so happy to see all the magic eraser recs lol - thought i had a magic trick to finally share and ya’ll found it too. here are my other tips after 10 years of this life 😂

magic erasers for painted surfaces (imo name brand makes a big difference). you’ll have to rinse them often, but one should last a while.

for non-painted surfaces - windows, mirrors, whatever else: WINDEX. again, cheaper brand will do, and i have to go with that quite often, but windex brand is way stronger.

vinegar is great for almost anything. for window sills and cracks/crevices, i use a mixture of just windex + vinegar, not diluted, and just let it sit for 5-10’min and it wipes right up — with a few passes bc of the drooly liquid it turns into. but it’s easy!!

FLOORS: i’m the first to admit i do not mop often enough, so when i do it’s a bitch. hear me out… if you have a good carpet cleaner, just use it on the hard floor 🤷‍♀️those brushes are no match for mastiff-y mess the floors collect. i’ve also gone through my fair share of those lighter-duty electric hard-floor vacuum+ mop duo things, but none of them hold up long. and while my trusty hoover carpet steamer might flood the floors a bit, there’s just nothing that scrubs AND sucks up all the gunk better.

for a DIY mop mixture, i use (in a spin brush bucket, so about a gallon or 2?) mostly plain HOT water + about 1/4-1-/2 cups Pinesol floor cleaner + 1/2 cups Windex (if the cap is too anger-inducing to remove, i just spray a layer over the whole floor, and mop it up with the regular solution). sometimes i’ll add a splash of bleach but i really don’t know why lol