I am a 911 operator in the southwest area. We have been binge watching these you tube videos on breaks. It's calming. You have moved to first place. Love your humor.
Omg thank you for this video! I’ve been looking for a comprehensive video like this. I moved into a new house and have been grossed out/worried about deep cleaning these really old cabinets.
This video was a real helpful reminder. In general everything is organized and only what I need is stored in there. I regularly clean under the sink and utensil draws but I forget about doing the other cupboards and shelves. Thanks for the reminder. I will start cleaning them regularly, though they don't get very dirty. Recently I found your clean behind the fridge video which was something I never thought about. After watching the video I cleaned that area and boy did it need it. Now from this day forward I will remember to periodically clean behind the fridge so it won't get too gross again.
My own little hack. I have wooden shelves and cabinet bottoms. I line the under sink cabinet with peel and stick floor tile. Males clean up easy and if you have a leak the wood won't warp or mildew.
I absolutely need to clean my kitchen cupboards. It's the thing I put off cleaning the most but I'll be doing it soon because you inspire me to clean more all the time! I like all your videos!
Thanx Dear tht was such an inspiration to get me going.....ive finally organised not only my kitchen but all the closets and almost all the house so thanx....ive got a clean n organised house now
When I get in a slump, I watch your videos. They get me motivated. Now, if I could get my husband to watch them as well. Its hard be the only one MOTIVATED! Here's to cleaning by myself!!!!! cheers!
***** yes! Please do a cleaning the stove video. Clean the burners, clean under the burners clean the drawer under the stove. I know the oven has a self cleaning function but it takes forever and I feel that the amount of energy needed for self cleaning is overkill. Thanks
***** I used to clean rental apartments near a college and was required to pull the fridge out and clean the condenser coils on the back of the refrigerator. The stuff looks like fur and affects how the cooler unit works. Places like Sears also sell casters to roll your appliance for cleaning. The bottom drawer on most stoves will pull out and its easy to clean under the oven, but every appliance is different. Hope this helps a little :)
I have 20 kitchen cabinets, 20 kitchen drawers, and a full pantry. I just did this same clean up (before I even watched your video) and it took me a week. I am happy it's done (after about 5 years) and I have an entire kitchen table filled with items to donate! The oldest thing I found was spices....from 2001!
I just cleaned my cupboards recently and there was a lot of stuff which shook me to the core. The oldest thing in the cupboards was lasagne sheets, so it wasn't messy or disgusting, but it was from 1999.
It was great to see more of your personality at the end of this video. I love every single one of yours videos, but your laugh was so inviting in this one! Keep up the amazing work! You're my house cleaning hero!
I squeal every time I see a new video from you! You have the best tips and you make cleaning way more fun and easier from the cheaper and more natural products to cleaning a room is a clockwise direction. Thanks always!
I’ve just started watching these videos! My mum has worked cleaning jobs her whole life & I often went to work with her. She is all about good hygiene but as a kid we had a plastic serving spoon that our dog chewed & when he died when I was 10 we didn’t get rid of it. It’s been a decade & now I’ve got the mangled spoon ❤️
Well, Melissa, I'm going to break a self-imposed pc rule about avoiding commenting to tell you...Well done! Your videos are extremely useful and even...entertaining :-)----you often provoke a chuckle, and you make all these chores lighter work: a godsend! Thanks a schmillion and keep 'em comin!
Thank you so much for making this video! It is just the type of motivation I need to get started. Hopefully I will spring clean my kitchen this weekend.
I didn't find this in my kitchen, however... I found a Mac & Cheese box from 1997 in storage while i was volunteering for a food bank! I kept it and now I offer it to people who want Mac & Cheese, strangely I haven't gotten any takers. I wonder why?
We were actually thinking about making some more of those bags to sell...if people were interested that is... Thanks for watching MrsChristinaGilbert !
when I moved out of my parents' house at 18, my mom gave me a can of pickled pig feet. She said, " If you're ever broke enough to eat this, you can come back home and we'll buy you some groceries." It taught me an excellent lesson about budgeting! I'm 29 years old today, and I still have it. :)
I am 71 years old and you have shown me something excellent!!!! Put dishtowels above stove where they won't fall out like plastic containers do!!!!! Put containers in the nice drawer the cloths have been taking up for eons. Thank you little deary!!!!!!!
Bless my poor husband's heart. I moved into a bachelor's house and you wouldn't believe the things I've found in this house! Especially, condiments! I think there was something from 2010! And this happened in 2013. Pickles, chips, cereals....he could've fed three people for a week three years ago. Now I manage the kitchen with no complaint from the hubster. Lol Not to mention the random machete in the Linen cabinet.
I don't have much success keeping our kitchen clean / organized, but I found that putting a wee wee pad under the kitchen sink keeps the base board clean of any spills that might occur from the chemicals I keep there. I also learned that an over the door shoe rack is great for placing spray bottles and other small bottled chemicals out from under the sink and easily available. We hang it over our laundry door that is in our kitchen. :-) hope this helps.
I was recently looking for spices at my mother in law's house. I found a spice (I think it was thyme) from 1967. She claimed spices didn't go bad, but I was like "umm I'll just toss this for you".
No I'm Indian, and I assure u, after some years the spices DO go bad. And 1967! Gosh! Thumb rule- Don't keep ANY food item for longer than a year. ur MIL sounds innocent though :)
I need a hand held vacuum so badly. My pots and pans cabinet is an absolute disaster too. There just doesn't seem to be a way to store such awkward items neatly!!! The oldest thing in my pantry is probably a box of cereal from like 2 years ago. I hate stale cereal, but my husband says he'll eat it and won't let me get rid of it. :P The most embarrassing thing in my pantry is a bag of old potatoes with some pretty big eyes on them. -_- I should really take care of that. Great video!
Maybe request one for Christmas? Yeah that cabinet is a royal pain! Hahah, maybe make a breakfast one morning with home fries and cereal and your husband can eat his words :P
Got inspired and took the spice cabinet on. It may have been a while, as I found chicken bouillon cubes (1997). This is why the tippy top shelf should maybe be outlawed for us shorty's, you can't see it you don't know it is up there. Thank you for the inspiration.
I love that we're not the only couple that keeps weird things as a joke/reminder! As for the oldest food item I've found, I once found a four pack of chocolate bars that was so old that the company had changed the packaging design years previously. Clearly, they were well hidden (somehow having fallen into a part of the fridge no one knew about), or they would have disappeared long ago!
If you install a steel basket in the middle of your pots, pans, and lids cabinet, you'll have double space, and you can organize a little but more. We use a bigger cabinet for that, and made the baskets slide out so we love it!
My concern is how to access it and install it since the door is tiny and the cupboard veers deep off to the right. I don't know if we could swing it. I am going to look into ideas for this cupboard since a lot of people are talking about it. I genuinely wish I had a bigger cupboard to store my stuff in. Our kitchen is so small.
Hello first I would like to say your videos are great and I always use the 3 waves of cleaning when things get messy. I was wondering how you make your own cleaning products? If you could tell me I would be very grateful
I just discovered you and subscribed. I LOVE your videos! I was so motivated, I cleaned my kitchen today. I have a tiny kitchen (I live in Japan), but it took a lot longer than I expected. Now my kitchen is clean and I don't dread cooking so much any more. (^◇^;) I'm sure you have subscribers all over the world, but I just wanted to let you know that you made a positive impact on this side of the Pacific, too! Thanks Melissa!
My girlfriend and I bought two of those Coca Cola bottles with our names on them when we started dating. They sat on a shelf in my bedroom for a year and a half and now they sit on top of one of our cabinets in our kitchen! They're not SUPER old (they're from early 2014) but they're not drinkable now, even though we never opened them! :) Thanks for the informative video Melissa!
OMG! I would be using cupboard #10 for my cookie sheets. The grossest thing wasn't even in a cupboard or drawer. We moved from a 2,000+ size house to an apartment. So that tells you what space was like while homeschooling too. We found buried under a bunch of CRAP on the dining room table/ junk collection pile a bag with what we think what might have been a bagel at one time. LOL! This week we moved so now it's unpacking and still more purging as we get settled.
Melissa for the pots and pans you can place the shelves with legs like the ones in IKEA it increases space and organize the pans and pots beautifully..give it a try
I wish I had your cupboard space. Thanks for the great tips. I love to be organized. I just got some new spiralizers and don't know where to put them because my cupboard is full. Grrr. I don't have canned food but lots of spices in pans with the marble thingy. That circles. That looks beautiful. Great to punt rags up above. I love that. You work really fast. Haha. I hate the lower cabinets so much. I can never find anything. Hugs.
Spices always end up at the back of the cupboard :( you have inspired me, we are waiting to build a house and I had a massive clean out I even had a garage sale, I think you call them yard sales there, the amount of things we got rid of were crazy
I know from the label designs that I have spices in my spice rack that are over 10 years old. Don't use them, but just can't toss them! Sentimental value just like your taco kit. :) Glad you reminded everyone to clean the door hinges. When we moved to our current home, the hinges were so groddy and disgusting that we just replaced all of them.
Thank you for this video, i just did this and it took me a little over 4 hours!....and i live in an apartment! LOL! To be fair, I also took the time to re-jar all my spices. My kitchen looks lovely now :)
I can't wait to tell us how to organize the cupboard with the pots and pans!!!the only thing I hate! For all my other cupboards I use baskets which is the most helping idea ever!!!!!
Melissa, Question; why is it that in the like or dislike place I always see way more thumbs down and one or two thumbs up? But when is read the comments they are All likes? I love your videos. I've gotten a lot of great tips. I'm going out to the store right after I post this to get rubbing alcohol and micro fiber towels plus a few more must haves from your videos. Keep them coming I subscribed! Thanks
I don't have a handheld vacuum cleaner, but my mom gave me her Rainbow vacuum cleaner. It has a long cord and a long hose. However, I don't have a brush attachment for it (she lost the smaller attachments lol). So, what I do is, I use a small brush (a mini-broom is more like it) to lift any stubborn particles that are stuck, and then use the vacuum cleaner to suck it all up. Hope this helps anyone who doesn't have a handheld vacuum cleaner.
When my parents were dating, my grandfather kept a bottle of extra virgin olive oil for ages, saving it for a special occasion. When he finally decided to open it at a family gathering the oil was so dense it wouldn't come off the bottle, and when it finally started pouring my dad told me it looked like engine lubricant :)
Have you guys ever thought about producing a series of training videos for professional maids or housekeepers? Or, about your cleaning business and how you started it? Great videos btw.
One of my good friends and I joke all the time about having or finding "vintage" foods in our homes.... Cream of Wheat that expired months or maybe even a year prior... fortunately nothing moldy or anything like that.... but still eye-opening how quickly time flies and food goes bad >.
Chad, I love nutella too! And I hide it in a drawer :). Melissa, your hair looks beautiful. To both of you, thank you for the new Spring Cleaning videos! Much appreciated and well-used :)
I actually went to my pantry to scout out our ancient food... my husband asks what I'm doing... "What have we had in here for ages?" "Oh God that pack of Vermicelli.. you've had that for years." And by years I'd say almost 10 years. Groooooosss hahahaha! Thanks!!!
I just love the way you keep everything neat and clean. I have some canned food that are too old ( sweetened condensed milk from 2013) that I already knew they were there for nothing... Just couldn't throw them away. Why? :/ Shame on me. Doing it next week... Thank you! Love from Brazil. xo
Thanks for the video! I would love to watch how to clean washing machine and an oven (including old stains. Tried baking soda - does not work). Thanks a lot!
I just pulled everything in my pantry out and found several boxes of pasta that are 4 years expired. I also found 9 jars of peanut butter and am dreading looking through the expiry dates on everything!
The oldest unused item in the kitchen is 3 jars of shrimp cocktail sauce. One is open and half empty. another is 3 times larger than the smallest jar and like 10% used. The last and tallest jar is unopened, always stored upside down and expired in the year 2002! Thanks for the help and the laughs
Question I hadn't seen asked: You cleaned the cabinets with your all purpose clear: is this safe to use on wood/MDF/whatever cabinets usually are? Yours looked more like plastic or acrylic, or at least painted. Just wondering what you'd recommend for bare wood (and MDF and liquids don't usually get along).
Thank you! I really enjoy your cleaning methods - it looks very manageable the way you approach it! I wanted to ask: where do you get and what brand are your spray bottles? I'm looking to create some of your homemade cleaning concoctions and I would love to find some multicolored bottles like the ones you use! :)
So right about the music!! Yesterday I dragged two desk speakers and an iPod around with me bc the good tunes inspired me otherwise...screw that cleaning!!
This video was great! I need to do mine, its been 6 month since we moved in so i guess its time lol. Video idea: Could you do a video review of the spin mop? I like the idea of it being touchless and it can do walls ceiling and windows as well as the floors, so is it worth it really?
Thanks for the video! I'm inspired to clean my own cabinets and drawers out! I just don't subscribe to the idea of only keeping a week's worth of food in my cabinets because you never know when a disaster--man made or natural--could arise. Even just a financial emergency. To keep from accumulating expired food in our cabinets, we make sure we store the newest items behind the oldest so that it gets used first.
This is true, a lot of people have a pantry where they'll store extra items, which I would agree with. That's called the FIFO system (an accounting term) first-in-first-out :D.
I just moved into an apartment and the cabinets by the stove are just covered in grease. It looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years. What do you recommend to cut threw the grease without hurting the wood?
I would love to see your method to get built up grease and grime off kitchen cupboards. I moved into a house that had years of grease build up on every cupboard and I have tried so many things and there's still a film left on them no matter how much elbow grease I put into it. Help!
A few years ago I was helping my Mum clean out her pantry, at the time I couldn't remember it ever being done before! Anyway, on one of the bottom shelves, right at the back, I found a tin of drinking malt (for milkshakes etc.). I checked the expiration date on the tin, as you do, and the malt had EXPIRED the year I was born. So that made it 17 YEARS out of date at the time!! I took the tin to my Mum and told her about it. She then asked me "Is it still okay?" !!! I shook the tin and it was rock solid!! We still have a good laugh about it now, but its definitely the worst I have ever seen!! :)
Too funny with the 10 year old taco kit! For my house, it's gotta be old pasta....you know us Italians, when there is a pasta sale...got to stock up....lol
My mother has something in her fridge that holds memory's too, it's not gross tho! It's a bottle of water. When my brother was in hospital dying from cancer, what he loved the most was ice cold water to sip on. So my mother would bring home his water bottle every night, refill it, keep it in the fridge and bring it back up to him the next morning! My brother passed away 9 weeks ago and my mother still has his bottle of water in the fridge. None of us can part with it! It's amazing what u hold on to and take comfort from!
peachpetal82 It's true, something with sentimental value (especially since his passing was so recent) I think is entirely acceptable since it does bring comfort to your family. I am deeply sorry for your loss, and wish your family strength during this healing time. Hugs :)
Oh here is my issue. I just bought a house the former owners were NASTY DIRTY! The shelf liners were never pulled out and cleaned under so they stuck to the wood and paint. How do you get that stuff off?! It's the left over residue of the sponge type of shelf liner.
There is a hole at the bottom of cupboard #8 where the pipe disappears and I have that hole as well, I'm worried that water or garbage anything dirty might drip into that hole and who knows what will grow out of that... I want to make sure it is clean but am too afraid to stick my hand in there to check... how do you make sure it is clean??
When my husband and I were engaged we were due to move into the house his grandparents built in 1985. When his grandparents passed on, nothing and I mean NOTHING was cleaned! (it was left just as they left it) There was a good 1/2 inch of dust throughout the house. This took me a good year to clean fully. While I was cleaning the pantry in the basement, I found food that expired in 1990! Our garbage collectors left a stern note that week stating not to let our trash cans weigh more than 50lbs each...we had 3 HUGE cans and all were packed to the brim with junk and expired food..I still do a facepalm when I remember it lol
Use mineral oil That is what is used ( generally applied by sprayers ) in food processing plants Been done this way for many many years up to today. Mild soap to clean surface, light application of mineral oil. Olive, vegetable food oils can get rancid if not maintained
That Old Paso Taco Kit story had me laughing! I think my OPTK are mugs I've been gifted with over the years...2 cupboards full. I keep trying to purge them and as I look at each one, I'm thinking, 'Oh this is too cute to give away, my mom gave me that one, I could use these at Christmas time, my students gave me this one and this one and this one...' You get the idea, lol.
LOL - YT4Me57 my mom taught too, and had all kinds of mugs and gifts from students. It's so sweet, but it's true, 2 cupboards full is a lot to deal with!
Hey! Do you guys have a video or any tips on cleaning your bathtub/shower? I didn't see one in your channel when I skimmed through, and that's my cleaning project for the day. I may have to do my cabinets now, though :P Thanks!
I went through my mothers cupboards a few years ago and found some cinnamon from a store chain that had gone out of business sometime in the 90's. Price tag was still intact and everything. She keeps it around and we laugh about it once in a while.
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I am a 911 operator in the southwest area. We have been binge watching these you tube videos on breaks. It's calming. You have moved to first place. Love your humor.
Omg thank you for this video! I’ve been looking for a comprehensive video like this. I moved into a new house and have been grossed out/worried about deep cleaning these really old cabinets.
This video was a real helpful reminder. In general everything is organized and only what I need is stored in there. I regularly clean under the sink and utensil draws but I forget about doing the other cupboards and shelves. Thanks for the reminder. I will start cleaning them regularly, though they don't get very dirty. Recently I found your clean behind the fridge video which was something I never thought about. After watching the video I cleaned that area and boy did it need it. Now from this day forward I will remember to periodically clean behind the fridge so it won't get too gross again.
My own little hack. I have wooden shelves and cabinet bottoms. I line the under sink cabinet with peel and stick floor tile. Males clean up easy and if you have a leak the wood won't warp or mildew.
It's sooo crazy how much bigger her kitchen is with the remodel, and with the light colours gives the impression being even bigger!
I’m so glad you don’t play music in the background in your newer videos. Thank you for that!
I absolutely need to clean my kitchen cupboards. It's the thing I put off cleaning the most but I'll be doing it soon because you inspire me to clean more all the time! I like all your videos!
Me too I love to stay organized
Thanx Dear tht was such an inspiration to get me going.....ive finally organised not only my kitchen but all the closets and almost all the house so thanx....ive got a clean n organised house now
Yes it really is
When I get in a slump, I watch your videos. They get me motivated. Now, if I could get my husband to watch them as well. Its hard be the only one MOTIVATED! Here's to cleaning by myself!!!!! cheers!
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I was thinking about cleaning out my cabinets yesterday and now I have a video about it this is amazing thanks for the help
It's a sign.... ;)
Thanks for watching Dustin Cardwell !
This week we Spring Clean all of my kitchen cupboards & drawers! #springcleaning2014 #springcleaning
***** yes! Please do a cleaning the stove video. Clean the burners, clean under the burners clean the drawer under the stove. I know the oven has a self cleaning function but it takes forever and I feel that the amount of energy needed for self cleaning is overkill. Thanks
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I used to clean rental apartments near a college and was required to pull the fridge out and clean the condenser coils on the back of the refrigerator. The stuff looks like fur and affects how the cooler unit works. Places like Sears also sell casters to roll your appliance for cleaning.
The bottom drawer on most stoves will pull out and its easy to clean under the oven, but every appliance is different. Hope this helps a little :)
I got my desk drawer done today! Having a Woo Hoo moment!
heavymechanic2 i will give it a shot thanks.
... i might not do it today but...
I found a 6 yr expired little can of tomato paste in the pantry!! It's in the garbage now! LOL
I have 20 kitchen cabinets, 20 kitchen drawers, and a full pantry. I just did this same clean up (before I even watched your video) and it took me a week. I am happy it's done (after about 5 years) and I have an entire kitchen table filled with items to donate! The oldest thing I found was spices....from 2001!
That's a BIG job - well done Jan!
Enjoy the clean kitchen and thanks for watching :)
I just cleaned my cupboards recently and there was a lot of stuff which shook me to the core. The oldest thing in the cupboards was lasagne sheets, so it wasn't messy or disgusting, but it was from 1999.
LOL - true! Not messy, but still amusing!
It was great to see more of your personality at the end of this video. I love every single one of yours videos, but your laugh was so inviting in this one!
Keep up the amazing work! You're my house cleaning hero!
that's really nice to say to her
Yes thats so cute and keeping it real with her laugh. 😆
I love all of your videos. I have learned a lot from you and I am ancient. Old dogs can learn new tricks.
I squeal every time I see a new video from you! You have the best tips and you make cleaning way more fun and easier from the cheaper and more natural products to cleaning a room is a clockwise direction. Thanks always!
Aww, thanks Diana Kim ! Whatever we can do to make cleaning a little easier...
I’ve just started watching these videos! My mum has worked cleaning jobs her whole life & I often went to work with her. She is all about good hygiene but as a kid we had a plastic serving spoon that our dog chewed & when he died when I was 10 we didn’t get rid of it. It’s been a decade & now I’ve got the mangled spoon ❤️
Well, Melissa, I'm going to break a self-imposed pc rule about avoiding commenting to tell you...Well done! Your videos are extremely useful and even...entertaining :-)----you often provoke a chuckle, and you make all these chores lighter work: a godsend! Thanks a schmillion and keep 'em comin!
Thank you so much for making this video! It is just the type of motivation I need to get started. Hopefully I will spring clean my kitchen this weekend.
I didn't find this in my kitchen, however... I found a Mac & Cheese box from 1997 in storage while i was volunteering for a food bank! I kept it and now I offer it to people who want Mac & Cheese, strangely I haven't gotten any takers. I wonder why?
Was in the process of doing this at my house!
We were actually thinking about making some more of those bags to sell...if people were interested that is...
Thanks for watching MrsChristinaGilbert !
***** I would probably buy a bunch. I probably need to clean out my bag stash.
Yay! I've been waiting for this video!!!! Once I'm done with finals im organizing my kitchen! Love the tension rod trick!
Thanks! Good luck with your exams!
when I moved out of my parents' house at 18, my mom gave me a can of pickled pig feet. She said, " If you're ever broke enough to eat this, you can come back home and we'll buy you some groceries." It taught me an excellent lesson about budgeting! I'm 29 years old today, and I still have it. :)
This is a great idea. Love your parents for this.
I am 71 years old and you have shown me something excellent!!!! Put dishtowels above stove where they won't fall out like plastic containers do!!!!! Put containers in the nice drawer the cloths have been taking up for eons. Thank you little deary!!!!!!!
Bless my poor husband's heart. I moved into a bachelor's house and you wouldn't believe the things I've found in this house! Especially, condiments! I think there was something from 2010! And this happened in 2013. Pickles, chips, cereals....he could've fed three people for a week three years ago. Now I manage the kitchen with no complaint from the hubster. Lol Not to mention the random machete in the Linen cabinet.
I don't have much success keeping our kitchen clean / organized, but I found that putting a wee wee pad under the kitchen sink keeps the base board clean of any spills that might occur from the chemicals I keep there. I also learned that an over the door shoe rack is great for placing spray bottles and other small bottled chemicals out from under the sink and easily available. We hang it over our laundry door that is in our kitchen. :-) hope this helps.
I was recently looking for spices at my mother in law's house. I found a spice (I think it was thyme) from 1967. She claimed spices didn't go bad, but I was like "umm I'll just toss this for you".
No I'm Indian, and I assure u, after some years the spices DO go bad. And 1967! Gosh! Thumb rule- Don't keep ANY food item for longer than a year. ur MIL sounds innocent though :)
I need a hand held vacuum so badly.
My pots and pans cabinet is an absolute disaster too. There just doesn't seem to be a way to store such awkward items neatly!!!
The oldest thing in my pantry is probably a box of cereal from like 2 years ago. I hate stale cereal, but my husband says he'll eat it and won't let me get rid of it. :P The most embarrassing thing in my pantry is a bag of old potatoes with some pretty big eyes on them. -_- I should really take care of that.
Great video!
Maybe request one for Christmas? Yeah that cabinet is a royal pain! Hahah, maybe make a breakfast one morning with home fries and cereal and your husband can eat his words :P
My kitchen is the hardest to keep clean, so it feels soooo great when it's all clean!
Got inspired and took the spice cabinet on. It may have been a while, as I found chicken bouillon cubes (1997). This is why the tippy top shelf should maybe be outlawed for us shorty's, you can't see it you don't know it is up there. Thank you for the inspiration.
You guys! These stories are so funny - keep 'em coming!! I don't feel so bad about the taco kit :P
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I love that we're not the only couple that keeps weird things as a joke/reminder!
As for the oldest food item I've found, I once found a four pack of chocolate bars that was so old that the company had changed the packaging design years previously. Clearly, they were well hidden (somehow having fallen into a part of the fridge no one knew about), or they would have disappeared long ago!
Yes - your weirdness as a couple has been validated by Chad and I! That's a funny story - and chocolate is usually the first to go!
If you install a steel basket in the middle of your pots, pans, and lids cabinet, you'll have double space, and you can organize a little but more. We use a bigger cabinet for that, and made the baskets slide out so we love it!
My concern is how to access it and install it since the door is tiny and the cupboard veers deep off to the right. I don't know if we could swing it. I am going to look into ideas for this cupboard since a lot of people are talking about it. I genuinely wish I had a bigger cupboard to store my stuff in. Our kitchen is so small.
Hello first I would like to say your videos are great and I always use the 3 waves of cleaning when things get messy. I was wondering how you make your own cleaning products? If you could tell me I would be very grateful
I was applying Konmari method to my mom's safe last week, and found saccharine tablets dated Sep 1981! :D
I just discovered you and subscribed. I LOVE your videos! I was so motivated, I cleaned my kitchen today. I have a tiny kitchen (I live in Japan), but it took a lot longer than I expected. Now my kitchen is clean and I don't dread cooking so much any more. (^◇^;)
I'm sure you have subscribers all over the world, but I just wanted to let you know that you made a positive impact on this side of the Pacific, too! Thanks Melissa!
That's so great to hear, Yumiko Suzuki !!! Glad you found us and keep coming back!
My girlfriend and I bought two of those Coca Cola bottles with our names on them when we started dating. They sat on a shelf in my bedroom for a year and a half and now they sit on top of one of our cabinets in our kitchen! They're not SUPER old (they're from early 2014) but they're not drinkable now, even though we never opened them! :) Thanks for the informative video Melissa!
you could drain out the cola, clean the bottles, and keep them back! :)
OMG! I would be using cupboard #10 for my cookie sheets.
The grossest thing wasn't even in a cupboard or drawer. We moved from a 2,000+ size house to an apartment. So that tells you what space was like while homeschooling too. We found buried under a bunch of CRAP on the dining room table/ junk collection pile a bag with what we think what might have been a bagel at one time. LOL!
This week we moved so now it's unpacking and still more purging as we get settled.
I really enjoy your videos they are so educational and inspiring.
Love the "junk" drawer idea!
Melissa for the pots and pans you can place the shelves with legs like the ones in IKEA it increases space and organize the pans and pots beautifully..give it a try
I'm going to check and see what IKEA has. I am just not sure if they make one for the cupboard shape/door combo that I have!
I wish I had your cupboard space. Thanks for the great tips. I love to be organized. I just got some new spiralizers and don't know where to put them because my cupboard is full. Grrr. I don't have canned food but lots of spices in pans with the marble thingy. That circles. That looks beautiful. Great to punt rags up above. I love that. You work really fast. Haha. I hate the lower cabinets so much. I can never find anything. Hugs.
Spices always end up at the back of the cupboard :( you have inspired me, we are waiting to build a house and I had a massive clean out I even had a garage sale, I think you call them yard sales there, the amount of things we got rid of were crazy
We bought a pot rack that now hangs above our counter. So if your tall, this is great!
Glad to have small kitchen
I know from the label designs that I have spices in my spice rack that are over 10 years old. Don't use them, but just can't toss them! Sentimental value just like your taco kit. :) Glad you reminded everyone to clean the door hinges. When we moved to our current home, the hinges were so groddy and disgusting that we just replaced all of them.
That's the worst - when you think to yourself 'they don't even make fonts like this anymore!'
Thank you for your videos , I enjoy them and learn from them , blessing from Atlanta GA .
Thank you for this video, i just did this and it took me a little over 4 hours!....and i live in an apartment! LOL! To be fair, I also took the time to re-jar all my spices. My kitchen looks lovely now :)
I can't wait to tell us how to organize the cupboard with the pots and pans!!!the only thing I hate!
For all my other cupboards I use baskets which is the most helping idea ever!!!!!
Melissa,
Question; why is it that in the like or dislike place I always see way more thumbs down and one or two thumbs up? But when is read the comments they are All likes? I love your videos. I've gotten a lot of great tips. I'm going out to the store right after I post this to get rubbing alcohol and micro fiber towels plus a few more must haves from your videos. Keep them coming I subscribed! Thanks
anything that "HASNT" expired gets donated 🙄 my gosh some people love to hate! great video 😊 watched on my coffee break from doing mine 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I don't have a handheld vacuum cleaner, but my mom gave me her Rainbow vacuum cleaner. It has a long cord and a long hose. However, I don't have a brush attachment for it (she lost the smaller attachments lol). So, what I do is, I use a small brush (a mini-broom is more like it) to lift any stubborn particles that are stuck, and then use the vacuum cleaner to suck it all up. Hope this helps anyone who doesn't have a handheld vacuum cleaner.
When my parents were dating, my grandfather kept a bottle of extra virgin olive oil for ages, saving it for a special occasion. When he finally decided to open it at a family gathering the oil was so dense it wouldn't come off the bottle, and when it finally started pouring my dad told me it looked like engine lubricant :)
thank u for the bonus video Melissa...
You are welcome!
Very inspiring and motivated
Have you guys ever thought about producing a series of training videos for professional maids or housekeepers? Or, about your cleaning business and how you started it? Great videos btw.
Hello I saw are your cleaning spay bottles can you make a video on all the spray bottles?
One of my good friends and I joke all the time about having or finding "vintage" foods in our homes.... Cream of Wheat that expired months or maybe even a year prior... fortunately nothing moldy or anything like that.... but still eye-opening how quickly time flies and food goes bad >.
Lol! We had a taco kit too ! It was old when I used it and we all got sick . I should have checked the expiration date ,lol.
Chad, I love nutella too! And I hide it in a drawer :). Melissa, your hair looks beautiful. To both of you, thank you for the new Spring Cleaning videos! Much appreciated and well-used :)
Thank you so much Melissa.. Your videos always help me.. Happy☺️☺️
Great video)) can you do video about how to organize kitchen cabinets?) it's a huge problem for me..
I actually went to my pantry to scout out our ancient food... my husband asks what I'm doing... "What have we had in here for ages?"
"Oh God that pack of Vermicelli.. you've had that for years." And by years I'd say almost 10 years. Groooooosss hahahaha!
Thanks!!!
I just love the way you keep everything neat and clean. I have some canned food that are too old ( sweetened condensed milk from 2013) that I already knew they were there for nothing... Just couldn't throw them away. Why? :/ Shame on me. Doing it next week... Thank you! Love from Brazil. xo
I LOVE your outfit in this video, Melissa!
Thanks for the video! I would love to watch how to clean washing machine and an oven (including old stains. Tried baking soda - does not work). Thanks a lot!
Very helpful ....love your work 🌷
Microfibre cloths are life savers!
I just pulled everything in my pantry out and found several boxes of pasta that are 4 years expired. I also found 9 jars of peanut butter and am dreading looking through the expiry dates on everything!
Hi melissa can u make a video how to clean inside of the fridge?
The oldest unused item in the kitchen is 3 jars of shrimp cocktail sauce. One is open and half empty. another is 3 times larger than the smallest jar and like 10% used. The last and tallest jar is unopened, always stored upside down and expired in the year 2002!
Thanks for the help and the laughs
Question I hadn't seen asked: You cleaned the cabinets with your all purpose clear: is this safe to use on wood/MDF/whatever cabinets usually are? Yours looked more like plastic or acrylic, or at least painted. Just wondering what you'd recommend for bare wood (and MDF and liquids don't usually get along).
Thank you! I really enjoy your cleaning methods - it looks very manageable the way you approach it!
I wanted to ask: where do you get and what brand are your spray bottles? I'm looking to create some of your homemade cleaning concoctions and I would love to find some multicolored bottles like the ones you use! :)
Please comment on that bar you have under your sink. I thought it was a regular shower curtain rod but i bought one but its way to big.
So right about the music!! Yesterday I dragged two desk speakers and an iPod around with me bc the good tunes inspired me otherwise...screw that cleaning!!
This video was great! I need to do mine, its been 6 month since we moved in so i guess its time lol. Video idea: Could you do a video review of the spin mop? I like the idea of it being touchless and it can do walls ceiling and windows as well as the floors, so is it worth it really?
Thanks for the video! I'm inspired to clean my own cabinets and drawers out! I just don't subscribe to the idea of only keeping a week's worth of food in my cabinets because you never know when a disaster--man made or natural--could arise. Even just a financial emergency. To keep from accumulating expired food in our cabinets, we make sure we store the newest items behind the oldest so that it gets used first.
This is true, a lot of people have a pantry where they'll store extra items, which I would agree with. That's called the FIFO system (an accounting term) first-in-first-out :D.
What if the cupboard has very tough stains would this still work for it
I just moved into an apartment and the cabinets by the stove are just covered in grease. It looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years. What do you recommend to cut threw the grease without hurting the wood?
I would love to see your method to get built up grease and grime off kitchen cupboards. I moved into a house that had years of grease build up on every cupboard and I have tried so many things and there's still a film left on them no matter how much elbow grease I put into it. Help!
A few years ago I was helping my Mum clean out her pantry, at the time I couldn't remember it ever being done before! Anyway, on one of the bottom shelves, right at the back, I found a tin of drinking malt (for milkshakes etc.). I checked the expiration date on the tin, as you do, and the malt had EXPIRED the year I was born. So that made it 17 YEARS out of date at the time!! I took the tin to my Mum and told her about it. She then asked me "Is it still okay?" !!! I shook the tin and it was rock solid!! We still have a good laugh about it now, but its definitely the worst I have ever seen!! :)
Too funny with the 10 year old taco kit! For my house, it's gotta be old pasta....you know us Italians, when there is a pasta sale...got to stock up....lol
LOL - it's so true! But I've always loved how Italians make their own tomato sauce and jar it for the year. I wish I had that!
My mother has something in her fridge that holds memory's too, it's not gross tho! It's a bottle of water. When my brother was in hospital dying from cancer, what he loved the most was ice cold water to sip on. So my mother would bring home his water bottle every night, refill it, keep it in the fridge and bring it back up to him the next morning! My brother passed away 9 weeks ago and my mother still has his bottle of water in the fridge. None of us can part with it! It's amazing what u hold on to and take comfort from!
I am so, so sorry for your loss. :(
Thank u
peachpetal82 It's true, something with sentimental value (especially since his passing was so recent) I think is entirely acceptable since it does bring comfort to your family. I am deeply sorry for your loss, and wish your family strength during this healing time. Hugs :)
Thank you so much for your kind words. Hugs back :)
Oh here is my issue. I just bought a house the former owners were NASTY DIRTY! The shelf liners were never pulled out and cleaned under so they stuck to the wood and paint. How do you get that stuff off?! It's the left over residue of the sponge type of shelf liner.
There is a hole at the bottom of cupboard #8 where the pipe disappears and I have that hole as well, I'm worried that water or garbage anything dirty might drip into that hole and who knows what will grow out of that... I want to make sure it is clean but am too afraid to stick my hand in there to check... how do you make sure it is clean??
When my husband and I were engaged we were due to move into the house his grandparents built in 1985. When his grandparents passed on, nothing and I mean NOTHING was cleaned! (it was left just as they left it) There was a good 1/2 inch of dust throughout the house. This took me a good year to clean fully. While I was cleaning the pantry in the basement, I found food that expired in 1990! Our garbage collectors left a stern note that week stating not to let our trash cans weigh more than 50lbs each...we had 3 HUGE cans and all were packed to the brim with junk and expired food..I still do a facepalm when I remember it lol
Can you please do a video on how to clean your cooker?
We have a couple videos on that - search the channel for oven and stove, you'll see them!
in the small cupboard add a lazy Susan, it'll make it so the pans at the back will be easily accessible because you can spin it to the front!
I am thinking about that now...I'll see what we can swing. I want to kick that cupboard (rage!).
Jiffy cake mix at least 10 years old. My four sisters say they all have one too, because our mom said to have one on hand, just in case.
That's a funny story - and clearly you never did need it!
Use mineral oil
That is what is used ( generally applied by sprayers ) in food processing plants
Been done this way for many many years up to today.
Mild soap to clean surface, light application of mineral oil. Olive, vegetable food oils can get rancid if not maintained
That Old Paso Taco Kit story had me laughing! I think my OPTK are mugs I've been gifted with over the years...2 cupboards full. I keep trying to purge them and as I look at each one, I'm thinking, 'Oh this is too cute to give away, my mom gave me that one, I could use these at Christmas time, my students gave me this one and this one and this one...' You get the idea, lol.
LOL - YT4Me57 my mom taught too, and had all kinds of mugs and gifts from students. It's so sweet, but it's true, 2 cupboards full is a lot to deal with!
what is in the liquid to clean the cabinets? Any recommendations to clean drawers so they wont get a old smell
What's the expiry date on the soft taco kit? You got me curious about that now ;)
PS great videos! I love them all. I've been following along. Front hallway/closet and kitchen....DONE!
Glad I'm already subscribed. I don't want to click your ancient soft taco kit.
I love your tips hey why you don't know make a video how clean a stove when it's grassy. I have a problem with my stove help me..
lol thats awesome! I love the taco kit story! I dont hae anything old bec I always throw away expired items! I'm paranoid like that lol
xo Michele
That's great that you are so on the ball with it! It's a good practice!
Hey! Do you guys have a video or any tips on cleaning your bathtub/shower? I didn't see one in your channel when I skimmed through, and that's my cleaning project for the day. I may have to do my cabinets now, though :P Thanks!
Whoop, nevermind, I found the bathroom cleaning video! Thanks :D
I went through my mothers cupboards a few years ago and found some cinnamon from a store chain that had gone out of business sometime in the 90's. Price tag was still intact and everything. She keeps it around and we laugh about it once in a while.