Cleaning – Long Island Chick http://longislandchick.com Life on Long Island with a Family Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:47:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 Why Cleaning Is So Rewarding http://longislandchick.com/why-cleaning-is-so-rewarding/ http://longislandchick.com/why-cleaning-is-so-rewarding/#respond Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:30:21 +0000 http://longislandchick.com/?p=8761 With Miche going out of business, it was time to inventory my collection. To do that, required cleaning out the basement.  You have no idea what our basement has degenerated to.  It’s a cesspool filled with old toys, broken things, piles of tiny little things like nerf bullets, lego pieces, linkin logs, bakugan to name a few. Let me put it this way…I have to pass this room the get to our laundry room, pantry etc and I just look straight ahead and avoid eye contact with this monster.

But, now it needs our attention.  This is going to be torture as I can’t even see the carpet.  One by one I sort the little things into boxes.  Oh Star Wars figures…those damn things are littered everywhere as well.  Looks as if the Death Star scored a direct hit on our basement. But I digress.

While I was sorting all these crap that covered the Thomas the Tank Engine train table (did I mention my boys are 13 and 16 now?), I came across this little gem:


Ok.  Let’s look at this.  Apparently the boys decided to have a party at some point in time and judging from the handwriting it was a while ago.   And they invited their father but not me? Really?! Getting past this possible slight, the boys were apparently concerned that Danny might not behave…so concerned they needed him to execute an agreement to behave.  What kind of mischief, on the part of their father, prompted the necessity for a contract? We may never know. 

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One of the biggest things I am battling, besides the clutter monster, is soap scum.  This crap is just impossible to get off!!! Even elbow grease doesn’t do the trick!  I hate seeing that gross film on the shower tub and enclosure.  Hell, I can’t even see well through the glass at this point.  Yeah, I know that is pretty gross.  Well, I’ve been trying different products with no luck. Some of them stink so bad, I nearly passed out before I escaped the bathroom and, of course, the soap scum remained.  So I was perusing Pinterest the other day and of course, a fellow soap scum hater came to the rescue That is how I found Jen at Life, Crafts & Whatever with her magical soap scum killa recipe.

Pretty easy too: White Vinegar (magical stuff really) and Blue Dawn Dishwasher Detergent…heated up.  Spray it on that disgusting soap scum and it magically disappears.  Seriously.  That is it.  I am going to try it and post my results.  I don’t know if I am brave enough to take “before” pictures though.  Take a look at Jen’s “before” pictures – mine would be not much different.

Let me know if you tried her recipe and your results.  Do you have your own recipe or trick to getting rid of this stubborn problem?

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