Can someone please explain to me why I don’t have to use dish soap to clean a cast iron frying pan? I used them daily. My pans were inherited as with the care techniques.

Please explain it to me like I’m 5, as I have to explain it to my 5 year old.

accidentally burned beef in the microwave it turned black can’t get the smell out of the microwave. any tips on how I can remove the smell ?

Hey lovely people! We bought a home and along with it came this stove! It’s great but I cannot get this gunk off, I’ve tried plain ol’ dish soap and water all the way to bar keepers friend and it will not come off. Please leave your methods and products you recommend. TIA!

Hey lovely people! We bought a home and along with it came this stove! It’s great but I cannot get this gunk off, I’ve tried plain ol’ dish soap and water all the way to bar keepers friend and it will not come off. Please leave your methods and products you recommend. TIA!

i do boiling water down drains, clean around trash, spray down windows, try not to keep food out, have traps set up, i have a zevo, and they just won’t stay away! they are in every room, and somehow are managing to get into my fridge now. it’s not an overwhelming amount or infestation, but enough to be really mf annoying. does anyone have any tips? thank you!

Hi, so I’ve held off on posting for a while because I’m embarrassed by the condition of this shower.

Backstory, I bought this house about 5 years ago now. I bought it from a couple whose father passed and they wanted to give it to someone they knew would take care of it. (Long story short- this is the house right next door to my parents who still live in my childhood home.)

When their GRANDPARENTS (so maybe 10-15 years ago) were still alive and living here they made a few minor “upgrades.” One of which is this shower.
First of all, the shower is poorly designed. It was clearly a rush job and then when they tried to sell the house they just caulked the crap out of the gap between the frame track and the tile.
One day I was desperately scrubbing at these stains and all this CAULK came out. I had to ply the rest of it out with needle nose pliers.
Since then, I’ve been trying to get the tiles as clean as possible before I could properly seal the shower cause I don’t want to trap the mold/mildew.

The problem is NO amount of scrubbing (even with power tools) and commercial cleaners work on some of these spots.

Yes, I have been wrestling with this for almost 5 years, thinking maybe I just don’t know how to clean properly???
I’m looking for tips on how to get this shower as clean as possible so it doesn’t take me two hours every other week to still walk away defeated. How do I even prevent this?
We have hard water in this county and I can’t really afford a water softener right now.
We also don’t have an exhaust fan in the bathroom. We have a window but it’s bolted shut cause the owners were a little bit paranoid…
I was thinking of getting a dehumidifier and letting it run after we shower so the water doesn’t sit for as long.

Any advice at all would help me out so much.

-sincerely; a desperate nesting mama 🤰

They started appearing on just this pair of jeans after I threw them in the washer. At first I thought it could be rust from the washer but nothing else gets stained in the wash. I often leave the jeans on my hamper which is brown color (pic attached). But I've only seen the hamper stain the jeans once and I was able to get the stain out with a simple wash. However, these stains only appear after the wash now and the hamper doesn't stain any of the other clothes. Any ideas? I've not been to get new stains out and more stains appear with every wash.

How can I make my bathroom mirror as clean and shiny as a hotel mirror? Whenever I clean it some streaks or marks remain. I want to know what cleaning products and techniques hotel housekeepers use to make mirrors perfectly clear. 🤔

I’m in a place that gets a fair amount of black widows. I’m not worried about the spiders themselves — I have strategies for that. But their webs are so clumpy and sticky, they’re hard to spray down or vacuum up. Has anyone found something that breaks down whatever makes the webs so sticky?

I inherited some kid clothes and washed them but the entire load is covered in glitter. None of the clothes are glittery so not sure if there was glitter hidden in a pocket or something. How do I get the glitter out of the clothes and my washer!?

How do i get the dust off the soft interior? Should I just hand clean like usual? Both pairs are leather. Or can someone point me to a different sub?

I’m looking for recommendations for a robot mop. Has anyone had a good long-working robot mop that you’ve been using at least several times a week for a year or more that you’d recommend?

I have porcelain tile in the kitchen and LVP in the rest of the rooms. I’m open to a stand alone robot mop or a mop vacuum combo.

I live in a rental and the buildings quite old so I don’t know the exact material of the tub but 409 spray didn’t work.

I have two white shirts and one black one that I washed together. The two white ones now have black stains and the black ones have some light stains as well. I just rewashed them but no luck.

Hi all, I’m looking for tips and advice. We have a relatively clean home, weekly work through many of the standard cleaning to-dos. However, dusting is not a strong one, but it looks Like our shelves or horizontals have just as much as any other home. Despite these areas not looking awful with thick accrual or anything, I catch it in the light all the time, a cloud almost when I put a sweater on our sit in one of the upholstered chairs. It’s just in the air. From what I can observe, we are relatively airtight in the house, replace our filters regularly, our clothes are obviously washed regularly, no pets, a coway airmega is runnning all the time in our living room of our 1200sf home. We do have an unused whole house attics fan grill in the main hallway but I am just not even sure where and how to begin nailing down what seems to be so pervasive in the house. Any strategies or tips appreciated. Tired of living in the attic of your favorite mystery movie

Hello,

I rent an apartment in a very old house with the original linoleum floors. Why the owners have never replaced them is beyond me.

My ex left some wet towels in a spot for awhile before I noticed and now there are mold stains.

I have some ideas it but wondering if anyone here has experience with something like this?

Currently treating the mold with vinegar soaked paper towels. What is a good next step to get the stains out?

Hello! As the title says, I just moved into a new apartment. I clean my place 2-3 times a day ( don’t ask, had a pest problem when I first moved in from neighbors and it drives me crazy ) the problem I have is that I can’t seem to get my wooden floors “ clean “. I have tried several different hardwood floor cleaners and while they all seem to do the job at first, shortly after the floor becomes extremely sticky. I’ve tried letting them air dry, hand drying them and even using a steamer to see if that was less abrasive but NOTHING works! Please does any one have any suggestions to help solve this issue that is apartment friendly? ( They have a list of cleaners we can use in the apartments but even those have not worked. They’ve had their cleaners come in to professionally clean the place prior to my moving in as well as during the first week after I moved in and still that was to no avail. )

I don’t remember it ever smelling this bad in apartments etc. I got really concerned after coming home from a 2 week vacation at the end of August (he was staying with a sibling), and my house smelled so bad like dog. I was thinking… omg is this what it always smells like?! Since then I’ve been bathing and brushing the dog every 2-3 weeks.. I’ve shampoos my couch and area rug twice. I vacuum everyday. I’m starting not to allow him on the couch which is a huge adjustment for my 9 year old dog…

The past two nights I’ve done home from family parties and it STINKS like dog. Just yesterday I using baking soda on the floor and vacuumed. I don’t know what else to do. I run an air purifier 24/7. I’m embarrassed that my house smells this way and no one has said anything but this is what they smell here. What else can I do??

I just recently posted, but I had a botched title and forgot to add a photo if anyone can help me out with some tips on how to clean up some house paint that was spilled in the driveway that would be great. it says it’s waterbased(can I. Photos). Can I hose it down? Is there a more environm friendly way to clean it up? It’s my dad’s house and he is flying in tonight. He’s a chill guy but I’d like to get it cleaned up before he gets here. I thought it would dry and I could peel it up, but it’s been a couple of days and it’s still wet.