If you're honest and you're like most of us,
you will admit that you don't love to clean.
In fact, you may hate to clean.
My husband, God bless him, he loves to clean.
Me, not so much.
You are gonna want to get to know this lady right here.
Our next guest is a cleaning expert
whose book, website, and online videos
have helped millions clean,
and she's gonna give her top cleaning tips.
She's the author of Clean My Space.
Her name is Melissa Maker,
but this is what love about her best.
Melissa doesn't do this because she loves to clean.
She does this because she hates to clean!
(cheers and applause)
I mean, that's the sales pitch.
So, how did you come into this being
your specialty and your profession
if it's something that you truly hate to do?
Okay, so good question.
I saw an opportunity, because I hated doing it,
I knew other people hated doing it,
so I thought there's gotta be something here.
So I started a cleaning company in 2006
in Toronto, where I'm from.
Right.
And then in 2011, we started making YouTube videos.
Those started to help people,
a lot of people were like, "Yeah, I hate cleaning too,
help me," so that's what happened, and here we are.
It's brilliant anti-marketing if you think about it.
(audience applauds)
It's honest marketing.
All right, so we're gonna start with something
that I think everybody hates cleaning the most,
even my husband, the toilet.
(audience groans)
Okay, we didn't make the mess in the toilet.
(audience laughs)
Okay, what's our first toilet tip?
So, I have a toilet cleaning recipe here.
You don't have to go out and buy products,
you can actually make your own with pantry items.
I like that a lot.
This is nice and easy.
I've got half a cup of water here,
and I've got half a cup of baking soda.
Actually, why don't you give me a hand?
Sure.
So I've got half a cup of baking soda there.
Hydrogen peroxide, this comes in the brown bottle.
Oh, I buy it by the gallon.
Okay.
Every time I cut something, burn something,
or set something on fire, I get the hydrogen.
So hydrogen peroxide, this is good stuff.
This is going in the recipe too.
All right.
Then we've also got a quarter cup of dish soap.
So we'll get all of this together,
and the cool thing about this is you can mix it up on demand
if you run out of toilet bowl cleaner.
And there we've got our--
Hydrogen peroxide.
All right, so--
Now, do we shake this?
So we shake it, but the important thing is
we put our finger on top, or else it's like champagne
and it becomes toilet cleaning champagne
and nobody wants that.
Whoo!
So we give it a good shake.
Gently, gently, gently shaking it for you.
Awesome.
This is perfect.
Yeah, I can assist you around the country.
(audience laughs)
All right, so now that we have
our toilet bowl cleaner, or champagne if you prefer,
we're just going to squeeze it around the bowl
underneath the rim just like this.
And I want to tell you something else
about cleaning products, because a lot of people
don't know this, and when we
watch cleaning product commercials,
when we see spray, wipe, clean, perfect,
not reality, commercials are 30 seconds,
but really cleaning products, kind of like
a chicken breast, needs time to marinate.
So really, one of your tips is set it and forget it?
Set it and forget it, yeah.
So products, what I call it is dwell time.
They need time, usually about five minutes or so.
To do their jobs?
To do their jobs, so it's a lazy way to clean.
So the product's had it's time to dwell, to marinate.
Right.
And you know, we don't have water in this toilet,
but I'm gonna show you, it works so well anyway,
it can easily scrub stuff off.
So this works super-duper well.
That looks like they put like paint or cement in there.
(whispers) It's paint.
It's paint, wow.
But it is coming off nice and easy.
It's coming off beautifully.
It's a super effective product.
(audience applauds)
I think you did a great job, thanks.
I just wanna tell you this one last thing.
All right, one last tip.
So to dry your toilet bowl brush--
Oh, that's smart.
So you don't have to put a wet one back in,
just do this.
Oh, that's a good one.