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Think your home is clean? Think again! 🧼 In this video, you'll discover deep cleaning hacks that can completely transform your home using simple techniques and affordable household ingredients. From stubborn bathroom stains and greasy kitchens to dusty corners and forgotten spots, these powerful cleaning methods will leave every room looking and feeling brand new.
Whether you're preparing for guests, tackling spring cleaning, or just want a fresher, healthier home, these practical tips will save you time, effort, and money.
In this video, you'll discover:
Easy deep-cleaning tricks for every room
Hidden areas most people forget to clean
Natural cleaning solutions that really work
How to remove stubborn grime, grease, and buildup
Time-saving tips to keep your home cleaner for longer
These tried-and-tested methods are perfect for homeowners, renters, and anyone who loves a spotless home without relying on expensive cleaning products.
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Think your home is clean? Think again! 🧼 In this video, you'll discover deep cleaning hacks that can completely transform your home using simple techniques and affordable household ingredients. From stubborn bathroom stains and greasy kitchens to dusty corners and forgotten spots, these powerful cleaning methods will leave every room looking and feeling brand new.
Whether you're preparing for guests, tackling spring cleaning, or just want a fresher, healthier home, these practical tips will save you time, effort, and money.
In this video, you'll discover:
Easy deep-cleaning tricks for every room
Hidden areas most people forget to clean
Natural cleaning solutions that really work
How to remove stubborn grime, grease, and buildup
Time-saving tips to keep your home cleaner for longer
These tried-and-tested methods are perfect for homeowners, renters, and anyone who loves a spotless home without relying on expensive cleaning products.
👍 If you enjoy practical home tips, cleaning hacks, and traditional household wisdom, like this video, subscribe, and turn on notifications for more easy cle
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00:00I grew up watching my mother clean a house the hard way, on her hands and knees scrubbing
00:05the floors.
00:06For she held that if a thing was worth doing, it was worth doing right.
00:11And the cleaning was near an all-week affair.
00:15And I honored her for it.
00:17But I have learned over the years that all that toil is not needed to get the very same
00:22result.
00:23That there are little shortcuts and clever ways that give you a house just as clean in
00:29a fraction of the time and the sweat.
00:31It is not a matter of doing less well.
00:34It is a matter of knowing where the work truly lies and where it does not.
00:39So today I am going to take you room by room and give you the quick ways, the ones that
00:45get the same spotless house without wearing yourself to the bone.
00:49Let me show you.
00:50Here is the thing to understand before we start.
00:53The little truth that runs through all of it and is the whole secret of cleaning fast.
00:59Most of the time we lose in cleaning is not the cleaning itself.
01:03It is the going back and forth.
01:05The too much product that wants too much rinsing.
01:08And the scrubbing at a thing before we have let it soften.
01:11Let a thing soak while you do something else and it wipes away with no scrubbing.
01:16Carry a whole shelf's worth at once instead of one jar at a time.
01:21And you save half your steps.
01:23Use less soap, not more.
01:25And you save all the rinsing.
01:27The fast way and the easy way are near always the same way.
01:31And it is only that most of us were taught to work hard rather than to work clever.
01:37Now room by room.
01:39Quick word before we go further.
01:41My name is Esther Yoder.
01:43Esther Yoder and the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing today and
01:48a great many more besides, are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
01:54I have gathered the whole of them into a book and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
01:59If today's tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught
02:04me lives, all in the one place.
02:07Now to the cleaning.
02:08My mother, bless her, would have scrubbed that fridge shelf in place, one jar at a time,
02:14walking to the counter and back a hundred times.
02:17And here is the faster way, for those of you who keep an icebox.
02:21Do not take the things out one at a time.
02:24Take a box or an empty laundry basket and go shelf by shelf, lifting everything off a whole
02:31shelf at once, straight into the box.
02:33That alone saves you a great heap of steps and time.
02:37All that walking back and forth to the counter gone.
02:41Then once a shelf is bare, take a couple of cloths and wet them good and warm.
02:46Warm but not so hot as to crack the cold glass.
02:49And lay them flat right out on the shelf.
02:52And leave them there to soften and loosen all the stuck on goo and spills while you turn
02:58to the box.
02:58Go through the box as they soak, throwing out the old and the spoiled and setting aside
03:04what does not belong.
03:05And by the time you have sorted the box, those warm cloths have loosened everything on the
03:10shelf.
03:11And you have only to give it one easy wipe, and it is perfectly clean.
03:16The warmth did the scrubbing for you while you did another job.
03:20Shelf by shelf like that, it is done in no time.
03:23Now the oven, which used to take me forever, and I found the reason was that I was using far
03:28too much product, and even harsh things that only wanted endless rinsing after.
03:33Here is the quick secret, and it is the opposite of what you would think.
03:37Less product and a dry sponge.
03:40You sprinkle just a little baking soda over the greasy places.
03:43Not a great heap of it, just a little.
03:45And then wet it only barely.
03:48A small squeeze of plain dish soap worked in to just moisten it to a paste.
03:52And then, and this is the trick, you scrub with a dry sponge, not a wet one.
03:58For the dry sponge gives you far more grip and abrasion against the grease.
04:02And that abrasion is what does the work fast.
04:05Scrub in circles, lift the grease off, and then wipe it clean with a damp cloth to rinse.
04:11Less is more here, truly.
04:13The little bit of soda and the dry sponge give you a clean oven in a few minutes, where
04:18a whole can of harsh spray and a wet rag would have you scrubbing half the morning.
04:24And I do not even trouble to take the racks out.
04:26Leave them in and scrub around them, for we are cleaning the lazy way today.
04:32Now here is a thing my grandmother knew that most folks forget entirely, and it is the most
04:38important cleaning of all.
04:39You must clean the things that do your cleaning.
04:43For a dirty mop only spreads dirty water, and a clogged vacuum only pushes the dust about,
04:50and a foul wash tub only makes your wash come out no cleaner than it went in.
04:55Clean your cleaners first, and everything else you clean comes out truly clean.
05:01Now for those of you with the dish machine and the washing machine, this is where it bites
05:06its hardest, so let me give you their quick clean, though I keep neither myself.
05:11The dish machine you can run empty with a cup of vinegar to freshen it, but the place
05:16that truly wants doing is the rubber seal round the door, for that is where near all the odor
05:22comes from, and it goes moldy and black in the folds.
05:26Wipe all round those seals with a little dish soap on a cloth, just a little, not a lot,
05:32or you will have suds everywhere, and get right into the folds.
05:36And then clean out the filter down in the bottom, which gathers the most dreadful gunk, and rinse
05:41it.
05:42Do that, and your machine runs cleaner and quieter, and your dishes actually come out
05:47clean.
05:49The washing machine is the same tale.
05:51The front loader has a little door at the bottom front, and behind it a filter and drain
05:56that gather trapped water and lint and worse.
05:59Pull it, drain it, and clean it out.
06:02Wipe the door seal, and take out the soap drawer and wash the sludge from it.
06:06Both machines, it is the seals and the filters, the hidden, trapped, damp places that want
06:13the cleaning.
06:14And for those of us without the machines, it is the very same principle turned to our
06:19own tools.
06:20You scald out your washtub, you wring and dry your mop, and never leave it sitting wet
06:25and sour.
06:26You wash your cleaning rags hot.
06:28And if you keep a vacuum, you empty it and clear its brush before you use it, not after,
06:34water, for a full clogged vacuum cannot pick up a thing.
06:37Clean the tool first, always, and it cleans for you.
06:41Now to the walls, which folks dread and think a great chore, but there is a quick way.
06:47You do not need a bucket of harsh chemicals.
06:50Warm water with a little dish soap or a splash of vinegar on a flat mop or a cloth wrapped
06:56round a flat mop head does a whole wall in minutes.
06:59Start at the top and work down, so the drips run down onto the dirty part you have not done
07:05yet and not onto the clean, and go over it once.
07:08Most walls only want the dust and the light grime taken off, not a hard scrubbing, and
07:14a damp flat mop does that as fast as you can walk along the wall.
07:19Spot scrub the marks by hand, but do not scrub the whole wall as though it were all a stain.
07:24It is not.
07:26The baseboards are the same quick trick, and here is the clever part.
07:30After you have wiped them clean, run a dryer sheet or a cloth with the least bit of oil along
07:36them, and it leaves a coat that helps keep the dust from settling back so fast, so they
07:41stay clean longer and you do them less often.
07:44And a damp cloth wrapped over a flat mop, or even the end of a broom, lets you do the
07:50baseboards
07:50standing up, without getting down on your knees the way my mother did, which spares your back
07:55entirely.
07:56And under the furniture, the great dust that gathers where you never reach, the quick way
08:02is not to move the heavy pieces at all, but to slide a damp mop or a cloth on a
08:07long handle
08:07right under them, flat along the floor, and drag out all that dust and fur without shifting
08:13a thing.
08:14Do it every so often, and it never builds to that grey blanket you dread finding when
08:19you do move something.
08:20Now the windows.
08:22Quick and streak-free with no special blue bottle.
08:25Vinegar and water, wiped on, and then wiped off and polished with a lint-free rag or a bit
08:31of crumpled newspaper, which leaves no streak and no lint.
08:35Do the sills while you are there.
08:37And do not wash your outside windows when rain is coming, or you will have it to do again, as
08:43I have learned to my sorrow more than once.
08:46The window screens, which gather a surprising amount of dust and dim your whole room, you
08:51can do quickly by brushing them with a soft brush, or take them out and give them a rinse
08:56with the hose and let them dry, and the light comes through so much brighter after.
09:01And a screen of the other sort, a television or the like, you dust with a plain dry coffee
09:07filter, which takes the dust without scratching and without leaving lint behind.
09:12The blinds, that folks think such a tedious job, go fast if you close them flat one way
09:18and wipe straight across with a damp cloth, then close them flat the other way and wipe
09:23again, and you have both sides of every slat in two passes.
09:27A cloth over each hand, or an old sock on your hand, does a slat top and bottom at once.
09:34And the curtains, last, which most folks never clean at all because they dread taking them
09:39down and washing and ironing them.
09:42Here is the quick way that freshens them without any of that.
09:46Most curtains only want the dust and the staleness taken out, not a full wash, so you can take
09:52them down and give them a good shake out of doors.
09:54And hang them on the line in the fresh air and the sun for a few hours, which airs them
10:00and sweetens them beautifully, the sun taking the stale smell right out.
10:04Or run a damp cloth down them, or brush them with the soft brush.
10:08For those with a dryer, a few minutes on a cool tumble with a damp cloth shakes the dust
10:14out.
10:14Aired in the sun and shaken out, they come back fresh with never an iron touched.
10:20Now one rule of safety I set down in the middle of all this fast work, for it matters more
10:25than
10:25speed.
10:26If ever you reach for bleach on a job, never let it meet vinegar or any acid, and never
10:32use the one right after the other on the same spot, for the two together make a poison gas.
10:38Choose one or the other and keep them well apart, and open a window while you work.
10:43Fast is good, but safe comes first, always.
10:47Now think a moment about why we were all taught to clean the hard way, on our knees for a
10:52week,
10:52when a house comes just as clean with these few clever shortcuts in an afternoon.
10:57It is worse than a plot, for no one had to arrange it.
11:01There is money in selling you the harsh sprays and the special products and the machines,
11:05and in teaching you that clean means hard chemicals and hard labor both, and none at all in teaching
11:11you that a warm cloth left to soak, a dry sponge and a little soda will do it faster and
11:17cheaper
11:18and gentler.
11:19So the plain old cleverness, the working smart our grandmothers had of necessity, got buried
11:25under the labor and the bottles, because no one profits by your finishing in an hour what
11:30they would have you spend a week on.
11:32The mending of it is a few clever ways, and the letting go of the notion that clean must
11:37mean killing yourself over it.
11:39You carry the whole shelf at once, and let the warm cloth soak the fridge while you sort.
11:44You scrub the oven with a dry sponge and a little soda.
11:48You clean your cleaners first.
11:50You do the walls and baseboards with a damp flat mop standing up.
11:54You slide a mop under the furniture, vinegar the windows, shake the curtains in the sun.
12:00And your whole house comes spotless in an afternoon, gentle on your back and your purse both.
12:06That is how it comes home, one soaked shelf, one clever shortcut at a time.
12:11The keeping of your own house back in your own hands without the week of toil.
12:16So here is what I would ask of you.
12:18This week, try just one of these shortcuts, the fridge box and the warm cloths, or the
12:23dry sponge on the oven, and see how much time it saves you.
12:27And then, come back and tell me in the comments which one saved you the most, for I do love
12:32to hear of a chore made quick.
12:33And tell me, too, while you are there, your county and the age of your house.
12:39For the old houses have their own quirks and the climates differ so, and I learn from every
12:44one of you how the keeping goes where you live.
12:47And if your own mother or grandmother had a clever shortcut I have not named here, tell
12:52me that most of all.
12:53For that is how this goes.
12:55We share what we were given.
12:57I read every comment, and I learn from you the way the old women learned from one another
13:02across the fence line, one house and one season at a time.
13:08Next time, I will show you how to keep a house so that it hardly ever wants a deep cleaning
13:13at all.
13:14The small daily habits that mean the dirt never builds to a great chore in the first place.
13:20For the cleverest cleaning of all is the kind you never have to do.
13:24There is a right and an old way to keep a home that runs on a little daily care and
13:30a few
13:30plain things rather than a week of scrubbing.
13:33But this week, you start with the shortcuts.
13:36You carry the shelf in a box and let the warm cloth soak it.
13:40You take a dry sponge and a little soda to the oven.
13:44You clean your cleaners.
13:45You damp mop the walls and baseboards standing up.
13:49And you shake your curtains out in the sun.
13:51And you will understand, as I came to understand watching my mother on her knees, that a house
13:57need not cost you a week and your back to come spotless.
14:01That the fast way and the gentle way are most often the very same way.
14:06And that our grandmothers, who had a hundred other things to do, knew every one of these
14:11clever shortcuts by heart.
14:13The house kept the plain old way is the one that remembers how the old women got a whole
14:19home spotless with a few clever ways and a fraction of the toil.
14:24And that is a thing we are only just starting to remember.
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