Let's face it, life is busy. And anytime we can spend not cleaning, in my opinion,
is pretty valuable time. So this week, I'm going to show you five ways that you can
cut your cleaning time. Little cheats and tricks that'll help you shave minutes off
your cleaning, so you can have more time to yourself during the day.
Let's get started.
In my many years of making Clean My Space videos, one thing I've never heard is
someone tell me how much they love cleaning their oven. So here's an easy way
for you to never have to clean the bottom of your oven again. All you need to get is
this. It's an oven liner. It's sits either at the very bottom of your oven or on the
bottom rack, depending on what oven you have, and that'll all be outlined in the
instruction manual for your oven liner. You can get them online. You can buy them
in home stores. The point is anything that bakes and bubbles over, falls on to this.
It's not sticky. You take it out, you rinse it in the sink, you put it back,
boom. You'll never clean the bottom of your oven again.
For those of you that are following me on Instagram, I'm @MelissaMaker.
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You probably know that I love cooking and then taking pictures of what I cook and
putting it on Instagram. One thing that I don't like doing after cooking is
scrubbing hardcore messes on my dishes. So what I do, as soon as I finish making a
meal, I take everything out of the cooking vessel and I plate it. Then as Chad is
setting the table because you know, I just cooked dinner, I fill my cooking vessel
with warm water, baking soda and some dish soap, and I just let it chill while I'm
eating. What that does is it marinates all the dirt and grime and grease in here,
making post-dinner cleanup really easy. I mean seriously, no scrubbing, just wiping.
When it comes to cleaning, half of it has to do with the products and tools that
you're using, and the other half of it has to do with techniques. Something that I
want to talk about, which saves so much time, is what I call, "The S Pattern." And
I think a lot of you guys have heard me talk about it before, and I'm going to
demonstrate to you why it is so good and saves so much time.
Typically, when we think about cleaning, we think about doing this. This circular,
buffing motion. It's great for cars but really, everything else in the world
should be cleaned using the S pattern, and here's why. When you use this circular,
buffing pattern, here's your clean area, you clean it, you catch some dirty stuff,
you come back over, now you're re-dirtying that surface. The other thing too is a
dirty cloth will leave streaks. So a great way to combat that is to use the S
pattern. It's a simple, zigzag or S-shaped motion. You start at the top, you work
your way to the bottom, you'll never have to retrace your steps.
Cleaning is so much easier.
On the topic of using great cleaning techniques, another one that I have sworn
by, since I actually started cleaning, is always cleaning from top to bottom, left
to right. And here's why it makes so much sense. Before I understood how to properly
clean, I was sort of the Tasmanian Devil, running from here to there, cleaning over
here, cleaning this, seeing any shiny thing and just cleaning that. It was so
inefficient. I wasted time. I missed areas, and I was out of breath. So
ultimately, if you're cleaning from the top to the bottom, working your way from
the left to the right, you will never miss a spot. You'll be so much more efficient,
and I can assure you, try it once and you'll see just how much time you save.
If you don't like vacuuming or dusting or sneezing in your house all day, I have a
really easy way to cut down on all of that. And all you have to do is take your
shoes off when you get in the door. Okay. Clearly, these are Chad's shoes. But you
know, comic relief. We're talking about cleaning here. The important thing is to
remember, your shoes is track in 80% of all the dirt in your home. So if you leave
them at the front door, you are way ahead of the game. If you're going to someone's
house and shoes are an integral part of your outfit and they have issues of
policy, why don't you bring two pairs of shoes? An outdoor pair and an indoor pair.
Then you can totally rock your outfit. No guilt. And if you do like wearing shoes in
your house, same thing. Get yourself a nice pair of indoor shoes, feel great in
those and leave your outdoor shoes at the door.
These are tips and tricks and time-saving ideas that I've not only developed myself
over the years as someone who doesn't want to spend all their time cleaning, but also
a someone who's been running a professional cleaning service since 2006.
So I train my staff on this stuff and I've developed and honed these ideas over the
years, so I'm sharing the gold with you. So I hope you liked it.
I love to know in the comments down below, do you think it's weird to wear shoes in
the house? Let me know. Anyway, there's a button down there that let's me know you
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subscribe and begin your journey to a cleaner life. Thanks so much for watching,
and we'll see you next time.
Now is that special time in the week where I get to throw you to two other videos I
think you're going to love. The first one is some forgotten cleaning tasks. So
things that you should be doing, but you probably aren't. And the next one is all
about cleaning hacks, because who doesn't like those? Be sure to check them out.
Also check out our website. It's CleanMySpace.com. All kinds of
interesting, exciting, fun, revolutionary cleaning information on there. Website and
clickable link should be somewhere in the down below region. We will see you next
week. Thanks so much for watching, and have a good one.