According to the American Cleaning Institute, the average adult spends about six hours each week cleaning. But it’s safe to say that most of us don’t really enjoy that time. In fact, a 2022 survey found that, despite the fact that Americans love having a spotless home, 73% hate the actual act of cleaning it up. So if there’s anything you can do to cut down on the time you spend vacuuming, mopping and scrubbing, you’ll probably be happy to start doing it.  Well, you’re in luck, pandas. Redditors have been sharing their most brilliant lazy cleaning hacks, so we’ve compiled a list of them below. From using a leaf blower for a wide variety of tasks to keeping dish soap in the bathroom, these tips may seem unconventional. But they might also change your life. Enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the advice that’s going to help keep your home sparkling! Click here & follow us for more lists, facts, and stories. #1 I put aluminum foil on shelves in my fridge that hold meat and or things that could leak. Also, i stopped using the word lazy because, let’s be real, we aren’t lazy. We have limited capacity and energy. That isn’t laziness. © Photo: Mysterious_Gene_5130 #2 I’m a guy. I sit when I pee. Standing to pee makes everything on and around the toilet absolute disgusting. Might as well just pee directly on the walls and floor. #3 I've been cleaning during those commercials you can't skip. You can't get all that much done in two minutes but if you binge watch as much as me then it ads up. Also increases overall activity. © Photo: jason-reddit-public #4 Trash can in every room . #5 I keep a spray bottle filled with vinegar and dish soap in my shower. I spray the surfaces about 2-3 times per week. Spray then rinse. This keeps the soap scum/shower funk to a minimum so that an actual cleaning is only needed about 3-4 times per year. © Photo: Organic_Physics_6881 #6 I have dish soap in the shower. On days when I'm deep conditioning my hair, I wash the walls off with dishsoap and rinse with the shower head. When the shower is turned off, I squeegee the walls and tub to help remove soap scum from the walls. Only time it gets deep cleaned is when our cleaner comes once a month. The dish soap works great to help breakdown soap scum and I have silky hair. © Photo: BBrea101 #7 My lazy hack is I hire someone to clean. © Photo: Firebird562 #8 Newspaper covers the tops of all my cupboards (the space between ceiling and cupboard) I change them out 2 or 3 times a year. It captures all the dust and grease, it then gets used as fireststarter paper. If my mirror in the bathroom has spots i flick water on it and wipe it down instead of using glass cleaner. © Photo: cdn_indigirl #9 If I need to clean out my fridge before leaving for a trip and I'm short on time, I just throw everything in my freezer and then toss it when I get back. I also keep my organic waste bin in the freezer, too. © Photo: Independent_Leg3957 #10 Instead of sweeping my patio I just use my leaf blower. © Photo: kapt_so_krunchy #11 Underwear and undershirts don’t need folding. Most shirts and pants don’t need ironing if hang dried after only 2-3min in the dryer. © Photo: blue_area_is_land #12 My bf and I share a car and when I have to wait in the Dunkin drive thru in the morning for more that 5 min I take out a cleaning wipe and wipe the inside interior down. It makes me feel so productive lol. #13 I use a toilet brush (it’s never been used on the toilet) to clean my tub so I don’t have to get on my knees or in the tub to do it. © Photo: User #14 I run a HEPA filter 24/7. The difference in dust that settles on furniture is astounding. I can go weeks without dusting sometimes if I’m not being picky. © Photo: PolyDrew #15 I sometimes clean the bathroom floor near the toilet while I'm sitting on the toilet. Then I just take the TP and drop it in the toilet. © Photo: Jackiedhmc #16 I have a dresser in every room and mostly have things organized in the drawers that are used in those rooms however they all have at least one empty drawer where I can just quickly dump things in them for a quick pick up. © Photo: Carrollz #17 Bucket of dish soap and one of those big car washing mitts to clean the patio and porch furniture. Works great, easiest method I've found. #18 Installed a water softener. I haven’t cleaned limescale on anything for 2 years 🙌🏼 we have hard water and not having to scrub 3 toilets, faucets, descale kettles or deal with those stupid hard water dots on counters made it the best thing I ever bought. © Photo: VincentVan_Dough #19 Small microfiber cloth I hang behind my door handle. I use it to wipe down counter and mirror everytime I use the sink. It keeps my counter and mirror looking spotless all the time and generates no waste. © Photo: Parking-Bluejay9450 #20 I just toss everything into a “junk basket” before guests instant tidy, deal with it later. © Photo: Fancy_Bluebird6845 #21 I leaf blow my soft fur carpet and it restores it to almost new fluffiness. © Photo: Even-Shoulder-5868 #22 I keep an old toothbrush in the bathroom drawer to “brush” my rings each morning. The diamonds are always sparkling clean and I don’t have to fool with jewelry cleaner or soaking them. #23 If the dishwasher is empty, I'll use it as a drainer for dishes I've washed by hand. © Photo: Afraid_Scientist7158 #24 When it’s raining here, I’ll wipe down the window outside and let the rain wash away the solution. I detest buffing out windows to reduce streaks. . © Photo: anon #25 I have a “just spray, don’t rinse” shower cleaner that I use every time I shower and here’s the hack: I choose to believe it (lol). #26 I moved cross country and my old furniture was very old, so I didn’t bring much. What I purchased here was spot with intent. I didn’t just fall in love with something and had to have it. It had to have legs and some height. First off I believe having legs on furniture makes your house look a little larger and this house is small so it needed that. Part two of this is, I run my Roomba daily. The Roomba can go under all of my furniture which eliminates me having to move furniture and vacuum under things. I still have to vacuum the upholstery, and I actually use the vacuum to clean out the Roomba cup and filter. Doing that actually makes the replaceable paper filter last longer. #27 I hand wash dishes. I hate using Sponges. I bought a ton of Swedish dish towels and cut them up in smaller pieces. I use those to hand wash dishes and toss the cloth in the hamper.I get a new “sponge” every wash and being eco friendly. #28 I started putting table cloths on the kitchen table so I can just pick it up and wash it. I have 3 that I rotate throughout the week. #29 Steam cleaning the floors is 500x better than mopping and half the effort. #30 If I wear compression garments the clothes I wear over them go back on hangers and back into my closet…provided I don’t spill anything on them during the day. © Photo: Intelligent_Ad_1385 #31 I put a rag on a swiffer and spray the floor with a diluted floor cleaning solution to dust mop. I don't do a proper mopping as often as I would like with a bucket and mop. But doing this after vacuuming/sweeping gets the floors clean enough. #32 To keep clutter at bay, use decorative boxes and containers to keep things in. #33 Dishwasher tablet in the sink. Fill with hot water and leave. Clean sink. © Photo: GeorgeJAWoods #34 After I shower I rinse my washcloth as much as possible and use it to clean the edge of my tub that gets super dusty from our forced air system, the sink, and the top of the toilet before throwing it in the hamper. This helps tide me over between weekly deep cleans. #35 Dishwashing liquid works for basically everything in the bathroom because it's designed for glass, ceramic, plastic and metals. Works well with either a sponge scourer or steam cleaner. I've also seen people use Dishwashing liquid as loo cleaner..... #36 I use a leaf blower instead of a vacuum on the inside of my car. Open all the doors and let ‘er rip. Fast and kinda fun. © Photo: mindofclay #37 I use the Dustbuster to vacuum crumbs out of my toaster oven/air fryer. I wash the tray/racks where the food actually touches, of course. #38 I don’t own a mop so when I want to “mop the floor” I just toss a few disinfectant wipes on the floor and move it around with my foot while wearing shoes. © Photo: RebekkaKat1990 #39 I have a little tricks like I always sprinkle baking soda in my trash cans to absorb the smells when they’ve done their job. I just take them outside hose out. Let it dry and start over. Or the only use I actually have for a swiffer mop is to put a wet cover on it. That way I can clean the top corners of my walls easily. For some reason, they just seem to push dirt around on the floor, but dear Lord, they will actually help you scrub your walls down and get gas heat stains off. And don’t get me started on the fact that at any given point, I have Clorox wipes in at least three rooms in my home for easy access. #40 After I use a face wipe to remove make up, I drape it over a bottle instead of throwing it away. I wash my hair every day and I use it to pick up hair in the sink. If I don’t have one, I take a some TP, use it to clean the vanity then use it to clean hair off. I also keep my hand held vac hidden by the bathroom wall, and do a quick swipe to clean hair off the floor. #41 Toilet bowl cling bleach in the shower. Put it in all those grimy corners, let it slowly run down the walls, come back and wash it all away later. #42 My friend used to professionally clean houses and occasionally he would ask me to help this was back when I was in my 20s like 1 million years ago. Sometimes when we were in a hurry rather than properly mop the floors. We would just get a bunch of window cleaner and spray it on the floors and then get some towels and then scoot around the floors. They shined right up. Looked great, we would always get compliments how shiny the floors were lol. #43 I keep a dish wand full of dawn and vinegar in my tub. Like twice a week in the shower I wipe it down while waiting on my hair conditioner. #44 I clean my cats’ litter boxes with my Clorox toilet wand. Exteriors get wiped down with some cleaning wipes, add a little hot water to get the wand head wet, scrub and rinse a few times (down the toilet), give the bowl a quick scrub, and eject the sponge into the garbage can. I put a rag towel down under the litter box before I start that I use to dry the boxes. I’ve tried many different methods over the years and this one is fastest, requires least effort and is least gross. I feel some shame for not using Dawn with a brush because it’s pet safe (and perhaps should feel shame for being wasteful). I’m too busy enjoying my toilet brush-free life to care. #45 Instead of a regular kitchen sponge, use a silicone one. Also I use one in the shower. Basically never have to replace! #46 When our children were young and the doorbell would ring, the whole room would erupt and all of us would grab toys, cushions etc from the floor and everything would be thrown behind the sofa lol. Within half a minute the room was "tidy" haha just a lot of mess to sort later, but visitors never knew. #47 Idk if it’s lazy but it’s a hack: I use little scented baby diaper bags to throw away scooped cat litter and I also use them to get rid of toilet scrubber pads when I do all the toilets one after the other. #48 I don't sweep. I have pets and a sandy patch in my yard so the dogs track in a lot of sand. I have a shop vac and vacuum once a week. #49 When the kitchen is chaotic after cooking. I will vacuum the countertops and stove with the hose extensions and then continue with the floor. Then, wiping down everything and sweeping/mopping is more manageable without the excessive crumbs flying everywhere and sticking to the towels. You Might Also Like: 46 awkward photos that are almost too painful to scroll through I Just Use My Leaf Blower: 49 Easy Cleaning Hacks That Might Save You Time Reviewed by New Viral Feed on 13:53 Rating: 5

There’s no reward without any risk, and you can’t grow as a company if you’re not willing to stand out among your competitors. However, some brand publicity stunts and social media campaigns have been such painful disasters that it’s difficult to see how nobody at work saw it coming. So many companies out there have made social media blunders, and internet users shared the most egregious examples in a viral AskReddit thread. We’re featuring the worst of the worst, the type of stuff that continues to haunt brands years later, and it’s painful to read. Click here & follow us for more lists, facts, and stories. #1 The JP Morgan Twitter Q&A Some of the better responses: Does the sleaze wash off with a regular shower, or do you have to use something special like babies tears? Did you have a specific number of people’s lives you needed to ruin before you considered your business model a success? When Jamie Dimon eats babies are they served rare? I understand anything above medium-rare is considered gauche. Do you have a secret jail in your offices so your executives get at least one chance to see the inside of one? What’s the best way to get blood stains out of a clown suit? Do your clothes fit better since you don’t have the added weight of a soul? Can I have my house back? © Photo: 0OKM9IJN8UHB7 #2 Not massive, but made me smile. The evil tax dodging Starbucks UK sponsored an ice rink one winter in London and there was a big screen that would post real time tweets with the hashtag #spreadthecheer, hoping for lovely, Christmassy tweets of people skating, enjoying their mocho choco crappos or whatever. What they got was a barrage of effing and blinding tweets about how they were tax dodging, low paying bad coffee making scum. Ah, the British public. © Photo: HadHerses #3 Microsoft made an AI twitter bot that was designed to learn from its users via conversation. Within a day it was spouting off racist and inflammatory tweets and Microsoft ended up taking it down. © Photo: anon Broadly speaking, it’s very difficult to build up a positive reputation. It takes years of offering consistently good products and services to earn your customers’ loyalty. However, reputation is a fragile thing. It can be damaged very easily. All it takes is one social media disaster or public relations nightmare to put a dent in all of the goodwill (and profits) that you had amassed. It’s likely not the end of the company if you respond to the situation quickly and appropriately, but it will take lots of time and effort to rebuild all that trust. PR Daily stresses that companies that hope to rebuild their reputation should do their best to accept that the narrative has shifted. “Many organizations make the mistake of trying to control or erase the story, hoping the media cycle moves on — but you can’t undo the moment that sparked the crisis. What you can do is respond with clarity and humility and begin to tell a new story — one that demonstrates acceptance and growth rather than denial.” Meanwhile, Forbes notes that the best thing you can do in a PR crisis is to act quickly to address the issue. Do not wait to take responsibility! The more proactive you are, the bigger your chances of making the crisis worse. Ideally, your corporation will already have protocols and chains of communication in place before any social media blunders occur. #4 Mcdstories. For those who don't know, about four years ago McDonald's started that hashtag as a way of encouraging people to share stories of all the warm, wonderful memories they have of eating at McDonald's. Almost as soon as they started it people were overwhelmingly using it to ridicule McDonald's, sharing stories of getting sick off their food or horrible experiences from working there. McDonald's cancelled the promotion after 48 hours but by then it was out of their hands. The remarkable thing is that somehow other businesses learned nothing from McDonald's blunder, despite the huge amount of publicity mcdstories got. Probably the most famous case after that one was mynypd, in which the NYPD encouraged people to share pictures of them with members of the NYPD. As I'm sure you can imagine most people used it to post pictures of police brutality. © Photo: schnit123 #5 That Bieber World Tour thing where they let the fans of Bieber all over the world vote for him to come to their country, and 4chan manipulated the votes so that North Korea won. © Photo: James-VZ #6 AIB bank in Ireland held a campaign called "We're backing brave" aimed at getting small business customers to bank with them. AIB were one of the banks that were bailed out by the state to the tune of billions. The problem was they were not lending to small business people. If they were they required ridiculous guarantees, along with crazy collateral demands. One of the best things I've ever seen is how their promoted Facebook posts were destroyed by hundreds of small business folks who were turned down by them. © Photo: anon According to Forbes, after monitoring the negative fallout online and in the media, companies ought to be as transparent as possible. They should take accountability for what took place instead of ignoring it or doubling down. “If you’re getting a flood of bad reviews, find out why and figure out how to deal with the issues and turn things around. If there’s been a misstep on the part of the CEO or other company executive, make an honest statement, apologize and, depending on what occurred, take action.” These crises can be a blessing in disguise because they help your brand identify any weak points and fix those issues. That should, in theory, lead to better services, practices, and products in the future. #7 So I used to work for my town's park and recreation department and I would get tons of emails (spam) from different tourist attractions in the area. One of which was a water park called "Sahara Sam's" So I got an email from them with the subject "sAMBER ALERT IN AFFECT". The joke being a play on amber alerts for missing kids and the name Sam. When I read the email, I remember thinking "this is gonna be in the news." And it was. © Photo: TheComedian60 #8 Malaysia Airlines, just a few months after they lost their plane at sea, posted a tweet something along the lines of "Can you find your next destination?" Again they made another insensitive tweet. After over 500 people losing their lives on Malaysia's flights within months, they sent out a tweet asking costumers about their bucket lists... © Photo: PrimaDonne #9 A company called Lobstergram once thought it was a great idea to run a Hanukkah in July special. None of the meat they sell is kosher. Lots of angry calls about that. © Photo: sirshiny What are the biggest social media disasters and public relations blunders that you’ve ever personally seen? What are the worst things that you’ve witnessed company representatives or public figures say or do? On the flip side, what are some brands that you genuinely trust and why? Share your insights with your fellow readers in the comments. #10 2 years ago today, someone at American Apparel made quite the OOPS. They posted a picture of the Challenger shuttle exploding, because they thought it was a firework. © Photo: LikeASewingMachine #11 Orion dev team. "Guys Activision just shut down our steam page! We didn't do anything wrong! They've accused us of stealing their assets! Post this on reddit and get them to help us out. " Reddit detectives quickly proved, with picture evidence, that Orion stole the assets. © Photo: anon #12 Bic pens posted a picture on Women's day saying this: "Look like a girl Act like a lady Think like a man Work like a boss" They then went onto giving a very lousy apology: " "We would like to apologise to all our fans who took offense to our recent Women’s Day Post. We can assure you that we meant it in the most empowering way possible and in no way derogatory towards women. We took the quote from a 'Women in Business' blog site. The blog site explains the quote and what its intentions were when it was written. BIC believe in celebrating women and the powerful contribution women make to our society." Which caused even more uproar. © Photo: anon #13 Dr Pepper had a deal where their slogan was "I'm a Pepper". It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but they apparently thought it was pretty good. Good enough to give out shirts that said "I'm a _____!" where you could fill in the blank with whatever you thought you were, I guess. The internet happened, and they had to stop the giveaway when people started getting shirts that said awful stuff with a Dr Pepper logo right there next to it. It was beautiful. © Photo: Trenta_Is_Not_Enough #14 Probably the BBC when they accidentally tweeted that the Queen passed away. (It was a practice run so they just weren't meant to post it live to the world.). © Photo: vonlowe #15 Some golf club in Wisconsin held a promotion a few years ago where you could play 18 holes for $9.11 on September 11. © Photo: JaguarGator9 #16 Local Restaurant goes on a Facebook rant about having to pay its workers penalty rates. Calls the general public "idiots." Given the small town hivemind that is Adelaide opinion, that place has been empty ever since. © Photo: reverendball #17 Shutterfly or one of those printing sites once sent me a "Congrats on your pregnancy!" email in a bid to sell pregnancy announcement cards, baby shower invites, etc. DH and I have been trying for years to get pregnant so that was hard. :(. © Photo: OSUJillyBean #18 Not all social media, but I worked for a chain and they were constantly trying to reimagine their brand and logo. So one day our restaurant got a huge box of new posters and work shirts of the new campaign where they were trying to push the fact that their flavors from all over the world that read the restaurant's name followed by "go somewhere else for lunch". This was all followed by a huge social media push for 6 months until they realized it wasn't working. © Photo: User #19 When the Rockets were about to finish off the Mavericks in an NBA playoff series a couple years ago, and the Rockets account tweeted out something like "Shhh it'll be over soon" and then an emoji sequence of a gun pointing to a horse. That didn't go over well. © Photo: User #20 IFunny posted a picture of two 13 year old girls on Instagram posing kind of suggestively with the caption "jucy". © Photo: NOT-HASHMON #21 Some employee of Chipotle posted that she ran over a cat and didn't feel bad about it. Chipotle immediately began posting that this person's facebook was hacked, bringing high visibility to something that could have been largely ignored. © Photo: fdsdfg #22 This wasn't big in views, but regardless I loved it. The local shopping centre puts up displays and stuff, advertising the seasons fashions. Like "look at this woman, aren't her clothes great, here's where you can buy them". One winter, white was the in colour. Some genius made the tag line "white is right" for that season's advertising. Come buy some clothes and support white supremacy! © Photo: JackofScarlets #23 A few years ago BBC Radio Suffolk ran a campaign on Facebook to determine Suffolks greatest icon. They expected to see Ed Sheeren or some Constable landmark. In stead rock fans flooded the voting with the band Crafle of Filth to make the them by far the most voted icon. inevitable they disregarded the vote and ran with some other landmark instead. © Photo: ordinarybloke1963 #24 My Ex BF was partly responsible for this tweet from Vodafone UK "VodafoneUK is fed up of dirty [intimate]'s and is going after beaver". He was in charge of the Twitter account and left his computer unlocked while he went to get a drink. His mate took advantage of the moment. © Photo: RafeStone #25 I can't recall the company name at the moment but RIGHT NOW in Canada there's this commercial running for a company thanking Canadians for letting it be the company that donated the most money to charity. I just rotate between cringing and eye rolling until it's over. © Photo: Frozen-assets #26 When the hacker geohot tweeted the code needed to crack a ps3 wide open at Kevin Butler (old Playstation marketing guy) and he retweeted it to his millions of followers. I believe he thought the string of code was him playing battleship. © Photo: glowinghamster45 #27 Here in my country the Philippines a big cola company made a huge "number" lottery blunder that made A LOT of people angry. The story goes that if you buy their product and you get that lucky number you win about $40,000.00. Problem was they printed A LOT of the winning number in their products and many Philippine people won. © Photo: pogingjose007 #28 The social media person or company who posted "meme me" to Bill Cosby's Twitter account. © Photo: jojowiththeflow #29 Canadian here, our old Prime Minister Mr. Harper had a twitter send off for his retirement. It was supposed to be an honor and about sharing good things. I'm sure you can all imagine how well that went. © Photo: anon #30 It may not have generated the epic internetwide outcry a serious blunder can create today but back in the days I think the telco I work for topped the list of blunders [by literally providing all angry customers with tech issues an open reskinned IRC chatroom, unmoderated at night, in which customers did everything you can imagine That fortunately did not last long.. still, its was a slow motion disaster that anyone who used the internets could have seen coming a mile away. © Photo: Bytewave #31 Twitter themselves hosting an AMA with their CEO when Twitter was in the middle of all that controversy regarding how they handle threats and harassment. © Photo: User #32 Well recently The Daily Show tweeted "Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas!”. That joke didn't land well with....anyone. © Photo: anon #33 I don't remember the exact details, but there was that band a few months back, maybe a year that tried to create a fake controversy over their music video being stolen or something and then did an AMA directly afterwards to capitalize on al that attention. The AMA went terribly and i'm not even sure if they're a band anymore, that blunder must have destroyed their reputation. © Photo: Liefericson You might also like: 38 Times Companies Accidentally Created Comedy Gold With Their Ad Placements 33 Social Media Blunders That Probably Got Someone Fired Reviewed by New Viral Feed on 12:53 Rating: 5