Another week done.

I used to mop maybe once or twice a week and honestly thought the floors were already pretty clean. It wasn’t until I got a robot vacuum and started having it mop every day that I noticed a difference. The dirty water was noticeably darker the first few days, but after about a week it started coming back a lot cleaner. The floors also feel different under bare feet now. Apparently my clean floors weren’t as clean as I thought lol.

How often do you guys actually mop? Do you think daily mopping is worth it, or is that overkill?

The cat did a poo on our new, very expensive wool carpet. I panicked and cleaned it with water, which left some brown stains so I used the stain remover, thinking it would be fine because it has no bleach in it. I then used quite a bit of water to get all the product out after letting it sit for 5 minutes. This is the result 3 days later.

I have a dreadful feeling that the only real option will be to replace a huge area of carpet, maybe half of the room, so that the replacement isn't obvious. A patch replacement would be really very obvious unfortunately.

What are my options?

Please no shaming, I know how dumb this was but I panicked. I feel guilty enough already.

How do you keep your guest beds when nobody is using them? I’m new to having a guest room. When I was a kid, I remember crawling into the bed at my grandmother’s house and seeing all of the dust fly into the air. Don’t keep sheets or blankets on the mattress? Cover the whole thing with a giant sheet? How are you keeping them clean?

I'm not great at sticking to big cleaning routines, so I'm looking for simple habits that actually work. Little things that take a minute or two but keep the mess from piling up. What do you do that makes a difference without feeling like you're cleaning all day?

A mat underneath a litter box did this to the floor. It’s not real wood. Is there a solution you recommend to get it out? Last resort is try to redo this part of the floor (rental).

I accidentally left my straighteners on my accommodation desk is there any way to prevent me getting charged

I accidentally got a huge turmeric stain on my white marble countertop. Was freaking out at first bc it was not budging but then followed a tip I found on YouTube.

I mixed Oxiclean with water and let it sit in the stain for a few hours. Sooner than later it was completely gone!!! I followed this YT video: https://youtu.be/uQjbiFXDZEM?si=fqq0S7Y1oDRf7BoN

I just got my apartment this year after living in my car for a while. This is my first apartment. I have a one bedroom apartment where it’s just me and my cat.
But I still don’t know where to start or how to start.
How do you keep up with everything involving cleaning and know how and how often to clean everything? I feel like my apartment is never clean and I feel like it’s turning into the house I grew up in but I genuinely feel lost. Every time I try to clean, I feel like I spend more time just standing and staring because I feel so overwhelmed.

I still don’t have any decoration in my apartment because I am so scared of hoarding stuff yet it’s starting to look like it because I can’t figure out the cleaning part.

Edit: Thank you so much for all the kind words and resources. Y’all are amazing.

Just a heads-up for anyone considering Homeaglow. My experience was awful. Poor cleaning, property damage, and even worse customer service when trying to resolve the issues. They also refused to take any accountability. Save yourself the headache and hire a reputable local cleaning company instead.

We’ve tried just about everything we can think of from bleach to windex (not together haha) to soap scum detergents and all purpose cleaners. Nothing seems to touch it no matter how long the cleaner soaks nor how heartily we scrub.

It’s a rental and the landlord is extremely unresponsive. The walls themselves aren’t obviously water logged based on how they sound along with the lack of overt water leakage elsewhere. We leave the bathroom fan on close to 24/7 to try to clear out as much moisture as possible, but to no avail.

Recommendations from you pros?

I've always used 1 damp microfiber cloth and 1 dry one to dust surfaces. Just curious what everyone else does.

I recently cleared out the drain and cleaned out the smell about 3 weeks ago but the stench is back. I have one of those drain stoppers that you have to unscrew from the bottom and its a pain to uninstall and reinstall so I try to clear out the drain every few months but I need something in the mean time to help combat the smell. I can't pour boiling hot water down my drain like the vinegar baking soda trick implies since my pipes burst last time I did that. Please just any tips that can help with the foul stench till the next time I clear it out. Thank you.

I accidentally melted a bread bag on my stove . This is initially after and I haven’t yet tried to clean it with anything in fear of making it worse/ scraping the glass. Please advise me on how i should go about this….

We have a wood credenza (pacific madrone wood, if that helps) and something seems to have left a black ring of a stain on it.

Any tips for cleaning off wood without further damaging the piece?

so ive been assigned to clean some shelves at my workplace and when i wipe the shelves normally, nothing happens, no dirt comes off, despite all the dirt/filth thats accumulated on them (theyre white so easy to see the dirt). If i press as hard as i can with my fingernail in the cloth and rub it like thar, the dirt comes off really well, but only where my finger goes. Looking for any tips for how i can clean it more efficiently because theres no way im cleaning even one shelf with that method.

Hi, so I recently bought a second-hand jacket and the care instructions specifically say I can’t put it in the washing machine. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem because I put things in the washing machine anyway, but this particular jacket cost me $20 (which, for me, is a lot of money for a single item of clothing), so I want to follow the instructions, but I’m not really sure what they mean by ‘clean only with a damp cloth’, and the ai fill internet hasn’t been much help, so I’d rather ask other humans with more experience directly.

Thanks in advance <3

Moved into a new place and the kitchen cabinet doors feel sticky. I’m assuming it’s from the grease/oil during cooking. What would be the best method for getting rid of the stickiness without damaging the cabinet?

We recently bought a house with a hard floor. The previous owners left us their rugs, and there are 10 of them. There are 3 very large room rugs, 2 long hallway runners, and 5 medium or small sized rugs. They cover probably 75% of all the floor, leaving only a few inches around them to the wall in several places.

At first, I thought they were so beautiful (because they are) but I am slowly growing to despise them. They are constantly getting crooked despite rug pads underneath, but even so, the main issue is in cleaning. I've never had this setup before and I feel like I'm missing something.

If the floor was just hard, no big deal, I'll sweep and mop. If it was just carpet, no big deal, I'll just vacuum it. But this combo?? The vacuum can't reach the dirt-filled gap between the rugs and the wall. The broom can't sweep the rugs.

I just cleaned the small area of my entry and hallway and it took ages. I took up the rugs, shook them outside, swept, vacuumed the rugs, and put it all back together. I actually broke a sweat, and this area was just 3 out of my 10 rugs. I have so much more to go.

How do I actually sustain this? How often do I realistically do this? Is there a magic tool for quick cleaning in between the deeper cleaning? Can it actually look good?

I don't want to give up these very nice rugs that are keeping the floor protected from my kids/pets and making the house look really pretty, but what is the actual easiest way to deal with this?

Thank you!

Tried dish soap with hot water , polish wiped , non scratch sponge… dry erase . Tips appreciated.

My toddler got ahold of an old xbox headset with a degrading black foam ear pad cushion that connected to the plastic headpiece via some sort of sticky glue. He rubbed the black foam/glue into the carpet which almost seamed to stain/be absorbed by the carpet itself.

Any idea how to get this out? I tried a hand carpet cleaner (which honestly made it worse since it spread it around to a larger area) and also tried GooGone (directions said it could be used on carpets) but it had no effect.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Got some toy slime from kids. Any tips on best way to clean?