Despite its necessity and ubiquity in the management of our everyday life, cleaning as a care act for the material world does not receive adequate attention either in popular imagination or in design discourse. This is partly due to industrial capitalism which systematically discourages us from engaging in the care and maintenance of things. Furthermore, in comparison to productive work, cleaning does not create anything new, and its negative associations with unpleasant elements to be cleaned make this care activity a bane of our existence. This undesirability of cleaning motivates a technological solution to free us from this detested work. While there are benefits to easing the burden, particularly for those who are exploited to perform this work, complete freedom from care for the world will compromise the opportunity to work with the world, sharpen attentiveness and sensibility, and develop an embodied knowledge and improvisational skills. We need a paradigm change to remind us that taking care of our material world is not a necessary evil of living in this world but rather an integral and indispensable part of cultivating a mutually supportive relational mode of co-habiting with things around us. They help us manage our everyday life, and we help them enhance their longevity and effectiveness, thereby discouraging us from dumping them prematurely while strengthening our relationship and life together. Cleaning-friendly design supports this practice, contributing to enhancing and enriching the web of interdependent relationships we continue to forge with the world.