Helpful tips & tricks from your Maid service company Buckets and Bows
For more than 25 years, the cleaning technicians at Buckets & Bows Maid Service have used the eco-friendly, locally manufactured cleaning products and high quality cleaning supplies from Speed Cleaning. The right tools are key to consistency and efficiency and these promote the better health of the cleaning techs and their customers too. Speed Cleaning [...]
Achoo! Welcome to flu season. According to a report released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control, the flu in America has reached epidemic proportions. Forty six states report widespread flu; five states have closed public schools due to flu outbreaks; and the state of Alabama has declared a state of public health emergency. "Get [...]
We would never advise giving someone a vacuum for Christmas. It might get you banished to the guest room or removed from next year's gift exchange. But if it's featured prominently on their wish list, you may be dealing with a clean freak who will welcome your acknowledgement of her need for clean. So here [...]
It is the most wonderful time of the year but it seems longer these days, no longer waiting to make an appearance until after Thanksgiving, and it often brings with it very non-festive feelings like anxiety and even depression. Too many demands on our time, too much money being spent, too many self-imposed expectations to deliver [...]
Having a maid service can be positively life changing! It rewards you with the ultimate gift of Time, and who isn't in need of more time? But hiring a maid service can be scary. There are the obvious concerns about safety and security. We recommend you use our 7 Hiring Questions to interview a cleaning [...]
Seeing pink lately? Yep, it's October, Breast Cancer Awareness month in the US, and pink ribbons abound. Find them on teddy bears and rubber duckies. Rain ponchos, wine glasses and wrist watches. Purses, golf balls, key chains and shower shoes. Even ping pong tables. The pink ribbon is a prolific symbol of our collective commitment [...]
I just finished NY Times Bestseller "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo. I work for a professional maid service company and support Debbie Sardone, the Maid Coach who teaches maid services around the world how to clean and I love my job, so it's not surprising that I read about...well, cleaning. And a [...]
We all have that special table in our homes. We can't bear to part with it. It came from Great Grandma and it's been through every house move we've made. It's still got some life left in it, but it's got rings! Water marks. Wine or coffee cup imprints. Stark white circles on beautifully old [...]
Hollywood celebrates the best in film this Sunday night with the Academy Awards. Here at Buckets & Bows Maid Service, we celebrate what we know: the best in cleaning! These tips walk our clean carpet and win our Oscars. Clean top to bottom, left to right. Bring the dust and dirt from up top down to [...]
The Danes are known for being the happiest people in the world in spite of their long, dark Scandinavian winters. And now we might know why. It's hygge! And hygge is huge right now. Pronounced 'hoo-ga' and used as a noun, verb or adjective, hygge is showing up everywhere -- in newspapers, magazines and bookstores, [...]
Get healthy, get organized and live life to the fullest are the Top 3 New Year's Resolutions for 2017, and here at Buckets & Bows we think they all start at home! Resolve to make these changes in your home this year and usher in a healthier, better organized, fuller life. 1)Resolve to manage your [...]
If the holidays snuck up on you again this year, don't think you have to give up the "WOW!" Buckets & Bows Maid Service offers these ideas for last minute holiday gifts your gift recipients are sure to remember. Subscription Service. Think: Netflix for the TV binge-watcher or movie buff; Audible for the commuting book worm; [...]
We're IN THE NEWS AGAIN! President of Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Debbie Sardone is known as the nation's leading cleaning expert and she's been doing back to back radio interviews all morning and some last week when the news broke of a study revealing household dust contains toxic chemicals. According to the report household dust is [...]
Is this the way it goes at your house on Halloween? You send your ghouls out the door all suited up in their costumes and faces full of makeup, looking awesome. But they return with half of the meticulously applied makeup on the sleeves, collar, and for some unfathomable reason, say, the inside of the [...]
Clean Dishes – Dirty Dishwasher: How to clean your dishwasher Most people notice over time that the inside of their dishwasher needs some attention even though it’s been shooting hot soapy water around the inside several time a week. A dirty dishwasher can even have an effect on how clean your dishes, silverware, and glassware [...]
