Started reading a book about housework tonight, and I'm hooked.
I ordered it for myself because my partner and I needed a reference for things like when to use vinegar and when not to, and how often should you really do x or y thing.
There's a whole section on microbes, and she explains what different fabrics are best at, and there's a chapter on accident prevention. And a guide to looking after wood floors, which is good because they weren't common when I was growing up and I don't know what they need.
The author is a lawyer and philosophy lecture, who basically has a special interest in housekeeping. The best.
It's called Home Comforts: the art and science of keeping house, by Cheryl Mendelson
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/aa69bba3-bc61-465d-bc28-238f52906f6a
Instead of cleaning the shower glass & tray I had a nap this afternoon - definitely more useful!
Someone thinks that I've made the bed well enough and it's time to tell him how wonderful & adorable he is. At least I got the mattress cover on this time!
Mr Helpful decided to take a nap here as soon as I'd stripped the bed to remake it.
He's lucky he's cute!
As cute as this picture is, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Remi is as large as the laundry basket.
Alright mastodon, hit me with your best knowledge:
What is the most effective, fastest toilet bowl cleaner you got? I got scrubbers, they only work ok, and they RUST.
I got those blue/bleach top tank thingies, I can't even tell if they help. They leave blue streaks and there's still gunk from the top of the bowl water holes.
I tried those stick-on gel things, also didn't seem to do much. And even manual work with a sponge and cleaner isn't perfect
Ok, I decided I needed to do SOMETHING. So I made Slug get up & get some laundry together & hauled 4 loads to the laundry room. Came back, made her get up again & get her bedroom & bathroom trash together. She's "faint & dizzy" from the exertion of that, but I'm the one who actually hauled the shit. (2 full cart trips) Brownies just came out of the oven. I have 50 minutes before I have to go back for the stuff in the dryer.
Folding bedding reminds me why I’d rather own one set of bedding that just gets washed and put back on the bed the same day.
I don’t have the arm-span to fold sheets, and fitted sheets are just a pain.
1982 Pine Power with Marla Gibbs Commercial
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