Cleaning

oh i give all of those products a pass for being off brand and cheap, even Gain (because I have never in my memory seen an ad for Gain) -- i'm talking about companies that spend their money on television commercials with women gathering to drink wine and comment on each other's scented candles OR the ones that show women dancing with cleaning products/tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqDzKad2Q3M

brownie! i read about a really rad sounding ceiling-fan-cleaning trick that you might want to try?

I haven't tried it yet but I plan to. Though honestly it only works if you have a bunch of old pillowcases lying around.
http://lifehacker.com/5823341/clean-your-ceiling-fan-easily-with-a-pillow-case

oh wait, carl already posted it

lol nvm

the magic eraser people sent me my replacement mop after I had the hassles with the stripped plastic attachment screws

AND

the replacement mop has METAL attachment screws! weeee I'm so exited to use it this weekend.

oh wait, carl already posted it

lol nvm

I posted it! carl has a team ceiling fan eunuchs doing her cleaning

It's true!

I was going to push the fan brush (b/c it's a gadget!), but the pillow case is good b/c it contains the dust.

lollol "Grape Fabuloso" That's fucking horrible and I'm going to wind up saying that around a small child one day and then I'll get blamed for Fabuloso toxicity.

I must have heard you call it "Grape Fabuloso" b/c I realized that that's how I think of it.

You did! When we were in Home Depot the last time.

cleaned my ceiling with that one weird trick and it worked! it was so dirty i used two pillow cases.

*ceiling fan

awesome

We're getting a new oven as we speak and the delivery guys offered me the opportunity to clean where the oven goes in the process of replacing it and HOLY SHIT it was so fucking disgusting under and behind there. ;_; I may never be the same knowing what happens under an oven. Also some fucking idiot put a glue trap in a little crevice to the left of the oven behind the cabinets that would be impossible to get to unless you disconnected the oven and moved it away from the wall so if something had died on it (thank god it was empty) it would have just filled our kitchen with the smell of rotting rodent and we would have had no idea what or where it was. Also in the process of getting the fucking thing out of there, I got glue trap glue on my house slippers and now my right foot sticks whenever I walk.

That said, our new oven is fucking sweet.

You can buy "goo gone" if the gluey slipper is a permanent problem! $5, lasts forever, takes all sticky stuff off almost anything.

o man i can see the little space between my oven and the wall. Worse than Hitler!

"luckily" I have an electric stove so if I want to I can move it a bit to clean. This may never happen.

I might get some goo gone, since I also managed to get a big smear of glue on the floor next to the oven and it's not only gross but I'm afraid the cat will get stuck in it.

we have a 5-inch gap between our stove and the counter and uuugggh it gets so grody, I don't even wanna know what the underneath/behind the stove is like

*shudder*

^^^ this is why I had to shell out for that sick 6- burner stove :( I love the stove tho) We have 36" of space between cabinets. With a 30" stove, A gap that large would have had nests of dog hair full of food tidbits for enterprising rodents in days. DNW!

Congrats on yr new stove!!

yeah I have to spray windex and then wrap dishtowels or papertowels around the end of a broom handle to clean in there

so stupid

i want to kick the lady who owned our house before us, god she was a grade-a MORAN

I have been making my bed every weekend for 3 weeks in a row now
I feel very grown up

oh AND my house is generally tidy!

I've even started folding the laundry as Mr Veg dries it, instead of pretending it's not there for a week until the pile is up to my knees

sorry to brag but really you guys this is most irregular for me, but also becoming kind of awesome to witness

proud of you!! you know all it takes is, what, two weeks to make a habit? sounds like you're there! i have been cleaning the bathrooms REGULARLY (not only under dire circumstances) and really really cannot recommend custom-scented cleaning solution enough. it makes all the difference for me. also having the paper towels/spray bottle nearby so i can do it when i have 10 extra minutes instead of digging through a closet to find it.

i keep papertowel and wipes under the bathroom sink, and after I've done my ablutions I quickly wipe the sink over

omg gamechanger, it doesn't get very gross and then when I do get around to cleaning in a couple of weeks it doesn't take half as long.

it's kind of nice not feeling beaten down just by how shitty the house looks

The first set of blinds are in the bathtub as I type. I am doing this. Will report back.

:D

Well, not really. I gave up after breaking the first two sets. Oops.

oh no :(

My laundry game has improved 100x over since I haven't had to stress about quarters. Part of that is general upgrade rather than any habit-change on my part, but it makes me all that much more positive that our old building was like a bad partner whose awful habits I had learned to tolerate or ignore, depending on the circs.

I've also decided that mopping the entire place every 2 weeks is excessive. 3 will be fine, 1x a week for kitchen & bathroom with white tile.

I'm also starting to think that blinds are someone's attempt to torture us. Working on replacing mine with something more manageable but it'll take time.

I'm so happy for you re in unit laundry! It is amazing and I wish everybody could experience that joy in their own homes.

I have found good deals on bamboo blinds on Overstock.com. Also the first place I look for sheets and towels.

i got my bed on overstock.com. shipping was $1. i had almost forgotten about it!

i need to get on the overstock train

for the first time in my life I have a garden + warm weather and wtf!! laundry dries almost immediately! Instead of over two days in the cold basement. I did two loads!

LL's house is very cute and very clean and tidy, even though, as she told me, she had not done special cleaning before I visited. It really looked like she had!

I, on the other hand, struggle to keep up with my own whirlwind up disarray. But I'm doing it.

It surprised me that the greatest benefit of hiring house cleaners is that it makes me do a lot more housework. She's coming today, so yesterday and today I spent quite a bit of time changing the sheets, putting away clean laundry, organizing papers, hanging the lamp that had been lying half-assembled on the coffee table, etc.

She'll change the sheets for you.

My bed is a major pain in the ass to make. It's surrounded on the sides and top, so you have to wrassle with the sheets and I don't want to make Maria do that.

Thanks for being honest with me Je55e! It's so weird how many things are wrapped up in one's proclivity toward formal cleaning tasks.

Xpost She's a pro, I'd let her do the wrassling. That's why you have cleaners, to do the stuff that is annoying.

taxes, cleaning gutters, snaking the sewer...

I don't know. I usually agree but Jesse's bed, which I have seen but never slept in nor made, looks like a huge pain in the ass to make.

It's not like it would ruin her life, but it just feels like the worst chore in the world. But maybe she wouldn't think so and me doing something else and having her do the bed would be a totally great thing for both of us.

Like when I cleaned houses, my boss was totally fine washing toilet bowls by hand without gloves, but she hated cleaning kitchen sink drains, especially if they had any food caught in them. So weird.

Well, I hadn't realised that Ecover own Method.

i just bought a shark steam mop with a home depot gift card and i think i love it
am i kidding myself that this thing is cleaning my floor? i feel like using it weekly is better than nothing, and it's super easy to use.

Jesse has one, I think.

I finally ordered my handheld vacuum that I've been putting off doing for about 6 months. I have a car now so it's extra important!

I looked at those steam mops, I am intrigued by them!

I am currently addicted mr clean magic eraser mop, my floors haven't looked this clean in forever

kinder, after wanting one for years, I bought a handheld vacuum this spring and I love the hell out of that thing. It has come in handier than I ever could have imagined.

It was actually a Shark brand cordless pet something something.