I loved that there was ACTUAL dirt when you cleaned. I feel like a lot of this cleaning videos show people cleaning already shiny surfaces. This was very relaxing!
The only RU-vid cleaning video where I have seen actual dirt and hair. Others seem to fake by showing already cleaned spaces. Loved the genuineness Meghan ! Lots of love ♥️
I just moved into my own apartment and I’m so excited! Been here for about two weeks. Lemon was a life saver on the stickers on new items from homegoods and stuff!
I just recently discovered the joy of microfiber cloths!! I can just imagine how much paper towels I had wasted over the years! 😔 This was a very motivating video...thank you so much!
Lovely video as always! ☺️ We use chair pads that have a little nail/thumbtack thingy on the back for keeping them in place and they’re rocksolid. Would recommend. 👍
I love seeing how you clean with non toxic cleaners Meghan! Please could you do a video on non toxic personal care items you use? Like shampoo, lotion, body wash? I always like to see what people use for non toxic personal care items!
Anothef tip: clean from top to bottom of a room to avoid resoiling surfaces. Always vacuum and mop last and also clean bathroom mirrors before sinks. Much love 💛😊
Meghan, this is fantastic! Thank you for so many great ideas. I especially love knowing about the lemon essential oil as an alternative to Goo Gone, the smell of which absolutely makes my stomach turn. I plan to donate my mostly-full container of that to my building's finders keepers stuff and purchase a little container of an ever so much better method for removing adhesives. I'm curious about why you use the Seventh Generation spray rather than making a diluted all-purpose spray from Sal Suds. Do you find the prepared product more effective? Lots easier than mixing the dilution yourself? Lastly, I hope another viewer already suggested these but a great alternative to the sticky chair leg pads are ones that tap in. You can get them at a hardware store right alongside the adhesives. The wood of my chair legs is too hard for me to use the tap in ones myself but I have a handyman replace mine any time I have a handyman in to work on something. Even on a chair with multiple uses every day, the felt lasts more than a year so you don't have to replace them often at all. Try them! You'll never buy the sticky ones again. So glad to have found your channel, Meghan. Again, thanks!
This was sooo nice and satisfying to watch 😊 I guess I really like to clean, as even watching it made me content 😅 Anyway, lots of useful info, just in time! I am moving into my first flat this weekend and I'm so happy that my partner and I agreed to use natural cleanears! So excited! Thanks so much, lots of love x
I have made some chair socks by following a very simple free crochet pattern online. And since they are socks they don't fall off. You can also get rid of all of the dust etc collecting underneath it by vacuuming it or throwing it in the washing machine :)
For chair pads we bought a large cork tile and cut little pieces off with scissors at the size required and glue gun it to the bottoms of chairs and sofas etc. Every so often one falls off but in general that works really well and lasts well and no sticky messes..
I loved this cleaning routine, thank you! I don't know if you've already said it in another video, but what do you do with the compost that's in the freezer? I've had the same problem with chair pads and now I've switched to chair pads with nails and it makes all the difference :)
I haven’t seen that variety of Dr. Bonner soap. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. Great video, you make cleaning actually seem fun. Sorry to hear that you had shingles, you seem to young to have gotten it. I had a friend who had shingles and she was miserable. Thanks for another great video.
If you ever get water stains again on wood furniture put a small pile of baking soda on it and it will draw out the moisture. Leave it on overnight. Works like a charm and I’ve done this countless times!
OY! I have put my compost in the freezer for years! We are on the same page 20 seconds into your vid. Compost bags deteriorate before they are full, plus some items smell bad overnight and makes animals want to inspect it......who knows from how far? Other than that great point, the rest is common sense. I detail large boats inch by inch. People need to do the same at home. ....So do I....ooops did I say that out loud?
Your house is so lovely, neat and clean. I wish I lived there! lol. I'm a pretty neat and clean person myself, but maybe not the males in my family - lol!
Meghan, I was wondering about your hobbies, and I am a minimalish mom of 3 and I love painting with coffee and macrame and paper crafts and always have boundaries for my supplies and I wanted to ask you if you have a crafty love or something you like to do at home that requires supplies, besides reading and all your lovely plants! Hehehhehe tons of hugs from your crafty friend from Spain! xo Marci
Hey there! That’s awesome, I love arts/crafts too! I keep all of my art supplies in our front closet (sketchbooks, paintbrushes, glue, all kinds of stuff) 😊 And then of course I also have all of my camera equipment as well which is another passion of mine 💕
A faster, less tedious way to dust a large plant with a lot of leaves is to take it in the bathroom for a tepid shower, and it gets watered at the same time. Not for delicate plants, but it works great for a ficus or a large snake plant -- also for a cactus that you can't dust on account of the spines, but you have to wait until it needs thorough watering.
im really enjoying you and your roommate videos, very helpful. i have found a mop i like soooo much and wanted to share with you. bissell powerfresh steam mop, i have tile and laminate floors. this baby is cleans easy to maneuver around. i ise disstilled water thats it! the floor never felt so clean
Ahh I kind of miss living in an apartment with only 1 other person. I could actually clean everything in one day and there wasn't a mess made somewhere else by the time I was done. So satisfying :) BUT kids and pets...
I was reading the microfiber cloth sheds micro plastic when washing and it goes with the drained water to water resources and comes back to us in our drinking water. I used to like cleaning with them but now I am not sure what to do!
That pinkish residue that you mention in the bathroom sink is a biofilm or growth of airborne bacterium called Serratia Marcescens AKA pink mould in layman’s terms.
One cleaning tip that I live by is to clean from top to bottom so that you aren’t cleaning the floors and then wiping dust back onto them. Learned that from Melissa Maker from Clean My Space here on RU-vid. Lover her channel and love yours too!
I'd get a plastic dish to put under the plant on your vintage table. The wood of the table will get mould and stained by the water. Ask me how I know. Do you find the castile soap leave a residue? I'm in a constant battle of having sticky tiles. (Usually wash with just water+vinegar mix.)
What a great video. I find watching others clean so very relaxing. LOL BTW, great to see a video where your house actually needed cleaning. So often these types of videos seem so fake and the houses already seem soooo clean. This was realistic and authentic. Hope you're feeling better.
I recommend to use another stick on chairpads brand. We use the same ones more than 4 years. They are still there where they should be. If you want to have a small vacuum cleaner without all the cable I can recommend a Dyson handheld vacuum cleaner. We have lots of stairs and two cats. I am vacuuming all the time. First I bought it for the stairs but I never used our regular vacuum cleaner since years. It is similar to the one you use but you don't need to bend forward to reach the floor which is a big bonus in my book.
For the chair pads, I have bought ones that have a little tack built in and you nail onto the bottom. They have lasted for 3 years so far, they do collect hair still but that is just the nature of the felt fabric; it come off easily. I got them off of amazon, they’re great!
I looked into those! I saw a couple reviews of the nails poking out through the felt and into the floor below so it kinda scared me away - have you had that issue at all? :O
My grandpa found these "shoes" the look like little cups that keep the chairs from stuffing the floor. I don't think he has had to replace them since he out them on a few years ago.
I noticed that you clean from bottom to top which is 🤔. Maybe try cleaning top tp bottom so you don't dust countertops and all the dust and debris falls on the freshly swept and mopped floors?
Ugh! I am recovering from shingles too! Sending you healing energy. Btw, many recommended that I take a lysine supplement to possibly prevent more outbreaks. Do you take it?
Shingles is not fun at all!! And yep, lysine was one of the supplements I've been taking. I combine it with vitamin C. It's useful for cold sores too which I get every couple of years (unfortunately!)
How do you keep the leaves on your money plant so green. Mine has brown spots on them but not yellowing. Do you put them by the sun and how often do you water it?
I like the Video and all the tips. Using microfiber cloth is not very eco, because micro plastics is accrues in washing these. So the reusable aspect of these is not that impressive. Better use some old T-shirt, towels or cotton cloth
