Showing posts with label Cleaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cleaning. Show all posts

Friday, September 3, 2021

Wet or Dry it does the job

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I am always on the lookout for a wet/dry mop that will work on our floors. This one from Reenliv is a good one. We really like how it came with three re-usable pads which can be washed and used over and over again. Another thing this wet/dry mop has that others don't have is a built in wringer which is great if you are using it fully saturated. Our other mop does not have this option but it does have a sprayer attached which is awesome that this one does not have. 

The only problem we really had with this is that the mop will not fit into a regular mop bucket. It is just too tall. You would need  one of those tall utility buckets like you see on construction sites to be able to use this right or maybe a tall wastebasket. Other then that it is a good item. I love how it rotates so that it takes up less room when being stored. 

In our home we use this mainly for just collecting dust from under the beds and furniture, but we always know that if our other mop breaks this can quickly take its place as both the wet/dry mop that it was meant to be. Check it out at Amazon.
 

Monday, May 14, 2018

Kitchen Cleaning with affresh



One of the very best things about being a blogger is getting to try all sorts of products. I get to try out products from companies like affresh through Crowdtap, then tell my readers all about the products. I have tried out a few of the products from affresh before and have continued to use them because they work so well. 

This time I was able to try out the affresh Machine Cleaning Wipes, affresh Stainless Steel Cleaning Spray, and affresh Cooktop Cleaning Wipes. To be honest I was most excited about the affresh Machine Cleaning wipes because I know from experience that cleaning out your front loading washer and keeping it smelling clean can be a problem if you don't stay on top of it.

As a buy mom this tends to happen. Before affresh Machine Cleaning wipes we would use a rag or dirty washcloth to clean out the gunk that was on, under, and around the seals. We were afraid to do damage so we never tried any cleaners, so even though we wiped it clean the smell was still present. Well that was before affresh. Now my seals are clean and smell literally a whole load better. 


Next I was about to try out the affresh Cooktop Cleaning wipes which worked out really well. Before you go judging my stove was in storage for a year and a half and had not been cleaned before going into storage. When we first brought it to our new home, my husband and son thought we should just throw it out. 


I am a more of a fixer, reuse it before you through it out kind of person so I talked my husband into helping me clean it up. A little oven cleaner made the inside look like new while some scrubbing and wiping cleaned up the outside. The cooktop on the other hand is where most of  the damage was done due to people who were helping us placing things on top of the stove and then others pulling or pushing said things around on top of stove. Well here is it on a normal day after using stove. Then after using the affresh Cleaning wipes. Not awesome but better then it was. For a old stove it looks pretty good and work perfectly. 


Last but not least was the affresh Stainless Steel Cleaning Spray which was my second favorite of the samples sent to me. Awesome before and afters of my toaster below. I love that the spray does not drip, or run while trying to clean surfaces. Really good when you are just trying to clean up where everyone's fingerprints are. No more chasing the line of running product and then having to clean the whole surface so it looks good. Love this product. 


All in all these products passed our testing and will become apart of our cleaners to keep our kitchen looking clean and shiny for years to come.



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Monday, July 17, 2017

Unleash the Clean Squad on the Toilet




Do you remember my last post about cleaning up your picnic table before and after eating? If not you can see it here. Since then we have found that we love the new spray bottle that uses up every last bit in the bottle. This is awesome and hope to see more cleaners using this idea. We also had to make another trip to pick up more Viva paper towels and Clorox Clean up. Like I said these are our favorite products.



Viva Big Rolls: 40% more Viva per roll* Must include this prominent disclaimer: *Towel area compared to Viva® Regular Roll; Current practice is use of “33% More”
Clorox: 99.9% germ killing strength; It’s specially designed to clean and disinfect a variety of stains on a variety of surfaces. And with Smart Tube Technology®, you can spray every last drop. Bad news for germs, good news for family relations.

My daughter Dorothy loves to help out shopping and couldn't wait to get in some pictures with some of the products.


Our next big spot in our home we #Unleashthecleansquad on is the Bathroom, especially on and around our toilet. We have been living in a motel while we have been looking for a new place to live. With that being said we kind of took over ownership of our room doing all of the cleaning and just trade out the towels and sheets to the maids. It is one less thing they have to do and keeps us up with what we would normally do in our own home. 

Now we clean our toilet often but for some reason this toilet moves around a bit (probably for quick jobs when something goes wrong) so it is constantly dirty around the base. 


Look at our before and after photos to see for yourself what Clorox Clean-up and Viva Paper Towels can do when you Unleash the Clean Squad.

My main areas I like to keep clean in our home are the Bathroom and the Kitchen. These are the places that Clorox Clean-up and Viva Paper Towels are used most. Unleash the clean squad and see what it can do for your home.

Order fresh groceries online with Walmart and enjoy the same in-store savings with free pickup. Walmart will even load your car! Click here to see if it's available in your area! We do not have this service available in our area yet.

You can also use Walmart's Bundle Page where you can save even more.**
**Please note: If you are shopping the bundle via Walmart, Ibotta offers cannot be used in conjunction with the bundle savings.

You can find out more about Clorox on:
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You can find out more about Viva Paper Towels on:
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#UnleashTheCleanSquad


Disclosure:  MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a sponsored post with Clorox and Viva Paper Towels. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation.  If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or
or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com. 

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Unleash the Clean Squad this Summer!



You may be asking who or what the Clean Squad is. Well let me tell you. They are comprised of two of my favorite cleaning items to have on hand all year round. Viva Paper towels, and Clorox Cleanup Spray. With both of these items and helpers from the family team we make the perfect Clean Squad.  From countertops to floors these items have you covered. The Clean Squad keeps things clean and healthy all summer long.

Right now at Walmart with Ibotta you can get a great deal on Viva Paper towels and Clorox Cleanup Spray. Just find them in your local store. Right now our local Walmart is having a reset done so a lot of the shelves are still empty of their prices.



Visit your local Walmart and pick up your own Clean Squad of Viva paper towels and Clorox cleaning spray!

Launching July 5th, save $1 off any Viva Paper Towels 6 pack or larger. Starting 6/21 save $.50 off any Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner + Spray varieties

Once I found everything I needed Viva Vantage Paper towels and Clorox Clean-Up Fresh Scent. I was ready to check out, get home, and start summer off right.






Viva Big Rolls: 40% more Viva per roll* Must include this prominent disclaimer: *Towel area compared to Viva® Regular Roll; Current practice is use of “33% More”
Clorox: 99.9% germ killing strength; It’s specially designed to clean and disinfect a variety of stains on a variety of surfaces. And with Smart Tube Technology®, you can spray every last drop. Bad news for germs, good news for family relations.

Together Viva Paper towels and Clorox Clean up make the Clean Squad.



I am sure this table looks clean to you, but wait and see what the Clean Squad does.  With a few sprays of Clorox Cleanup and a little wiping with Vivia Paper towels you can see how much grime it picked up with the picture below.



So when having guests over or just eating your meals outside clean your area before and after use. Clorox Clean up kills 99.9 bacteria & viruses! That is amazing. As a mom with a low immune system this is important. Clorox Clean up is not just for kitchen and bathrooms, it can be used on most surfaces for a clean that will keep your family safe. No one wants to get sick during the summer.  Let The Clean Squad take care of you.



Order fresh groceries online with Walmart and enjoy the same in-store savings with free pickup. Walmart will even load your car! Click here to see if it's available in your area! We do not have this service available in our area yet.

You can also use Walmart's Bundle Page where you can save even more.**

**Please note: If you are shopping the bundle via Walmart, Ibotta offers cannot be used in conjunction with the bundle savings.

You can find out more about Clorox on:
Website
Facebook
Pinterest
YouTube

You can find out more about Viva Paper Towels on:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest

#UnleashTheCleanSquad

Disclosure:  MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a sponsored post with Clorox and Viva Paper Towels. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation.  If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or
or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com. 

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Green Gobbler Apple Melon

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I love this product for many reasons. The most important being that I don't have to worry about filling landfills with tons of bottles. I  can make 4-8 containers of the Green Gobbler Apple Melon all purpose cleaner with one bottle. I just fill my bottle to the neck area with warm water and put in one green pack for normal cleaning or two for heavy duty cleaning but to be honest I have never had to add 2 but the option is there. You also get 2 microfiber cloths and the bottom of the bottle holds the refills so you never have to worry where you might have stored them, and you can see right away when you need to order more. 

Because of the easy access to the bottom of the bottle I suggest keeping this as well as all cleaners out of reach of children. The spray bottle has an off, stream, and spray setting. This cleaner is great for all around house cleaning, workshop, and garden use. My other favorite part is the price you would be hard pressed to find a deal like this other then at dollar stores or with the use of coupons.

The Green Gobbler Apple Melon All Purpose Cleaner can be found at my affiliate link below.



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Disclosure:  MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a promotion with Tomoson and Green Gobbler. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation.  If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com. 


Saturday, June 11, 2016

Scrubbing made easier




Are you looking for a great way to get a little extra scrubbing power without wearing out your arms?

Let This rechargeable Scrubber from Pure Dome do all of the work for you. With having health issues being able to scrub has fallen by the wayside but this handy scrubber has come to my rescue.

Very easy to set up, and change heads for different cleaning jobs. My favorite part is that this is rechargeable which makes life really simple as long as your battery is charged that is.

The charging unit comes with two spots to charge the batteries even though it only comes with one. I am hoping they have a place to order a second one from so that I can have a backup if mine should ever run down during use. Other then that I love everything this had made easier on me.


The Pure Dome scrubber can be found on Amazon.


What Pure Dome has to say about their product.


Professional Grade Battery Powered Handheld Scrubbing Set!
• Are you having problems with scrubbing and scraping dirt off your kitchen sink, bathroom floors, tubs, Bidet and other areas inside your home?
• Do you want a kitchen scrubbing tool that is easy to use and cleans efficiently?




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Disclosure:  MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a promotion with Tomoson and PureDome. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation.  If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com. 

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Confessions of a Clothing Hoarder Part 4


I have an update actually this is two days of work as well as a few extra pictures of our room while it was being painted and things being moved around. It took my husband several months to get the painting done. Being disabled really slows him down. He could have done a few large houses in this time before he was disabled. 


Yesterday I was able to get ride of the cedar rubbermaid tote in front of the closet by sorting, folding, and putting away things. My husband also picked up where the paint can had fallen and spilled on the wall when his dresser was here. You can also see what the right side of my closet looked like before we started. 




As you ca see it looks a lot better now, the floor is all clean. The closet was filled with our new bedding and pillows that we had bought about two years ago as well as tons of clothes we had to sort and go through. I also took everything out of the closet vacumned and then put everything back in on hangers. We were able to get rid of 5 garbage bags of clothes from this closet alone to donate which will be added to the 3 garbage bags of coats to donate that are waiting in our dining room for someone to pick up. 

This is the left side of the closet, as you can see when we opened the door stuff started pouring out. I forgot to mention that I also had a huge stack of magazines I need to go through which are now stacked by my bed. Once we cleaned out the closet we noticed another leak on the closet ceiling but not sure if it was before they fixed that part of the roof and the paint is just flaking, or if it is new so we need to keep an eye on it. There was no damage to anything so we are thinking it is from before they fixed the roof.









As you can see this look a lot better as well. My husband took a razor blade and cleaned off the mirrors. I have no idea why there was nail polish, and halloween colored hair spray on my mirror, or why the kids would even do such a thing, but we were thinking what we thought was nail polish might have been kids craft paint, but we aren't sure. Either way everything came off and once we have some more vinegar I will go over it with a microfiber cloth to make it less streaky. All we had was Fantastic to clean with.


This mess is in front of the Closet system we bought when we moved here, and as you can see it was pretty much a disaster. Of course after we got rid of the plastic frame we found drawers in the two bedrooms we just finished as well as my daughters room. When we asked everyone said there were none, "of course there weren't". 














Like I said our room went through a few changed from the painting, and then our daughter going off to college, we too her dresser. Like most parents our children always had the nice bedding while we did with handme downs we found along the road. We strive to have a nice set someday but until then we continue to reuse and repurpose.


You might notice the dresser goes from having things on it to nothing and then to having stuff on it again. I need to get things in drawers but my Fibromyalgia will only let me get so much done. I was lucky enough to have energy enough to do this two days in a row. I of course didn't make dinner either night, my husband made two simple dinners for us, pizza last night, and ham & cheese wraps tonight. I appreciate his help. 



I had my husband take some measurements for the spaces above the closet organizer as well as our hutch so I can either find baskets later on for them when we have money or if I can get a few rolls of contact paper in a nice pattern I can do some cardboard boxes cut down to size for the tops. One thing about doing reviews, we always have boxes coming in. 


Here are a few more pictures of the wall before it was painted. Believe me we have been here for going on 9 years now and we never got around to painting our room so it still had compound on the walls from the people before us and some from spots my husband went over. But now the room is done, not the ceiling it is just too much for him to do now.


I still have some more to do in this room, and hope to get to it sooner or later. I have clothes to put in drawers, magazines to take down into my office to go through and of course once my husband is done with his dressers, pictures of his dressers. 

The best part about the whole day was being able to put brand new curtains up on the windows, and brand new bedding on the bed. It literally has been sitting my closet for two years, and now is finally being used. I have a plan for new nightstands that my husband thought was awesome. We have most of the supplies but are missing two things to make it happen so I as soon as we can either find those for free or I can find them for an awesome price online that will have to wait. 

By the way I also have another bedding set we bought about a month after this because I wanted to make sure we had two sets in case we needed to change our bedding during the night. As for the old ripped, stained, and worn bedding, the comforter will be used for a blanket for our dog kennel before making it's way to the dump. I hope you like Confessions of a Clothing Hoarder so far and continue to come back and visit.




Sunday, March 13, 2016

Bathroom Pantry part 2


OK so here is my Bathroom Pantry/ game room/ Linen room


So far we were able to fix the drawer for the Dresser, Clean off the shelves although I notice from one picture to the next there is black on one shelf. Since I know it isn't paint I think it may be hair spray for halloween so will have to give that a scrub to see if it comes off. 




Here you can see the built in vanity all cleaned off. My husband took all of the almost empty bottles of shampoo and conditioner and made one full bottle of each from those, recycled the already empty bottles and gave the things that weren't used back to me so I could put them on the right shelves. We have several opened bottles of things in the pantry which are marked to use first before opening newer product so we can get rid of those bottles sooner.





We literally removed everything but the shelves or dresser from the room, then wiped the shelves and put things back. It has been about 8 months now since we have had money to buy shampoo, conditioner, pads, body wash, etc, so I was really upset to see just how many things we were getting low on. My girls really do waste shampoo and body wash, they use enough each time for about 20 people. Time for a lesson in body care.



We moved one shelf to the edge of the room leaving a spot in the corner for 10 boxes of sanitary pads. If you didn't already catch on, yes I am a couponer. Have been for 25+ years now and in times like this when we have no income it really comes in handy.




I had to actually have my youngest daughter go upstairs to get the second picture for me because I had forgotten how messy the floor was before we started. As you can see we couldn't even step in that room before. Now the floor is clean and safe to walk on. It feels so nice when I need something I can actually go back there and find what I need without any problem.



We told the girls if they need something they need to ask us and we will get it for them, and for now on Mommy and Daddy are putting away the items from when we go shopping.

We still have the linen, and game part to do which I hope to update for you soon, until then my goal is to maintain what is already done.