Dirtiest Places in Your Home

Dirtiest Places in Your Home

Let’s talk about the dirtiest places in your home! It has been estimated that the total mass of all the bacteria in the world is more than the mass of every other living thing combined. Yep, it’s 5 x 1030 bacteria versus the rest of the planet....
It’s Real— Ball Point Pen Day!

It’s Real— Ball Point Pen Day!

Ball Point Pen day isn’t a joke. It’s a real day—honoring the creation and creators of the ball point pen—celebrated each year in June. Certainly not a widely recognized celebration, it is important to remember just where we might be without our handy writing...
International Domestic Workers’ Day

International Domestic Workers’ Day

International Domestic Workers’ Day is designed to bring attention to all those who leave their own homes to perform work in the home of someone else. This is a day to appreciate these workers and think about the challenges they face. Here we have information...
Busy Parents, Here’s Why Your House Never Gets Clean

Busy Parents, Here’s Why Your House Never Gets Clean

It would be nice if you could declare your home totally and completely clean, if there was ever a moment where you could sit down and say, “I am caught up with all the household chores.” Kudos to you if you’ve had that moment, but most of us mere...
Cleaning Your House with a Newborn

Cleaning Your House with a Newborn

Did you just bring home your new bundle of joy?  Congratulations!  Relish in these precious moments with your newborn and try not to worry about everything else!  I know that is impossible.  Between all of the guests coming over to visit the baby and the dishes piling...

Academy of Clean: Part 1

We here at Maids by Trade are such nerds about clean that we’ve decided to start a Maids by Trade Bookclub! Yep, you read that right. We’re starting a series in which we blurb books we’ve read that are about cleaning, cleanliness, or that relate in...
How to Give Cleaning as a Gift (Without Insulting Someone)

How to Give Cleaning as a Gift (Without Insulting Someone)

According to Psychology Today, intangible gifts are “rare,” and we all know that people want things no one else has. If you consider yourself a gift-giver extraordinaire, then you’re probably always trying to find gifts that people will not only...
Crazy Cleaning Inventions

Crazy Cleaning Inventions

  Most people dislike cleaning so much, they’d do anything to get out of it. For some, that means calling a maid service. For others, the problem of cleaning has led to more…unique solutions. There is a long and strange tradition of people creating...
3 Ways Disputes Form with a House Cleaning Service

3 Ways Disputes Form with a House Cleaning Service

Forget about convenient; getting other people to clean your house can feel downright luxurious…until something goes wrong. Then everything goes in the exact opposite direction. Instead of convenience and relaxation, you’ve suddenly got frustration and...
It’s Time for a Housecleaning Franchise!

It’s Time for a Housecleaning Franchise!

  We’ve discussed Reasons to Buy a House Cleaning Franchise before: large pieces of your business are in place before you even start, a proven system means less waste experimenting, it’s a fast-growing industry, and it’s a mutually beneficial...