Clean With Me: Our Entire House (Cleaning Motivation)
it’s funny because when we do clean with
me videos sometimes we’ll get comments
saying but your host wasn’t even that
messy and you might think that I
actually live in a pretty clean home and
I would say my home is generally between
a seven and an eight out of ten in terms
of cleanliness but there are times where
it just plummets down to a too busy
things are going on Chad’s busy we’ve
got plans stuffs going on with Riley and
the cleaning straight-up falls by the
wayside well the good news is we
captured that because it just happened
and what we also decided to do was not
only show you one area of the house but
because we’ve done all of the dream home
Renault videos now you know what the
entire main floor of our home looks like
we’re gonna do a whole home major clean
with me I don’t I don’t I don’t want to
give it a title that like it’s not a
disaster cleanup because there wasn’t a
fire or a flood but it is big there’s a
lot of cleaning that’s about to happen
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no coupon code needed this was kind of
the moment where the reality set in I
realized that I had five hours of
cleaning ahead of me and I just had to
face the music and get to work so the
first thing that I like to do whenever
I’m tackling a whole home cleaning is
laundering linens because that requires
a lot of time and it’s one of those
cleaning jobs that you can sort of set
and forget so I gathered the linens from
our room and Riley’s room threw them in
the wash
got down to work next up I was dealing
with clutter which is part of wave one
of my method of cleaning that I often
talk about once the clutter was out of
the way I started wave 2 which is
cleaning and dusting and actually doing
all of the work that’s needed to put a
nice shine and polish on the space so
I’ve got a microfiber cloth some
all-purpose cleaner and just worked my
way around the room from top to bottom
now in the bathroom I didn’t feel it was
necessary to do a full cleaning our
shower was in pretty good shape the
toilet had been recently cleaned it was
just more a matter of dealing with
butter and linens that runs on new
towels I should say that we’re on the
floor and just kind of putting all the
little pieces back together you can see
my skincare routine has kind of gotten
out of control over there so it did
require a bit of organization I also
find that with the white countertops
they often get Messier quicker so I find
it a requirement to clean these more
frequently than I did in my old bathroom
which was kind of like a laminate
countertop that had like a Marbley
finish to it I cleared out the towels I
also checked the garbage in case it
needed to be empty kind of kicked
everything into the hallway which is the
central location where all of this stuff
that needs to go somewhere else is going
to go and then I went into Riley’s room
with her the biggest mess that we see
clothing and books because she loves
going to her bookshelf and pulling out
her favorite books
Dinah’s snores barnyard dance all the
Sandra Boynton titles are really big
right now Sophie so she likes to find
those pull him out and then of course
she makes a mess in the process now
usually Chad and I are pretty good about
having her help out with the cleanup but
in this case we had let everything go so
it was my job to do the touch-up now in
her room I also make sure to clean her
change pad and the cabinet fronts as
well as the points of contact because a
lot of stuff happens in these little
people’s rooms and that’s what I really
wanted to focus on but the rest of the
surfaces weren’t really dusty or dirty
it was more I was looking for those
bacteria hot spots and giving those
clean and then just doing a general tidy
and once that was done I was good now
this bathroom needed a lot of TLC not
only is this Riley’s bathroom where we
bathed her every night but it is also
the guest bathroom so it gets a lot of
traction first and foremost I like to
replace hand towels frequently as well
as regular bath towels I find especially
with hand towels like if guests are
coming and always like to have them not
more than a day or two old just because
you know trying to keep germs to a
minimum and being respectful the people
that come through our home I want to
make sure they’re always using something
clean in the bathroom it’s really
important to pretreat areas that are
going to be cleaned well ahead of time
so that you don’t have to do a lot of
cleaning or scrubbing later on down the
line
now with this tub I find it doesn’t get
too dirty but it does get some soapy
residue because of you know Riley taking
a bath and they’re just about every day
so I decided to give this a little
pretreat err and then just give it a
quick general wipe down again it didn’t
need a scrub it just needed more of a
surface clean next up I’m pre treating
the mirror here just giving it a spray
doing the same thing with the counter
and you can see I’m kind of throwing
everything on the floor and this is how
I’d like to roll with cleaning because I
know I deal with the floors last anyway
so if anything goes on there I don’t
worry about it too much
using my famous s pattern with that flat
weave microfiber cloth getting a real
nice shine on the mirror there same
thing goes for the faucets making sure
they look great you know when people
come over and they see water marks on
the faucet it’s not a big deal it
doesn’t mean it’s dirty but when there
isn’t anything there it just looks so
good now what the counters I’m just
doing a quick s pattern I level test and
then I’m moving right into getting the
sinks clean and again the thing with
doing these in between cleans even
though there was a lot of stuff to clean
up it wasn’t dirty it was just more than
mess that needed to be cleaned doing a
wipe down with a microfiber cloth is
sufficient moving right over the toilet
you’ll see actually I get asked about
this a lot
I took some paper towel with me because
I don’t like cleaning my toilets with
microfiber cloths I find you know I
don’t like the thought of that
from a cross-contamination standpoint
which is why I just like to use paper
towel and I always work from the top to
the bottom giving everything a good
white I also get comments sometimes
about not wearing gloves but I can tell
you I know who’s been on this toilet it
doesn’t worry me too much so I was okay
to not use gloves here plus it’s not
like I went and you know baked a cake
after this without washing my hands
the other thing that’s important when
you’re cleaning a toilet is to clean the
areas around at the toilet which is why
I sprayed and then started wiping using
the S pattern and this is actually how
we like to clean the floors in the
bathroom I lovingly call it the
Cinderella method or the heads and knees
method and you’ll also see that when I’m
done using my microfiber cloth who just
toss them on the floor when I’m cleaning
the bathroom and those are the cloths
that I end up using to wipe the floors
down now you might say well why wouldn’t
you just mop truthfully I could but then
I’d have to bring an extra cleaning tool
and this is just so easy and efficient I
also like that I don’t have to sweep or
vacuum this not only gets up any dirt on
the floor and stains but it also gets
hair and that is the biggest challenge
for me in the bathroom huh okay all done
now any of the clutter that I found
along the way I just threw in the hall
so it’s at this point that I’m going to
take everything with me and move out of
that area and into the other half of the
home just for full disclosure I decided
not to clean the guest room because it
really didn’t need a cleaning so why am
I gonna waste my time cleaning something
that doesn’t need it I’m on to my second
load of laundry now I’ve got my Linens
in the dryer and I’ve just put all of
the towels into the washing machine now
collecting myself and I’m starting a
great room so talking about the three
wave system I start in one part of the
room usually at a doorway and I work my
way around the first thing that I do the
first wave is tidying and organizing and
getting rid of garbage or things that
don’t belong so you’ll see me just
working my way around this room kind of
cleaning up moving things out of the way
but not actually doing any cleaning this
is important because we’ll cover the
cleaning in the second way but the
reason we do this first or I do this for
is because it allows me to have a much
easier time actually cleaning if I’m not
dealing with clutter so it was just a
method that I came up with to simplify
the flow of cleaning it’s also nice to
do the three wave system because during
the first wave you can identify certain
things that need attention for the
second wave and make sure that you don’t
have to you know run out in the middle
of your second wave of cleaning and grab
say a vacuum or another cleaning tool
you’ve got everything there and you know
what’s required
now these leather couches I’m not
actually cleaning with product I’m just
using a dry cloth to give them a quick
dust next up I grabbed my flat weave
microfiber cloth this is dry and I’m
just using the S pattern to give my TV a
quick wipe down we love using flat weave
microfiber cloths cleaning electronics
because it means we’re not going to get
any scratches on our surface one of
Riley’s recent obsessions is stickers
and cleaning stickers off the floor has
become somewhat of a part-time job
around here so the easiest way to deal
with them at least that I found it’s
just to quickly moisten them with a
little bit of water or all-purpose
cleaner then I grabbed a scraper if you
don’t have one of those you can use the
dull edge of a butter knife or an old
credit card and just gently work your
way back and forth until that sticker
comes up I find this job annoying but I
also know how much Riley loves stickers
so I try to find balance I know you
probably think we had 25 people over by
the looks of it but no these are all our
shoes they just didn’t get put away
so again part of my job starting off
with just tidying getting clutter out of
the way and then priming the space for
the actual thing that will take place
during the second way if you’re curious
hey what happens in the third wave it’s
all floors so we’ll get to that at the
very end one cleaning tip something you
might see me do is whenever I clean
something on the wall I like to support
it with my non-dominant cleaning hand
this is just a habitual thing that I’ve
learned over the years as a professional
cleaner that way if something isn’t
installed properly on the wall you don’t
have to worry about it coming crashing
down the dining room is kind of like an
office for us here it’s where we all
meet as a team and wear orders and
Amazon boxes end up going and microfiber
cloth samples so yeah this room can get
a little overwhelming at times I had
quite a bit of clutter to clean up in
here but because the room doesn’t get
used too frequently for its primary
purpose which is dining I didn’t have
too much work to do aside from just
cleaning the floors once all of this
reorganization and tidying was all done
the stinkface is real this kitchen it
was in rough shape
like there were meals that were just
left on the table and not even tidied up
I am I’m actually not embarrassed to
show this to you because I know that
this happens and homes all over the
world but yeah this was no our proudest
moment so as always in the kitchen
whenever I feel overwhelmed the first
place to start is always always always
the dishwasher I make sure that it’s
unloaded so that I can start loading up
the dishes because to me once the dishes
are out of the way then I can really get
down to business one of the habits I
learned during my waitressing days was
to consolidate as much as I could so
stacking plates getting all the food on
one plate just makes things a lot easier
for transporting around the kitchen and
for scraping food into the compost bin
so if you haven’t tried that before you
can give that a try the next time we
have a major kitchen cleanup to do since
I had so many things that had to be
cleaned I decided to hand wash a lot of
items because I didn’t want them to wait
until the next load plus some of them
were questionable like you know you have
those items in your life
dishwasher said i not i knew the
majority of these i should hand wash but
when i’m super lazy sometimes they end
up in the dishwasher anyway i decided to
just go full force and i hand washed
everything a great thing to do in your
hand washing is to also order your items
from cleanest to dirtiest so that way
your sponge doesn’t get dirty right off
the bat and you can clean your dirtiest
stuff at the very end my waffle weave
dish towels really came in handy here
and so many people have commented to us
over the years and have said why are
they so big well they’re big because
when you have a lot of dishes to do you
don’t want a small little insignificant
dish towel you want something that’s
gonna be able to handle the job so
finally once the dishes were done i
could tackle the quote-unquote clutter
in the kitchen i was able to get rid of
some recycling and this yellow pan here
i actually pretreated while i was doing
some of the other work so I wouldn’t
have to scrub as much or work as hard
with cleaning that’s why I always tell
you pre treating is key and the funny
thing is it’s not that I’ve really done
any cleaning in the kitchen per se aside
from handling the dishes and you can see
it already looks so much better so if
you don’t stay on top of the dishes man
it can really get you down next up and
this is just part of my regular kitchen
cleaning routine i will spray all
surfaces in the kitchen horizontal
surfaces so the dining dining room table
the kitchen table and all of the counter
tops i just give those a nice spray and
then by the time i get to the last place
to spray the first place that i’ve
sprayed
is ready to be wiped down the product
has had enough time to work it started
to break things down so i have to do
significantly less work here cleaning
the sink is one of the last things that
i do and i love throwing a bit of baking
soda in there just to add that scouring
power and it really makes such a
difference i get a nice shiny clean sink
and then to really put this sparkle on i
polish it up and it looks wonderful the
third and final wave of my three wave
system which makes perfect sense this is
a three wave system is taking care of
the floors so I’m just using my stick
back here I’ve got my different
attachments going and that way I can
take care of all the different areas in
this
at this point I’m also looking to see do
the baseboards need anything to any of
my vents need any extra attention and
that way I can give it to them but I’m
not you know doing all of the baseboards
or all of the vents I was more
eyeballing to see what was in need and
then if I notice something at that point
I would do it
getting the linens out and remaking the
bed was pretty much the last thing I had
to do aside from taking that towel load
and putting that in a dryer but you know
what I’ve done enough I think someone
else can handle making the bed at least
for today and to Chad’s credit he makes
her bed every day because he sleeps in
later than I do and he does a real good
job keep up the great work Chad now I’m
not gonna lie that cleaning totally
knocked the wind out of my sails it was
about five hours between the bathrooms
and the kitchen which took an hour over
an hour on its own and of course when
you’re sped up you can’t really tell but
that was a lot of work now all that to
say the house really felt gross before
and felt amazing afterward and a lot of
you know that I hate cleaning I’m not
one of those people who like loves and
celebrates the act of cleaning I really
don’t enjoy it while I’m doing it but I
really enjoy the results so even while I
was kind of struggling through it and
using all of my professional cleaning
ninja skills I reminded myself that the
end result was gonna be totally worth it
and it was and I’m curious and this is
this week’s comment question which is do
you prefer to do these long marathon
cleans and have incredible results at
the end knowing that your space is gonna
feel amazing and look welcoming and near
perfect and cozy when you’re done or are
you the kind of person that prefers for
your house to be mostly clean and you’ll
just do a room here or 30 minutes there
whenever you get the chance that’s kind
of more my style only because I don’t
like spending too much time doing it but
I know if I want the results I really
have to do the marathon clean so let me
know your thoughts and
Pence’s in the comments down below I
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