I’ve spent 5,000 hours writing about cleaning, and friends text me instead of searching on Google – these are the 5 cleaning tricks I cannot live without

A woven basket of amber glass cleaning bottles and a white rag on a wooden kitchen counter top, blurry white cabinets and a kitchen sink in the background .

As a content editor for Solved at H&G, I spend all day researching, writing, and thinking about cleaning and organizing, which I am pretty sure makes me an expert on the topic. So much so, that my friends now text me with cleaning questions, rather than turning to Google.

Spending all this time learning about cleaning has certainly spilled over into my home. I have to test so many different tricks and habits that it only makes sense that some of them have actually stuck, helping to keep my home hygienic and (largely) tidy.