One Thing To Try Before You Hire a Cleaning Lady

If you have ever dreamed of hiring a maid, this post is for you. 

What is it about cleaning ladies that leaves us drooling?! It’s effortless. It’s speedy. It sparkles. 

But if you are like me…it’s a far-fetched dream because it comes at a cost. A cost that my wallet (and my stomach) can’t quite handle. 

I was in this boat for a long time. I would sit on the couch, mentally rehashing my list of things to clean and begin dreaming the Molly Maid dream. 

After looking around and coming to terms with the fact that my house wasn’t going to clean itself, I’d spend the next unsaid number of hours tackling my cleaning list with arms full of cleaners, paper towels, sprays, wipes, buckets, rags and a mop.

What made things even more difficult was adding children to the mix. When the newborn twins came along, let’s just say, cleaning wasn’t exactly the first priority. As they learned to walk, I was now outnumbered with their 4 hands grasping at the cleaning bottles while I desperately tried cleaning with one, and holding back the very curious forces with the other. Then came baby #3. Game over. I needed a new game plan.

The only way this would work is to either clean my house after 8pm (great intentions…but Netflix usually won), OR find a cleaning product safe enough for the kids to play with. BINGO.

I found it. And I loved it. 

My favourite microfiber cloth!

Here’s how it works. 

Wet it with JUST WATER.

The microfiber in this cloth is SO tiny. Like as in, split-one-hair-into-200-strands-tiny. As you move it along any surface, it gets into the microscopic pores and pulls up ALL the dirt, bacteria, fungus, grime and grease and holds it in the cloth. So rather than spraying a potentially toxic chemical onto the surface to kill it, you can actually just pull it up, by the roots so to speak, and get rid of it all together.
Side story…I forgot the grease collector in my bacon griller on one of our Breakfast for Dinner Sundays. Oops. I wiped up a counter pool of bacon grease with my microfiber cloth using just water and not even a hint of residue was left on the counter. Un.Real.

Find another clean side. Keep wiping.

My favourite microfiber cloth is the size of 4 large adult hands. If you fold it in quarters, you can fully deep clean 8 areas of your house, without even revisiting the sink. I absolutely love it because I’m not hunting down my next cleaning product for each different area. I literally walk around my house with one cloth and clean everywhere. It doesn’t get easier than that.

Rinse and rub under hot running water. Hang to dry.

Did you know that silver doesn’t allow bacteria to reproduce? It literally messes up the DNA, bursts the cell membrane and destroys the bacteria – SO COOL! Why does this matter? It has to do with the nasty stink that comes from our cloths and towels. You know the smell.
Turns out, when you put silver in cloths, they don’t stink. And it’s true. I have used, rinsed, hung-to-dry and re-used my self-purifying microfiber and they actually don’t stink. The bacteria doesn’t stand a chance. Sure makes me wonder what I was wiping around my kitchen back in the stinky-cloth days!

And the best part…

As my kids are crawling across our floors, eating crackers on our counter-tops, putting toys in their mouths, and kissing the windows – I know that not a drop of chemical residue is getting into their tiny bodies.
What. A. Feeling.
No more inhaling cleaning fumes.
No more fear of accidental swallowing by the little ones.
No more skin and eye irritation from cleaning products.
It’s just water. 

Before you call up your local cleaning service – give this thing a try.  Check out how clean my windows are now – seriously just using water + 1 microfiber cloth to clean, and 1 to dry!

dirty window showing greasy fingerprints, dirt and streaks before being cleaned by microfiber clothclean window that was cleaned using only microfiber Norwex envirocloth, window cloth and water

The crazy thing is I actually don’t mind cleaning now. It feels manageable. It’s easy. And in complete honesty – it’s made me double-take my home a few times. All without the price tag of hiring someone to do it. 

If you want to know which microfiber cloths I use (and totally love), click the Learn More button below!

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