Category: What Kate Cleans
How to Remove Salt and Water Stains on Flooring
Argh! Despite placing mats over the majority of my mud room, the boys still manage to step on – or put their wet boots in – the one little spot where there’s no mat. It’s not that the salt is hard to...
Read MoreCall me Crazy but…
I know this is crazy and doesn’t make any sense, but this morning I was too lazy to walk to the mudroom to get my mop so I washed my kitchen floor by hand with a General Purpose e-cloth. No, our house isn’t huge. No,...
Read MoreThis Ain’t No Purdy Blog – Keepin’ the Cleanin’ Real
Sometimes I suffer from blog-envy. I read the blogs of others and see how neat and tidy and pretty they are with wonderfully framed images of food and kids and crafts. People smiling, with backgrounds of perfectly ordered and...
Read MoreBe Careful What you Wish For – Or at Least What You Complain About.
Have you seen my house? It’s old. Really old. Here’s a picture from 1877, a few years after it was built. That is NOT me on the porch 😉 You get the idea. My house is old. And it’s dusty. Little bits of my...
Read MoreShowering with e-cloth® – My Dirty Little Secret
If my husband catches wind of this, it’s gonna ruin everything… I don’t like showering when the kids are home because I don’t get any privacy, and if I DO get privacy, I’m in for it because it means...
Read MoreKate’s Law – If you take their diaper off, they WILL pee!
…And if you think you’re safe for a while and decide to leave the diaper off, think again. Because then they’ll poo. …And if you’re foolish enough to try to clean the floor before wiping their bum,...
Read Moree-cloth® 101: When your Dog Rolls in Poop
The problem with a dog rolling in poop isn’t that it rolls in poop, it’s that it rolls in the stinkiest, ooziest and most vile poop. Honk if your dog has rolled in horse poop. Hear anything? No? That’s because...
Read Moree-cloth® 101: Toilet Cleaning
How to Clean a Toilet with e-cloth® If you use your e-cloth® to clean your whole bathroom, clean everything else before cleaning the toilet. Use a damp General Purpose, Bathroom, or Shower e-cloth® to clean the tank, handle,...
Read Moree-cloth 101: How to Clean up Dog Throw Up
If you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear that guttural “wuh-wuh-wuh” sound, your dog is likely throwing up. But… what if you search your house high and low – even in the favoured throw up...
Read Moree-cloth 101 – Cleaning Cookie Sneeze off the Inside of Your Windshield
Yup, you read that right. Cookie Sneeze. I could blame this on one of the kids but I do try to be honest. Driving to the afternoon’s activity, I’m happily munching on a chocolate chip cookie, singing Raffi tunes to...
Read Moree-cloth 101: How to Clean up Toys in a Hurry
Does this look familiar? Toys strewn all over the floor? Note the culprit making a quick getaway in the background. Well yesterday I finally got wise. Pulled out my e-cloth mop and pushed all the mega blocks into a small pile....
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e-cloth 101: The Best Way to Get Spiderwebs out of Bike Helmets
We keep our bike helmets in our garage, which is really just a glorified shed, and they’re...
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