5 Home & Cleaning Hacks You'll Wish You Knew Sooner! *make life easier mom hacks*

my how I have missed you so today I have five cleaning and a home hacks that actually work that you can use around your house also I hope to give you some ideas and motivation to help you tackle some of those projects that maybe you've been putting off I got a whitening trick a microfiber trick a vacuum trick and a dryer trick and so much more and if you're brand new here I have four small children and run two businesses so my time to clean is very limited even though I'm absolutely obsessed with it I have to find the best tips and tricks that really work and they just went back to school so I have about 2 hours to tackle these projects let me share them with you okay first and foremost when it comes to anything cleaning or organizing or doing stuff around your house make sure that you create a list because if you're anything like me you're going to be like running around your house like a crazy person and then not actually completing any projects cuz you're like ooh this looks fun and interesting oh let me go here I'll sit in your bathroom then you're in your basement then you're upstairs and then like two hours fly by and you're like have all these missing pieces yes let me know in that comments box if you can relate to that one so list helps keep me organized and on task and more efficient with my my time and Crossing something off is so satisfying it's like the dopamine in my brain is like yes you get it girl the other thing that you're going to notice is that I do wear shoes in my house but I do clean and sanitize them because I'm getting a little bit older like I need the extra support when I'm running around my house bending and squatting and up and down the stairs yes one of the first things I need to do every day is make my bed because if the rest of your bedroom looks chaotic and messy and disorganized if your bed is made you're like oh it kind of doesn't look that bad after all and one question I often get is Ander jeene how often should I wash and change my sheets and comforters the answer depends my friend do you sweat a lot do you drool a lot yes I'm guilty of that one do you sleep with your comforter or do you just pull your comforter down and sleep with your sheets in your blanket or whatever else you have on your bed for me and my rule of thumb is this I wash the pillowcases every single week every Friday in fact and then I wash the sheets every other week that just works for us and when it comes to your comforter if it's not touching your body I just just tend to wash those every couple months or so two things that I always do when it comes to making my bed is the hospital fold it's also known as the military fold but it makes the corners of your bed look oh so nice and in fact a little trick here for you is this if you do it properly and tightly you rarely have to pull everything out and do it the next day that means that making your bed is much faster the following day and in the mornings often times time is limited you got to get your kids off to school you got to get to work you just make a nice little triangle and you are good to go the other thing that I like to use again nothing in this video is sponsored but I will link anything that I talk about in the description box below and I'll pin it in the comment section and I also have a QR code on screen if you just want to go ahead and scan that I love the Downey wrinkle release it's like crisp linen it really does help release those wrinkles and it just freshens everything up because you know your body odors when you're sleeping and if you're drooling and you're I don't know stuff's happening when you're sleeping I like to come in my bed the following evening get in there and just smells crisp and fresh let's talk about whitening those whites I think I have this down to science basically because well my boys dirty socks every single like black brown grass stains you name it so I have a big basket voice that I collect over a period of about 2 to 3 days that's generally when I need to go ahead and wash a big load for things that are really dirty and dingy I like to use some oxyclean white revive I put a generous scoop in there and then I let those really dirty items sit for about 6 hours or longer and I'll just go in periodically and just kind of agitate it with my cleaning gloves to stir everything round a little bit and can I just say it smells so good and delicious don't eat it but it smells so good and I even wash my mop heads in there I in fact mopped my entire garage the other weekend don't ask me why I just I did it was a thing and let me just tell you I was able to get that mop head white again because of the strategy but this is part one of part two and you can see how Brown and dirty this water is that is very satisfying as well that it's being released from the white Fabrics no longer in them and going down the drain now it's time to wash all of the whites together and there are a few products that I like to use laundry detergent of your choice I tend to be a tide gal I also like the tide clean boost or Downey rinse and refresh is another great alternative Spring Meadows smells so good some dowy scent boosters as an added bonus and then bleach yes I bleach I do not mix the oxy and the bleach in the same wash but I will do the oxy soak and then wash in the bleach I've never had any issues this is just what works for me and it actually works I wash all of our laundry on a quick wash it does the job if I do a normal wash it's like an hourong process I don't really think it does that much extra anyway and when it comes to whites I always wash on hot water now we're going to be washing all of my microfiber tows yes I have a giant basket of them so stay tuned for that that's coming up a test that I often put off is vacuuming my steps when you vacuum your steps it is so satisfying it's that little extra touch and when you have good tools to vacuum it just makes the job so much easier so I love my Shark vac vacuum I stand firm on that but you can easily detach this and then I love using it in a vehicle or in small spaces I mean the possibilities are endless when it comes this and it's so lightweight you can vacuum up and down your stairs and let me just say this little baby is powerful it's like a turbo jet so what happens when you get some hair trapped inside there I have a little trick for you coming up and how to get that out really easily now I've never had hair trapped in the larger compartment of the vacuum you know the part that you put it's just this little Contraption and I think it's all of my daughter's hair that is trapped in the stairs that's gross I know by the way I hate carpeting if I could change it today I absolutely would I get rid of all the carpeting in my house but that's not an option right now now before I show you to get the hair out of your vacuum cleaner it's time to switch those whites and then wash up those microfiber towels so many look at all of these when it comes to washing your microfiber towels no dryer sheets no fabric softener and no bleach and no hot hot heat again I like to use my Tide laundry detergent but there's something extra that I use I do use the tide rinse and refresh to help clean out those fabrics and the residues built up in them a little bit better but I also like to add a laundry sanitizer because I do not designate microfiber towels like these are all for the bathroom these are all for the kitchen these are all for the garage I mix them all together because I just want to do one big load of microfiber towels I want to be sure to sanitize them properly you're going to want to wash your microfiber towels on a medium heat again do not use hot heat okay now let's go ahead and clean out our vacuum we found this tool recently on Amazon it's the pick it I love it for so many different reasons because you can really get in those grooves and in your vacuum there's usually a little line on there that you can put right in to help cut that hair so that you can pull it out and release it and on the picket tool actually the opposite end of it you can actually use to unscrew things so maybe you need to unscrew a part of your vacuum cleaner you can use it for that and as a bonus if you need to clean up those hair brushes this picket Works awesome because it's got the claws on it and you can pull it and scrape it and everything looks good as new at this point I wanted to tidy my girls room or more than anything just vacuum them up because I hadn't got to them the previous day by the way I only vacuum our house once a week that's all that I have time for but when it comes to the kitchen mudroom and entryway I vacuum that every single day sometimes two to three times a day because of all the food and crumbs and grass and debris that comes in but the rest of the house sorry just once a week finally the whole house has been vacuum I'm excited I feel like I give myself a pat on the back I do really love vacuuming it's very satisfying and calming and if my kids are going crazy and yelling and throwing Tantrums I'm just like vacuuming away minding my own business humming along let me know if you can relate to that one all right my fourth tip for you has to do with cleaning your screens you want an easy and effective way to do that and with the summer months my kids had more screen time than usual so as you can see they're very dirty and grimy and like what is stuck all over them so here are a couple tricks that I have I love this brush it's amazing this like gets all the crumbs or whatever was stuck in there in around the edges and then this side you can use to clean the screen now I do like to use a little breath adds a little moisture when it comes to cleaning your screens if you have too much moisture it can damage your electronics so the breath just works perfectly and then you can just basically squeege away all the fingerprints and Gunk that have been left on your electronics you can also use this on your cell phone so you can see here the electronics are looking so much better I'm feeling really really good about it especially as we roll into the school year they look nice shiny and new and then I also like to take just a Clorox wipe to wipe around the outside to help disinfect anything what's great about the wipes is there's not too much moisture on them so again you don't run the risk of damaging your electronics but this took me like I don't know 3 minutes maximum and I felt so much better about it and this is just so handy you could just throw this in your desk we have it in a drawer in our kitchen you could put it in your purse and it's fun to use and it works time to check our microfiber towels and put them in the dryer yes I do dry my microfiber towels but I put them on a medium heat I am not air drying microfiber towels around my house no way now some people recommend that you do no heat but my friend you're going to be running that dryer like over and over again because you're just not going to dry trust me I've learned the hard way okay here's a little Pro tip that might help you if you struggle to to actually fold the laundry I know many of us can like wash it and then transfer it into the dryer put it in the baskets and then it just sits in baskets for days and days on and let me know if that's happened to you I know I've been guilty of that for many years not anymore I've conquered that because of a schedule number two I like to pair it with something that I find enjoyable so that's usually a cup of coffee this time of year it's like pumpkin and caramel and some music and then I also like to set a timer for myself so if I have just like 10 minutes to fold this basket of laundry it's like I'm racing the clock so it's fun and it's a game I got the music going I'm drinking my coffee I feel satisfied after I accomplish this task so when you combine those things and you do it consistently over time you're never going to have laundry just sitting in your baskets for days and days on end like I used to now here's something that I have been putting off this is your fifth tip although I've given you more in this video than that you want to clean out the inside of your dryer ours collects a ton of lint now I do have Contraptions that you can attach to your vacuum cleaner to suck it out and those work phenomenally but then I have to drag Dr the vacuum up I have to get the attachment it's just more work than I wanted to do at this point with the limited time that I have so this drer cleaning brush it's not just for your dryer but that's what works fantastic it's bendable it's long and then the bristles on it just basically collect every possible thing you could want to get anywhere you just stick it down in there and you're going to pull up so much lych oh my word look at that you're going to be like oh my gosh that's disgusting but now your dryer will run better you reduce the risk of you know dryer related fire hazards and it's just a fun tool to use I really love this super affordable again I'm going to link everything down below for you so when it comes to cleaning I have just a small pocket of time to get some of these tasks done around my house in the afternoon because my kids literally get home from school at like 2:30 hi honey hello and then from that time on it's dinner rushing them to their sporting activities we you going to dance are you excited yeah Marissa how was your first a 4K good all right and then it's bathing and then it's checking the backpacks cleaning out the lunch boxes for the next day and before you know it by the time we get home from all of that it's 8:00 I probably still need to shower feed myself dinner if I haven't already done that and then I crashed for the next day and do it all over again if I could just sit around and clean all day I would absolutely love that like that would be my heaven My Sanctuary in fact on weekends that's something that I actually look forward to doing is tackling those projects like clean them the windows cleaning the blinds I just I don't know something about it and when you do just a little bit every day I find that it helps overall of keeping your house cleanly and organized and making your home a place that you truly never want to leave although it is good to leave your home every once in a while if it were for my kids and having to get them to their Sports and activities like I am definitely a homebody coffee drinking lover if you're not following me on Instagram make sure that you do it Andrea jeene clining because I often share on Instagram stories and particular the deals discounts fun things sneak peeks Insider information so I also link that down below Andre Jee cleaning and also in the description box there's a free newsletter make sure that you sign up for that and let's keep the fun going click this video on screen now thumbs up subscribe and I will see you my friend in the next one