 My name is Marlene McCohen and I have a special guest today, guess who it is? None other than my mother. And so we're just going to call her my mother. Just kidding, her name is Marie. My mom? Yeah, that's right. But... Everybody can call me mom. Everyone can call you mom? Yeah. We have right here Leo. Here's why we have Leo. I know he's been getting a lot of press lately. He's my mom's favorite bird. And he's probably the only bird that wouldn't run my mother out of the video besides for Picasso. So he has been just chilling on this box and today we have the best video for you. Who better to help me with this video than my clean freak and sane mother? And today's video is going to be seven tools to help you keep your house clean. Look at my mom, she pretends she doesn't like matting to the birds but she's been like trying to get up in Leo's bee for the whole time she's been visiting. Right Leo? You like Leo? Yes. Okay. I am saving the best for last. So I'm starting with tips you might have heard me mention already and then I'm ending with my favorite ones. All right guys, you heard me talk about this a lot. This is one of the things that has literally made my life easier. Go ahead mom, tell them what it is. One of Marlene's favorite things to do is keep her cages clean. So she lines them with these disposable underpants. Now these are not like the doggy pee pads that you see in the pet stores. They're large. She cuts them to size so whatever length the cage is sometimes she can use just one, sometimes she needs to use two. They're not expensive just like this and you are done. This is what a pack looks like. You can order it on my Amazon store. The link is down below. It's called product I love. I also put them on the bird stand. Oh yeah. Don't cut it exactly on the size of the tray of your bird stand. Make it a little longer. Sometimes I've even taped it or put even a little cardboard under it so that it keeps it stay. That's a really good idea. If you put cardboard under it. This whole time I thought why don't they make these things bigger but if you put cardboard on top of that silver plate and then put this on top, you'll be extended it for big birds like Rocky. So then you won't get any droppings on the floor. That's what I do at home with my bird. Mind blowing mom. Mind blowing. I keep a scissors with it just so that it's always easy and accessible. A few points about these. One, you heard my mom mention they're not doggy pee pads. Doggy pee pads are treated with chemicals that are not good for your birdie so stay away from that. And two, they're very absorbent. So any wetness that lands on here is going to be absorbed. Mom. Yes. Are you excited about number two? I am. What is it? It would so be an honorable mention in your head but like for me, if I don't have this, I can't. I go crazy. Like I don't want to wake up the next day not knowing that I have these accessible especially with six birds. Okay. What is it mom? Our paper towels. You can't have birds and not have your paper towels. Now what I like about these ones is that they're selective sized. So you're not wasting a whole big sheet. You can cut it in half. These are great for quick pick me up. The bird has done his business really quick. Pick it up. Throw it out. You're good to go. My favorite brand is the Bounty but lots of brands have this selective size. It sounds so simple like who doesn't have paper towels but I'm telling you the selective size is so important. It saves so much paper and with birds you don't want so much waste going out into the earth but it's also very clean. When you use paper towels it hasn't touched anything else before. That's what makes it for the psycho clean. Now as we go up the list we're getting to more and more important secrets. Are you ready for number three? I'm ready. Great. What is it mom? These brushes. Actually Marlene is the one that gave me the tip on these brushes because I never would have thought of it myself. So this is great when you want to clean your bird's perch because you know it can get pretty messy up there. Wet down the perch and then just brush it clean. You can use a little soap if you want but I find that just the little water works wonders. This one believe it or not is like a baby bottle cleaner. It's great for in between the bars of your cage and any corners or anything it gets in there. Clean zip and your cages are done. I also use your toothbrush mom for my toothbrush. Oh no you're kidding but you can use toothbrushes for very hard to clean places. Now you can get these in my Amazon products. I love shop link is down below and it doesn't matter what shape the brushes are. I like short handles so I can really like get in there. You know what I mean because like when this guy eats his strawberries it's all over. All right guys number four this I don't even know if I've shared this with you guys before. You can find it in my mother's favorite store a store which I clearly do not belong in. If you find me there it means I'm doing something I don't want to be doing. Go ahead mom tell them what store it is and what it is that you find. Okay it's from Home Depot or Lowe's you can get it in any hardware store and it is plastic sheeting. Now I want to tell you that this plastic sheeting is a blessing. The first time I ever used it and came up with the idea to use it was when Marlene came to Houston one time and surprised me not only did she come but she also brought four birds and I had one bird in my house. So what I did was I made a whole big area covered in this plastic sheeting taped it to the floor and I can tell you I did do it on hardwood floor but it also works very well when you have carpeting because it really saves your carpeting. Then when Marlene left and took her four birds with her up came the sheeting out the door my house was still clean yeah. And you guys might recognize this stuff or not as painters like liner like when people are painting you line this on the floor and it doesn't have to be black it comes in clear it comes in white it comes in pink. It's good to use the clear one over your carpeting. Oh yeah it doesn't come in pink does it mom? You will see in the video I posted of Jersey sneaking out of the door this was back when I had a bird room for my birds and I could not live without this lining on the bottom it was just so helpful you can probably see it in the video it's like clear plastic and I used to like just move the cages wrap it all up and throw it away it was the best thing also now I like to put this in the bottom of the Avery because the birdies like you know they make a mess down there with all their fruits and all their toys and beads and wood chips and everything that they throw so it's called plastic sheeting you can also get this in my link below called products I love if you are an Amazon shopper and do not have time to go to hardware stores or if you like don't really fit in one you know like if you wear unicorn buns and stuff those people oh and I forgot to mention you could cut this however you want you can put it in the bottom of your birds cage too if they're not gonna chew it up and you can put it on top of the stands and if you run out of liners and you got this somewhere this is great emergency backup and it opens really wide about the size of a room so you're definitely good to go with that now we are on to number five we're getting in there we're getting deep deep deep into the secrets I can't wait for you guys to find out number six because I just discovered something about one of my favorite secrets and I'm saving it okay guys I'm excited to tell you about number five because I'm not exactly the most industrial person but I was sweeping my floor one day and I thought there has got to be a better way to do this all in one and then you know what I remembered janitors oh right then I set out to look for it and I found it and the day I found this and brought it home my mom was visiting and you know what she said she said how come and then she actually called me to find out how it was doing when she went home go ahead mom tell them what it is in fact I'm gonna put Leo aside because he might be scared of it it's that big okay and here it is a very wide bro it's a quick sweep really it is a quick sweep for all those seeds leftover fruit when they play with their wood toys and they've shredded them and they're all over the place I'm telling you that gets on my nerves really but so I have the room and it's a blessing it really is yeah and just so you know guys some very important things to know about this if you are like me you don't know these kind of things but I had a hunch and that's why I look this is like soft bristles a lot of the brooms like this are literally for like outdoors so you don't want to scratch up your hardwood floors you got to look for the very special soft bristle broom and for all you women out there that like have someone that doesn't clean in their life but tries to tell you how things should go you go ahead and get your broom okay because I was prevented almost from trying to get my broom when I was in Home Depot and like somebody was like what do you need that for you don't need that you have a sweeping brush at home and I'm like you don't know because when Rocky throws all the wood chips I'm like sweeping like with 17s and I was so disappointed because she got that the same day I was going home I was so disappointed I wanted to what do you want to do I wanted to sweep up yeah because what you guys don't know about my mom and why she's the special guest here is because at any given time if I call my mother when she's in Texas and I say what are you doing she says um I just got done steam cleaning the floor I'm like you did that yesterday yeah I know but I love steam cleaning the floor she likes them clean and we probably should have had a steam cleaner in this because steam cleaners are amazing and they can get like the grout that's what it's called right yeah they clean the grout you can actually buy a grout cleaner put it on your grout let it sit there and then go over with the steamer your floors will be gorgeous this woman has brought me home every sort of cleaner in the entire world she's like this is a stair banister cleaner this is an inside the oven cleaner oh Marlene guess what I brought a special stair wood cleaner I'm like okay and then she'll call and be like so did you use the law cleaner I bought you I'm like I don't know mom where was it I just love cleaning what can I say so this is the most amazing broom in the world only good on hardwood floors though like hard flooring if you know how some sweeping brushes you can use them on your carpet no not this one you can use a sweeping brush on a carpet yeah sometimes they even if you have a nice sweeping brush but this will not work on a carpet absolutely not but if you have your lining down a big area of your lining and you just want to sweep it up it'll work for that but you're probably better off with a little broom for that this is good also for outside if you have your birds outside in the Avery and you want to clean it out this also works great for that too right Leo it's a good investment this is a good investment guys okay guys number six is my absolute favorite you've heard about it but there's been a new development on it okay I can't even believe like this made my world like what is my life that I'm so excited about cleaning products this to some people might be known as a hide tool I only know that cuz I googled it and other people as a painting scraper for me and my whole family this has been renamed the shit scraper let me do a demo Leo if you mind bird has went potty on the floor this is the floor okay it's wet okay you didn't notice it so it dried you bend down breaking your back and you go like this this doesn't work on hardwood you'll scratch the floor but on any cement or anything like that tile yes tile you just do one scrape and it's loose and then you sweep it up with your oversized broom okay I used to get down and like scrape it now what happened to me was this thing got lost and stolen and I especially like the bent one so I threw like a tantrum it wasn't really a tantrum but I was like I need one now so whoever's going to Home Depot has to get me this and the flimsy one if it's soft not as good and we bring it home and my mother's visiting now my mom likes to stick her finger in holes my mom likes to stick her finger in things okay she's been doing this ever to get she's an investigator okay the reason she's here is because she's good at two things cleaning and snooping so she snooped because this had a thing no listen this is how it went tell us this had a little metal plate here that it looked like it was a little bit loose so I said oh let me see what that is so I unscrewed it and then I realized this scraper that she has been bending down the same scraper for years that she's had she's not snoopy like me I'm very snoopy so she bends down and she cleans it and she cleans it but guess what you can take this and a sweeping brush pull and screw it in and then there's no more bending I did this for her and she was thrilled because now my own I was yeah my blowing can you imagine cuz I'm snoopy exactly okay so now I just scrape it and it's all loose and then it's particles all over the floor which then we can use our big sweeping brush or little sweeping brush doesn't matter or we can just let something else happen with ease which brings us to number seven the thing that my mom has been dying for me to get out of the box ever since I brought it home and I said I cannot get it out of the box mom I have to do it unboxing for my sniffers are you guys ready for it mom do you want to show them I want to show them because this is my all out favorite I use it at home every single day it's like a lifesaver for me I have two dogs in my home and I have big trees in my backyard and they bring in the leaves so I use my room but yes thing ever are we gonna open this box so we're not yeah we have to open this box we have to show them what's inside it I'm telling you if you have pets whether it's just birds or birds dogs cats whatever if you have a room buff your floors will be clean all the time the beautiful thing about the Roomba is that it works on carpet and on hardwood floor you can set it so that it comes on at the same time every day as easy as it is with that large sweeping brush of hers I still like the idea of just sitting with a cup of tea and watching the Roomba do the work first thing you need to know that you probably will wonder about when you get your Roomba is why the heck it's going in no particular order well this is made by iRobot and it's actually got a great science behind it you will turn on your Roomba and it will like literally go to one corner of the room and then the other and I used to think it didn't work because I used to move it and go no the mess is here like I pay control freak personality on my Roomba and how I discovered it was amazing was one day I turned it on when there was a mess in my apartment and I left and I came back and me and my roommate were shocked the reason was because I left it alone it's a science basically what it's doing when it goes from one corner of the room to the other as it's measuring it's basically made by a robot yes leave it alone this is the Roomba nice and shiny it's beautiful and shiny it's my third one by the way is it your third yeah it's my third I can't live without it it has nice big wheels so it can go from carpet to hardwood and hardwood to carpet and when it's going around and it goes into corner it just sweeps up all that dust and deeds and whatever you might have you will be amazed at how clean your floor is it does a better job than any sweeping brush that you could use all has here its own collection tray right and all the dust will go in there and basically you just open it up dump whatever it's collected into your garbage can close it up and put it back and it will tell you it will say clean brushes help Roomba and the weirdest thing about Roomba is don't you feel like when you first get it should I leave the lights on for it it's weird right oh it's dark well let's see where it's going but it does have actually a little light and I have to tell you a few other things about the Roomba you can set the time to make it untangle itself from so many things it's very impressive don't forget it's small so it can go underneath couches and underneath tables it's brilliant and going around in circles when it detects a bigger mess than it was expecting it calls that area of spot area and goes around it specifically they also have the pet additions for hair they also have an addition for tools so for a warehouse that has lots of nuts and bolts they have an addition that can just go around your warehouse and pick that up and the reason I know that is because I thought oh maybe with all the seeds on my floor I need something large like this but this has been amazing in itself if you have a lot of big birds with wood pieces you could look into that I personally have never tried it but it has these two laser beams if you don't want the Roomba to go all around the house let's say you have one room you want it to focus on you put this at the entrance and it basically shoots a laser across and the Roomba will not cross it's like a virtual wall and it has a charging station and it literally goes back to charging itself it says Roomba battery low and it goes and does its own thing so all you have to do is set it clean it every once in a while and you're good to go but here's a secret sniffer tip that I want to give you guys if you need to do something and by the way the Roomba is very quiet you know it's not as loud as other vacuums but if you need to do something and you don't want your birds running around all over the place whether you have one or multiple birds you turn on the Roomba no birds coming down to look at what the Roomba is doing okay they're gonna stand up on top of the cage suspiciously and not move unless you got like a really excited cockatoo that's used to it and then he might ride the Roomba but if Jersey was down for that I would love it but she doesn't all my birds just look at it like it's crazy make any noise when it's running they could like I haven't tried this guy but basically yeah it becomes a constant noise that makes them want to talk and makes them want to engage Rocky when he hears vacuums he wants to be sprayed with water really cuz my bird what I have to do is I run it at night because he does not like the noise and he will scream at me to shut it off which I end up doing it quite have to so yeah your bird may get very loud but they also may start saying things that you never heard them say before it can be a lot of fun yeah absolutely so those are our seven favorite tools for keeping your house clean with a parrot and also for other pets I hope you guys enjoyed this video thank you mom for coming on and helping us learn how to clean a house it was a pleasure believe me I I'm telling you I cannot wait to use this mom's gonna head right from here downstairs and she's gonna be like Vinnie on a box all like plugging stuff in and like finding out what's going my mom is clean to everything in this house that has been like confusing for me I just hope there's a little bit of charger in there already so I don't have to wait I want to use it right now see she gets excited this is my favorite item believe me every household should have one and if you have like a really big house you might want to have one for upstairs and one for downstairs and again there's lots of different models you can check them out in my link below called products I love it's an Amazon store so if you have Amazon Prime or regular Amazon so easy for it to just be delivered to your house and you can also check out other products that I love there which are recommended for birds birds to play with clean with birds don't forget to subscribe and follow me on other social media at Marlene Miko and on Instagram and Twitter I love seeing you guys so much let me know in the comments how you like this video and what your favorite part was I love you guys so much bye bye how big does our hand look like a what I look like a little midget carry on go on then do your thing you're almost as funny as that this are they bounty these are the bounty pants are you excited about number two I am what is it I thought you put this up no oh number two is shit you know there's a many of them that do come in different different brands that have the selective size right morning especially for let's start over again I've also used your toothbrush for the real hard to clean places yeah I do that too sometimes but it can be very easy I felt a lot of shade there did you throw shade at me what does that mean shit scraper poop scraper this has been named the poop scraper why is it filming us I don't know you're insane FBI man