three things in a house are damaged rather than dirty and no product fixes them. the staining that looks permanent and isn’t, the four cheap jobs that turn into invoices, and why the shame is aimed at the wrong list.
Author Archives: Lia
I Have A Newborn Right Now. The Four-Month Sleep Regression Is Not A Regression.
nothing went backward. at three to four months the brain reorganizes into adult sleep stages, and it does not revert. what that actually changes at 1am, what is behind you now, and the one wake you can delete.
I Clean Houses For A Living. You Cannot Vacuum Pet Hair Out Of Furniture.
a vacuum moves air, and air loses to a barbed hair hooked down into a weave. what actually lifts it out, why october is worse than august, and the dryer step almost nobody does in the right order.
I Did Nails For Twelve Years And I Had A Baby This Year. You Cannot Reach Your Own Feet.
two different things are happening to your feet in the third trimester and people blame the wrong one. the arch change nobody warns you about, the swelling that is a phone call rather than a foot soak, and the salon equipment to walk away from.
I Did Nails For Twelve Years. Your Polish Is Not Chipping Because Of The Polish.
a chip is the polish letting go of the nail, not the polish breaking. the ninety seconds before the first coat that decide everything, the edge where chips actually start, and why aggressive prep makes the exact problem it is trying to solve.
I Clean Houses For A Living. Your Bathroom Fan Is Not For The Smell.
it is a dehumidifier with a cheap motor in it, not an air freshener, and almost everybody runs it at the wrong time. what the spots on your ceiling actually are, the free timing fix, the two bottles that must never share a room, and the half of bathroom mold that is not alive.
I Own A Cleaning Company And I Had A Baby This Year. Your Car Is The Room You Forgot.
the nursery gets painted and the car gets nothing, and the car is the one room you are not allowed to leave the hospital without. the seat, the free inspection nobody books early enough, the expiration date molded into the shell, and what goes over the harness instead of under it.
I Clean Houses For A Living And I Have A Newborn. Fabric Softener Does Not Belong On Baby Pajamas.
children’s sleepwear is either flame resistant or snug-fitting — that is a federal rule, and the label tells you which one you bought. what fabric softener does to each, how strong the evidence actually is, and what to do about winter static instead.
I Own A Cleaning Company. Your Guests Cannot Tell If Your House Is Clean.
clean is something that happened to a surface before anyone arrived. what a guest can actually detect is tidy, shine and smell — three different jobs, two of them free. where the money goes instead, and the forty-minute pass that replaces a panic clean.
I Own A Cleaning Company. You Are Paying To Have Water Shipped To You.
water is the first ingredient on nearly every bottle in that aisle, and ingredients are listed in descending order. the powders and concentrates are the same chemistry with the freight taken out, the one ready-to-use spray i keep buying anyway, and the two ways concentrates go wrong.
