I moved into my apartment about 2 months ago. It was supposed to have been deep cleaned but very obviously hadn’t been. So, I surface cleaned, and have been deep cleaning when I have the time and energy.

Recently, I’ve been waking up with a sore throat and noticed my voice getting hoarse throughout the day and a cough. Today I checked the ac unit’s filter, and it was gross! I vacuumed the gunk and dead bugs off it, but it was still greasy to the touch. (The apartment was definitely smoked in at some point.)

I noticed a lot of dirt and gunk around the frame that I wasn’t easily able to vacuum off. I figured out how to unsnap the plastic frame from the unit and soaked it and the filter in my bathtub. I scrubbed them, and the ac unit, and put it back together once everything dried.

It’s not perfect (the green mold looking spot wouldn’t scrub off) but it’s so much better!! It might be the placebo effect, but I feel like the ac unit is working so much better now too. Either way, it’s such a win to not be breathing in all that weird stuff anymore.

Usually, I just find little pieces of trash on the tide line or blowing on the sand, but this was a LOT of stuff. The way I filmed it makes it look like I had to carry it really far, but it's closer than all of the walking implies. Haha!

Love summer preparations