You’ll probably never love cleaning, but these products will help you hate it less.
- Attack the stains with a no-rinse spot remover if your usual MO is to just ignore the mess. This lifts even the most stubborn old stain, and it doesn’t require you to rinse or vacuum after you spray.
- Or try a portable Bissell SpotBot if you’d rather not spend hours on your hands and knees scrubbing cat vomit from a cream carpet. Just set this on the stain and let it get to work.
This portable carpet cleaner will spray, brush, and suction up any stain, no adult supervision needed. It also comes with a hose and tool attachment if you’d prefer a more hands-on cleaning session.
- Clean the dishwasher as it runs (genius!) with a pack of dishwasher-cleaning tablets because there’s no need to spend your precious free time cleaning it by hand.
- Lift caked-on dirt and grime with a power scrubber so you can actually be impressed for once. It’s basically an electric toothbrush, but for cleaning tile grout and hard-to-reach nooks and crannies. This is gonna save you so much time and effort.
- Catch crumbs before they permanently attach themselves to your oven by plopping an oven liner underneath the racks. Raise your hand if you hate cleaning your oven. Great. Now take that same hand and click the “add to cart” button.
- Stop cleaning each blind individually! Work smarter not harder with a blind cleaner brush that cleans multiple blinds at once.
- Toss a foaming garbage disposal cleaner down the drain to deodorize your sink ASAP, because if you have to smell last week’s rotting veggie peels for one more minute you just might scream.
- Conquer the very time-consuming task of wiping down all the appliances in your kitchen with a plant-based stainless steel cleaner and polish. Reviewers say it helps keep your surfaces smudge-free for longer, meaning less cleaning for you!
- Steam and clean carpets with a two-in-one Hoover carpet cleaner because you need your vacuum to do the hard work — and do it fast! — of sucking up dirt, dust, and pet hair and steaming your carpets. It’s time to reclaim your weekends instead of spending the whole day vacuuming, then steaming, then waiting for everything to dry.
- Don a pair of sweeper slippers and clean the floors as you walk around your apartment. They pick up dirt, dust, pet hair, your hair, and more with each step. And! These even fit over a Swiffer so it’s like two products in one.
- Suck up pet hair like a pro with a powerful handheld vacuum that’ll save you from having to lug around the stinky and heavy corded vacuum. It has a special rubber nozzle that picks up fur with ease, especially on hard-to-vacuum areas like stairs. There’s no bag, so simply pop off the canister when you’re done vacuuming and dump the contents in the trash.
- Power through tough rust, lime, and calcium streaks with a pumice cleaning stone. Aren’t you tired of telling people those brown streaks are not poop stains — you swear! Give your tired arms a break and let this little guy scrub away discoloration with ease. This nontoxic cleaner is tough on dirt but gentle on porcelain so you can sit atop the glistening throne you deserve.
- Clean your oven while you sleep: Forget auto-clean. This high-temp oven setting is known to set off the fire alarm and can leave your kitchen in a smelly funk. Instead, fill up a spray bottle with a homemade solution of 1/3 cup water, 1/3 cup white vinegar, and 1/2 cup baking soda. When the oven is cool, remove the grates and coat the inside with the solution, making sure to avoid the heating elements. Close the door and head to bed, letting the solution work its magic for up to 12 hours. When you wake up, clean the oven with soapy water and dry using a plush cloth
- Get some storage solutions to hide your clutter. Sure, this isn’t “cleaning” per se, but it’s mighty helpful to have a place to store all the random knickknacks that you seem to accumulate and are now cluttering most of the surfaces in your home.
- Say bye-bye to soap scum and shower grime buildup for weeks with a bleach-free, no-scrub weekly shower spray. You don’t even have to wipe it clean! Just rinse it the next day, and you’ll be amazed to see those hard water stains on your shower door are poof gone.
- Erase stains and smells fast with an odor-eliminating spray. Each spritz releases bacteria that feeds on the ammonia left behind after your pet’s accidents, eliminating the urine completely and deterring your pet from peeing in the same spot again.
- Or sip a nonalcoholic bevy if that’s more your jam. Over time you may actually look forward to cleaning because it means you get a little treat…well…two treats: your favorite drink and a clean home.
- Treat yourself to a portable dishwasher if you despise washing dishes by hand so much that you often just let them pile up in the sink. This handy-dandy countertop dishwasher will clean your plates, cups, and utensils so you never have to pick up another sponge.
- Clean inside your tub with jetted tub cleaner because yes, you have to clean the inside of your tub — like the inside inside. This cleanser will quickly flush out soap scum and body oils that are gunking up your tub’s jets.
- Invest in a portable label maker so you can assign a spot to the items in your home. The can help relieve some of the stress of just not knowing where to put your stuff or forgetting where you last left it. Keep everything neat and organized in its designated area instead of cluttered on the dining room table.
- Satisfy your fur baby’s endless desire for some rubs with a grooming glove that catches fur before it ends up covering the couch. It’s a must for pet owners, especially if your dog or cat goes running at the sight of a brush.
- Make quick work of soap scum and residue with a hard water stain remover. Sanitizing your shower will take probably half the time it used to, which is great because, as we’ve already established, you hate cleaning.
- Removing a red wine stain: Red wine stains may be a sign of good times, but pesky to clean. On delicate fabrics, you should soak the spot with denatured alcohol. Flush the area with white vinegar to remove any residual staining. On sturdy fabrics, however, you can coat the stain with salt; let it stand for five minutes before carefully pouring boiling water over the stain from a height of at least a foot.
- Cover your stove top with a set of reusable burner covers because you can just wipe them clean when grease splatters or your pot boils over. They’re nonstick, heat resistant, and dishwasher safe.
