Professional cleaners can go places amateurs cannot, like back in time to stop stains from ever being born and forward in time to sell your empty milk jugs as antiques. Get timely intervention for dingy domiciles with today's Groupon: for $40, you get one hour of home cleaning by two people from Molly Maid (an $80 value). This Groupon is valid for a wide service area throughout Chicagoland. Check here to see if your zip code is covered by one of Molly Maid's locations.

Molly Maid's dependable and trustworthy grime-gunners are armed with their own professional cleaning products and a grudge against dust. Though many cleaners leave behind the antiseptic scent of bleach and artificial pine, the Molly Maid team uses cleaning products that won't harm your family, your pets, your family's family of pets, or your pet family. These gentle yet effective products will get surfaces sparkly clean without damaging furniture finishes or utility surfaces.

One hour is the ideal amount of time needed to clean a basic one-bedroom apartment, a gently used summer condo, or a hall closet converted to accommodate a 500-bedroom dollhouse, complete with hospital-cornered linens. Expert housekeepers will dust, spray, scrub, wipe, mop, and sweep your floors, surfaces, baseboards, and more. They'll clean encrusted tomato sauce from the microwave and fetch the browning banana from your sock drawer. They'll even scrub toilets free of feral lemurs and wash dirty nooks you'd forgotten exist. The company also offers a house-cleaning service guarantee, assuring that any potential mistakes will be corrected if you notify Molly Maid within 24 hours.