This week’s Squalor is inspired by our very own Shep McAllister, who pinged me in Slack to bemoan the state of the…

But I’m not going to tell you the secret. The end!

A reader recently asked me about shower sprays — those products that are designed to be sprayed, daily, in your…

Just as with skinning a cat or saying I love you (same thing, right?), there are many ways to remove blood stains.…

It is my personal belief—and I am absolutely not wrong about this—that November 1 is the worst day of the year, and…

A grim fact of life, and of plumbing, is that drains will become clogged. Hair is typically the culprit, but there…

Today, an ode to one of my favorite products (I have a whole list, yes!) inspired by a reader question:

Warning: the next paragraph features minor Succession spoilers.

Hello, and welcome to Wax Season! “Wax what-now?” WAX SEASON! Oh, do you not know Wax Season? Well sure, that’s fair…

Sweaters are so great we’ve named an entire season for them. But sweaters also require a little bit of special…

This week, a plaintive reader email:

It doesn’t feel like it should be true that using an energy efficient dishwasher is a more environmentally friendly…

Welcome back to What’s In Your Cart, where we ask noteworthy creators, athletes, and celebrities about their…

The other day I caught myself, mid-sentence, saying these very seasonal words to some friends, “Maybe next weekend…

There are lots of ways to cut down on the impact a cleaning product has on the environment, from using less water in…

Have you ever stopped to think about why you buy the kind of laundry detergent you buy? Probably not! Well, maybe at…

An almost universal rule of stain removal is that the faster you get to the stain, the better the chance you’ll have…

I would apologize for the weirdness I’m about to subject you to, but you’re here reading a cleaning column so…

There are all kinds of ways to prevent pit stains — those yellow, cardboard-feeling stains that befoul many of our…

OxiClean is an oxygen bleach, which is different from chlorine bleach in that it’s safe to use on both whites and…