There’s no dust allowed in these wine glasses. Do you remember when, when putting away our Shavuos vases, we covered them in plastic wrap to prevent dust from accumulating inside (and saving us from lots of cleaning work)? You can use the same trick on the wine glasses and stemware you take out for only…
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How to Keep Guest Room Beds Fresh & Guest-Ready
Keep infrequently used guest room beds fresh with this trick. Washing and changing linen is a big job, let’s not kid ourselves. If you know you won’t be using your guest room beds for a while (even if only a week or two) here is a great trick to save yourself from a clean but…
3 Wipes You Should Never Be Without (and None of Them Are for the Baby)
Life is hectic. Take every shortcut possible. These wipes are how I take my cleaning shortcuts without skimping on cleanliness. Stainless steel is so pretty. For exactly 3 ½ seconds until your adorable toddler shows up with lollypop fingers and decides to press buttons. I have tried every single method for cleaning stainless steel and…
How to Get Your Wood Floors to Look Brand New
Have your floors suffered from years of scratches and abuse? No worries. My wood floors have seen a lot. They’ve been trampled throughout the years by lots of children, wheels of baby strollers, and heels of dozens of guests joining us to celebrate a simcha. We don’t remove our shoes or treat it delicately…and yet,…
How to Get Your Kids to Clean the Playroom
If you’ve ever heard lots of groans…or, quite frankly, simply see kids disappear when you tell them it’s time to clean the playroom, then you may find this technique absolutely useful and clever. When we moved into our home 5 years ago, one of the things I was most excited about was our playroom. Out…
Help Me BCP! How Do I Keep My House Perfectly Clean? Here’s Our Day-by-Day Task List for Each Day of the Week
Where to start? (Or what we’d probably prefer an answer to…where does it end?) A cleaning schedule can make it easier to keep up and keep your home pristine. This post launches a new service of Between Carpools called, “Help Me BCP!” If you have a quandary and think we can help, email or message…
How to Take Apart and Clean Almost Anything
Learn how to get into those spots where the most crumbs reside with easy how-to videos to clean almost anything. “Dust is not Chometz and Children aren’t the Korban Pesach”. Did you know that there are thousands of videos and instruction pages online that show you how to take apart appliances, clean ovens, reassemble those…
Chanie Hartstein’s Ingenious Method for Cleaning Makeup Brushes
What do Legos and makeup brushes have in common? You can never have too many of either of them! But seriously, all you need to do is stop in your playroom and borrow a Lego plate from your kids! What you’ll need: ¼ cup dishwashing soap, such as Palmolive ½ teaspoon olive oil 2 tablespoons…
How a Makeup Artist Discovered the Best Way to Polish Silver
One day, as I was looking for makeup brushes (like I always am), I found oval makeup soft brushes like these. I quickly realized that these would be perfect to polish silver. While Goddard’s Silver Polish Foam comes with a sponge, the sponge doesn’t reach all the little crevices. Using these brushes, brush the polish with…
The Broom That Changed My Sweeping
Could sweeping actually be an enjoyable chore? Other than loading the dishwasher after preparing dinner and straightening up here and there, I admit that I’m not much of a cleaner-upper. My idea of cleaning usually only extends as far as my Clorox Wipes will take me. When I was first married, the first home I…