KICK-ASS CLEANING TIPS

6 Top Cleaning and Clearing Tips From the World-Famous Sparkle Sisters

Move over, Marie Kondo — there are new kids in town!

Gill McCulloch
MuddyUm
Published in
8 min readSep 15, 2022

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What do we hate more than having a dirty house? Yep, it’s cleaning. Fortunately, I’ve discovered the solution, and I’m about to share it with you!

First, we had Japanese home tidying phenom Marie Kondo, with her decluttering tips and sparks of joy. Next on the scene was Margareta Magnusson, the Swedish Death Cleaner. She insisted we get rid of most of our worldly goods and chattels before we die.

Now, the world is celebrating the arrival of the Sparkle Sisters. This international crew of highly educated, experienced professionals is being hailed as Planet Earth’s supreme clean team.

All team members have earned a double Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cleaning Sciences from top universities and are published authors with articles in respected journals such as Time, Good Housekeeping, People, Better Homes and Gardens, and Cosmopolitan. In this article, you’ll meet each clean team member and learn her top cleaning or clearing secrets.

1. Charlotte Crinklebottom (closets and clothes)

Professor Charlottle Crinklebottom knows most people have already Marie Kondo’d their closets. Her job is to help you manage the remaining items — those articles of clothing that start infernos of joy in the heart and which you can’t wait to show off to your friends.

The professor has developed a patented system to convert closets into deep freezing garment processing units — yep, you heard me right. Instead of the old way of dangling clothes from hangers or folding and storing them on their sides, Crinklebottom flash freezes and stores clothes vertically in specially designed plastic slots.

As well as saving space, this method kills dust mites, moths, cockroaches, and any other nasty vermin that might be lurking in your drawers. With Crinklebottom’s strategy, your clothes are always fresh and ready to wear with no annoying fold lines.

But what if I want to wear my clothes and they’re frozen?

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I write about subjects and events that move me deeply and situations that make me laugh. Founder, Safe + Sound First Aid Training Ltd. gillnmcculloch@gmail.com