Posts Tagged: ask a clean person
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Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School — Lint and Static and Ironing, Oh My!

Get out your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, hone your note-passing skills: Laundry School is in session! We're devoting the entire month of May to the subject of laundry. And what fun would Laundry School be if you couldn't backtalk the teacher, right? So! The Twitter hashtag for this is #LAUNDRYSCHOOL. If you follow me on Twitter (@joliekerr) you can holler at me when you do your laundry! Or lemme see those beautiful piles of folded clothes! Or ask questions! Or tweet at me in emergency situations! Or maybe you just really, really, really need to talk to me about how folding a fitted sheet sends you into fits of rage. [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: Dude, Where's My Coach?

I love Ask a Clean Person because I am so not a clean person. I'm also not an expensive bag person because of aforementioned inability to be clean, but for my birthday in November my boyfriend got me a what I would consider ridiculously expensive bag. Somehow I have managed to keep it relatively stain free, but on the bus tonight I read the newspaper and when I looked down at my purse I realized that some ink had smudged onto it!

I called the stupid expensive bag company [Coach] for cleaning instructions and I was told that didn't have any for this expensive bag (made of a [...]

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Ask an Indelicate Question: How Are You Doing It Every 28 Days or So?

Welcome back to March Madness, Clean Person-style, a monthlong project we're calling Let's All Make… Our Beds. It's just what it sounds like: we're going to make our beds for the entire month of March. To keep everyone excited (and I mean, who wouldn't be excited about this?), I'm tweeting regularly about all things bed-related — follow me @joliekerr and use the hashtag #LAMOB to join in — several of this month's AaCP columns will be devoted to the topic of beds, bedmaking, and bedcleaning (got questions? Ask away), and my bedspiration-themed pinboard will continue to grow. With that, here's part two.

A Clean Person [...]

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Get Rid of Yourself, Seriously, You Are Revolting

What would you do if A Clean Person was coming over to your house for dinner?

A. Be immobilized with terror (except for your drinking arm).

B. Drop $120 on a maid service and clean alongside them for the whole two hours.

C.  Buy her lots of shiny distracting presents like this makeup organizer that's almost half off!

D. Tell her there was an earthquake so you'll have to meet her at a restaurant, sorry.

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Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School – Bras and Mildew and Taffy, Oh My!

Get out your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, hone your note-passing skills: Laundry School is in session! We're devoting the entire month of May to the subject of laundry. And what fun would Laundry School be if you couldn't backtalk the teacher, right? So! The Twitter hashtag for this is #LAUNDRYSCHOOL. If you follow me on Twitter (@joliekerr) you can holler at me when you do your laundry! Or lemme see those beautiful piles of folded clothes! Or ask questions! Or tweet at me in emergency situations! Or maybe you just really, really, really need to talk to me about how folding a fitted sheet sends you into fits of rage. [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: I Drank the Juice, and It Was a Mess

What's the fastest and best way to clean my juicer? Love juice, hate how long it takes to clean up afterward, especially when it's so easy to just toss a plastic cup. And is it okay to kind of leave that little green residue in there for another day? I mean really it can't hurt me right? Right? Am I gross / is that gross? I love my juicer but it's bringing me down.

It's not that gross! Okay twist my arm, it's maybe a little gross.

The reason it's a little gross is twofold: one, all that lurking pulp makes a tremendously attractive home for bacteria, and while [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: Let's All Make… Our Beds

Hey hey hey and welcome to March Madness, Clean Person-style: today kicks off a month-long project we're calling Let's All Make… Our Beds. It's just what it sounds like: we're going to make our beds for the entire month of March and see what happens! To get everyone excited (and I mean, who wouldn't be excited about this?), I'll tweet regularly about all things bed-related — follow me @joliekerr and use the hashtag #LAMOB to join in the fun — several of this month's AaCP columns will be devoted to the topic of beds and bedmaking and bedcleaning (got questions? Ask away), and my [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School Is In Session!

Get out your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, hone your note-passing skills: Laundry School is in session! We're devoting the entire month of May to the subject of laundry. And what fun would Laundry School be if you couldn't backtalk the teacher, right? So! The Twitter hashtag for this is #LAUNDRYSCHOOL. If you follow me on Twitter (@joliekerr) you can holler at me when you do your laundry! Or lemme see those beautiful piles of folded clothes! Or ask questions! Or tweet at me in emergency situations! Or maybe you just really, really, really need to talk to me about how folding a fitted sheet sends you into fits [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: Get Rid of Your Coworkers, Seriously, They Are Revolting

There's a whiteboard at work that's been written on to no end, and even after it gets erased, it's all gray, smudgy, and gross. I want to make it white and easy to erase again without buying a new one — any advice? I've tried the old 'color over it with marker, wait 5 minutes, erase' trick (which works wonders on permanent marker, believe me), but it's just not cutting it for this old grime.

Separate but related note — are you supposed to clean dry erase erasers? How? When mine hit a clean(ish) spot on the board, they make it all smudgy again, which I'm sure is contributing [...]

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Ask a Clean Person: The Uncluttering

At the risk of utterly embarrassing myself by not adopting a more restrained or salty or hip posture, I'm going to say exactly what I'm feeling and thinking about today's post, which is an update on how our friend with the impossibly messy room fared in her attempt to tackle the clean-up: you guys, I am so freaking excited about this reveal!!! If you could see me right now, you'd be all Why is that woman grinning? And are those tears? Is she crying? She seems crazy, let's cross the street. But seriously I'm so overwhelmingly happy at what she's accomplished, and so impressed by the commitment that [...]