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05-31-2007, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
I poured some of my always handy cotton-scented bleach into a cup, then rolled a bunch of cotton balls in it so they were nice and imbued. I shoved the bleachy cotton balls against the caulking all the way around the walled rim of the tub.
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to your superior patience for lining a tub with bleach soaked cotton balls.
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05-31-2007, 07:01 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
It only took 5 minutes at the most, and it's obviously way easy work. If I'd used Tilex or something I'd have had to scrub for a lot longer than 5 minutes.
Now all I have to do is wait and wipe.
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05-31-2007, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Northern Virginia
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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Now all I have to do is wait and wipe.
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05-31-2007, 07:26 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Pervert. Degenerate. Coprophile.
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05-31-2007, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Springfield, MA
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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05-31-2007, 08:38 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Do I want to know what coprophile means?
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05-31-2007, 08:53 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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05-31-2007, 10:10 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Magic Erasers have no cleaning product in them...it's something about the material that just takes dirt right off. They are sponges from HELL! I love them. Except that they fall apart after a good days use if you do the bathtubs, oven hood, sinks, showers, etc. Not meant for keeping and using over and over.
Oh and back in the day, when I had a disposal (they aren't common here for some reason) I would grind up orange peels in it to keep it smelling nice. Added benefit of eating a nice orange.
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05-31-2007, 10:54 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Cleaning Tips
From what I've read, Magic Erasers are made mostly out of very fine abrasives, plus the scary sounding Formaldehyde-Melamine-Sodium Bisulfite Copolymer, which I don't think is as scary as the "formaldehyde" and "melamine" might make it sound.
But from chemistry I do not know.
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05-31-2007, 11:25 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
I have two cleaning tips that make cleaning far easier than livius’ method:
1) Don’t clean at all.
2) If you do clean, hire one of your impecunious hippie friends to do it. (The house won’t get very clean this way, but you won’t expend much effort.)
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05-31-2007, 11:57 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Hippies?! Who knows what pathogens they'll spread all over your stuff.
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06-01-2007, 12:16 AM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Doubtless they use "natural" cleaners -- like (you guessed it) baking soda.
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06-01-2007, 12:24 AM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Unless they use it on their crotch and pits, I'm not letting them anywhere near my cleaning supplies.
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06-01-2007, 12:40 AM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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Unless they use it on their crotch and pits, I'm not letting them anywhere near my cleaning supplies.
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Geez, livius. You guard your baking soda jealously, don’t you?
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06-03-2007, 09:02 PM
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ŧiggermonkey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Cleaning Tips
I just cleaned my garbage disposal and my microwave using the aforementioned tips and both worked wonderfully!
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06-03-2007, 09:03 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Outstanding.
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06-03-2007, 09:25 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Durango, Colorado
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Oh and back in the day, when I had a disposal (they aren't common here for some reason) I would grind up orange peels in it to keep it smelling nice. Added benefit of eating a nice orange.
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Yes. Orange peels are the bomb for keeping a garbage disposal fresh.
Clorox makes this new(ish) product "Bleach Pen" which has two ends, a medium sized one and a really tiny one for seriously specific application. Anyway this thing is awesome, if you have counters that get stains from coffee or red wine or anything like that, the Bleach Pen is for you.
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06-03-2007, 09:54 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Cleaning Tips
Shaving cream, huh? We have quite a number of animal stains on our carpets, and they're not barfs (actually one was, the other day). The dog who'd grown out of it reverted when we got the new kitten. Will try shaving cream. (Cream not foam? Does shaving foam work too?)
I don't think we get the "Magic Erasers" though. The market for cleaning products here may be somewhat constrained by the perceived cheapness of cleaning labour - i.e. domestic workers. (So powerful they'll take the non-stick coating right off a frying pan!)
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06-03-2007, 10:07 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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Shaving cream, huh? We have quite a number of animal stains on our carpets, and they're not barfs (actually one was, the other day). The dog who'd grown out of it reverted when we got the new kitten. Will try shaving cream. (Cream not foam? Does shaving foam work too?)
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I meant foam, actually. I don't know why I call that cream. Probably something to do with being a hillbilly.
Anyways, we get a lot of pet faux pas around here, too, and that seems to work as well as anything else I've tried.
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06-04-2007, 05:10 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
What's shaving foam?
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06-04-2007, 05:11 PM
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ŧiggermonkey
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Re: Cleaning Tips
The shaving cream that comes out of the can as foam rather than gel.
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06-04-2007, 05:12 PM
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Re: Cleaning Tips
That's what I call shaving cream...
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06-04-2007, 05:14 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Cleaning Tips
I think in most of the US it's pretty much all referred to as shaving cream...regardless of the actual texture of the substance. I have never specified "foam" or "gel" or whatever, it's all cream.
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06-04-2007, 05:17 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Cleaning Tips
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That's what I call shaving cream...
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Don't tell JoeP, or he'll call you a hillbilly like he did me!
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06-04-2007, 05:54 PM
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