An addictive TV show on, wait for it, cleaning!!!

I've taken a fancy to a TV show this past week, watching multiple episodes, and its called Clean it and Fix it. It revolves around three people, the TV show hosts, who spend a day in the house of people from families to flatmates, who are struggling with cleaning and clutter and organisation, and in that day they target several spots, come up with affordable solutions and transform the problem areas.

I like a lot of things about it. That the things they do are affordable (eg buying a flatpack shelving unit and upcycling old things) and for the most part, it involves a lot of elbow grease that is do-able from most of us. (Unlike the TV shows where a zillion people with a zillion dollars worth of power tools transform a house with apparent limitless budgets.)

The cleaning aspect of the programme is the one that intrigues me, and the tips the cleaner uses. The other day, Maxine soaked cotton wool in bleach and stuffed it into cracks and left it to work. Amazing. 

I should add an important bit of information, that I haven't actually cleaned anything since discovering this programme. I've been under the weather with a lingering virus and several visits to the doctor, hence me spending time watching TV shows I would  not normally even know about, if it wasn't for me recovering on the couch with hot drinks and the remote control, but once I'm back up and running, watch out grime. Me and my bleached cotton wool are coming after you...


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