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    34 Cleaning Products For Anyone Who's Tired Of Cleaning Up Other People's Messes

    Stuff to deal with drive-thru crumbs, toilet rings, oil spills, and other messes your loved ones leave behind as part of their love language.

    1. A Bissell SpotBot as a hands-free spot scrubber you can leave and let scrub the red wine stain your partner kindly left for you. Turns out, you won't have to buy a runner to cover that spot after all!

    2. Or a carpet cleaning solution with results so impressive (just cast your eyes below this text!) that you may have to bleep out your own reaction. No more making yourself forget that carpet was beige when your family moved in.

    reviewer pic of carpet being cleaned with a vacuum revealing a much lighter carpet color underneath

    3. Some water bottle-cleaning tablets to make sure everyone's go-to container actually gets cleaned. You simply drop one into the container, walk away, and then come back to a container ready for a rinse and a WOW. Go ahead, show the results to the person who left that dirty dish in the sink.

    reviewer's before and after of dirty steel thermos from coffee, then the after cleaning pic of completely clean looking thermos

    4. A drill brush cleaning kit you can attach to your drill/driver for an informercial-like cleaning sesh at the flip of a switch that'll have you seeking out all the dirty surfaces your roommates have been ignoring.

    5. A steaming microwave cleaner for harnessing the power of your anger to loosen up crud and dirt inside your microwave for wipeable messes. And still, no one will fess up to leaving spaghetti way too long to heat.

    6. A rust-removing spray to work like a magic trick in neglected showers, minus the elbow grease. Spray it on the rusted surround of your basement shower you never use, leave the room, and come back to diminished stains you can easily wipe away.

    7. Grandma's Secret, an under-the-radar solution with serious stain-removing prowess — like, cleaning pen from a white leather couch. It involves application, a teensy bit of scrubbing, and letting it sit to work while you knock out other chores.

    8. A fume-free oven cleaner to revive an oven that you thought was too far gone thanks to others' errant drips and spillovers.

    9. A scratchy lil' tool to FINALLY get all the pet hair off your fabric surfaces both inside your house and car. You'll wonder how you lived without up until now.

    10. A pumice stone toilet bowl cleaner will remove all sorts of stubborn rings that've been staring at you every time you're in the washroom. Nope, you do NOT need a new toilet. Your OG just requires some zhuzhing.

    11. Some rust stain-removing gel that'll get at the unsightly rust that just so happens to show its ugly face around sink drains. It's haunting you every time you brush your teeth, but it's time to banish it. The magic is in letting it *sit.*

    reviewer's pic of rust around sink drain then it free of rust after using the product

    12. A jar of ear cleaner wipes for your poor pup's ears that'll tackle goop, gunk and help prevent ear infections and wax buildup.

    13. A drain clog remover to once and for all unearth the annoying hair monster lurking down in your shower drain...even though everyone in your house is supposed to be clearing the drain after their showers. Happy nightmares! 

    before photo of the drain snake sitting inside a drain
    Reviewer holding the snake, which has grabbed a massive chunk of hair from the drain

    Promising review: "When I pulled the orange plastic spiked strip from the package, I was immediately skeptical and felt like all those 5-star reviews were from people who exist in an alternate universe. I was tempted to initiate a return on Amazon but decided that I might as well gamble on a piece of $9 plastic before gambling $200 on a plumber. I slipped the plastic strip down my shower drain and literally FIVE SECONDS LATER I was pulling up gobs and gobs and gobs of hair. HOLY COW!!!!!!!! OHMYGOSH. I can't believe I still have any hair left on my head. SO MUCH REPULSIVE GUNK!!!! I saved my prize hairball on the shower floor to show my husband because I knew he would be as skeptical as I was. We both agree it looks like a small raccoon or a large squirrel lying helplessly on my shower floor. It's a grisly, messy, smelly and oh-so-rewarding job." —Chocolate and Chips

    Get a six-pack from Amazon for $9.88.

    14. Foaming garbage disposer tablets so your biggest kitchen helper can keep running on 100 instead of ruining your day. Perhaps it's time to set up a covert security camera by your sink to see just what your family's doing there.

    double kitchen sink

    15. A dishwashing spray for anyone without a dishwasher (or even with one!) whose housemates tend to leave dishes in the sink for DAYS. This spray will make it to where you just have to SWIPE off the gunk and rinse instead!

    person spraying the spray onto a sink full of dirty dishes

    16. Stove counter gap covers that'll keep pesky crumbs within sight instead of down between your cabinets and appliances. Wipe ups are about to get *much* faster.

    17. Nonstick oven liners to clean up your roommate's frozen pizza cheese spills without *actually* having to clean your oven.

    view of oven with grease from pizza dripping onto the liner

    18. And stove burner covers that'll do the same for you up top. And you can even run them through the dishwasher!

    19. A leather car seat cleaner and conditioner that'll take out dirt and oils and leave behind a nourishing barrier to help prevent further UV damage.

    20. And an upholstery cleaner for undoing whatever it is your kids are doing to your backseats.

    A customer review before and after picture of their car seat

    21. A jar of the The Pink Stuff — a TikTok-famous cleaning paste made to handle all kinds of sticky, stuck-on situations that've been neglected far too long like this nasty-looking kitchen faucet. 

    Promising review: "I need this in bulk!! I have tried so many cleaning solutions to get out hard cooking stains on my stovetop and nothing worked! This stuff took it right out without a problem!!" —Micaela Gunderson

    Get it from Amazon for $6.99.

    22. A wheel cleaner to easily undo the grunge of the road after your teenager borrowed your car to apparently drive through the woods.

    disgusting looking car wheel
    completely clean car wheel

    Promising review: "It will take one look from your friends to say 'Did you buy some new wheels?' This stuff is absolutely amazing. For the full effect, dismount your wheel, spray the back. Go do something for 10 minutes. Wash with water, no scrubbing needed. Turn the rim face up, do it again. Do the rest of your rims, and don't forget the tire protectant when you reinstall them. This stuff will handle salt, road tar, off-road dirt and mud — you get it dirty, it comes clean. Where was this stuff when I was racing off-road?" —johnfcon

    Get it from Amazon for $16.10.

    23. A targeted cleaner that has a commercial-strength formula to cut through the mess to annihilate tough soap scum on shower doors, tub bottoms, sinks, whatever.

    filthy bathtub floor
    clean bathtub floor

    Promising review: "Sharing our nasty before picture so you can really see the difference! Our tub/shower has a grippy bottom and scum and dirt cakes on there so easily. The only way I've been able to get it off before was literally scraping it inch by inch, I've spent hours and all it ever got was somewhat clean - never enough for me to want to take a real bath in it. This stuff is expensive but with the good reviews I decided to try it, it works amazingly!! I sprayed it on (it came with a great spray nozzle and a lid) and left it for about 15–20 minutes. Then I took a brush with hard plastic bristles (I believe a soft brush would have even worked) and with less than 20 minutes of scrubbing the entire tub and walls it was cleaner than when we moved in. The grime and scum almost like melted off. It smells pleasant, it's not crazy strong smelling but in an enclosed space I still felt the need to wear a mask while cleaning." —Amazon Customer

    Get it from Amazon for $19.88.

    24. An affordable hand vac that'll make cleaning up discarded fluff from your furniture NBD. Seriously, walking around like an animal fur hedgehog out of laziness is no way to live.

    pet fur covered blanket
    clean blanket

    Promising review: "Holy crap!! Are you skeptical when it comes to buying stuff online? ME TOO! That's why I figured all of these rave reviews were a crock of crap. I've seriously bought every kind of vacuum out there. But I have four cats and a golden retriever, so I was getting desperate! I believe the saying is… a picture is worth a thousand words. Check mine out! Of note, the 'before' picture was taken of my dog's bed AFTER it went through the washer and dryer. Look at all of that left-behind hair!!! And the 'after' picture was taken after only THREE MINUTES spent vacuuming her bed. I. Am. SOLD! BTW, I've NEVER taken the time to review a product before, just FYI." —Luka Chan

    Get it from Amazon for $38.99.

    25. And a wall-mounted Shop-Vac to make the chore of vacuuming your car out after a road trip (or just a trip to the drive-thru) a breeze.

    person using the shop vac to fill up soap water spilled from a bucket

    26. A four-way cleaning brush to make big moves on those black suede (or nubuck!) boots your sister stole for a night and decided to shuffle around in the dirt while wearing last weekend. Their days are no longer numbered.

    one dirty boot, one clean boot

    27. A red wine stain remover can work on soooo many other stains your butter fingers roommate creates on ALL your stuff.

    28. An ~all-natural~ stain remover that'll annihilate those makeup-stained garments you gave up on as soon as you spotted them in the laundry pile, you might swear.

    29. And some stain-removing tablets because your kids' "white" socks are most definitely brown now.

    30. A gooey cleaning compound to detail car vents, computer keys, TV remotes, the works!

    goo used to get dust out a car vent

    31. An oil stain remover capable of annihilating that grease stain your pal's junker left behind that you thought made your garage or driveway a goner.

    A series of customer review photos showing an oil stain being removed from the sidewalk

    32. A doormat for both the inside and outside of your entry doors...that way you can stop more dirt from entering your home and easily switch the welcome wagon when you feel like it.

    33. A set of protective kick mats because no matter how many times you say "Stop kicking!" your kids keep on doing it like it's their job. It'll be much easier to clean dirt and grime off the mats instead of your seats.

    reviewer's car with the kicking protector on the back of the car seat

    34. And a robotic vacuum that'll hook up to Alexa for voice control, which is the closest you're getting to acting like an evil stepsister at the moment. (Hopefully!)

    the robot vacuum cleaning up a mess on the floor

    Reviews have been edited for length and/or clarity.