This week, a reader writes with a question about towels that tends to come up more often in summer, and can plague…
SqualorJolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her.
A poor reader this week has a rather unfortunate dishwasher situation:
My husband and I just returned from an amazing 16 day Mediterranean highlights trip of a lifetime … but now I have…
Ask a Clean Person and Style Girlfriend are teaming up to bring you the latest on what to wear for spring and…
This week’s Squalor is inspired by this reader letter:
Cleaning a watch band is a 5-minute proposition, tops. But before you can clean your watch band there is a critical…
A fact of my very clean life that often surprises people is that I’m not a germaphobe. I just don’t get super…
They say that summer doesn’t start until late June, but we — you and I and all other right-thinking people — know…
I’m sorry to say that the time has come for us to talk about your disgusting feet. Your smelly, cracked, fungus-y…
Today is a glorious day, my friends: It’s been so long since I’ve had cause to use the term “foot water” but today,…
Spring is springing and sporting a new pair of colorful sneakers is a fun way to transition from winter boots to…
Wedding season approaches, and many of you will be packing, and donning, and soiling suits and tuxes. While most…
I’m wondering how to clean my makeup brushes. I use the Bare Minerals brushes which I think are synthetic, but I…
In my efforts to clean things outside of the daily/weekly types of things, I decided that my gas grill needed a…
I am an avid listener of your podcast and I am also a former Bostonian living in New York so I feel we are kindred…
I have read a bunch of different things you’ve written about laundering white clothes (how to get rid of collar…
“So...there are some silicone lube stains on my bedding. Do you have suggestions for getting this sort of stain out?”
A reader sends in this question, which I’m sure has crossed many of your minds:
Years ago, I had the flu really badly and apparently sweat through my mattress pad. This wasn’t supposed to be…
Each year in March, since the dawn of time (2012), I put a bed-making challenge to my audience: Make your bed every…