Spotless
Is a podcast about cleaning
Hosted by Andrew Walsh
and Hanna Brooks Olsen
From domestic disagreements to questions about chemicals, we try to help. Spotless is a podcast about cleaning, housekeeping, and how it impacts our mental health.
Come to talk about vacuum cleaners and stain removers, stay to talk about ADHD, relationship dynamics, and our beloved pets.
Reach out:
Call the spotline to ask your cleaning questions: (508)-HOW-WASH
Email your voice memos or regular-ass emails here: SpotlessPod@gmail.com
Follow us on social - we’re on IG and mostly.
You can also watch the pod on YouTube now!
Hanna and Andrew spend today’s show discussing tidiness, compulsion, and the twisted world of double negatives as they explore an article about housekeeping habits in Southern Living Magazine. (They also take a moment to consider low-rise jeans, skinny eyebrows, and side-parts, thanks to the same publication.)
And they hear from a Scrub Jockey whose recent experience with family loss has her reconsidering her own belongings.
Today, we’re talking about “millennial inheritance” — i.e., the crap our parents leave us when they die. The Scrub Jockeys share their stories of going through loved ones’ belongings after they pass away. And Andrew admits to an embarrassing, spray paint related crime that he committed 30 years ago.
Grief is weird — especially when it comes to cleaning. Like why is Andrew so keen to keep all of these old chargers?
People are so weird about cleaning up blood, but seriously — we all carry around LITERAL PINTS OF THE STUFF AT ALL TIMES. It’s bound to get out occasionally. And when it does, you need to be able to clean it up. How? CALL THE DOCTOR.
A gift from a listener promises to be “better than A.I.” when it comes to helpful household hints. It also leads Hanna and Andrew down memory lane to a time when women could clean and moisturize their hands at the same time. (Oh, Madge!)
What happens when something dies in your basement walls? One clue: Flies have infiltrated Andrew’s house.
Oooh, what’s that smell? Today we look for a mystery smell, address one of the grossest household necessities — a kitchen sink trap — and talk about a stubborn dog pee stain that almost ended it all. Plus: Who left the toilet outside of Andrew’s house and what’s he supposed to do?