Many dishwashing liquids contain ammonia compounds and should not be mixed with bleach.
I make my kids do the house work. sometime they actually do it.
No, it is not child abuse, they are 21 and 22
He he he
So you found out what thousands of people living in Hawaii have known for years!!
Way to go!! 
HA! I’m SO glad I’m not the only one that does this!
It’s funny because it’s true. So very true. 
Fortunately, my best friend knows of my ruse, and is kind enough to refrain from complimenting me on the unusually tidy state of my abode, so she is safe to mix with any other guests.
Heh. One of my best friends is a total neat freak. Our friendship got a lot easier when I told her I wasn’t offended that she didn’t like to spend too long in my apartment. Drove her nuts. And hell, it’s pretty nice getting out of this dump and hanging out in her nice, big, clean house.
When she came over recently to hang out, I could tell she didn’t want to comment on how clean my place was, out of politeness. She burst out laughing when I said “look, look, I CLEANED, just for YOU!!”
And I am SO trying that frozen rice thing tomorrow, since I was too damn lazy to put my excess rice in a tupperware tonight and just stuck the whole damn rice cooker bowl in the fridge.
Instead of wasting your valuable time matching your socks in the laundry pile and then putting them back in the little apartment called a drawer, put all your socks into a laundry basket sanctuary. Where they can live together wild and free having copious amounts of sock sex, reproducing non-matching albino off sized socks .
It is just the natural order of things, why fight it.
…but cleaning with mustard gas is so much FUN!
If you have small rugs, or a bathmat, that gets coated in dirt and stuff, you could do what my mom does, which is bring it outside, hang it up, and beat it senseless till all the crap falls off. Or, do as I do, shake it vigorously inside. Hell, you’re going to be sweeping the floor in five minutes, so it doesn’t matter. This logic is still lost on my mother.
I also prescribe to the “cover floor with clothes” theory. It works nicely.
Oh, and masonite, a half gallon of bleace seems a wee bit excessive. You could probably make do with a cup of bleach, really.
As others have mentioned, this is not a good idea. That much bleach is waaay too much. It will ruin metal pieces, stainless steel or aluminum or whatever. Both flatware and pots and pans.
It will also ruin plastic if you use it that strong and let it soak for a long time.
It can also seep into the plates and bowls through the unfinished (unglazed) edges (the rim that doesn’t get glazed, usually the little edge where the plate and bowl sit) and will eventually pit them and make them crack.
Also, mixing bleach and dish detergent is a bad idea.
Go ahead and fill the sink with hot soapy water and let the dishes soak, just skip the bleach.
JFTR, I have a large squirt bottle (it holds 32 ounces) with a bleach/water solution. It’s about 2-3 ounces of bleach and the rest water. I use it to clean plastic food containers that get stained by tomato sauce - I squirt some in, add water to fill and let it sit while I finish the rest of the dishes. Then I wash it and rinse well. Works like a charm.
Bleach is very strong and corrosive - A little dab’ll do ya.
And I couldn’t imagine how my apartment would smell if I let a half gallon of bleach sit in my sink.
Yick.
Funny little ancedote. Right after I moved in here, I had to get up early and meet some friends who were helping me move some more stuff in. After sleeping on the floor for only about 3 or 4 hours after moving all day the day prior I was sleepy, groggy, sore and a bit incoherant. I couldn’t find my towels so showering was out of the question.
I decide to just spray down my hair and put it up with a water bottle under the sink. After I srayed about 5 or 6 strong sprays I realized I was spraying out of the bleach/water mix water bottle!
:eek:
Even after rinsing my hair and spraying lots of perfume, I smelled like a damn bleach bottle the entire day.
The hell’s ‘washing soda’?
Washing soda, also known as “sodium carbonate” is a stronger version of baking soda, also known as “sodium bicarbonate.” It’s a very strong, nontoxic, odorless white powder found in the laundry section, an excellent grease/dirt cleaner. Many powdered laundry detergents use “sodium carbonate” as a booster. Adding hydrogen peroxide to it creates “sodium percarbonate,” a nontoxic oxygen bleach.
The best way to soax dishes is to rinse, sprinkle baking soda on them, then cover with soapy hot water and let sit overnight.
OK, I was exaggerating about the half-gallon part. (Neither do I actually bathe my cats in the way I described! ) I do tend to bleach the shit out of everything, though, I must admit. I’m the type of housekeeper who can live in utter filth for months, but when I finally decide to clean, everything has to be scorched-earth sterilized.
Yeah, bleach is probably not the best option here … but I wonder how it would work with Oxy-Clean and no detergent?
Can you tell I have a kitchen full of dishes to do? 
masonite, meet my wife please. You two would get along great.
Just wanted everyone to know this is all a hoax. It’s been all over the news about how fake it is - one guy even broke down the story explaining scientifically why this could not be true. Long live the Wetjet!!!
Suitable cleaning fluid (for dishes). Boil some water (kettle). Cleaning fluid liberally sprayed all over dishes/pots/pans. Immerse in boiling water. It will nuke your dishes clean.
The one that I would love to try out is the aforementioned ironing trick - or something extremely effective at doing the ironing without me (or anyone else) doing the physical work.
My advice is to drink heavily.
It’s awesome…you wake up with a wicked hangover, but a clean house.
Marijuana, in my experience (but only in a country where it is legal), doesn’t work…I sit and sweep the same spot for a looooooooooong time…