Jolie Kerr

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and the host of the podcast Ask a Clean Person
  • Get Your Kids To Clean With You 

    Get Your Kids To Clean With You 

    You don’t have to limit your spring cleaning to springtime, now is as good a time as any to handle some deep cleaning. Many of these heftier cleaning tasks involve heavy lifting and require stronger cleaning solutions than we use for our day-to-day chores, making them less than ideal for kids to help with. But…


  • How To Remove Crayon Stains From Absolutely Everything

    How To Remove Crayon Stains From Absolutely Everything

    Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person”, debuted in 2011. Here on Lifehacker, we’re launching a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting and…


  • Post-Halloween Cleanup: Glitter, Face Paint And Fake Blood

    Post-Halloween Cleanup: Glitter, Face Paint And Fake Blood

    Halloween is here, and with it comes much making of spooOOooky messes! Halloween messes are special, in that they can be pretty bad ones, but fortunately for you guys, I’m both a Clean Person and a Halloween Person, and so I have solutions up my very witchy sleeves for you.


  • How To Remove Odours From Hand-Me-Down Clothes

    How To Remove Odours From Hand-Me-Down Clothes

    Photo via Shutterstock Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person,” debuted in 2011. Here on Offspring, we’re launching a new iteration of it, focusing…