For most of us it’s a nightmare when the house is dirty, but for Auri it’s her dream.
A woman loves tidying up so much she gave up her job as a professional cleaner to travel the world and scrub homes for free.
Auri Katariina, 29, quit her job as a service manager at a cleaning company in the summer of 2021, to pursue her passion of cleaning other people’s homes for free.
Auri, who says she is in ‘heaven’ when she cleans, visits people from all over the world to assist them clean their filthy or cluttered homes.
She caught the bug when she helped a bereaved single mum declutter her home – and for months was out of pocket.
Thanks to her viral videos of cleaning tips, she’s now sponsored, which covers her expenses – so she never charges her clients a penny.
She has gone as far as the USA and the UK to help people.
She picks where to clean from the requests she gets online, but chooses only the dirtiest, grimiest homes belonging to people most in need.
By sharing her most shocking tidy-ups online, she has amassed a huge following of 7.8million followers on TikTok, who tune in to see her latest cleaning adventures.
Auri from Tampere, Finland, said: ‘I only clean for free – you can’t buy my services and I won’t ever charge anyone to clean their home.
‘My dream is to clean for free all over the world and help people whilst doing something I absolutely love.
‘I’ve always loved cleaning, and I began posting videos online of me just cleaning my family and friends’ home’s two years ago.
‘Then one day, a woman asked me for help because she was struggling so much, and her home was so messy.
‘She had three kids and her husband had just taken his own life, so she was finding it really difficult. I was more than happy to help, I was excited actually and I wanted to help her.
‘I went at a weekend and cleaned her home for two days. By the end she was crying, and her kids were hugging me and thanking me.
‘It was the best feeling ever. I could see the transformation in the house and how happy they were.’
From then on, Auri replied to requests on social media and cleaned three homes for free a month, while still working full time.
She is now sponsored by Scrub Daddy, a cleaning sponge brand who cover her cleaning expenses.
But for six months she covered all travel and product expenses herself – paying up to €300 per visit.
She was able to quit her job last summer to focus on cleaning people’s homes and creating content for her social media channels.
Original article by Alice Giddings, published on Metro, 2/11/2022
