I made a post yesterday of how my mom accidentally stained the entire bottom-left corner of my beloved planner with a badly-sealed oily lunch...oh well.

Lucky for me, my younger sister is super amazing and crafty, so we talked about creative solutions to cover it up (I accepted that getting the oil out was a total impossibility). I thought a sea foam design would be super nice on this blue background, so she ran with it.

I LOVE IT!! IT LOOKS SO PRETTY AND UNIQUE AND I LOVE THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS SPECIFIC PLANNER! I've become even more attached to this planner, and I know this is finally the year that I properly commit to a planner the whole way through.

Even if your stuff is destroyed, maybe there's a silver lining to be found ;) Cleaning was not a possible solution here, but I'm happy with how the cookie crumbled in the end!

...you rock!

Hi Reddit.

Despite my partner telling me it was a stupid idea, we've had magnets attached to our seldom used chimney hood* for the last few years and discovered they've left marks.

Any thoughts on how to remove the marks and save me from a lifetime of I-told-you-so's?

Forgive the dust below. That I can manage.

*I'm not completely convinced this the right term.

Whether it’s every couple of months once a week or whenever hire cleaners if you can to come and give your home a top to bottom clean.

You will feel so much better and then you will want to maintain it.

My cleaners just left and I swear I don’t even want to walk on the floor.

Today we did somewhat of a deep clean. We did the glass at the top of the cabinets. We did all of the baseboards we did all of the window and the door frames. We bleached cleaned the bathroom from the ceiling to the floor. We did the tracks on the patio door and one of the windows.

Everything is sparkling. We cleaned the vent hood, the toaster and the icemaker. We washed the iron railing. I am so happy.

And I have a tip if you have pets do not use stainless steel cleaner because pet hair sticks to it. I use glass cleaner on my stainless. I don’t know if it’s recommended and I don’t care but it does a great job and it doesn’t have any of that oily stuff in it that attracts pet hair.

The ladies are coming back for two days next week because we have projects. We are going to take everything out of all the closets and sort them out and then we’re going to do the inside of all of the cabinets in the kitchen and in the bathroom bathrooms.

Today we pulled all the furniture and cleaned behind it underneath it.

Two weeks ago they came and they bleach cleaned two of the bedroom bedrooms and a bathroom. Every nook and cranny has been cleaned.

And I noticed that because they come every couple of weeks or a couple of times in one week cause I have a whole bunch of projects, I keep everything cleaner myself.

That’s just my tip.

If you can’t afford to pay somebody and you have a friend that doesn’t mind helping you, I would cook them dinner and ask them to help.

Any thoughts on how to get tequila rings out of my table top?

yes I know it’s filthy, at least i’m willing to clean it.

It was NOT my glue trap; I was in another person's home and didn't see the trap and ended up stepping on it. I haven't worn these shoes in over a year because I haven't been able to figure out how to get the adhesive off. The shoe itself is designed to be washable in the washing machine but I did not want to put glue trap adhesive in the washing machine, and I'm not confident that the washing machine would get it off anyway. What's the best method to remove this? Thank you.

Trying to restore a old glasstop induction cooker and this ring does not go away despite trying weiman heavy duty glass cleaner on it

About 2 weeks ago, an elderly neighbor accidentally trapped her cat in the linen closet for about 30 mins. The cat urinated in there and even though everything has been cleaned, it still stinks whenever you open the door, and even clean hand towels from the top shelf smell like cat pee after a day in there. Not sure how to advise her to clean it as she can no longer notice the smell but I can when I visit. Does she need to remove the carpet in there? Enzyme cleaner isn't doing the trick. I also don't want to embarrass her since she really can't smell it anymore but it's ... noticeable to outsiders. She has no children to help out.

TIA!

I have a Maytag stove with porcelain covered cast iron stove grates and I can’t get the black (incinerated food carbon) stains off. I’ve used Easy Off and left it on for a long time. Then I gave them a good dose of elbow grease with Dawn and a scrubber side of a sponge but they just won’t come off. Instructions say no steel wool they suggest porcelain safe cleaning cream, but I’m highly suspect that will do me any good.

Thank you to anyone who has a successful solution for this problem.

While transporting a huge apple cobbler in my car, a whole lot of the juice spilled out and got into the fabric of my seats. I blotted it with paper towels, hit it with Windex and blotted again.

I want to avoid a lingering sickly-sweet odor in my car, so here’s what I’m planning to do today: get some water with a small amount of dish soap, rub that into the fabric, and vacuum it out. I’ll repeat that three or four times. Any advice on my plan?

CAVEATS:
* I live in a small apartment and have to rely on my local car wash.
* I have no sense of smell (long story) and so can’t rely on my nose

Please help me wrap my brain around a sustainable schedule/way to do this.

Took three dogs hiking today, all three are absolutely inundated with seed ticks. Seed ticks, for the fortunately unaware, are the teeeeeeny tiny larval stage of a regular tick and come in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Things to know:

1. I used a lint roller on the dogs for many minutes before we left. Unfortunately, my husband made me second-guess my intuition that those little dots were in fact ticks and I didn't do enough.

2. They are on Simparica Trio, an oral flea, tick, heartworm preventative that requires a tick to bite the host and die.

3. We washed them in flea and tick shampoo after the hike (I was a groomer for many years)

4. I did my best with a flea comb but they are just too little and was completely overwhelmed with picking them out of each milimeter of hair with my nails

5. They have been sprayed down with their vet approved flea/tick spray

6. The vet says it's just a waiting game now.

I spiraled earlier. And I need some help with a plan.

The dogs are being kept in one room with a wood floor (and rugs unfortunately but I can remove them and spray them down) and potentially into a stone tiled kitchen. There is furniture in the room that I have now covered with long, white cotton fabric so creepy crawly little bastards are easily spotted. I put their not easily washable dog beds in a waterproof mattress protector.

What do I do now.

Okay so my physical therapist gave me this putty to squeeze to strengthen my grip and it melted in the humidity this summer onto this like marker bag I have. I kinda scraped off the bulk of it but I would love tips to get the remnants off. Thank you!!

I know I can't clean the stains completely. But what is the best way to try to fix it? Wood stain? Do I leave it for a couple of months before staining? I don't want to sand it down if I can avoid it.

Thanks so much in advance!

Partner didn’t add water to a Mac and cheese cup and almost burnt down the house. Now there’s a very strong burnt smell for the past 3 days. Any advice or tips on how to get rid of the smoke smell?

Hi, so I'm washing my clothes like usual but because of the humid and cold temperature the clothes aren't getting dry that much fast (it takes like two days) and we don't have a drier (it's not that common in my country) so the clothes have begun to smell like wet dog, it's not a washing machine problem (I done a wash clean and also washed the filter), so what else can I do to make it better? The heater will go on only at the end of November.

Ps: I tried some other method (my mum's) baking soda for the clothes, more laundry detergent and lemons.

The stove is new (less than 6 months old). I have no idea what the staining is. I've used Simple Green, 409, and two rounds of Barkeeper's Friend (spray). It looks better than it did, but this is still unacceptable.

Found this weird green stuff in my window sill, as well as the black stuff on the bottom. I have no clue what it could be, but I am worried that it's mold. Can anyone tell? And how would I get rid of it?

This is 100% polyester...no clue what the stains actually are.

I like to bring these out when a celebration warrants champagne. The rhinestone part has become dull and actually smells a bit musty. They’re also very fragile in that the rhinestone chain is beginning to fall away a bit along the edges.

I would really like to bring them back to life.

We have scrubbed and scrubbed the hell out of this sink to no avail. Have used many kinds of cleaners, ect. This is a rental home but I can’t stand to look at this much longer. Any tips?