I always use newspaper to clean my car windows.
Pai325
October 8, 2015, 2:17am
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DadWagonDriver:
Floors: I have a Shark Rotator, which can vacuum both the carpets and the tile/wood floors; there’s a switch to turn off the beater bar but still leave the suction running so it works on bare floors like that. We also use a plain ol’ broom, and we mop with a [direct sales brand]* floor mop. My wife got into selling one of those direct sales thingies, and sold enough to pay for the starter kit and some other neat stuff. She doesn’t like the whole direct sales thing, but she liked the products enough to do that.
Kitchen: Dawn and Formula 409. My wife uses some [direct sales brand] cloths to clean, but I feel like you need a spray in there, so I use 409 when I clean it (don’t tell her!). There’s just no damn way that some cloth has some special properties that make it disinfect the counter.
Bathroom: Clorox toilet bowl cleaner and Scrubbin’ Bubbles. Again, my wife uses her weird cloths when she does it, and I use my methods when I do it.
Laundry: We’ve had problems with laundry, as DadWagonBackSeatPassenger #2 has eczema and seems to react poorly to some laundry soaps. My wife got some “all natural” detergent from her kit, and it didn’t give the reaction, but I thought our towels never seemed to smell very clean. I recently switched to Arm & Hammer without any dyes or scents, and it seems to be OK. I use one of those special sport detergents for my running/gym clothes to keep them from smelling awful, and that works much better than any regular detergent ever did.
However, the direct sales brand has one great product for laundry: really good dryer balls. I switched to those from dryer sheets, and it’s both cheaper (in the long run) and seems to make the eczema flare ups for the little one not as harsh as when we were using dryer sheets AND regular detergent.
Other: Paper towels - I like the Sam’s Club brand. Their TP is pretty good, too.
*I took out the brand name of the direct sales brand before posting this; I don’t want anyone to think I’m trying to advertise! I’d like to eventually start a thread about the brand, because it sets off so many red flags in my head when I read their marketing materials, and I’m curious about some of their claims. FTR, it’s not Amway.
Starts with an N, doesn’t it? For a while everyone I knew was having parties.
For kitchen and bathroom, I use some variation of Clorox (regular, Clorox clean-ups or Clorox spray). If it doesn’t smell like bleach, it ain’t clean!
Elsewhere, I use something like Lysol or Clorox All-Surface Cleaner.
For greasy messes, there is no substitute for Formula 409.
Nothing works better in my dishwasher than Finish Quantum tabs. They are the best.
Maybe not the most environmentally friendly items, but they work for me.
Ha, yes.
Some of the stuff is really good: the rags to clean glass and the dryer balls especially. But, I’m both a sales guy and a member of the SDMB, so I have a pretty critical eye when it comes to marketing materials. The claims that are made by that company about what their rags can do are pretty outrageous, and I can’t find any science that backs them up.