 We are live this morning, and this is a special edition of the ask a house cleaner show We're meeting here on a weekend by popular demand because we've had lots of requests of people asking about what do you get? Your kid or your family member that's going off to school this season I'm Angela Brown, and I specialize in house cleaning if you're new here, and you're just joining us I'm super glad that you joined us. I'm hoping that during this time together today that I can answer your cleaning questions Now the question is why do we care about? college dorm cleaning and The the reasons are actually more than just meets the eye now when you go to college for many kids This is their first time away from home, and so all of the things that have been done for them in the past Nobody's there to do that for them they get to do it now for themselves And so if the mother or the father has been picking up after the child or if there's been a paid house cleaner That comes to the house it is easy to assume that all that stuff is still going to be taken care of for them News flash that's not the way it is Okay, there's nobody to clean up after the person at school except the person at school Themself so I've put together a survival kit of cleaning tools, and if you want to follow along I have links below to all the products We're going to talk about today, and I want to explain how they work And I want you guys to jump in and ask your questions Because like I said I'm here to answer your questions And we're going to go as long as we can to make sure we get everybody's questions answered So thanks again for joining me here today Now I want to highlight for the fact when you go to vacation and you go inside a hotel room The very first thing that catches your attention is how clean Everything is and we've just left our entire lives behind us, right? So you go into a hotel and there's nothing inside. It's empty. It's clean The air smells fresh and you're like, oh, this just feels like vacation, right? It's a happy place to be and vacation is a happy time because and many people don't realize this Because all of the distractions are gone and everything is clean So if you are going to school I want you to stop for a second and think about the environment that you create Because if you have a really clean environment, it's going to make studying easier It's going to make you more popular with your friends because if we like that clean Vacation feeling people are going to want to come over to your dorm And they're going to want to hang out in your space because it's clean and tidy So I cannot promise you popularity, but I can promise you if your space is clean and tidy It's going to attract more people than if you're just a slob Okay, so we're going to start to change our behaviors and our cleaning habits starting with school Now this week the Savvy Cleaner team the Savvy Cleaner is a company that I own We train house cleaners and maids and and have for almost 30 years Now there are three people on the Savvy Cleaner team who have kids that have gone off to school this week So cheers to Kristen and Sally and Heather who have kids in college this week And they're like, what do we need? What do we need? Okay, so last week they were focused on laptops and backpacks This week we're focusing on cleaning supplies Now I want to stop for just a second and I want to throw a bug out at you And I want to suggest that the space that we're in for this particular video is going to assume That you're in a tight cramped space, which is going to be a dorm And we're going to assume that money is tight now it may not be tight But we're going to assume that it is tight for the sheer fact that If it's not tight now it probably will be once those student loans kick in So we're going to have to at some point realize that We need to save as much money as we can right So I'm going to focus on inexpensive compact versions of cleaning stuff So that we can move forward in our life now I want to throw one more bug out at you If you have student loans and you will There's an easy way to earn your way through school And that is by using the skills I'm going to teach you today And using the supplies that I'm going to share with you today And start a little side cleaning business which Completely works around your school schedule and it's going to bring money in So that you have money to hang out with your friends It's going to give you money to replace the supplies as you need to throughout the course of the year It's going to help pay for books and your entertainment and your meals and door dash And whatever it is else that you do while you're at school Oh, we got lots of folks that are here. Thank you so much for joining us guys Hi, Nick and declaration of war. So good to see you guys. This is so exciting. We've got Glide and Glow Oh, I'm just really excited that you guys have joined us. Thank you so much. It just brings joy to my heart Okay, the very first thing that I want to focus on And I'm going to just jump right into these products and um the first is a bissel sweeper And I've probably had this one and I'm not very good at technology So I'm just going to kind of like highlight everything here on camera and you guys can get a feel for it Like I said, I do have links below everything if you want to click on those and you want to take a look And find out the specs and all that stuff. Yay. This is a bissel sweeper And we see this a lot of times in restaurants, but it's perfect for a dorm room It doesn't need any electricity whatsoever It's just a little sweeper and this is a dual sweeper with two rollers on it And the two rollers are going to go in What do you call it hardwood floors or it's going to go over low pile carpet And so it's going to pick up everything from hair to dust to crumbs to Whatever it is that you have Have Dropped on the floor now if you suck up something like the little usb pin from your mouse The easy way to open it is you just push on the part that's closest and it opens up You can see how this opens up And that's how you also empty it But if you trapped in something that you didn't mean to trap whether it was a hairpin Whether it was an airing whether it was the little usb Dongle to your mouse you can just retrieve it right from here So I love this for this fact that it's very forgiving. And so this is a great tool for kids I love this for Also, like if you were to move into a house after college, this is also repurposeable This is something that you will use for many years This goes inside the kitchen right off the side of the kitchen And then every morning when you have all the toaster crumbs that come off the the counter under the floor You just sweep up the floor with this and you're good to go without pulling out a whole vacuum So this is a really great tool for dorms. It's very affordable And like I said, it's it's good for quick pickups before people show up So I've had this for I don't know maybe maybe 15 years myself And I really recommend it because it's just a really nice durable machine that like I said is repurposeable for other rooms of your house or other Lifestyle purposes later on and that's one of the things that I want to focus on is the stuff that you buy or the stuff that you use From this session today, you will be using for the rest of your life So this is not stuff that just goes out of style and you just leave it after college is over, right? Um, hey, mary. Hey nick sherry wendy. You guys it's so good to see you. This is exciting Um, the bissel sweepers are great and I've used I've used it for a variety of purposes But I love to keep one in the bathroom because it picks up hair really well And then you can just clip the the hair pieces off and it gobbles it all up For those that want a vacuum and if you're thinking of doing this as a business on the side I do recommend a small vacuum and the vacuum that I recommend is a stylus. It's by eureka. It's fairly inexpensive This is the vacuum head This one does have a beater bar, but it doesn't have Um, a really heavy duty brush on it. So it's really great for the hardwood floors This one also has a great big light on the front. So once you do plug it in once you get going Um, it kind of spot that's all of the crumbs and all of the hair and all of the dust and all that stuff That's underneath your um your Bed like if you have like the bunk beds in the college dorm This highlights it all and it shows you exactly where all of that stuff is So even without needing a flashlight or whatever it highlights it for you. So this is a really good tool I want to highlight the fact that look how flat this lays And there is there is a stick that goes with this, but I'll show that to you in a second This just lays really flat. So this will go right underneath any furniture that you have in your dorm It will go underneath the bunk beds. It will go underneath the beds If you have a dresser, it will go underneath the dresser as well. So it's really flat I want to jump back for just a second to the whistle sweeper to show you that it also lays very flat So this will also go underneath those areas as well And I picked both of these as flat laying machines for this very reason Because if you can't get under the the small furniture that you have you can't clean underneath it So I do recommend both of these units with the stylus vacuum This is a cordless vacuum and it's cordless in that it's rechargeable with just A cord that's this big and it's a two prong plug I'm trying to show you this. There you go And so if it's into any outlet, which is really great and it just charges at the back of the unit here You'll see a plug. It just plugs right in here And so with that it can charge for I don't know a couple of hours And that will give you about 30 minutes Of vacuum time and this is after a while It might give you longer than that, but I've I've used it for about 30 minutes before it starts to slow down a little bit So in a dorm that's plenty. That's all you're going to need Um, one of the things that I really like about this vacuum is it's really easy to empty and so to empty it It's just this cup right here and you can disconnect it either from the handle or just walk over the trash It's just the one push button. The bottom opens and all of the garbage falls out So without touching any of the garbage, it's just one push boom empty just like that So I really like this for this reason If you want to wash out the cup itself this button here releases this piece And then you can just separate You can separate this part where you just pull out the The cone and then you can wash this part in your sink So it's really user friendly and it's easy for anyone to use You don't need any special treatment or training to make this work One of the things that I like about this vacuum and to put it back in you just put this piece here Right inside the handle like that and then you just snap it back in place There you go snap it back in place This has the long cord on it and because it has this stick This goes really well behind like the bunk beds. It goes underneath around the corners If you have cobwebs up in the ceiling you can get those If you are cleaning the bathroom of your dorm like let's say that you have a shared bathroom That's down the hall. This is going to this this tool right here is going to go around the area behind the toilet It's going to pick up any hair or any gunk or any of that stuff I know that's gross and you guys are thinking about that But this tool is really great for that reason And so I'm really happy that this is a tool that you guys could use at school It's also a tool that you would use for the rest of your life This particular one I keep inside my kitchen And this is the one that I use for the crumbs and everything every morning. And so it does a quick Walk around the kitchen cupboards and you can see because of the headlights You can see underneath the cabinets and underneath the cupboards where again crumbs or food or any of that stuff has has fallen And so for school, it's really awesome. And then the handle here also just pops off like this And I'll put this over here And then you can just use it like this and it does have a small attachment that you can Use as a brush so that you can brush things that are up close if you were to do like your computer keyboard If you were to do your desk if you were to clean around any of the areas the around the floors of your Baseboards around your furniture or whatever you can use it either as a handheld unit You can use it with the stick or you can put the faceplate on it Which then does the whole entire floor So if you're thinking about doing this as a business, this is a really compact unit You saw that I just broke this up into three pieces. This carries really really easily Inside a little caddy that you would carry with you to someone else's house So you don't need lots of equipment. You don't need you don't need a whole bunch of stuff It's just an easy to use break apart fold apart system. So I love it for that um, I do want to Go to our swiffer duster, which is how we're going to mop our floors and mopping the floors is a necessity. I wish it wasn't uh many people Voxy talk says I should get one of those vaks for my car because of the hand the hand vaks I've tried aren't strong enough. Yes, that's true You can use it in your in your vehicle and it also comes with the crevice tool Which is what we use in homes around the corner where the walls meet the baseboards And in the vehicle it goes between the seats and it picks up french fries. So yay I love it for that reason Okay, so for the swiffer the swiffer sweeper. I want to show you guys this cleaning caddy We're going to talk about the caddy in a second But inside this cleaning caddy is the swiffer sweeper And i'm not kidding when I say the whole thing folds up it folds up to fit inside And so I love it for this reason all of these pieces fit together is the handle This is the head of the unit itself. This is a swiffer sweeper. I believe it's about 10 inches long So the thing that's cool about this and I don't need to hook all of these pieces together But there's a little button right here and there's a button holder right here So, I mean it literally snaps in place like this and it locks it in place And you do that with all the pieces to create the handle So it's not a durable handle in that it's going to you know use for industrial strength or whatever It's great for a dorm and if you're careful with it, it will last you for years But this is great for cleaning up the bathroom It's great for cleaning up the dorm room itself We have to be careful about germs because it's not just our germs We're not just in our house But it's the other college kids that we are living with if we're sharing a dorm with someone else So it's us sharing germs with other people. They're friends coming into our rooms Our friends coming into our rooms shared bathrooms those kinds of things that we just have to be careful of And we want to make sure that we're cleaning up after ourselves So one of the things that I recommend If you have a set of cleaning supplies You may want to Assign or agree as a group that everybody that's sharing the same spaces will rotate between who gets to clean what on what days So you might it's going to take five or ten minutes to clean everything once a day It's not it's not a lot But if somebody took the job on monday somebody took it on tuesday somebody took it on wednesday And you guys rotated so that you had turns And somebody swept and mopped the floors and somebody did the bathrooms and that kind of thing It's going to be easy to maintain over the course of your school year And then everybody gets to enjoy the nice clean space So somebody might buy some of the supplies maybe you guys pitch in and you all share some of the supplies What I do recommend that you get one of the swiffer sweepers now. I do understand that in a college dorm It's tough and expensive to go to the store and if you're trying to decide am I going to be able to eat this week Or am I going to be able to buy swiffer pad refills The priority is not the swiffer pad refills. Okay, that that typically is not And probably never will be the priority We want to make sure the priority is that you have enough food to eat and whatever and I remember college life How it can get it can get really expensive at times I want to introduce you to these if you're not familiar with these already there are A variety of these and I've linked to some in the notes below That you can take a look at and the one I've linked to has several different colors And so what these are are dry pads and like I say there are different different kinds, but they all work the same way It's a reusable dry pad And what you can do is wet it squeeze it out And then use this as a mop pad for your swiffer sweeper Okay, this works really really well It's like just like this and then it wraps around this side and you just tuck them in like this Okay, so it's not fancy But then you put the handle in and now here's your mop and it will mop the floor And then when you're done you simply unhook it without touching the bottom of it because that's gross But you rinse it out in your sink again rinse it out really well You can use a little drop of dish soap if you need to rinse it out squeeze it out Shake it out and hang it up to dry And then this floor piece is the one that you use every day to mop your floor with So it's reusable and it will last for probably a couple months until finally it just wears out And then in the pack you get several in the pack So then then you would use the next one the reason that I've linked two different varieties of this Is because as you're cleaning the bathroom for example in your Dorm there are different colors. So I recommend that you use one for floors only So this never gets used for dishes. It never gets used in the bathroom It's used for the floors only to avoid cross-contamination So the one that I picked for you has different colors in it for that reason Another thing that I recommend is that you use one color for the bathroom only And that would be like for the bathroom sink for the top of the vanities If you're wiping the mirrors down or or or what have you and then you can get like a little A hook and put it just like on the side of the mirror Or maybe they already have something like that Wash it out after each use hang it up to dry And then you use that again the next day when you come in to put your makeup on Or you come in to take a shower or whatever when you're done you grab your cloth Wipe everything down and that's for the bathroom vanity only If there are two or three people that are sharing the same bathroom I recommend splitting up colors so that everyone has their own color of cloth And like I said, these are reusable they dry within I don't know maybe like an hour So if you leave and go to school and you come back it will be dry and you can use it again Right. So I really love this for this reason. Um, this is also really good for washing dishes It's it's built in some Sellers as a dish cloth and so you can have one color for dishes And so if you're just using it as a cloth or if you're using it as a dry to dry the the dishes That's also a way to do that as well Um, Nick says when there's a will there's a way you just got to get a little more resourceful resourceful Yes, that's true. That's true when it comes to college dorms because of the lack of space We have to get resourceful. That is that is what this is all about It's saving money and being resourceful because a lot of times when we're in school We're rushed from class to class to class to social activity And there's no time to go like oh, hey, let me go buy cleaning supplies, right? That happens like when we're we're adult parents and whatever and we're out grocery shopping or whatever But when we're when we're in school, this is not our priority So we want to set ourselves up for success by having the right tools that we need to to get us through the the school year Okay, so the next thing that I want to highlight Is um a pair of shower shoes You know shower shoes, um, there are different kinds and I've linked below to shower shoes But the important part of the shower shoes is that you have a rubber sole Because if we are in school and this is just for your own personal health It is notorious in college dorms and I hate to say this but I've been doing this for almost 30 years And so I can tell you as a matter of fact that fungus foot and athletes foot I know it's gross is really popular in college because everybody's walking in the showers and on the floors and they're barefoot And so we want to make sure that if we're going to and from the shower and the shower is not in our room That we have a pair of shower shoes now This is the only item that's not actually a cleaning supply But this is going to prevent us from spreading Fungus foot or or athletes foot within the college dorm. Okay? So sweeping vacuuming and mopping is going to be paramount to the success of the floor itself and then we want to protect ourselves by having some kind of a shower shoe and My recommendation is even if you're hanging out doing your homework in your In your room at night that you still have your feet covered for that very reason whether it's stockings or Shower shoes So that is that is a necessity In my opinion in order to keep the The floors clean and then also your feet from spreading germs again It's that care for yourself in the process of caring for others Okay, so the next thing that I want to take a look at Is a toilet brush and I know a toilet brush Should be like a no-brainer When you get to college everything is not quite so Obvious right so we need somebody to to tell us what we need to know about that I got a toilet brush here the one that I want to show you is by mr. Siga And this is a this is a really awesome toilet brush The back of it is like this can this part can sit up against the toilet when you turn it around It airs out now. I really like this because this is a thermoplastic rubber And because it's rubber it's really durable and I'm touching this this brand new I've never used it in a toilet before So this I'm touching it once I use it in the toilet not so much But instead of it having any metal it's not going to scratch the inside of the toilet This is all a hundred percent made of plastic and rubber So it's really durable and this is like a really thick almost a silicone bristle kind of thing Where it's really strong and when you put it inside the toilet to clean the inside of the toilet It's going to clean the toilet without scratching it And I want us to be really careful and I want us to start getting in the habit right now Of thinking in terms of tools not just well I don't care if I scratch the toilet because I'm I'm at college and it's probably scratched anyway Right. I don't want us to think like that. I want us to think in terms of oh I need to start buying the right tools to begin with If you decide later that you want to have a cleaning business You're going to want to have tools like this that don't scratch your customers toilets Right. And if you're going to take this to your first home after school You want to make sure that you don't scratch your own toilets So we want to get in good habits from the very beginning Now I like this brush. You'll see that it has a brush here and a brush here This brush is for up underneath the rim of the toilet So the rule of thumb is this every day when you get up And you use the bathroom while you're there first bathroom use of the day You take the toilet brush and you pop it inside the toilet and you do three Cleans around the ring where the ring settles in the toilet Then you go down into the neck of the toilet and you do three twists Inside the neck of the toilet and then you come up underneath the rim of the toilet And that's what this is. This is an under the rim brush And you go up around the rim around the toilet three times So it's three with the ring three inside the the neck of the toilet or the drain And then three up around the ring of the toilet. Okay That 10 second exercise will prevent rings from building up inside your toilet So that every single time you use the restroom Your toilet is clean right now. I can't stress this enough I don't know why but in college It seems like there's a lot of use at the toilet where people are like hugging it And they're kind of like puking inside Because they stayed out too late the night before and they had lots to drink So if I can only reinforce the fact that every single toilet every toilet needs its own Toilet brush, okay every toilet needs its own toilet brush Now that is true not just for college toilets But that is true for every toilet everywhere at every place along the way right every toilet everywhere for this reason If you own a home and you only have one toilet brush, but you have four toilets How are you going to clean all the toilets right what you do then is you end up grabbing the toilet brush And carrying it from room to room of your house And it's very common that toilet water is like dripping on the floor along the way Gross right and if you're going to do that chances are you mean to do it But you don't really get around to doing it right so oftentimes what happens is we don't actually clean the toilets as frequently As we should but if you have a toilet brush that's right next to the toilet At every toilet then when you use it for the first time of the day and you do that 10 second exercise You're preventing rinks from building up inside your toilet Now I do not want to encourage college kids at all They do not want to encourage them to use heavy duty cleaning toilet chemicals Not a good idea for most times when the college dorm opens for this season The college will have hired a professional house cleaner to come in and clean everything once So they came in with their heavy duty cleaning supplies and they cleaned the toilets and hopefully There's nothing really terrible inside the toilet right that could it could be cleaned easily Another thing that i'm going to recommend that's inside our cleaning caddy is comet cleanser This is just a powdered cleanser. It has bleach in it and it's very ph neutral friendly if it falls on the floor It's not going to stain the floor if it spills on something It's not going to it can just be quickly vacuumed up no harm no foul But a couple of shakes of comet cleanser inside the toilet bowl if it gets nasty and then just your toilet brush To clean it up you just scrub it up. It's it's perfectly fine This is all you're going to need to clean out your toilet for the entire time that you go to school This is it right here nothing fancy. We don't need three four five dollar bottles of toilet bowl cleaner not necessary Okay, this is it and this is very inexpensive a little can will last you the entire school year, right? This can also be used on Like bathtubs and showers it can also be used in basins like For the sink where you're cleaning up your makeup and stuff like that It can also be used in the kitchen sink and it can be used on stainless steel So this is a really good cleaner if you're just going to you know tidy up the bathrooms for example But it's a really great bathroom cleaner and it goes inside the toilet One of the things that I wanted to mention while I have this Is this is A hanging toilet brush So as it hangs here it drip dries and it airs out So it's not sitting in a cup of juice like toilet juice You know it got nasty or whatever and then we put it back in the holder and then the holder got nasty You clean the toilet out you flush the toilet and rinse the the the brush off with the clean toilet water And then you hang it up to drip dry and because it's kind of free standing here It's going to drip dry you see how much space there is you can't really see it But it will drip dry and then it's ready for the next use And so because this is open in the back it evaporates So it's just it looks nice from the front And then it's just completely rubber so it's not going to scratch the toilet And then you are 100 ready to use it once again once you are Um, you know you come in the next morning. So that that's a really good investment. I like that Oh, let's see Nick says there are so many inexpensive ways to eat clean learn etc. Super optimally these days especially you're never alone You're never as alone as you think so connect with others And rise together. Yes. Yes. Thank you Nick. I appreciate that. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that with us Um, okay, so then the next thing that I want to take a look at is The spray that we use in the bathroom now for cleaning the bathroom There are a couple of different opportunities and one of the things that I do want to mention Is they do want to mention some terry cloths So you might decide at some point that you want some terry cloths that you want to use The terry cloths are really great for a variety of things and I do recommend that everybody have a pack of these Now laundry might not be as easy to do at college as it is at home. And so for this I recommend You know making this one of the few things that you invest in as Something that you're going to use and then launder this this counts The reason being is this if you have friends that come over and they're going to fall asleep on your bed Or fall asleep on your couch or your pillows or whatever Uh, you this can dub as a makeup remover wash for them to wash their faces with It also dubs as a drying cloth if you're going to dry your dishes for example if you need You have limited space and you need to dry your dishes and put them away in order for to make room for Friends or what have you it's also if you get in a pinch and you don't have a towel I know this sounds a little comical, but I've never been in a dorm where we weren't towel short So it is possible if you have a friend come over and they don't They're going to take a shower for example, and there's no towel. This isn't very big, but it it's better than nothing Right, so I do recommend having these. These are just basic cleaning cloths and they're terry So they hold a lot of water. They're cotton. They dry out. They can be washed out by hand You can use a little bit of dish soap wash them out rub them up against each other wash them out by hand If necessary hang them up to dry and you have them. They're good to go again So you can use these as cleaning also in the bathroom if you need to dry like mirrors or whatever So this is this is one of the claws that I recommend and we're not going to go all big on claws and everything Just the reusable claws that we are washing out and using as a as a floor mop also And then also these kind so these are the kind that we're going to use now along with that is going to be a spray And this is an all-purpose spray I'm because my background is professional house cleaning and I train lots of house cleaners. We usually use Concentrates that come in gallon jugs, and then we dilute our own supplies I'm going to break that rule for the college dorm and I do not want us to use concentrates and then Our own dilution rates for college dorms for this reason lots of times the bottles are not labeled properly And then you have somebody else that comes in and they say oh, I can help clean and then they grab the spray And we don't really have any idea what's inside the spray. So if it's not labeled properly, please don't use it This already comes with a label on it. It's pretty apparent that this is the Lysol spray. This particular spray Is billed by the Lysol company and also the epa to kill the covid-19 virus And so if you are at school and somebody's come down with this, you know the illness or what have you You can spray your vanities and your sink and whatever the key is non porous Substances, so you're not going to spray like unfinished wood with this But this is really great for pretty much everything except like wood unfinished wood and cement right You can use this on all different types of surfaces that are sealed And so if it's like a sealed stone or a sealed ceramic tile Or if it's like your bathroom sink or if it's like that fake marble Or if it's a porcelain like a toilet or it's fiberglass like a bathtub, whatever you can use this spray as well So this is a really great disinfecting spray. Now it says it's a disinfecting spray The rule for this particular spray is and this is the Lysol all-purpose Lemon breeze scent kills 99.9 of viruses and bacteria. Okay, so for this particular spray Uh for using it you're going to spray it for uh 10 seconds if you're just going to spray in white And that's going to sanitize everything and if you're going to disinfect you're going to leave it on for two minutes Now if you are cleaning your dorm and you have something really Grimy like I don't know you wouldn't have anything grimy at college, right? But if you did um you could spray it and just let it dwell for a little bit And then come in and you could just go ahead and scrub it down and then you're good to go So um be be be prudent with your dwell time if it's really gunky and you need the the dwell time go ahead and use it So that's one of the things that I recommend. It's a it's a really great product and because it says Lysol spray on it Everybody knows what that is. Everybody recognizes. This is a cleaning supply. It's inside a cleaning container they're not going to mistake this as uh Room freshener or something that you're going to use when you iron clothes or any of those things It's it's clearly a cleaning bottle. It goes right in your cleaning caddy if you were to go to someone else's house This is this is a safe bet So for college dorms These these are basically going to be your cleaning supplies. This is it and you can clean so much with just that So um, I want us to think in terms of consolidation and how few supplies can I get by with that will do the majority of the tasks So there you go. All right. So moving on how do how do we carry and store? These supplies when we're at college because the the space is very limited And there aren't a lot of cupboards and cabinets and broom closets like we have in homes, right? There's not there's not as much space in a college dorm as we have at home So one of the things that I am going to recommend is I have a cleaning caddy here A cleaning caddy. This is Overkill for most situations And I say overkill because this is an expensive Tool kit. This is an official toolkit. Now. I'm going to take this swiffer sweeper out for a second But I want to show you this because this is really impressive This particular cleaning caddy and I say it's a cleaning caddy. I've used this as a professional cleaning caddy For about I want to say 20 years I used one and it lasted about 15 years and then it got really dirty I mean like you'll see that it has a little bit of powder on it You just take a damp cloth and wipe this up and clean it up if you were to go to the next job And you can spray this down with a disinfecting spray between each job Just so that it kills bacteria and stuff that's on the on the Outside of it itself. This is a really durable ballistic nylon. It's super durable and it's like waterproof So if anything gets on it, you're good to go, right? But the thing I like about this is when I put my chemicals inside Look how tall that stands so stuff doesn't tip over And I have this here And you'll see It doesn't tip over I know a lot of narrow or lower cleaning caddies that are billed as cleaning caddies These tip out because they're not very secure But when you have something with such a high wall to it, it it holds its own Okay, so this is not very big But if you are and I like the handle But if you're going to the bathroom first thing in the morning You've got all your little tote with your shower supplies in it And then you have another tote with your cleaning supplies in it And this might even just stay in the bathroom. It depends on how much space you have But this goes underneath a little table tray that I'm going to show you in just a minute And it stores inside your college dorm if you have a little table tray The thing I like about this though is if someone along the the way of school It might be a month in it might be two months in it might be a year in You decide that you want to pick up an extra cleaning job on the side This is a really great professional cleaning tool kit where you literally grab your stuff and you go Okay, so it's going to hold all of the stuff that you need from your garbage bags to We've got a non-scrub scrub sponge. We've got a couple other things here that I'll show you in a minute But you basically have everything that you need to go in one kit So I added this kit here for this reason not because I'm trying to recruit you to become house cleaners But because it's a really great storage unit And you will use that storage unit In every place that you live for probably the next 15 or 20 years And so after school when you go to your first home that will still be your cleaning kit All of your cleaning supplies are compact now. It is true as long as I've been in the cleaning industry This is true They say keep cleaning supplies out of the reach of small children And so you're going to take your cleaning supply and your your whole caddy and you will then put it inside a locked Closet or you will put it away from kids, but just it's the whole caddy. It's right there You're not like grabbing up little supplies here and there and you know, let's go find a safe place They're all in one spot So I love it for that reason YN says what is the best method to clean a dorm carpet? So for the dorm carpet, I recommend probably if you have a carpet I recommend probably the vacuum that's probably going to be your best bet now this vacuum is I mean, it's not it's not expensive, but it's not It's a good investment And so like I said, this one will last you four years And it's rechargeable and so you don't need to have it plugged in with lots of cords tripping all over Which are a trip hazard you just unplug it and then you use it, which is safer There's a lot a lot less liability And if you are cleaning the college dorms That's that's probably going to be your best your best bet One other thing that I would mention is a lot of colleges will hire a cleaning company And so they'll say oh, we don't need a cleaning company. We already have one But I'll tell you this cleaning companies come and go they're kind of like fly by night So they might be here and then there's the family emergency or they expand or they get picked up by airbnb clients Or they get bigger accounts. And so then they drop the the college accounts So you might get a month into the school year and discover that the cleaning company that was hired is now gone And if you decide that you want to do this as a business I suggest you jump in at the beginning of the year and say hey I'm starting a cleaning company on the side Will you keep my name on file in the event that you ever let the guys go that that are here I live here and so I can see what needs to be done. I'll be happy to to fill in the gaps Also, you might even put a flyer together and share this with the other The other students because there are lots of students that will pay They came from an environment that paid for house cleaners and they don't want to clean their own But they will pay for someone else to come in and within just a few minutes You could go in and you could have several small cleaning accounts That would then help pay for activities and uniforms and books and You know laptops equipment. I don't know Cameras whatever whatever you guys need smartphones apps. Who knows what? But it's it's extra money and it's a great way to support yourself through school If you just need a little bit of extra jobs and having some flexibility in your schedule So just something to think about there the cleaning caddy though. I highly recommend It's just you're going to get so much use out of it Um another question It says you've done all the work to find the best with the minimal amount of bugs in the system You know what I've like I said, I've been doing this for about 30 years I was a professional house cleaner for 25 years I've been training house cleaning companies for 30 years in 31 countries. I've written a book about house cleaning I've got a training library right now for training and certification of house cleaners It's something I know a lot about and then every year at this time We get bombarded with parents that are like, whoa, what do we What do we need to do for cleaning and it's often the parents that are initially concerned about the cleaning for their kids And then it becomes midway through the year. It's the cleaning kids that are like, wait a second I'm doing this for myself. I could actually be doing this for other students I could be doing this for homes that live nearby I could actually be earning a living and paying off my school debts right now And so school is not 24 seven There are there are pockets of free time and based on the classes that you take It is possible that you could schedule like well every thursday afternoon. I've got this three hour window So every thursday afternoon you could have a cleaning business even if it's only one day a week Where you pick up regular accounts for that that small window Right, so there are ways you can still have money coming in. All right So the next thing that I want to talk about aside from having the the cleaning Caddy is inside the cleaning caddy is a non-scratch scrub sponge I don't want to be a snob, but when it comes to sponges. I'm a real snob for this reason This is the only sponge that I use and it is the only sponge that is allowed in any of the cleaning caddies For all of the people that come through my training and my company for this reason and it's this brand. It's this it's this sponge It doesn't scratch and the different colors of sponges have a different abrasive power to them And so like if you use the yellow and green ones, they will scratch Oh, they will scratch pretty much everything from fiberglass to to the tops of stoves They will scratch mirrors and glass and all kinds of things. This one doesn't scratch It says non-scratch scrub sponge and it really does non-scratch And so this is the one that we use And these come in individual wrapped packets. In fact, they they come individually wrapped and so I shouldn't I shouldn't tell you guys this so don't repeat this but I give these out at halloween instead of halloween candy when the trick-or-treaters come I give them a non-scratch scrub sponge They're like, oh no, it's the cleaning lady. Let's skip her house. She gives us sponges. And so it's kind of funny But um, they're they're fabulous. Okay, they're fabulous for the fact that they clean all kinds of things So like when you're putting your makeup on in the morning and you get makeup foundation in the bathroom sink And then it kind of smears and it's hard to clean up one of the things that I use and I have links below So you guys can check it out Dawn dish soap and so the dawn dish soap I'm a really really big fan of this and I keep it inside Just a little pump spray. Okay, so this there's one of these at every sink in my home right now There's one of these a little pump spray with dawn dish soap Against every sink right now on next to every faucet. There's also one in every shower and I'll tell you why Dawn is designed. It's a degreaser. It's designed for for washing dishes And so you can you can use it for washing dishes, which is awesome But because it's a degreaser it also gets rid of a lot of other gunk Now if you've ever used dawn one of the things that you're going to find is like if you have Gunk that's that's baked in there. You know how we turn hot water on we put some dish soap in and we soak The pots and pans and then later we come back and like oh everything's loosened up and it's easy to clean Okay, it's because of the power of dawn or the power of dish soap, right? And I like this because it's user friendly lots of manicurists will use this for people to soak their hands in before they remove the the fake acrylic fingernails because it's soft on the hands And it's expected that when you touch it, it's going to be soft to your skin as well So it this works as a really great cleaner for inside the bathroom sink to get off all that makeup foundation And a non-scrub scrub sponge and so this can go right next to every sink Also, it can go in every shower This is the stuff you use in the shower when you're done taking a shower put a little bit of dish soap on here And because it cleans dishes it also cleans showers, right? What is in the shower? It's uh, it's body oils. It's protein. It's shampoo and soap that came out of our hair If you were shaving for example It works as a great What do you call it like shaving cream where you just lather up your skin and use your razor? It works really really well If you are short on shampoo, you can also use dawn dish soap for your shampoo I don't recommend that you use it very often because it could strip strip strip out the ph Oils in your hair over a period of time. It's designed to remove oils, right? That's that's what a degreaser does And so you can use it in a pinch for your hair, but it's really great for like just a regular soap You can use it as a replacement shower gel. I mean, it's good for so many things But if you're just like washing your hands after you've used the restroom or after you've taken a shower Or if you've I don't know cooked or you've been outside or whatever It's fantastic for just washing your hands even at any sink. So I recommend dawn dish soap and the The pump spray or the the the pump container and I say the pump you could also use this But it's harder to like open this up and do like this Then it is just to have this here and you just go like that, right? It's like one less one less movement So I do prefer this and you can reuse any container. You don't need a special container Just any container will do but the non-scratch scrub sponge. We use that for dishes. We use it for bathrooms for the vanity We use it for the faucets. We use it for any area that needs to be scrubbed down So I highly recommend the non-scratch scrub sponge So with this cleaning caddy this and I do like this because it's over here I'm looking at it. But you can't see it with the cleaning caddy. That's what you want to carry inside You want to carry your powder cleanser? You want to carry your Your spray and I recommend if you do this as a business grab this and take it with you There's so much that you can use it for and you will use it all the time I've cleaned icky icky icky bathrooms with nothing but dawn dish soap and a non-scratch scrub sponge So you'll learn to use what you have. But this is a very minimal amount of stuff Now I can't help but notice My oxo deep cleaning brushes and I would be remiss if I didn't at least share these with you Um, I hope I hope that I linked to them below. I'm looking here to see if I did Yes, I did. Yay. Okay. I love these. They say, uh, when I die, they're gonna bury me with a swiffer duster Which is this In one of these I just love it because I have these with me like 24 seven, right? I've been known to go outside and uh Pick out my mail from the mailbox. I don't know if you can see this But like I'll put it in the back pocket. Then I go out and the neighbor's like, ah You still have a duster in your pocket. I carry these with me at all times Um, this is good for a whole bunch of stuff and I love these because these are really durable resin The little tiny one has uh, where's my camera? it's like Where let me see if I can do this Uh nick, I'm gonna make your comment go away. There we go. Can you see this? I got a step back. Okay. I was too close. So this one is like a little pointy triangle And so it goes inside all kinds of crevices It also goes in between the keys of a keyboard if you have to just dry brush the keyboard to get out crumbs and pizza Bits and things like that. It's awesome for that. Also. It has a little rubber spatula on the end Which is also great for keyboards. It's great for iPhones going around the edge of the iPhone if you have gunk That's in there. It's great for going around like a camera lens There's all kinds of stuff that it's used for it comes in A blue and uh an orange one And I have both sets the blue I use for the kitchen only the orange I use for other parts of the house So this might be used in a bathroom. This might be used in a living room or something like that This I use for kitchen only just to avoid cross contamination, but they're identical. They're exactly the same They're just different colors And so I guess that's not exactly the same as it They they work the same. They're just different colors And so I carry them with me at all times the bigger brush is really great for things like window tracks If you are in a college dorm and you're able to open the windows It's going to get a lot of debris and air and stuff that comes in But it's also going to bring in bugs and leaves and stuff like that up to the window. Hopefully there's a screen We'll have to clean out the tracks of that just so that that doesn't get inside the room But this is just the perfect size that it fits right inside that that window track This is also great for other icky areas So instead of having big scrub brushes and if we are careful and we clean the showers after each use We won't need great big scrub brushes inside the shower And so the only areas we're really going to need is like maybe the corners Where it's hard to get stuff out of the corners of the shower, right? So if you're using the Dish soap and you're using your non-scratch scrub sponge after every shower And you're just kind of like wiping the walls down and cleaning up the area after you This is going to do the job for the corners And this is the corners aren't going to get icky. They will because anytime you take a shower. That's what happens But um, this is gonna this is going to do the trick So I would say like I don't know every couple times that you take a shower If your caddy is inside the bathroom with you and I do recommend that you take it in there Somebody take it in there once a day Go in and just go around the corners of everything if it's glass Around like the corner of a shower door You can use the rubber spatula to get up in the corners and then wipe with your cloth Like just dry it out to make sure that there's nothing there If it's um, like just a shower where you just have a shower curtain In the corners where the shower meets the wall that will get nasty The little pointy brushes are super for that just get inside those little nooks and crannies And if there's grout in there like if that's ceramic tile with grout, this is a really great grout brush So these are the tools that you need and like I said, they're really small. They're compact They fit inside just the side of your cleaning caddy But if you even if you do it as a business You have the tools that you need right there in your cleaning caddy with you What I recommend that you you get a set again This is a set that you will use for probably I don't know as long as school lasts and then you might buy yourself a new set when you move to a house Or maybe you you still have the ones you used but but they last for a very long time Let's see Tiffany says, how do you clean and sanitize your sponges? Okay, so this is a great question And when you have a house and you have a dishwasher they go right inside the dishwasher And most dishwashers have like a little ledge That will hold like I don't know like bottle brushes and sponges and stuff like that before you get to the regular tray And the the tray where the silverware goes There's usually like a little lap that goes over and it just sits right there and it can go right inside your dishwasher Now I will say that if this is a cellulose sponge and it doesn't have the scrubby on it You can put it on a plate Make it wet you need it wet Put it wet and put it in the microwave most dorms have a microwave And you can put it in there for one minute and it will sanitize your sponge You cannot however cannot and it says it right on the package Do not put the one with the scrubby on it inside the microwave not good for the not good for the microwave or the sponge Okay, do not put this one in the microwave. So this one goes inside the The dishwasher now if you do not have a dishwasher at college and most kids don't One of the things that I recommend is that you wash it out really good with soap and water We have to remember that soap and water is what we use to wash our dishes with right And so we can wash a sponge out with it squeeze it out really well and let it air dry And the key is to let it air dry like sitting up like this So the air can get to both sides of it And then if it starts to get nasty because they will after a month or so they start to get nasty And then you're just going to toss it and you're going to get a new one So these come in a pack of four six eight 12 I think I buy them in the pack of 20 or 21 And so like I said, I always have them on hand, but you will you will need a couple of them You'll need one for your kitchen area at school and you will need one for the bathroom area And it's not the same sponge. Okay cross contamination. We do not want to use the same sponge So make sure we have one for the bathroom and one for the kitchen and for a college dorm What I recommend is that you keep a ziploc bag This is a ziploc bag that is has a separate one in the back here Just so that you know one is for the bathroom the one on the insides for the kitchen And that way it keeps no surprises so that we don't accidentally mix them up And if everybody on the team and I say on the team everyone in the dorm is using it Is following the same rules. It won't get cross contaminated So just just be smart about the way that you use them because we don't have different colors And I don't want us using different colors for the uh sponges because this is the only sponge that I actually swear by There are lots of sponges on the market and they're good for different things But but I don't want to scratching up anything. It's one of those Let's get in the good habit of doing the right thing to begin with Yeah, I want to make sure that we we get in the habit of that Uh, okay, so what is the next thing that I have? Because I was going to show some more cool stuff Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we're talking about the bathroom. I'm so excited Okay, so I have this little tv tray Now this doesn't seem like a cleaning tool But this is perfect for college dorms and I absolutely love this In fact, I live in a great big monster house and I have several of these myself around the house And I swear by these and these are perfect for a college dorm College dorms are super small and there's not a lot of space and these fold up To where you can just stack them, right? It folds up to be like that So it's super small. It's super compact But what is really cool about this is and the one that I've linked to below is actually hangs in a little rack So it comes with four of these this makes a perfect bed stand So that you can put your computer your laptop your phone your c-pad machine whatever you use right on this next to your bed But what I really like about it and the reason that I have it here today is because It also holds a little tiny dish strainer Now what's really cool about this and this goes back to a minute ago when I said that we wanted these kinds of towels You can put two of these towels on top of one of these trays And use this as a dish strainer if you don't have a plastic dish strainer And this one actually comes with the plastic dish strainer But you just want to make sure the water doesn't go off onto the floor, right? But you can't absorb it with something like this underneath it. Okay, what's cool about this is Lots of dorms do not have any covered space or cabinet space And so it's great if you wash your dishes and then what you're going to leave them in the sink I mean you can and if this fits inside your sink, that's great. This is uh 12 inches And it's really really small and I recommend that you get one of these for any student that you know And if you know a student and you're not buying stuff for students, please send them the link to this video I want them to have these tools I use this right now in my house and it's been 20 years since I've been in school But I'll tell you what I use it for now because you will repurpose and reuse all of this stuff This fits underneath a regular cabinet in my house And I have all of my pots and pans lids just like how you would stack up plates I have them all stacked up and it's a really great storage unit for all of my pot lids that just fit inside one cabinet So you will reuse it for the rest of your life But it's really awesome for school because if you have like the little sink and lots of dorms have this There's a little sink, but there's no um There's no Countertop next to it Which is really awful with two of these little tables You can have like your coffee pot and your your sugars and stuff on one table right over here You have your little dish strainer So now you have a sink in the middle and you can wash your dishes and you can set them out to dry So we want to promote like we said we want to get in the habit of of cleaning up after ourselves If there's a dish strainer right there, it's more likely that it will get used than if there's not one at all And so instead of just saying well, I hope that my kids will wash their dishes when they're done Nobody's going to do that There's nobody to make them do that and there's nobody that's going to do that unless they already had those habits before they went to school And so if they have a little tv table right there that can be moved around I'll tell you what's really cool about it Not just having your your availability to do your dishes Which will then inspire everyone that's inside the dorm Including friends that come to visit I drink out of a coffee mug I wash it out I put it in the dish strainer it can air dry and the next time you come back or the next time you're ready for a drink It's there waiting for you. What's really cool about this is this because it folds up And it just it folds up just by this slider on the back. I'm doing this and I didn't really show you how it works, but Once you fold it up like this You can just carry this with you to the shower in the morning And lots of showers in the dorms especially don't have anywhere to put your stuff And so you get in the bathroom And what are you going to do? You're going to put your makeup on the floor You're going to take off your clothes and put them on the floor You know what I mean? It's not it's not really set up for good use And so if you have your own little table you can take your table in and pull it Pull it out put your makeup on there. You can fold up your clothes and put them on there It's still a compact space, but at least you're not throwing it on the floor So remember how we talked earlier about like wearing the shower shoes This goes back to the same thing if people are wandering in if they do have fungus feet I know this is gross. We shouldn't talk about this, but we have to because it's like college time, right? If they're walking in and that's what they're bringing in with them We want to make sure that We are careful about Not putting our stuff there because then we take those germs back to our room If we take those germs back to our room Then when we lay whatever it is our clothes our makeup bag whatever on the floor on the on the Bed whatever we're transferring those germs fungus feet germs from the bathroom floor To our college dorm to our bed to whatever and now we know how germs can get spread And i'm not saying anyone is germy. I don't mean to say that I'm just saying we want to reduce the risk as much as possible And we got a couple comments coming in someone says I love your youtube channel and information Thank you so much. That's super exciting and we've got other comments over here Someone says do you like the smiley face sponges the smiley face sponge? I think we're thinking about the scrub daddy because I think that's their branded thing That's great for certain things. I don't recommend that for a college dorm So that's going to be for another use we would use that in a home for example under different circumstances And so I don't want us to buy anything we don't need But I want us to buy the things that we do need and this is a really compact version Of everything that you're going to need. It's a really compact version of what you need If you're going to start a small tiny business on the side And it's a really small startup pack of what you could use in your first home And so I love the fact that we have the tools that we need and with with You know in all goodness of what you might need and what you need to survive This is the survival kit of cleaning supplies Someone says an ounce of prevention and it's it's not someone. It's nick Nick says an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care. We must talk about this. Yes. That's true. That's true because uh When covet hit The entire world became aware of cleaning sanitizing and disinfecting and it was like oh my goodness Cleaning sanitizing and disinfecting and as a house cleaner. I'm like, well, yeah, that's what we've been doing all along Right. I mean we've been doing that that's what we do But the world didn't really have a sense of oh, I hopped on the metro and I touched the hand rail And then I got out and I rubbed my eyes and then I went and I got myself a sandwich and I ate it all with the same hands We do stuff like that, especially when we're in college that we're not thinking about I just touched a whole bunch of other germs and I transferred them to my face Then I ate them, you know, I mean it's like gross and it's not it's not to be a germaphobe It's just to be aware because the more aware we are The better prevention we can have that will keep us from getting sick And so that's what this is all about is just about prevention. It's not about blaming anybody or assuming that Uh, somebody has germs just because they're in college or any of those things. It's none of those things It's just about let's be aware so that we can protect ourselves from Possibilities of germs that could creep in so that's what this is all about All right. Now I would also be remiss if I did not talk about the swiffer duster And I have to talk about the swiffer duster for this reason Back in the day when I started my house cleaning business We had electrostatic dusters and the electrostatic dusters were awesome because they pick up dust And there was no good way to clean them. There's really no good way to clean them and they were inexpensive So at the time they sold them for, you know, a dollar or two dollars You could buy them and you'd use them as long as you could and then you would toss them And then we became aware of cross-contamination. I don't know Where I was in my cleaning business. I've been cleaning for about 30 years But somewhere I believe it was 1988 or I don't know it's been like 20 years at least That swiffer has had these dusters and when I first found out about them. I didn't like them at all I was like, oh, that's so wasteful because we're gonna, you know, pop pop the head off and throw it away But what I discovered was It is Sanitary to do that Because if I go to someone's house and we're going to talk about homes for a second If I go to someone's home and I touch with a swiffer duster every single item inside their house It's not sanitary to take that same duster and go to someone else's house and touch every single thing inside their house Right again I just spread all the germs from one house to another house And then if you do that from house to house to house you're now spreading germs from lots of houses, right? And when I started thinking about that, I'm like, oh, that's really not good at all So when they came out with a disposable A disposable head this head just pops off and as it comes off this part then goes in the trash This is expensive. Okay. So if you're a college student buying this swiffer duster heads is expensive And if you do this as a business, you're going to want to add the cost of your supplies Into the job so that you can afford to pay for these Now if you are in a college dorm and I'll show you this There are two little sleeves here and this little tongue this little fork Just slides in here like this And that becomes the holder for this Okay, and so this like I say it fits in my back pocket, you know, I pop it in my back pocket and off I go They have a small one and then they have a larger one The larger one has two heads on it and I I I brought this dirty so you could kind of see the stuff that it picks up I've got hair and dog hair And I've got dust and this is just icky and nasty And I did this so that you could imagine this This you would use for all the stuff that you're going to use inside your dorm This I actually recommend for a dorm because it goes up six feet. I don't know when this came out This is this is a new development for my cleaning business Because they used to have a three foot one. I I did not know about the six foot one for a long time This goes up six feet. So I'm going to show you this And it's this long Okay I could dance with this Okay, so what happens is if you're in a single story this goes all the way up to the ceiling It goes up to the lights If you have tall bathroom lights in a in a bathroom, for example, this will get all the lights If you have cobwebs that are up there, this will get the cobwebs If you have like tall windows, this will get around the windows If you have a bunk bed and you go all the way back underneath the bunk bed You can spread this out. This is also one of those that lays really flat You can put this on the floor and go all the way underneath the bunk bed and pull it out Lots of times we drop things that will fall down at one side of the bed And then we can't get it out because our arms are not long enough to reach You can go underneath with this and you can kind of scoop it out This is just a really great all-purpose tool And this is gross And I'm going to touch it. I don't have any gloves on which is gross, but uh, here I am And I was going to show you this and I don't have a way to do this without touching it I'll have to wash my hands later But this has a little lock right here And you push the button in and it tilts And then you push the button and you lock it again in place So imagine it had two duster heads on here And you wanted to go up along the side of the wall And you wanted to clean the sides of the wall with this This allows you to dust anything that's on the wall If you wanted to go down the side of the shower Like if you wanted to dry the sides of the shower wall There are ways to do that With tools we already have right So again, it's a repurposing tool that we can use a multiplicity of ways And I really like the Swiffer products for this reason They are really user friendly and they're portable and they're super lightweight So this entire this entire kit from the Swiffer this and I hold this up like this is a Swiffer sweeper I would have to pop the the head in this for it to make sense But this is these are the tools right these are really small compact tools that you can use while you're at school And it's going to last you the entire school year And so I really recommend that you invest in a couple of nice tools are very inexpensive But these are tools that you will use after the school year. You're going to use them in your home I use the Swiffer sweeper every morning after I fix breakfast and I pack the lunches I vacuum up the floor really quickly and then I just put one of these On the Swiffer sweeper and I go around the the sink area And just the sink in front of the stove Underneath the refrigerator where the crumbs fall. I just boom boom boom boom boom and off I go And so it's a high traffic areas And that's really going to be important to you in a college dorm because college dorms are often high traffic areas where Kids come in friends come in you come in There's a lot of stuff going on in a dorm lots of people And so just to keep it cleaned sweeped mopped It's easy to do with the few tools that we have here So I just I just want this to be aware that there are options The Swiffer the Swiffer sweepers or the Swiffer heads are not cheap I think I mentioned that and there are a variety of different Swiffer heads that you can buy You can buy these online and you can have them drop shipped to wherever you live Your parents can send them to you as gifts I've received lots of these as gifts from family and friends And I know that doesn't sound like a great gift, but they are expensive And so anytime somebody gives me a gift of something like this This is it is not perishable. And so if you don't use it right away, you're you're going to use it sometime It's going to last and if you are If you're in a college dorm, you probably don't need the heavy duty ones and you probably don't need the 360 I'm a really big fan of the 360 the yellow ones I use them at all times and that's my preference because I'm usually cleaning a whole house when I do it But for a college dorm the blue one, which is called the 180 That might be all you need and they are a little bit less expensive And so you might decide to just go with these and so I would recommend I've left links in the notes to these as well But uh, this is this is a really great option if you are in a college dorm And this is going to keep a lot of the electronics and stuff like that clean like the keyboards and the Areas around where you're eating while you're studying It's it's going to keep all those areas clean and this acts as like a table broom to get all that stuff off without Just putting your arms and your elbows in it, you know what I mean All right, one more thing. Um, this is what I would use for computers only I've put links in the notes to this below as well This is an electrostatic duster and I recommend that this is for cameras and laptop screens smartphone screens only and I recommend that every person have their own Even when we go to customers houses, we recommend that they get one for their own computers When we go to the house, we will sanitize the handle and then we will use it and we will clean things It just cleans it just like that and it's nice and clean Um, but it gets off any dust. There's lots and lots of dust that gets kicked in every time you open a door Every time the air conditioner kicks on there's just little bits of dust everywhere So we want to make sure that our computer screens are clean and that our uh, our cameras are clean And you do that just with an electrostatic duster So this is the last tool that I would recommend and this is just something you're going to use everywhere for the rest of your life Every computer I have has one of these at the computer and like I said, we recommend that everybody have their own So if you have a roommate I wouldn't I wouldn't share the the electronic Vesters I would have everybody have their own just like I would say every toilet gets its own toilet brush. No sharing Alrighty, I've got a couple of notes here. I want to make sure that you guys get your questions answered before we We bump out of here and I let you guys get back to your saturday Uh PB nils says I love the six foot swiffer. I've been using the three foot one with a ladder You know what that was the one that they had for the longest time And it had it had one It had one uh swiffer thing on it I love the one that has two For the sheer fact that there's so much more you can do with it And instead of just using it like here's the swiffer duster head I can use it almost like a broom like if you go up on top of a refrigerator and you just go across the top of it You can do that while you're standing flat footed on the ground Reach your arm above your head and because this goes six feet You can clean right at the top of the fridge without even getting on a step stool So I love it for that because it goes up six feet It reaches most one-story ceilings And so if you have like a cobweb open the corner and you're like, uh, I'm going to need to get the The three foot doesn't I mean it's like this far from the top You're like, oh, I'm so close The six foot goes all the way up there So I have and I shouldn't confess this because I bought a special different tool for homes that we use for ceiling fans But on one-story floors, this actually goes up and will clean ceiling fans as well So you do the top of it with this and then you do the bottom of the like let's say this is the blade You do the top of it like this And then the bottom of it like this and that's your ceiling fan So yeah, I'm a really big fan of the six foot swiffer swiffer duster And I've used it for just a whole bunch of things since it came out And I just remember one day I was inside the store. Um, this is a little sidebar But I was inside the store and I wasn't there to buy a swiffer Duster, but um, I walked by and I saw it and it had a different handle It had a different handle than that three foot one And I was like, wait a second. That's really durable Oh, that's nice and I was standing I was standing in the aisle of the store and I looked at it. I'm feeling the handle. I'm like, now this Is nice and I said it really loud just like that. These people are looking at me like what the heck Anyway, it was really funny because I was making a fool of myself, but and then of course I had to buy it, right? I was I got to try this out So yeah, I I've been caught in the in the aisle at the store And you know, I guess that's my thing. I go to the grocery store any store that has cleaning supplies And like if my husband's with me, he's like, I'll find you on the cleaning aisle And I just go up and I'm like a kidney candy store. Like what do they have? What what new things have appeared? So yeah, that's fun Holly said do you move and clean under stove and fridge? No, we don't no We don't not in a college dorm if there's a stove in a fridge. We do not clean under that for this reason There's probably a cleaning team that has been hired to do that And so with their contract they have insurance So they're bonded and insured and all that stuff if they pull A stove or a fridge out and it scratches the floor They're going to pay for that because they're insured as college students were not and also They probably have a team of people that are going to be moving stuff out That they're not going to be pulling muscles in their back and stuff like that So because we're college students and I'm assuming we're talking about students here of all sizes Some may be super strong and some not so strong. And so cleaning underneath the stove absolutely not We're not going to do that if you for some reason go to vacuum And you're using the stylus vacuum and there's a headlight here And it goes underneath and you can see that there are crumbs that are underneath the stove That's going to gross you out because you're not going to be able to get to them And underneath the stove is only about this high So there's not a lot of stuff you can get underneath there But what you can do is you can get a yardstick and you can wrap it up in one of these Put rubber bands around it and then go underneath the stove and pull this stuff out Now if you do not have a yardstick what you have for example The the sweeper that I mentioned I'm taking the handle off here. You can't see what I'm doing here I know it looks weird, but I'll show you this really fast The handle to the um The sweeper I will go back to the notes there so you can see the sweeper I'm talking about I just unscrewed the handle and this is a really small handle Like it's really narrow and I use this handle a lot for a lot of different things for example If I get something caught in my vacuum this goes right inside and I can just kind of like Pop it out the other side right you always wondered how we get this Inside the hoses and the the long sticks of the vacuum when we vacuum up like toys and things like that We use this also you can wrap this with something like this And put a rubber band over the top of it And this slides right underneath your oven or your refrigerator and it's going to pick up a whole bunch of gunk You can even use this wet to put it wet here and then put a rubber band on the top of it And then slide it underneath and that will wash the floor underneath it So there are a couple of little hacks that we use that are are good tips That will save you from buying extra equipment. You just use the equipment that you have Alrighty the uh next we've got more comments Uh Grecia says can anyone recommend a good insurance company for a cleaning booth? Yes, I can I personally use next insurance next is designed for small business owners next insurance dot com And they are fantastic And we can we can talk about that at a later point, but if you are going to clean for someone else I do recommend that you That you you do consider insurance Because you do not want to find yourself in a situation Where you are cleaning someone else's property and you're not covered And so the very first thing that we recommend If you're taking it seriously as a business and insurance is very inexpensive But make sure that you're covered so that there are no surprises and so that you're not taken for a ride Because uh insurance protects the homeowner and it protects you as a cleaning business So that is the very first thing we recommend aside from just a few cleaning supplies So that that's a really great question Um Let's see We have a note here from nick my stove and fridge are about to get cleaned soon Around and inside too because they're overdue. We got this little by little little becomes a lot. Yes, that's true. Yay All right, so I hope that this gave you a few ideas Um for cleaning inside a college dorm the stuff that you have here that we covered today Is going to help anybody that has never cleaned before It's going to give them the tools and the supplies that they need It's a really compact version of the supplies These are tools and supplies that you will use once you get familiar with them You'll use them for the rest of your life. You'll use them in your first home your second home After 20 years in a home. You'll still be using them. These are tried true proven tools and they're built to last So this is this is my vote on here's exactly what you need to survive the college year in your college dorm All right, I'm going to let you guys bump out and get back to your saturday. This has been so much fun I am meeting here on saturday mornings to do these kinds of shows because we're getting lots and lots of questions About people wanting different products and i've been really keen over the last few years on sharing with you the tips and the techniques And so now we're going to do the tips the techniques and the tools So i'm going to be sharing with you the tools on the different cleaning supplies and stuff So join us again next saturday. I would love for you guys to bring your questions and we'll we'll answer as many of those as we can All right. That is it for today. I'm going to let you guys have a great afternoon And I look forward to uh to talking to you soon