Although car detailing for me falls under the category of "do what you do best and hire the rest," for some of us, particularly those who...

When I was six years old, I saw this vast expanse of white—bigger and more prominent than any piece of paper—that beckoned me to draw. A...

If you've ever had your car washed after parking it outside for awhile and then realized you hadn't realize just how dirty your windows...

One of our most recent events was held on one of the biggest estates in the hills of Beverly Hills: a large scale wedding with 200 guests...

If you held a contest for which substance generated the worst stains, red wine and cocoa might win, but blood would at least get a...

The day before the Super Bowl, PopUP received a last minute call in the afternoon for a request, "We need five cleaners for...tonight?" ...

Some may think of the office water cooler as relatively innocuous because, hey, it's water, and water, the elixir of life, is also used...

If you have lots of books or too much stuff or you live somewhere where it's too painfully cold or hot to open your windows during the...

TSP (a more manageable mouthful than its full-on high school chemistry iteration, Trisodium Phosphate) is a white granular substance...

Outdoor grilling season is winding down (although here in California with the Santa Ana winds, it's still so warm that some prefer to...

Ever hear of a chainmail scrubber? Yes, it looks like a torture device that walked right out of Medieval Europe, and no, we're not going...

Yesterday someone told me that the word of the day was "robust." We're all hoping for a robust turnaround of the economy. The event...

How to clean your keyboard.

Under the heading of "children don't try this at home," washing large surfaces either by pressure or power washing is highly effective,...

We have one of those old, vintage stoves that looks like it walked out of the 1930s because it actually did. It looks cool and functions...

I saw an ecard that said, "I'm not mad at Disney for lying about Prince Charming; I'm more upset about the woodland creatures who refuse...

Recently my city (which happily provides a green recycle bin for food and green waste) changed the rules and told us to stop putting...

Ew. Yeah, once more, this time with feeling: "Eeeeeeewwwwwww!" As in, really really gross. No one hangs out with their garbage cans,...

Hard water, formed when water picks up calcium, magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates, and sulfates as it percolates through limestone,...

Quarantine has brought a fresh perspective to many people on old ways of thinking. Recently on Bill Maher's HBO show REAL TIME,...