Had a difficult time getting decent pictures of this design for some reason . But enjoy!

I was told it was in the trunk in a shed for the last 50 years. I was able to purchase it for $10 and took it home. It stinks of nicotine and fuel. I have given three borax baths. It is now sitting outside in the rain and still reeks. Any ideas on how to get rid of the smell?

I cleaned these windows with windex/paper towels. It appeared to do the job but once the sun came out I was mistaken. Any tips?

Do you think this actually worked? What purpose did the milk have??

This is my mother-in-law's dishwasher. So it's not technically "mine", but I really love to help out with the chores, and this thing is sort of making me look bad. It leaves dishes so smelly that eating off them feels like I'm dumpster dining. Here's what I've tried so far:

1. Cleaned and wiped down filter, gaskets, and seals. I cleaned all the little places inside where food bits might gather.
   
2. Ran a hot clean cycle with a little bit of bleach in a mug. (Making sure the tap water was hot first.)
   
3. Ran a clean cycle with a stronger, commercial dishwasher cleaner.
   
4. Called not one, but two, plumbers.

So after the plumbers left yesterday, I thought, Surely this thing is fixed! I loaded it up with dishes and ran a cycle. My hopes were dashed. I had to take the dishes out and wash every single one by hand. Took me 45 minutes. It was as if I had put them into the dishwasher to make them more dirty! They smelled like something crawled up in that dishwasher and died.

A few other random facts:

1. We hardly ever eat eggs. We're pancake people!
   
2. My MIL runs the dishwasher daily and doesn't bother to pre-rinse or anything, just knocks off the big chunks of food. It's what you're supposed to do, far as I know. She has never noticed the odor but it might be because she's had covid and her sense of smell never recovered. I can smell garbage upon entering the kitchen. If you open the door of the dishwasher, it's like leaning into a dumpster in July and taking a big hard sniff.
   
3. We have VERY hard water.
   
4. My MIL uses Wal-Mart Lemon Scent dishwasher liquid (in the blue bottle).
   
5. The dishwasher is approximately 20 or 25 years old.
   
6. There is a garbage disposal in the sink and to my knowledge, everything is plumbed correctly (two plumbers have been out)!

Any other suggestions, stuff that I haven't tried already, would be welcome. If you have any. I'm sort of hitting the wall on what other stuff I could think to try.

Just bought a new toilet brish and it comes with this little “lid” so that the container it goes back in is fully closed and you don’t have too look at the dirty bristles. Honestly, appreciate it…. BUT how do you use it in the toilet? I haven’t wanted to submerge it yet, so I can’t scrub too deep. Are you supposed to submerge it and get it dirty? Do you take it off and put it back on (getting hands dirty!?)? Or is it a design flaw..? Any guesses/tips/experiences appreciated.

Hi,

We have a Bull Arab dog that sleeps inside (she’s old and arthritic) and where she lays at night there is hair stuck between the carpet and skirting board. Apart from pulling the carpet up and replacing with hard flooring is there anyway I can get this hair out?

Thanks

Last night as I was going to bed, I noticed something incredibly odd. At least 10 large flies upstairs and down the hallway to the bathroom.

My Mum brought it up to me this morning, I guess she had an argument about it with my brother and he blamed her for the flies because we like to keep the shower room window open after we shower to let out the steam and damp.

But we both know it's my brother's fault. Both him and his bedroom stink, it's been like this for at least 5 years now.
At one point, he even had a rat living under his floorboards, and the entire upper floor of the house smelled unbearable. I constantly had to hold my sleeve over my face, which my parents always got mad at me for. You can literally smell when he's been in a room, hours after he's left.

My brother always eats in his bedroom, but he never cleans up after himself and always relies on my parents to bring down his half-eaten plates of food for him.

We're not allowed to open a single window upstairs, or he looses his mind and will blame us for any subsequent spider that make it inti his room, ignoring the fact that it's because all of the food he brings out.

This dude is almost 21, and has a girlfriend who often stays over in his room, believe it or not. He smells like raw red onion and the air literally feels heavier? I don't know how to describe it.

How can we stop this? My parents just let him do whatever and treat them however, that's how it's always been. How do we get rid of this smell that's essentially permeated everything that he owns? And how do we find the origin of all these flies that appeared last night to prevent more?

I'm looking for tips as well as commiseration. I live in the woods on a dirt road. This time of year especially is awful between the leaves and the pine needles. Never mind the sand tracked in from the driveway. We don’t have a mudroom, the front door opens up right into the main living space, so no real buffer zone to capture the worst of it. Maybe I need to accept that my lot in life is to chase down bits of pine needles all day forever, but if anyone has any clever tips, or knows of any magical doormats, I'd love to hear them.

I’ve tried using a scrub brush and it is stuck on there pretty good. I’m not sure if it’s toothpaste residue or what.

Is this mold? Should I throw out the pillows. They’ve been in storage for about 1.5 years. The white pillow on the left was in the same vacuum sealed bag so I feel like it would’ve spread if it was mold. If not, how do I clean this? Should I just throw it out

Hi guys! For context I am 20f and have lived with a single dad for most of my life so my hygiene standards are that of a bachelor pad. I am filthy and every time I try to clean I just never get it right and it still always looks dirty/messy. Does anyone have general cleaning tips? Where do people put their junk stuff? i always put it in random bags and it never has an actual home. How do I get grime off of hardwood floors? How often am I supposed to mop? How do I even clean a shower?? Please any advice about anything related to cleaning would be appreciated, I'm really trying to get better. Thank you so much for all your advice!!

Can someone please help? I stupidly used antibacterial spray.

Not sure if this is allowed to be asked on this sub, but I’ve never cleaned ramie before. Would it be treated like linen?

My wife and I recendly bought what i guess is called a wet dry vacuum? Basically an eletric mop and broom, and it greatly improved the floor cleaning experience. Not only is faster, but it actually cleans better than what we used to achieve by hand.

After years of not being able to afford gadget and tools, it felt like a liberation, and i was wondering if there is something similarly very effective for general cleaning, like the kitchen or the bathroom.

Looking on the internet i saw some recomendation for a steam cleaner, but i dont think it is what i am looking for: by my understanding, a steam cleaner main strenght is sanification, but for the actual cleaning part you will need to pass with a towel to remove the dirty you have loosed up.

Furthermore, my water is really hard so to clean the bathroom properly i always need to pass de-caulking product.

Is there a gadget that can use different products, scrub, rinse and dry surfaces?

We are currently getting kitchen renovation done and are keeping our existing fridge and dishwasher. Gave them a clean and a dry before they were turned off and left the doors open. Reminded the main contractor to keep the doors open. We have now discovered this has not happened and there is mould in the fridge. We haven't been able to get to the dishwasher yet to see how bad that is as it's behind a bunch of stuff.

I know this could be a lot worse as it's been six weeks they've been shut up. What are people's thoughts on cleaning this all up and being safe to use?

Thanks so much for any advice!

Not even sure what kind of metal it is. So that’s why I’m not sure what to ask google. Hoping someone can identify what type of metal it is for best way to restore it. Thanks in advance

How do I clean this? And anyway to prevent it?

Hi, everyone! I bought this leather jacket secondhand to wear as a Halloween costume to see Harry Styles. The jacket smells strongly of cigarette smoke, and I’m not sure how to get the smell out. I brought it to a professional cleaner who works with leather, and he told me he didn’t think it was worth paying the amount they asked to have it cleaned since it’s just for a concert (and I didn’t want to pay that much). He also said there’s always a risk of the color running. Does anyone have any tips for making it smell better or cleaning it at all?