18 Things You Should Clean at the Beginning of Every Season
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Awesome list. I can see it being very helpful for first time apartment renters and others to just develop good consistent habits.
I added a few items to your list in parenthesis.
1) Freezer
2) Oven
3) Shower Curtain
4) Washer Machine
5) Sink/Shower Aerators
6) Range Filter
7) Keurig (Coffee Pot/Kettle)
8) Trash Cans
9) Furnace Filter
10) Under Kitchen Sink (Bathroom too)
11) Utensil Crocks (Cutlery Drawer)
12) Door and Trim (Door knobs)
13) Windows, sills and tracks (Curtains)
14) Light Fixtures (Light switches)
15) PC and Keyboard
16) Leather/Vinyl conditioning of furniture (vacuum of furniture including mattress)
17) Refrigerator
18) Pantry/Cupboards
Pinned. Thank you!
Another place that gets dirty with product residue is the cupboard/shelf where laundry products are stored.
Vacuum filters need cleaning too. I have a shark vacuum with 2 foam filter that needs to be cleaned and all vacuums need to have their rollers cleaned.
I’d add fan blades- mine get disgusting!
I love all of you, I love lists. 🥰
I can’t clean under my sink, that’s where I store my extra moose.
It's the most sensible place, really
You should still try to set up a temporary moose enclosure so you can clean under there once in a while. You'd be surprised what you find in moose storage
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Me too!!😅
Just bang on the door and yell “Housecleaning” like a hotel does.
“Use a paper towel you’re not emotionally attached to” 😂😂
Best YT vid I’ve seen in at least 5 years. Speak your truth son
I lost my service dog 12 31 22 and with her a large amount of my sanity. My OCD shifted to hoarding and so far your videos are the only thing helping me. My apartment is still a disaster but I'm starting to make progress. I just wanted to say THANK YOU!
I lost my adorable dog of 11 years at the end of March. The grief is annihilating. I’m so sorry for your loss. Losing a service dog and companion would be especially devastating. I’ll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
@@ScotchScoville Thank you! She was my service dog for 9yrs and today I really miss her.
May the memories of love outweigh the grief of loss.
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Sending you a hug!
My husband owns an appliance repair business, and using the self-clean feature is a sure-fire way to greatly shorten the life of your oven, because the excessive heat tends to wipe out the control boards. He recommends if it must be used, to do it no more than once a year... or whenever your moose chef forgets to put a catch pan under the Overbaked Alaska. Rock on, Duder!
I’ve also heard this about the self clean function. Luckily it’s something I also forget to ever do 😂! I buy oven liners to put on the bottom and periodically replace though, to catch anything that falls.
I've found that it doesn't bloody work, either. My mom and I tried twice with ours and it did nothing so we gave up in annoyance and cleaned the damn thing the way we always have.
I used the self cleaning on an oven in an apartment years ago and it scared the heck out of me as hot as the cabinets around it got. I've never used it again.
I used it once and said never again as it made the cabinets around the stove really hot.
I think it must be that there are better stoves available for homeowners, because I have never had a stove in a rental survive the madness of coal fired oven level heat in something not made of a crap ton of bricks with a nearby fire station. Like literally had to override the lock every time I tried this.
I collect my Walmart bags and give them to lady who works at a food bank . They have about 120 families once a week and use them for produce. She plays bingo with me and they really need them. It is easy to give them to her and they have the need.
We don’t have then anymore in Canada. Just cloth bags.
We use to smaller thin ones to scoop the litter box out with or as liners for bathroom size trash cans. The larger, pick up bags that are stronger, we give to my MIL. she works once a week at a food bank at our church and they love them for bagging up the food they give out as they are very sturdy.
I'm in San Jose, CA and I too give the bags to local food banks (Second Harvest & Sacred Heart). I also give bags that didn't hold meat/dairy and clean Amazon boxes to a local charity thrift shop (The Thrift Box, San Jose) that benefits a local children's hospital.
I have one of those hanging things designed for storing them full that I usually hang onto if I ever run out of small trash bags, but I usually never run out.
I also use them when I clean out my fridge; put it on the counter, scrape food old enough to shave into it, tie it shut (and usually put the whole thing into another bag) before dropping it into the trash. Leaky garbage bags are so gross and this way I have less of those. 😁
Tyvm for the idea on what to do with the extra.:)
Oregon has done away with Wal Mart bags...so I needed my 125 Wal mart bags...
Yeah, if you have chicken nuggets sentient enough to be a tax deduction, you should probably clean your freezer.
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This is one of the best comments- ever!
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HA HA HA
Like a fuh-Reak!!
We ain't stopping at squeaky clean, son. We don't stop 'til it's *freaky* clean.
"Freaky Clean" is my new goal.
This should be on his next tee shirt.
@@samanthasurovec4639 Not a bad idea.
Freaky Squeeky love it
I had severe depression for the last couple of years which really affected my cleanliness. I've finally worked my way out of it and have been tackling most of the items you've shown for the last two months. Some additional items on my list: I took the screens out of the window and scrubbed them with a brush and rinsed with the hose, I pressure washed my entry and screen door, cleaned the horizontal blinds, the baseboards, took a duster to the ceiling and walls, wiped ceiling fan blades, cleaned the dishwasher filter, and had someone clean the fireplace chimney & dryer vent. I'm feeling pretty good about the condition of my house and yard these days. Thanks for sharing your list!
Great work!
Me too. I was very depressed for 2 years. Luckily my sweet husband watered my plants for me. That’s how bad it was. One day I looked around and came to life again to start doing those everyday maintenance projects.
Dang, forgot about the screens 🤦🏻♀️
@@barbarageorge7848In a hurry, we gently wipe them front and back with a rag with dish soap. Knocks the dust off, especially in spring with the pollen. we call it half arsing a quick clean (Or sometimes gently sweep them with a soft brush attachment first.) Yes...a reminder ours needs done.
The one drawback of getting new glasses is seeing all the spots I missed in my "clean" house". I spent the other day with some cleaning solution and a Magic Eraser hitting all the smudges and gunk that I had missed before. On the plus side, all remaining traces of The Toffee Incident have be erased.
I… I think we need more info on “The Toffee Incident” 😂
@@Hermitinthemountains I'm still not quite sure what caused it, but I had a pot of toffee mixture erupt and cover my kitchen in spatters. After a dozen failures, I have vowed to never attempt toffee again.
I kind of like the mystery of the name, The Toffee Incident. It sounds like a novel by Agatha Christie.
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I started putting the exp date on all pantry stuff on the front in sharpie so I know immediately what I need to use and I can arrange them oldest to newest and don’t have to check every can or whatever every time I cook. FIFO baby
Absolutely! Those plastic food bags with a white area to write on, are so valuable.
Food has no expiry date if you live in Africa.
I started doing this too! You can add a post it note inside the cabinet with a list of things to eat before the next season clean out
That's a great idea! Anything that I vacuum seal has a date. But I never thought of putting it on the front of things in original packaging.
You're way too good for me. I'm impressed.
“This will be used to sanitize surfaces, especially on things that are kind of gross like trash cans… and your mom” 😂😂😂 I wasn’t expecting a line like that in a cleaning video. I laughed so hard I woke up my toddler.
Same 😂 didn't have to call out our moms like that
Tip: Get yourself some baskets from dollar tree with handles(the oblong type) for your cabinets so when you clean you just have to remove the basket!!
I love mine. I got the clear ones at Target. They help alot and can see everything 😊
Moose teeth can really screw up your spin cycle on your washing machine 🐨😂
And spin kicks.
Thanks Mack for all the cleaning tips. I see you have a vintage top loading washer. My tip for you is never get rid of it. New washing machines ain't worth moose droppings!
I would hardly call it vintage! We bought a new washer & dryer last year and it's top loading. The majority we looked at were top loading.
Agree. I learned that limits on how much water washers could hold were put into place a few years back. There’s a used appliance place in my town and they sell cleaned up used appliances. I got my giant top loading washing machine from them last year for around $200 and that included delivery, installation, and a three year warranty. I can fill that big tub with hot water and get clothes CLEAN. I had a front loader for a little while and couldn’t get used to it. It didn’t seem like it had enough water to adequately clean the clothes. A lot of people really like them though. But when this washer bites the dust I’ll just get another used one with a big tub.
Yes! My parents had an old Montgomery Ward washer and dryer set that they bought in the '80s when they first got married. The washer lasted until I was in high school and was too obsolete to fix when it finally bit the dust, the dryer made it to college before it bit the dust and had to be replaced (too obsolete to fix). In that time since, the washer had to be replaced once because the computer in it was a lemon. The dryer seems to be doing alright though.
Our washing machine is a top loader from the late '90s, early 2000s. It has sat outside for the past 11 years, pretty much since the day we bought it and brought it home. Aside from the supply hoses, the only real servicing it's needed was a solenoid replacement when a freeze cracked the old one. It's an absolute beast, and we're keeping it till it disintegrates into rust powder
My washer and dryer came with my house purchase seven years ago. I looked up the serial numbers and found that they are from 1985! I HOPE THEY NEVER DIE!
@@lauramitchell6725 Lol…they might not
Oh gawd! I remember “spring cleaning” as a child! Mom, Dad, me and my 2 sisters spent the weekend dedicated to windows, walls, carpets, appliances, etc.
YES, we washed WALLS! 😳
Damn, I’m old 😩🤪
You might have forgotten that we had to wash walls because back then just about every adult smoked, and we all did so in the house. That grime from the tar was disgusting! Do you remember how that sticky tar attracted and held on to dust so well that it practically blocked off the air vents on the TV? Yuck! It was almost like it was flocked, like the inside of a jewelry box. It only took about two swipes at the wall to turn the wash rag and rinse water that distinctively disgusting yellow-brown color. We never realized how filthy smoking made everything until everyone in the family quit (and those who relapsed decided to smoke outside because we didn't want the dirt in the house anymore).
Yes, washing walls. Not because of smoking. General use, kids, and adults, hands sre naturally dirty, near light switches got dirty from normal use. Same for door frames, etc. We used very diluted spic and span (floor cleaner) and wash cloths. Works well.
Anyone who has pets should be washing their walls occasionally. The hair from cats, and from the undercoat on double coated dogs, is so cine that you can’t even really see it. But it gets blown around by the central heating/cooling fan and it sticks to the walls. (In copious amounts might I add.) I found this out when I was wiping a pop spill off one of my walls, and my rag was instantly covered in pet hair.
What a gag-inducing discovery that was! And after multiple years of cat ownership - what a lot of work to clean every wall in the house.
Fine - not “cine.” Typo. Ugh. I haven’t figured out how to edit my comments once I’ve already hit “reply.” Sorry, folks.
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I don't run the self cleaning cycle in my oven anymore. It produces such strong fumes that I would have to leave the house. My eyes would burn so bad and I couldn't breathe.
Now I have parrots and birds are so sensitive I'm sure they would die.
So now we are super careful about the oven and clean messes right away.
I also have birds and even worry about using oven cleaner since it has such fumes. I might just need someone to birdsit for a day while I do a spring clean
I also have parrots....and a dirty oven!
@@PredictableEnigma I used the Mr clean pads to clean mine. I went thru a few but at least it saved my body some pain from hours of scrubbing by hand. (I'm 50 with fibromyalgia).
With as sensitive as birds are I wouldn't trust that a day would be enough time for the house to air out from oven cleaner for your bird.
I use white vinegar to clean almost everything in my house. Including the animal cages.
Yes. Same. We bought oven liners on Amazon and now I just change them out.
I have a convection countertop I typically use so the main oven honestly rarely gets used anymore.
But anytime I is used ii’s 99% by my pie baking messy cook it into the glass door husband.
So the bottom is pretty good but I still haven’t figured out how he spills and burns everything into the racks and glass or how nothing will scrub those off. Lol.
do not clean your oven with birds etc in house. they can perish from the fumes. moving them to another room does not always work.
I am old enough to have been a housekeeper before self-defrosting freezers. The fastest way is using a hairdryer (my first one was the bonnet type). Using a hand held hair dryer will take care of any frost problem super quick.
I've always used pots of hot/boiling water! Close the door, wait 10-15 minutes, and voila! The frost is, at the very least, loose enough to be scraped away! Towel dry, turn it back on, then restock! Done!
A hand held hair dryer will also thaw out frozen pipes under your sink. 🔥
A steam cleaner works great too
@@53sheri Oh hey... I never thought of that! I think I'll use my the next time I have to defrost mine!
And there's that super satisfying part where the ice sheet loosens from the hairdryer and you can pop it off with a plastic spatula. I hated my old 1950s fridge/freezer, but that was sooooooo satisfying.
i put peel and stick tile under my sink, SOOOO easy to keep clean.
I learned that trick from someone years ago and it’s such a win.
Oooh damn, that’s a good idea! I put a piece of I guess you can call it, shelving liners that you can get that’s kinda soft and yet you can just wipe it right down and they have other stuff that’s harder and works well too ( under the sink liner) it’s so much easier and that way, it protects the wood and you can use it for under your bathroom vanity as well.
I put an extra boot tray and it works ok, doesn't cover entire area just where I want it. Can hold some amount of water if there is a leak and it isn't caught immediately (which is a great bonus!)
Thanks for the motivation today! Cleaning my bathroom was not on my to-do list but it has been a while (yay depression!)
I just kinda started going “well this doesn’t live on the sink, it goes in the cabinet. Christmas is over, I don’t need this Christmas tree hand soap anymore and while I’m at it let me squirt some toilet bowl cleaner in the toilet and let that sit while I clean the sink and the mirror and the shower and empty the trash can”
30 minutes later I have a clean(er) bathroom. I can’t really do much with the floor except vacuum it (yes there is carpet in my bathroom and I HATE it! It’s the next thing to get replaced when I have the $).
I also told the moose to STOP DRINKING THE TOILET WATER
I've got to move soon. I've been looking for a place and have been surprised by how many houses have carpeted bathrooms. What on earth would possess a person to think that's a good idea??? 🤦♀️ I hope you're able to replace it soon!
@@ForbiddenChocolate it’s cheap
@onecatshortofcrazy12 I suppose, but you can often find vinyl flooring remnants or peel-and-stick tiles for cheap at Home Depot or Lowe's, if you don't mind installing it yourself. I'd paint and seal the subfloor before putting carpet in a bathroom, but I'm a bit unconventional at times. 🙃
@@ForbiddenChocolate the subfloor is part of the problem too. It’s a patchwork of whatever was available at the time, so it isn’t even. With the carpet you really couldn’t tell but it’ll show if I do vinyl
I should also mention that carpet was done like 40 years ago when it was the cheaper option
@onecatshortofcrazy12 that is unfortunate. Seems like a DIY project that went awry, and those are often costly to undo and redo correctly. The house I'm renting originally had plywood instead of that greenboard on the walls, which was papered over. Little surprise when there was a mold problem, and it had to be gutted. You're lucky not to have mold in the carpet after so many years. Best of luck to you.
PS: As a crazy cat lady myself, I love your name!
That one drawer had a midwest amount of cheese in it. Impressive.
Another awesome video!! I give my pet moose a bath every season even if he strongly disagrees and feels that’s too frequent.
You can trick the moose by using a green bath bomb it will think it's a forest and walk right in, then you just need to scrub and tell it it's branches from the nearby trees.
Great video Mack, with Jason's help. You can get rid of ants in your cupboard by spraying white vinegar on the shelves. I had an ant problem in my guinea pig hutches, used all kinds of hardware store natural chemicals, nothing worked. Then I sprayed vinegar on the legs of the hutches and voila - no more ants!! Supposedly it confuses the ants, they lose their scent to travel to the food source.
I did that in my shower last year and it really works. Not right away and I also sealed up a bunch of little gaps, but it definitely helped. I don't like to use pesticide indoors because of my cats
I got rid of ants by sealing gaps by my kitchen door and upstairs the gap between the floor and baseboard. I used silicone based caulk. No more ants in kitchen or by cat's food upstairs!
I've used crawling insect spray and I spray the line of ants as close to their source as possible. Interrupting the pheromones that they leave.But the white vinegar is an awesome and less toxic idea!
Many years ago I heard a tip that pepper works to repel ants, so I had the Lady that I took care of add some pepper to Her next shopping list. Well, I didnt know exactly what kind of pepper to buy so I bought 3 kinds. Yellow,orange and regular green. I sliced em thin and placed them all over Her counters. It was a rather well-to-do Family so She had long lengths of counter top. I wish I had taken pictures because 2, 7ft counters and a 4×4 butcher board looks pretty darn cool with a million multi colored pepper rings laying across them!😊 Needless to say, the tip was quite vague and it really was calling for "black pepper"😅... but it gave all the Girls a good laugh clear into the next month and even today 20 years later it still makes me giggle my butt off!😂
good job. i believe you should clean your dryer vent out [plus the dryer hose] in spring and fall. it gets clogged up with lint and can start a house fire.
#1 cause of house fires
ALSO mites can build up past the filter you normally clean. Dealing with spider mites and allergic to dust and mites so I do as much cleaning I can handle. Then I have to suffer with my hands face and feet being on fire with mites I try not to get into my hands facing lips nose and under nails. Unfortunately no one else has any issues and took me letting infestation show what has been attacking me and why some clothing I can’t wear because of not killing everything the first time and spreading to my other clothes.
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This compilation of household things that need periodic cleaning was a great idea. Coupled with the details of how to accomplish each cleaning task this video is a 100% winner for people like ME! Thank you!
For those who want to remove the stains on the floor of the cabinet, I recommend “The Pink Stuff” paste (sold in Home Depot, etc).
This or scrub daddy power paste/tangerine clean paste (I actually prefer the latter). I've been surprised at how much those products get out stain-wise
This is tremendously helpful. I've been binge watching your videos to get inspiration to clean my apt, which got out of control during a lengthy depressive episode. Thank you for your empathy and compassion for those with mental health issues. Your approach -- combining instruction with understanding and humor -- is exactly what I need. You are doing noble work. Thank you.
I'm one of those who cleans out freezers and refrigerators before i go major shopping, once a month. But i don't do ovens. I hate that oven cleaning spray so i just don't clean it...ever. I do my plastic shower curtain by washing it with a cup of bleach and several white towels on the normal washer cycle. The towels clean the shower curtain, and remove hard water stains. I clean under my sink every 6 months. I like keeping that organized. Thanks for all your videos.
Same on the oven. I've been on this planet half a century (plus) and have never cleaned (the inside of) an oven!
My mom says her dirty oven cooks food better because it’s “seasoned” 😂. Ngl I’ve adopted the same philosophy in my house 😂
😂 I love it! I just got an oven liner on Amazon. I can throw it in the sink if it gets dirty. Yay! I don't let the oven clean itself. Ever.
Love the video. Maybe exposing my age, but when I was a young wife/mom there was no RUclips and if the internet was a thing yet, I was unaware. I love that there is a video to help with every aspect of life. And the every day little things like how to clean up your house are so important. Thanks for the inspiration and information. Thanks for showing people even a horrible hoarder house can be brought back to order. I think so many people are so overwhelmed. You do a good work.
1:45 Use cloth grocery bags in the freezer to store like things together; 1 or 2 for meat, 1 for veggies etc. It's easier to find what you're looking for and it's easier to clean the freezer if all you need to do is pull out some grocery bags.
12:06 Use laundry baskets or grocery store plastic baskets to store things under the sink. Just pull out the 2 baskets and clean. It's also much easier to find what you're looking for; pull out 1 basket part way and it's easy to see what you have.
I pack my freezer bags in meals. Meat +veg+side. Then whatever bag I grab ahold of its dinner, pre-planned.
@@goatkidmomGreat tip. I always end up turning our chest freezer inside out and what I'm looking for is always at the bottom. Or everything gets stuffed and shuffled. Will try this.
As a woman in my mid 20s with wicked adhd, it feels so good to see such a candid approach to cleaning, especially one for a neurodivergent household. There's no shame attached to the food items that went bad in the fridge or freezer, no berating the waste of food. It is what is, it's not serving us anymore, to dwell on it is only going to cause us more unnecessary pain. Chuck it, move on to the next piece, and clean away with the weight on your shoulders that much lighter. It also reminds me that it's okay that I struggle with cleaning. That doesn't mean I'm a failure of an adult or a woman. And the clean girly aesthetic will never be me, and that's okay. I can have a healthy, happy home without it being insta-perfect. Thank you for your insights, your candor, and your humor. 🧡🧡
Wow, what an incredibly thorough and useful cleaning guide! Mack has clearly put a ton of work into organizing all these seasonal cleaning tasks and walking us through each step. I especially appreciated how he broke bigger jobs like cleaning the oven or fridge into manageable sections so it's not overwhelming. All the homemade cleaning solutions are also so clever - I'll definitely be trying out that multipurpose cleaner. Mack does an amazing job explaining each task and keeping things lighthearted with his funny stories and commentary. You can really tell he has a passion for cleaning and helping others tackle household chores. This video is so well-produced and full of great tips. Thanks so much for taking the time to put this informative 18-part guide together - it will really help me stay on top of cleaning between now and summer. Videos like this are so valuable for staying organized. Great work Mack!🫶🏻
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@@MidwestMagicCleaning Ooops - a loose moose 🫎
I have a chest freezer like Macks. I took everything out and put a pan of hot water in and shut the lid. The ice came off in sheets. I tossed them and I didn't have to deal with all the water in the bottom. I enjoyed the video. Love seeing Dakota, Dusty Beans and Frank. They were all tuckered out from watching Mack and Jason cleaning.😊
Thanks for the reminder of the names of the pets, i keep forgetting (sorry Mack! i'm old! 🤭)
We use a battery garden blower, defrosts the freezer in 10 minutes
Great tip...
I’m at the part where the couch is being conditioned and I’m just here to say I love dogs for mastering the art of looking awkward and unsure of what to do but knowing they wanna be in the room with you. Your dog could teach a class on it. 😂❤
There are mats you can buy for the bottom of the oven. Nothing sticks to it! I have one for my stove and one for my small convection air fryer! Boy that really makes it easy to keep your appliances clean👍👍👍
I had never heard of such a thing! Just ordered an "oven protector" from Amazon. Thank you!
I'm looking forward to the repair videos of Jason's house, & your floors.
Great resource! I believe that the grease trap vent can also go in the dishwasher. Another thing to consider is to use vinegar instead of fabric softener. There are a few benefits, cheaper, less chemicals, works great, but for the context of this video, fabric softener causes a lot, if not most, of the built up gunk in washing machines. I have an old softener cap and I fill that with white, distilled vinegar and put in the softener dispenser as usual. And there is no vinegar smell on the clothes either. And no gunk build up.
Using vinegar as a fabric softener keeps towels extra fluffy and absorbent, and holy crap it keeps my glass-cleaning cloths from leaving smears on the windows! 🥰
Yes they say never use fabric softener when doing towels. This is an oil-based product that leaves a very thin layer of oil on them. Use vinegar or nothing at all
Great video, very helpful - but I don’t keep cooking utensils in containers out on the bench because of flies.
That is how I clean a frig too. One shelf at a time is less mess and the rest of the food stays cool. Sometimes just one shelf gets cleaned that is a real mess and that is progress. Good enough.
For appliances, please always look at your specific appliance's manual for cleaning instructions. Some can be damaged by diy cleaning solutions or trying to disassmble the thing. Oven doors are spring-loaded and have taken off fingers of even repair techs.
Also, never let your house moose disassemble things - they can't read and tend to lose parts.
"No one needs 150 walmart bags"... like no one needs that many kitchen utensils/containers either....lol.
It was during a deep clean like this one that I realized I had too many utensils and too many filthy containers around the high filth area of the stove. I tossed most of them and if it doesn’t fit in a drawer, it’s gone mmhmm.
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I have 3 utensil containers. One for spatulas, one for stainless utensils like whisks and one for soup ladles and other cooking utensils that are black. Yes, I have OCD, how did you guess? 🤣😂🤣😂
🤣 I have one utensil holder for things I use most often (like if I need to reach over and grab the item by its business end if I've already gotten my hands gross) so I don't have to stop what I'm doing, wash my hands, and dig around in a drawer (or just dig around in a drawer with messy hands requiring me to wash everything in the drawer later). The two drawers are for storing things that either won't fit (like my rolling pin) or things I use less often but need nearby (stick blender, tea balls, etc).
I really only want one drawer for extras, so I've got some thinking and organizing to do lol.
I have two utensil containers, but a LOT of utensils. Because 1. we have only three drawers in the entire kitchen, and they are tiny and 2. there are severe food allergies involved, so I am often making two of the same meals. And the meal for the allergic person needs its' own utensils so as not to cross contaminate. So I basically have two of everything.
I've taken to breaking my cleaning down to micro zones that I tackle 2 per week which has kept my house clean and me motivated without getting my fatigue all up in a dander.
A micro zone is an area like a book shelf, or the tv area, the night stand, a storage rack- basically any very small area you can completly clean in a relatively small amt of time.
I absolutely LOVE your quirky seems of humor. What you do is remarkable. You should be proud!! Don't ever stop being AWESOME!!
Dear Mac, you always make my day because when you say something it seems everything is going to be fine and that’s what I need ❤
His voice sounds like safety. :)
@@JariDawnchild absolutely true
For under the sink - always yuckie! We have rental property and I put sheet linoleum from Lowe’s or Home Depot under every sink- it works great! I get a similar color to the cabinets and cut to fit - very easy to clean, you can take it out to clean and/or replace if/when it gets too ugly!
What a great idea!
Ooo, going to do that. :) Tyvm. ❤
Smart! ❣️🍀
@@sanibel3 Thank you! It really works great and so easy to just wipe out. So much cleaner for everyone ! I put this in all of the shelves and drawers now. In each house.
I use a mat & rotary cutter to cut it. Cuts like butter-
I just found your channel and I'm a upstairs hoarder. It started after my husband died. I just want you to know that people like you give me hope for mankind and it just helps. You actually gave me the oomph to snap shit and start getting rid of stuff.❤
Thank you for the lists. Still helping this ole grandma go through this house. You are my blessing
The cookie sheet in the self cleaning mode,made my mind blow. Thanks for the video
Right? Me too.
I just did it, it's like my gross cookie sheets are new again! No scrubbing needed.
Most targets and krogers have receptacles at the front of the store for plastic bags now, they recycle them into new shopping bags! Everyone seems to have a “plastic bag cabinet” in their kitchen because they feel bad throwing them away to go to a landfill, so, for me at least, knowing I can drop them off somewhere they’ll be reused has been a game changer ☺️
Here in Canada plastic bags are now BANNED. Good thing I have 150 of them saved to use for trash bags!
I was just going to say, please donate to Canadians 🤣
I can send you 150 more.
As inconvenient as they are, plastics are destroying all of the aquatic life in our oceans. And creating huge pools of floating plastic out in the ocean that organizations are having to actually place rings of miles long buoys around to clean it all out of the ocean. Plastics are even found in 80% of peoples bloodstreams in lab samples. They also interfere with normal human hormone regulation. There’s nothing wrong with getting rid of plastics!
Garbage bags too? We save plastic bags from other food packaging like cereal bags, bread bags, newspaper bags to reuse for those gross tasks to tie and toss. Save any packaged plastics and put a piece of packing tape over the holes in bottom corners and reuse like the old grocery bags.
In Canada can you still purchase plastic bags? Like the ones you use to line the kitchen trash can or the very large ones you use for yard waste etc?
Cabin rental company owner of 15 years. I approve of and appreciate your videos.
HI, Mack, a quick tip for people, use plastic pegs or even bulldog clips to hold any open bags shut in the pantry, fridge or freezer so when you grab them out, the frozen peas don't fly everywhere! I love how Dakota, looks at you then at the camera as if to say, 'Oh no, I'm going to be spray and wiped next!
Great video. I'm guilty of not defrosting my freezers as often as I should. The worst one is the 2-deer size chest freezer. I don't own enough coolers to hold it all. When our last stove died I made sure to get a new one without self cleaning so that it might hopefully last longer. But it is a cr*ppy stove and now I wish it would die early. You'll have to pry my 8,594 Walmart bags from my cold, dead hands...they are outlawed in Washington state now and they are the best thing for harvesting the cat's litter boxes. When I've used them all I'll have to sit and cry. Thank you for the great video, even if there were no moose sighted.
I use my old Publix, Walmart etc bags to clean my litter box too.
I’ve used all of my old plastic bags for kitty litter too. Now I’ve had to resort to buying kitty litter bags and have a bunch of cloth bags for grocery purchases. Plastic store bags are .10 in CO.
I am just starting a cleaning journey with my new boyfriend. He is a hoarder, and watching these videos together helps us figure out where to start and how to do things. Thank you.
I swear I must have Midwest Magic Cleaning ESP. This past two days I have defrosted my deep freezer, washed my shower curtain and wiped down a few window sills. When I saw you doing your freezer, I did a little happy dance. Now I'm going to rest on my laurels for a couple of days 😂. Love fom Australia where we are moving into Winter. Not a biggie in the sub tropics where I live, but we like to pretend it gets chilly enough to put on a cardigan for a couple of days. ❤
You start with my biggest enemy, the freezer. I’m thinking about the freezer to defrost since at least 3 years 😂. It has two drawers and you almost can’t open or close them anymore, you have to be a little forcibly to do that 🙈
I agree. Mine is the oven. I hate cleaning it and avoid it. I do try and keep on top of it because the thought of it being so bad it takes hours just is it worth it 😂. I was also a bit relieved when my 18 year old freezer broke and I had to get a new one. I got frost free 😅.
Amazing Mack!! We just did a few of these at our place, … shower head, garbage, etc but the most needed and best task was the fridge! I put the drawers and shelves to soak in the tub, and used the apc cleaner to finish… Mack, it was so nice, clean and organized! My husband caught me standing in front of it looking inside, and said what are you doing? I told him look.. watch Mack’s cleaning channel.. he can do a spin kick, and make a moose pop out!!!!hahaha😝🤗.. btw.. we live in a cabin in the woods, in the upper northeast.. 25-30 miles from the nearest Walmart or grocery store.. the epitome of country living..!👍🤗❤️🥳
I love how your fur baby supervises the couch conditioning. 😊
I've been doing accountability checks with my friends on discord lately. This week I'm decluttering the bathroom. So yesterday's check was to get rid of expired makeup/skin care stuff and today is cleaning makeup brushes. Sometimes I just need to be called out. It's also surprisingly hard to find a video on "things you usually forget to clean" so I would love more of things like this
Great video - might want to include garbage disposal deep clean, without turning it on of course and the shower drains, and sink drains. Thanks for the hard work!
I love that your freezer has multiple boxes of Outshine! Those are the best popsicles! We have lime and watermelon at the moment!
On Thursday I undertook the challenge of cleaning most of the 18 things in this video. What I didn’t clean was because I don’t have those items or I wasn’t able to get to them in the time I had. I worked for 6 hours on my own and hit most of the things on my list in addition to reorganizing my entire kitchen. Now it’s done and everything is so much better. What I like most about this video is it shows you where to start by suggesting you start with the items that take the longest first and let them sit while you work on the smaller tasks and also it gives you a good punch list of items to do. I think many people don’t do this because they don’t know where to start or what to, so they get overwhelmed and don’t do anything. Thank you for this. It helped me a lot.
My cleaning angel. This was a really good informative and training video for people who either don't know how to clean, i.e., take care of a house and your living environment. These are all things I do. But I didn't know about the cookie sheets. That blew me away, and I will also share this. So, Thank You ever so much. I do so enjoy you, Moose Teeth and all. 😁❤️
If you have a grill with parts small enough to fit in the oven, this works for those, too. Did that once out at mom's just to see if it would work and ended up saving them money for not having to go get replacement parts (or a new grill).
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Oh, how Kool. I'll remember that for my grill clean up.
Thank you
Just the motivation I needed! I'm working myself out of the winter blues (seasonal depression SUCKS) and spring cleaning is next on my list. Greetings from Italy!
I love the expressions on your dog's face when you two were conditioning the couch. Priceless :-) And your method for the fridge is great. One shelf at a time is easy. I also line my crisper drawers with paper towels to absorb any liquified goo, the easy peasy wipe down as needed. Your Keurig "forgot the coffeee cup" story made me LOL! Thanks for sharing!
The cookie sheet trick in the self cleaning oven thing blew my mind 💡 😮 awesome 👏🏼
Greetings from North East England! (no moose here) It's 7:30 PM, and I feel guilty, like I need to go find something to clean. Another informative video, thx !
The easiest way to organize a chest freezer is to categorize by totes. Three different totes for beef,chicken,pork,etc. Three different totes for ice cream and/or desserts,frozen fruit and vegetables. You can label them with luggage tags from the thrift store and it makes it easier to send a man in there to bring in something for dinner!🤣😂😅 Also makes cleaning and defrosting easier because you just lift out a whole bag. I use cloth bags from the thrift store and for the heavier meats,I thrift those canvas,L.L.Been totes which are SUPER sturdy and can be washed in the washing machine.🙌🏻
That cheese drawer is impressive ❤❤❤
i was thinking the same thing :P
I can't find a paper towel I'm not emotionally attached to 🥺
Thank you and Jason for all your hard work. I just love your videos, and I hope Emily and Jason wife are doing well xx
I'm surrounded by Terro traps right now. It's like the ants all decide on one day every year that they are just going to start invading houses because I will wake up one day with ants completely covering my desk. Those Terro traps are, indeed, diabolical.👍😊
I use Terminax traps! I hate ants 🐜!!
Ants! They get crazy! Have you tried Bengal Spray? I use the one that says for roaches. It is amazing! You spray and it lasts 3 months at least. NO Smell, safe pets and kills all kinds of pests for months! It costs a bit more but is sooo cost effective! We don’t have roaches but we live in Texas and have scorpions and etc. Walmart has it. Good luck with your ants!!
Sometimes ants can show you what’s wrong house because of pipe or hole. Ants love to eat cockroaches.
But don’t let ants stay longer in house. Ants need to pay bills. 😹
Terro traps are the real deal.
Thank you for posting this. Its a great reminder.
Hello Mack. Although I do not comment a lot on your videos, I have watched most of them and I admire your work and mainly your humor. I am just writing this message to say thanks for the cleaning tips you give in this video. I really love cleaning, it is almost therapeutic (to relax from stress at work) and I like how things look like and how they smell when they are clean. All the best to you, your family and much prosperity to your company. Greetings from Norway.😊
OMG You have the same washer/dryer as I do. Keep those running as long as you possibly can. The new ones, esp the front loaders, are worthless and nasty, not to mention finicky with their fancy electronic buttons. Give me a mechanical timer every time. Break way less often, and much easier to fix if they do.
We get front loaders only really in the uk. I’d love a top loader!😊
Thanx for adding flavour to my weekend. First thing tomorrow I'm going to plant some expired cans of chicken soup and moose face on my balcony. Can't wait for them to grow and blossom!! 😂❤
Thank you for sharing this. I grew up never being taught how to clean properly. My mom was a neat and clean freak and she look at cleaning as her personal mission. When I had my own home I was not used to having to clean because I never had to do it. I have a fairly neat and clean home but I didn’t know how to do things on a regular basses and what products to use.
Oooo, very nice job, and great advice!! I can't tell you how many times I've had to pick demons and Moose teeth out of dirty crevices. 😬I would love to plant one of those "Chicken Soup bushes". My son used to grow 🌽in our backyard. My genius grandson once told me that I should plant hot dogs in the backyard b/c they'll grow to be corndogs. Thanks, Mac & Jason for allowing us to sit back and watch you clean. 😅
Great video! I found out, after noticing a smell in my dishwasher, that it needs to be cleaned on a regular basis too. There is a screw in filter at the bottom that needs to be unscrewed and cleaned. Water also collects under the filter so I take a towel and soak up that water. Then wipe it out with a vinegar soaked rag. I also remove the spray wands, run vinegar solution through them, rinse and replace.
This cleaning got rid of the smell and cleaned those parts of the dishwasher.
I do that about once a year in my rental, and once a month I run a bowl of vinegar in the empty machine in the middle of the top rack as hot, heavy, and long as the machine will go once a month. :)
I started watching you when it was only more or less 52 thought. Now it is almost 500 thousand. You are great, man!
I just cleaned my oven yesterday (once per year) and its important to note that if you have the manual, check to see if you can run the self-cleaning cycle with the racks inside.
My oven's manual said to remove them so they don't become discolored, so that's what I did.
I cleaned the racks separately with a scrub pad meant for metal surfaces. It took a bit of elbow grease and a small amount of soap but now my oven (and the racks) are sparkling clean.
I didn’t read the manual before using the self cleaning feature on my oven and it ruined the racks. They came out rough, pitted and discoloured. And they wouldn’t slide! I replaced the 2 racks but it cost me about half the original price of the stove.
Don’t be me! Remove your racks.
I don't come here to get called out about my Walmart bags 😂 I'm taking them to recycling, okay??
I add cleaning the water dispenser and the dishwasher to this list. You don’t want an infestation of House Hippos in the dishwasher cause then they start bringing in their relatives. Once mother in law House Hippo moves in, it’s basically game over. You gotta move. House Hippo dishwasher infestations can be nasty.
What are house hippos?
I bought the aluminum flat liner and put in my oven. Makes a big difference.
7:13 An old top loading washing machine, before planned obsolescence was built into major household appliances. Beautiful!
I wish I still had mine 😢
I snorted at the 'use a cloth you aren't emotionally attached to' line LOL. This is all a really good reminder of the things we often forget about around the house. I don't even remember the last time I cleaned the lights. Though I felt totally called out and personally attacked about the under-the-sink stuff. 😂
This is definitely one of my favorite videos. Plus I could just listen to him talk all day.
It's amazing the food you will find that you forgot you even had when you clean out your chest freezer! Thanks for this video!
I am so glad to see that I’m not the only one with more than one utensil holder!!!!
I have no drawer space. I have 5.
Hi! Fellow geek with a big PC over here. :) For your safety, when you open up your PC to do anything (cleaning, maintenance,...) it's indeed good to unplugged it but you should also press the power button (and hold it) for 30 sec before doing anything. Doing so will "evacuate" any electricity left within your computer!
Love your videos, you and your family are awesome 🤍.
LOL...i certainly needed a good laugh....the puns and things you say are funny...thanks for the tips and tricks....and..thank you for what you do. Blessings from Northern Ontario Canada!!!
I made a permanent list of these. I was doing quite a few of these things, but I am A LIST crazy person. This helps.
Diatomaceous earth is excellent to get rid of ants and fleas. Put in on your window sills and on the outside edges of your house on the outside. It's pet safe as well.
Borax is great too.
Amazing ancient diatom powder. It can also be sprinkled on plants to keep snails and other bugs from eating your garden The tiny diatoms It contains shred the underside of bugs; it kills by dehydrating them. It does need to be reapplied anytime it rains or gets washed away.
Just don't breath in the dust and it's great to use....!
Good tip about using that white sponge. When I use them I now know not to use pressure. My sponges always broke down in my hands lol😊
I like that... "Oooe hey a quarter"
That would be me as well.
Thank you for your awesomeness in strength and productive daily cleaning.
It's helped me out a lot 👍
HI Welcome to MMC... My favourite intro ever LOL
My husband and I have a deal. Whoever cleans the fridge can throw away anything in it , no questions asked. 😊
These tips and tricks are great! I thank you so much for the information. By the way, when I clean our refrigerator, which isn't that often, I typically start at the bottom. That's because the drawers get so filthy inside from people's dirty hands. Or sometimes something spills across a shelf. Once that area is clean, it just highlights how dirty the rest of the fridge has gotten. When we're cooking, we don't really notice the condition of the inside. We just grab the ingredients we need and shut the door. I really love your ideas. You had items on your list that I need to start doing.
That's cleaning !!!. I do the same and love to feel the clean. Hope your wife is doing better from her surgeries. Blessings and happiness 😊
"Utensil? More like U-Filth-full" 🤣
Thanks for this video, I'm saving it for my seasonal cleaning process. Super detailed and I finally know what that oven clean button is for. SCORE!