part of my cleaning arsenal:
1) a pretty apron. Have to look the part, right?
2) the all-purpose cleaner and disinfectant I mentioned before. Good for cleaning just about anything.
3) me-sized and Tonka-sized swiffers for light cleaning days. I do floors with vinegar and water or ammonia and water (by the time the floors are dry so is the smell). If Tonka is interested in helping (always is...for about 5 minutes per "job"), I have a spray bottle of vinegar/water that I spray on the tile for him to "mop" up. Great fun.
4) kiddiesgames.com for when the attention span runs out.
5) the newest weapon in the arsenal: Homemade dishwashing detergent for machines or sinks. It works at least as well as anything I've used previously, and is WAY cheaper. The only weird thing is that there are no bubbles, but that just means less pollutants going into the water system, so I can't complain. The only container I had when I mixed this the first time was a candle jar which, as it turns out, is perfect.
ps: notice the new labels. figured it was about time... will have to go back and edit the archives accordingly.
8 comments:
LOVE the apron. You use towels on your swiffer mop?! I quit using mine b/c I got tired of buying the refills... how do you keep them on? is that a rubber band? Let me know, because I liked it for light cleaning too, but hated wasting money and throwing away all that crap. And I'm trying to hurry up and finish my dish soap so I can start using the soda & borax too. Can't wait. :D Love the crunchy label. hehe ciao!
apron is from my mom's coworker's church's kitchen. They were getting rid of it, which is just unfathomable to me. My cuz got a few from the same place that are blue gingham.
re: wet jet towels: There are tutorials online involving elastic and ties and such, but old boot straps work surprisingly well :) also, towels are better than the pads (to me anyway) because the terry catches and holds dirt as opposed to just pushing it around.
yeah, I have never understood that whole swiffer pushing dirt around thing, annoys me to no end! i'll have to try your way.
also, with all my good intentions, I now want the recipe to dishwashing soap. seeing as I have actually located those ingredients, yeah!;0
LB
if you enlarge the picture you can read the recipe :)
I am at the library and suddenly can comment. . .but now I find I've said everything I need to say.
GB
I've been looking to go the direction of cheaper, homemade cleaners myself. My son in particular has an amazing ability to go through cleaners in no time flat. Not sure things are any cleaner for it...
Anyway, I have some questions for your dh, so that's why I was looking for your site (your in-laws being on vacation and unaskable).
Anyway, greetings from the homeland!
ask away :) do you have our email address?
so I blew the pic up and couldn't make out the recipe.
wanna share it?
LB
equal parts borax and baking soda. use 2T for a normal sized machine load. Might want to use vinegar or other water softener if you've got a lot of clear glass, other than that it works perfectly. At least as well as the liquid detergent now wasting space under my sink, if not better.
I also use this when hand-washing dishes (which I do more often than not). Weird to see no bubbles, but that's just conditioning.
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