-how-is-it-already-dirty kind of maintenance.

And the things I always clean.