"Don't cover a smell. Find it."
Mom Carolwho set a bowl of vinegar by the toaster every night
"Dry is clean. Damp is the start of dirty."
Grandma Junewho kept an Ohio farmhouse spotless
The clean house tricks my mom and grandma never wrote down. So I did.
My e-book with more than old tricks for smells, dust, showers and stains. Buy it today and you get two extras free: my 2027 calendar and my routine trackers.
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Get the book forComes with two free extras, sold on their own for . You download all three the minute you pay.
- Free with the book: my 2027 calendar and my routine trackers.
- Read it on your phone, tablet or computer. Nothing is mailed.
- Seven days to change your mind and get your money back.
- No account to make and no password to remember.
About the book
Do you ever clean the whole bathroom, top to bottom, and it still smells an hour later? Do you dust on Saturday and find the TV stand gray again by Tuesday?
It isn't you. Nobody ever showed you where it was coming from.
My mom and my Grandma June kept spotless, sweet-smelling houses on almost nothing, with a handful of cheap things and a lot of know-how that never got written down. This book is that know-how. Every trick is on its own numbered card, with what you need, what to do, what happens and why it works.
No fancy sprays. No scrubbing until your arms give out. Just the old way, told plainly.
Ten things this book will show you
- Why a bowl of vinegar on the counter clears last night's supper by morning.
- The knee test that tells you a bathroom smell is coming from under the toilet.
- Why towels go sour, and the two-wash reset that saves them.
- Where dust really comes from, and the filter nobody remembers to change.
- Mom Carol's warm vinegar and dish soap spray for cloudy shower glass.
- The wet pumice stone that takes an old ring off the toilet in five to ten minutes.
- A chart for eighteen stains: blood, grass, grease, ink, red wine and the rest.
- Grandma June's five bottles, and the things you must never mix.
- Eleven cleaners you can make at home for pennies, with labels to print.
- How to get the house ready for company in one hour.
Buy the book, get two extras free
You are buying one thing, my e-book. The calendar and the trackers come with it at no extra cost.
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What it is
What it does for you
- Mom's Old Tricks, the e-book
- Free: the 2027 Clean House Calendar
- Free: the 2027 Routine Trackers
You pay once. All three are yours the minute you pay.
Read one trick, on me
This is the first trick in the kitchen chapter, exactly as it is in the book. My mom did it every night I lived in her house. It costs about a quarter.
The bowl of vinegar by the toaster
You need
Plain white vinegar, the cheap kind, and a cereal bowl.
Do this
After the kitchen is cleaned up for the night, pour one to two cups of vinegar into the bowl and set it on the counter in the middle of the room. After a fish night or a fried onion night, put out two bowls. Turn off the light and go to bed. In the morning, pour it down the sink.
What happens
By morning the cooking smell that was hanging in the air is gone or close to it, and the vinegar smell has faded too. Your kitchen smells like nothing, which is exactly what clean smells like.
Why it works
Vinegar is a mild acid, and it slowly evaporates into the room. A lot of the sharpest cooking smells lean the other way. When they meet in the air, the vinegar takes the edge off. Then the vinegar smell clears out faster than fried fish ever would.
Look inside
Real pages from all three, kept apart so you can see what's what. Tap any page to see it bigger.
Inside the e-book, Mom's Old Tricks
You read this one on your phone, tablet or computer.
Inside the 2027 Clean House Calendar
You print this one. It is not part of the book.
Inside the 2027 Routine Trackers
You print this one too. It is not part of the book.
What readers are saying
Every review here is from someone who bought the book. After you buy, the email your book comes in has a link to leave yours.
Everything you get
The book you are buying has twenty-four chapters in five parts. The two free extras, the calendar and the trackers, are made to be printed.
A house that smells clean
- Why your house smells, and how to find it
- The kitchen that smells like supper forever
- Bathroom smells that keep coming back
- Towels, washers and laundry that smell clean
- Beagles, teenage boys and shoes
- Making the whole house smell good, honestly
Dust, floors and the weekly rhythm
- Dust keeps coming back
- Carpet, hardwood, tile and the grout lines
- Windows, mirrors and glass that don't streak
- Mom Carol's week
- Company's coming in an hour
The hard jobs
- The oven and stovetop without the scrubbing
- Showers, tubs and glass doors
- Toilets, rings and the stain under the rim
- The stain chapter
- Mattresses, pillows and the couch
- Mildew, mold and the damp basement
Grandma June's cleaning pantry
- Grandma June's five bottles
- The cleaners I make at home
- What I stopped buying, and what I never will
- Keeping ants, fruit flies, spiders and mice out
A house that stays clean, and the pages to print
- Clutter, closets and the boys' rooms
- Spring and fall deep cleans
- Getting the whole family to pitch in
- To print: a weekly schedule, a thirty day house reset, the stain chart, both deep clean checklists, a shopping list, and labels for your bottles
Free extra: the 2027 Clean House Calendar
- The whole year on one page
- Twelve month pages with the bigger jobs for each month
- Fifty-three week pages with room for supper and notes
- United States holidays already marked
Free extra: the 2027 Routine Trackers
- My week on one page, and the daily four
- Twelve monthly trackers
- Spring and fall deep clean checklists
- The company's coming checklist, the never mix chart and a house log
About Jill
I'm Jill Becker. I'm fifty-five, I live in Columbus, Ohio, and I answer the phone at a dentist's office three days a week. For about twenty years my house had three smells: hockey bag, football towel, and beagle.
I am not a professional cleaner. What I have is thirty years of running a house of five on one paycheck, a mother named Carol, and a Grandma June who kept a farmhouse spotless with a wood cookstove going and a husband who came in from the barn twice a day.
I share their tricks on my YouTube channel, Jill's Home Hacks. This book is everything I couldn't fit in a video.
How you get your book and extras
It takes about two minutes, and you don't need to be good with computers.
- Tap the yellow button
You are buying the e-book. The two extras are added free. You pay with your card on a secure page run by Stripe, the same company thousands of shops use. There is no account to set up.
- Your book and extras appear
Three download buttons show on your screen right away. I also email you the same links, so you can never lose them.
- Read and print
Open the book on your phone, tablet or computer. Print the calendar and tracker pages at home, as many times as you like.
If anything at all goes wrong, write to me at and I will send everything to you by hand. You will not be left stuck.
Seven days, my word
Read it. Set the vinegar bowl out. Try the pumice stone. If the book isn't for you, reply to the email it came in within seven days and I'll give you your money back. No forms and no hard feelings.
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Get Mom's Old Tricks
- The e-book: pages, more than old tricks
- Free extra: the 2027 Clean House Calendar, 68 pages to print ( on its own)
- Free extra: the 2027 Routine Trackers, 21 pages to print ( on its own)
- Three PDF files. Nothing is mailed.
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Only want the extras?
Most people get the book, because the calendar and the trackers come free with it. If you only want the printables, you can buy either one on its own.
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The 2027 Clean House Calendar
68 pages to print. A page for every month and every week of 2027, with the day's job already filled in.
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The 2027 Routine Trackers
21 pages to print. A tracker for every month, my checklists for spring, fall and company, and the never mix chart.
Buy the trackers forOr get both of them free when you buy the book for . Take me to the book.
Questions people ask me
Is anything mailed to me?
No. You get three PDF files to download: the book and the two free extras. Nothing comes in the mail. You read the book on a screen, and you print the calendar and the tracker pages at home on plain paper.
What can I read it on?
Any phone, tablet or computer. If you can open a photo someone emails you, you can open this book. A tablet is the most comfortable.
I paid and I can't find my book. What do I do?
First look in your spam or promotions folder for an email from me. If it isn't there, use the box just below called "Already bought the book?" and a fresh link arrives in a minute or two. Still nothing? Write to me and I'll send it by hand.
Do I have to buy special products?
No. Most of the book runs on five cheap things you may already own: white vinegar, baking soda, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol. When a store product really is worth the money, I name it and tell you why.
Are these tricks safe?
Every trick is one I have done in my own house. Every chapter says where a trick is safe and where it isn't, and anything that could hurt you or ruin something is in a red box you can't miss. This is home experience from a mom, not professional advice.
I watch your videos. Is the book just the same thing?
The videos are a taste. The book goes much further, with exact amounts and times, what to do when a trick doesn't work the first time, and whole chapters I haven't filmed yet.
What exactly am I buying?
You are buying one thing, my e-book, Mom's Old Tricks. Two extras come with it free: the 2027 Clean House Calendar and the 2027 Routine Trackers. You pay once and you download all three.
Can I buy just the calendar or the trackers?
Yes. Each one is sold on its own a little further up this page, in the part called "Only want the extras?". But they both come free with the book, so the book is the better deal.
Do I need a color printer?
No. The calendar and the trackers print fine in black and white, and you only print the pages you want. Most people print one month at a time.
How do I get my money back?
Reply to the email your book came in, within seven days of buying, and say you'd like a refund. That's all.
Already bought the book?
Type the email address you paid with. I'll send a fresh download link straight to your inbox.