Deep Cleaning

There’s regular cleaning, and then there’s the kind where you move the couch and immediately regret it. I did that a few months back, pulled the sectional off the wall...

It was last spring when I discovered a shoe hidden in my closet which I had not seen in two years. There was a sock which had lost its mate...

I got three quotes for a deep clean last year. Three different companies, three wildly different prices, and not one of them told me what the extra money actually bought....

For years I thought deep cleaning meant tackling the whole house in one long Saturday. It never worked. I’d start strong in the kitchen, run out of steam somewhere around...

Nine spray bottles. That’s what I had crammed under my sink at one point. Glass cleaner, counter spray, some bathroom thing, whatever the floor stuff was, plus a couple I...

Winter always wrecks the place. There’s salt crusted by the front door that never quite scrubs off, a junk drawer that’s somehow multiplied into two, and windows so filmy you...