Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel and to part two of cleaning a stranger's house for free. If
you haven't seen my first video, I will link it in the description down below. In that video, we were
tackling the lounge and the bathroom. We cleaned and organized those spaces, whereas today we are
focusing on the kitchen, which was in serious need of a good clean and some organization as well.
When we first went in there, you couldn't even see the surfaces. There was a lot of decluttering,
so many dishes to clean. Just dirt and grime everywhere, and we also organized
the under the sink storage as well. That is what we're going to be doing today. It's a
very satisfying clean once again and I wanted to say a massive thank you for all of your messages,
emails, and DMs saying how much you loved the first video, which is part of my new series,
"Hack Your Home." There were so many lovely people actually offering to help me if I ever clean in
their area and just sending loads of love. The lady that I actually helped, I linked
her Instagram in the last description, and she said that my followers are amazing. She received
some amazing messages, just sending well-wishes and hoping she's okay. Thank you, you've made a
huge difference, and she also sent me a little video of her children seeing the space for the
first time once it was cleaned. It was the most adorable video. Everyone all around is happy.
As you can see, we're having a good clear out. We had so many bags to go to the skiff. We filled up
her bin and then we did a few car runs as well. First off, in the kitchen. I really just wanted to
get the dishes done and out of the way. If you did miss the last video or you're new to my channel,
I thought I would just do a really quick recap as well. If you are new here, then my name's
Emily. I'm a mom to three and I've been making motherhood and cleaning content on YouTube for
about nine years now. For the past year, I've been thinking of ways that I can give back,
so I put out on my Instagram Stories, "I'd really love to help people clean and organize
if they need help, if they're struggling at all," and I've been inundated with emails.
I will actually link the email in my description if you do want to apply as well. Obviously,
it's quite slow. I'm trying to do one a month and I'm working my way through the list,
but I will put it there, because I've had a few people ask me how to contact me, et
cetera. Yeah. This is the first and I've actually really enjoyed it. I was super excited to help,
but this lady... If you're wondering why we're cleaning this or why it's so messy, there is
a very good reason why. She's a mom to two young children, they're both under five, and six months
ago, her partner passed away very suddenly. No one was expecting it. He actually had a brain
aneurysm at home. They tried to revive him, they actually... They got him to the hospital,
but then two days later, unfortunately they had to let go of him. When I met with this lady, I just
felt that I had to help her, because from that, not only is she grieving, she's also now trying
to look after her kids who are also grieving. She lost her job in the process of all of this
as well and she's got a really bad back injury. She's definitely in a lot of pain,
which all of that together has just meant that staying on top of the chores, or the cleaning,
has been the last thing on her mind. If I lost Matt and all of that happened to me,
it would be the last thing on my mind as well. Her parents live abroad as well, so we were super
excited to do this cleaning today to maybe make her smile. Just give her a tiny bit of a
boost and clean her space. I feel like the space around you can really affect your mood as well,
so hopefully this has given her a bit of a boost. Yeah. That area is much cleaner now. We wiped
down the surfaces, cleaned the hub, and now we're going to tackle these countertops over
here. Bless my husband Matt, he's helping me as well today and his mother, so my mother-in-law,
and we also had a team of cleaners come on the third and final day to really get it
super clean. Just wiping down the surfaces, there were loads of crumbs. We emptied out the toaster
and just gave everything a good wipe. We ended up reorganizing, putting the microwave in a different
spot to give her more usable counter space. You'll see in a minute, she did actually have
some storage solutions for some of her pantry-type ingredients. When I first met with her, I could
tell there was some organization there. She'd even bought those storage for under the sink,
she just hadn't had a chance to actually do it or organize it yet, so we're going to do that
for her today. Yeah, these are the storage pots that I'm talking about. The cupboards are full,
but they look quite nice and tidy out on the side, so we're just trying to arrange them here.
(singing). This is
the Addis
under the sink storage that I've shown on my channel quite a few times before. I really like
it, because you can build the shelves around any plumbing that you have under your sink. It gives
you multiple levels to put all of your products and makes it feel a little bit more organized. I'm
putting all of the small products at the bottom and then the larger ones up the top. I was trying
to have a space for laundry as well and trying to make sense of it all. Just by adding that
shelving in, it felt so much more organized at the end of it. It's just more user-friendly, you can
see everything you have. It doesn't even take that long to do, so really pleased with how this area
turned out. Once we had done all of that down the coverts and the surfaces, it was to do the floors.
We always try to work top-down, because obviously, all the dust is going to land on the floor.
Starting out with vacuuming and then also going to spray-mop this area as well and give it a
really good scrub, which it did definitely need. That is pretty much all that we're going to do
in here. Wanted to remind you of what the before looked like, here's a little bit of the before.
You see we chucked out quite a bit. Did all the dishes and managed to get all of them put away
as well. There's a little before just to remind you what it was like, and then this is the after.
Much clearer. I feel like you could easily walk in here, make yourself something to eat.
There's loads of counter space, it smelled lovely and clean. Shining sink. Yeah, just
really pleased with how this area turned out. While I was cleaning this space, Matt's mom,
the lady that we were helping, and Matt as well were tackling the bedrooms. Matt's mom was going
through with her. What does she want to keep? What does she want to throw? They're having a really
good de-clutter. Stuff like that. We also put some laundry at the laundromat. She had some laundry
to do and we thought, rather than putting it in the machine and have it all hanging out to dry,
especially while all of us were there, it might be easier to just take it to the laundromat and
then they just washed it. I picked it up the next day, so that was brilliant. She's got all
clean clothes for the kids and everything. This is the kids' room and I said in my last video,
I felt that it was the cleanest and tidiest room in the house, but still needed a little
bit of organization. She's just picking up some toys, we changed the sheet on the bed, vacuumed,
and just had a good sort out. In here, one of the toys had burst open, so
there were loads of the inside of that everywhere. Just giving it a really good vacuum as well.
(singing). On day three, we had a team of about
four cleaners coming to help us really deep-clean everywhere. In the last video, I showed how they
helped to transform the bathroom. I wanted to show you. This is a bit of a before of how her bedroom
was. There was so much de-cluttering to do, but now this is how it turned out. We vacuumed,
we wiped, we organized, we tried to organize some of her makeup in little baskets next to the bed.
We also changed the bedding and just felt like a much nicer space for her to be in now. There's
actually some floor space as well. That is the bath... Sorry, the bedroom all clean. They also
helped to deep-clean the kitchen. Even more, you may have seen, they also cleaned the filters,
which were above the oven, which I completely forgot about, and they looked really good
afterwards. They literally changed color. Yeah, just mopping down the floor, wiping everything
down again. Just making it as clean as possible. Yeah, that's pretty much it for today's video.
I hope you really enjoyed it, I hope it motivated you or inspired you to either
clean or top help someone that might need it. I'll definitely do some more in the series very
soon. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.