Ring! Ring! That’s your cellphone calling and it wants be cleaned. According to Seattle Times journalist Bobby Caina Calvan, “your phone is covered in germs: 25,127 bacteria per square inch, to be precise. This makes cell phones one of the dirtiest objects we come in contact with every day.” Answer the call to clean with tips […]
Spring Cleaning Your Car
It’s not just your home that may need a spring cleaning, don’t forget about your car too! The winter months can be tough on our vehicles, especially living somewhere that snows. Muddy shoes and wet clothes may have left your car in need of a little clean up. Let’s go through the steps of how […]
Best of The Springs 2022- Maid to Shine
Thank you to our wonderful clients! We’ve won gold in the cleaning service category for Best of The Springs 2022 and it’s your votes and confidence in our small business that earned us this award. Support like this is very meaningful, especially after our struggles during the height of the pandemic. We know we have […]
How to Properly Clean Your Home Gym
Where do you workout? If you have a home gym you’ve got the added bonuses of convenience and cost but there’s also the benefit of fewer germs. Some gyms, at least before the pandemic, were “[harboring] more germs than a toilet seat.” Thankfully, by using your own gym equipment you can avoid a lot of […]
Laser Tag | Maid to Shine April 2022 Team Event
It was a beautiful Colorado Springs day, perfect for getting up to some mischief. Maid to Shine’s top cleaning techs took to the battlefield, laser tag guns in hand, ready for a fun day of competitive play. The whistle blew and off we ran to capture the flag. Pew! Pew! Pew! Shots were coming from […]
Clean Your Baby Toys Naturally
At Maid to Shine, it’s no secret that we’re all about natural, chemical free cleans!! It’s great for the environment, it’s great for your health, and it’s cost effective! It isn’t a hard, tough lifestyle to adopt either. In fact, it’s very easy applying this method of cleaning everywhere. Take the chore of cleaning our […]
Tackling Laundry Without Any Dread, Pt 1
The running joke in cleaning circles is how hard it is for us to get to our laundry, and once it’s been washed it takes even longer to fold it and put it away. For whatever reason, laundry is a task that we dread doing. We joke about the mountains of laundry in our home, […]
Secrets to Keeping a Clean, Organised, & Functional Home, Pt 1
This week we’ll discuss little habits you can do in your cleaning routine to keep your home clean, functional, and organised. Sometimes, cleaning involves us rolling up our sleeves and dedicating hours to getting up the grime. And sometimes cleaning and organisation is incredibly simple. It’s the little steps we do every time we put […]
What is Cleaning Paste?
What is cleaning paste? How do you use it? Is it worth it? This week we’ll discuss ways to use cleaning paste. Cleaning paste is a substance that can be used to scrub up dirt and grime. There are different brands of cleaning paste. So choosing which one to use is a matter of personal […]
Best Tips for Cleaning Houses with Pets, Pt 2
This week, we’ll continue on from where we left off last week. We’ve been sharing tips for keeping your home clean when you have furry friends! *Clean the Nooks & Corners: this is a continuation of the idea that we should look for places where fur seems to get trapped. Get to know the rhythms […]