And the daylight hours here are finally long enough that I’ve begun to care about dust again. Today I vacuumed everything that can be vacuumed, and Swiffer mopped the wood floors. It smells like artificial air freshener in here, now.
I also bought some Clorox wipes since people recommended them for their cleaning-facilitation. You all are right. My faucet handles are clean now.
Hydrochloric acid. Find a toilet cleaner that has HCl in it. Drain the water from the bowl. Coat the inside with the toilet cleaner and let it sit for at least 10 minutes, longer if you can. When you come back, the rust stains, hard water stains, etc., will come right out with not much effort.
Pumice stones work too but involve quite a bit more elbow grease. I believe in cleaning via the power of chemistry.
The baseboards in the bathrooms pick up a fair amount if yuck so they get checked off the list when i clean the bathroom. This is where I go through most of my paper towels., so i can just put them into the trash later. I recycle other things and use towels in the kitchen.
I like Swiffer for touch-up mopping. Hired Sears to clean our ductwork and that has cut back on dust considerably, I’d like to do it again since we redid the kitchen ant there might be a bit of crud in there again. We change our air filters frequently as well.
Bumping an oldie but a goodie!
My extremely durable very soft but will not pill Lacoste sheets I picked up on a whim from Zappos were starting to yellow a bit, probably from sweat from the boyfriend.
Bleach did nothing.
EnterMrs. Stewards Bluing Agent. Two loads later they’re beautiful shiny white.
Edit: I have a front loader and I mixed up about a half teaspoon twice in an empty container of oxiclean, inserted sheet into washer and dumped container of the mixture on top of the sheet. Pouring the mixture it into the fabric softener dispenser the first time was a mess and didn’t net good results.
My follow up question is: Is there any reason to use bleach for clothes, or only for cleaning purposes?
Bluing is a dye, not a cleaner. Essentially, you applied a counter-stain. So your sheets look a lot better, but they aren’t any cleaner than the soap and water made them.
Bleach sanitizes your laundry, which is occasionally useful, but I don’t find its something I need to use in an everyday wash.
Ahhhh I see. An optical illusion of sorts. So, basically, bleach bed sheets and towels occasionally and use bluing as needed (which will probably be even more rare, yearly). Thanks!
If you get yeast infections, it can be useful to bleach your panties. Other than that, no, not much use on clothes. Frequent use on anything will cause yellowing and premature disintegration.
A few weeks ago my toddler threw a yellow water-soluble crayon into my load of white towels and nothing has taken the color out. I’ll see if blueing helps. It couldn’t possibly hurt.
Ah ha, that sounds interesting. Let us know the outcome either way!
I don’t think I’ve ever used bleach in my laundry. Don’t own any.
I’ve used it in lab a few times to quench stinky thiols and such. Mmm Swern oxidation.