If you're worried about it being stinky, it's probably not.

It's the people that aren't worried about it being stinky that probably have stinky houses.

I'm Christine Cyr-Cleset.

I'm Kyra Blackwell, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Thank you. And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. Tyra. Christine.

It is that time of year again.

Please don't tell me it's cleaning time.

It's time to clean.

Yes. It's spring cleaning. So Wirecutter tell me it's cleaning time. It's time to clean. Yes, it's spring cleaning.

So Wirecutter has a ton of cleaning advice. And if listeners haven't subscribed to our Clean

Everything newsletter, you absolutely should. It's really great. It has tons of great advice

about how to clean a variety of products we recommend, but also just general things in your home.

And today, we are going to focus on a particularly troublesome aspect of cleaning, getting rid of terrible smells. Yep. We thought it'd be really fun to ask you, our listeners, to tell us about some of the most challenging smells you've tried to remove. And wow, y'all really delivered. So many gross smells. So many.

We actually have the perfect guest to bring you the answers.

Her name is Caroline Mullen.

She's a staff writer focused on cleaning and organization.

She basically spends every workday figuring out how to clean things. And she even recently wrote a piece about how to get rid of gross smells.

We also have a ton of other experts who know a lot about cleaning because they are experts on cleaning the things that they review.

So we had Caroline also go out and ask them for their advice on various smell-related cleaning things.

So that's great.

We're going to get advice not just from Caroline, but from a lot of other wirecutter writers. We'll be right back.

Welcome back.

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