After a
week of Oscars glitz, eye candy and bling, I thought it would be good to come
back down to reality, in the form of two of my least favorite words: house
cleaning. In case you’re not aware, I’m not likely to win any housekeeping of
the year awards nor am I even in the race for any. In fact, my attitude towards
cleaning can best be summed up as this:
So, for me
to use blog space to talk about a cleaning tip should indicate to you how
MIRACULOUS this idea is not that it is the first sign of the apocalypse. Seriously, I haven’t been this excited about cleaning
since…well, never. Here goes.
Who doesn’t
love the sleek modern look of a glass-walled shower? It says clean and modern
and in the case of the photo below: Zen, calm, ‘so rich we can have a window in
the shower because we have no neighbors’. That is, right up until you use it
for the first time. Then, increasingly, it says ‘streaky, gummy, and kind of
gross’. Until now. I just learned that you can take a damp dryer sheet cloth
and it removes soap scum immediately, without scrubbing. I had been using
vinegar (because Windex is a scam and doesn’t work anyway) and it works but you
have to work it. And then it smells. So, I tried this method and could not
believe how easy it was. And you don’t need fancy Bounce dryer sheets—I used the
cheapo Costco variety.
Given that
we are in the midst of house hunting (more on that later) this is a game
changer for me. Now, I can look at showers like the one pictured and think, ‘Ah,
relaxing’ rather than ‘I will never clean that’.
There you
go, what is likely to be my only cleaning tip in the lifetime of this blog. You’re
welcome.
OMG Catherine THANK YOU - I was just standing in my shower this morning realising that I could actually scratch a pattern in the soap scum on the shower door and thinking I must give it a scrub - am going to try this immediately!
ReplyDeleteAnd I did - and it works! :-)
ReplyDeleteI also tried it immediately and it totally worked. What a fantastic tip. So many times I've tried to clean the shower and became nearly overwhelmed with the fumes. Thank you for sharing this. What else you got?
ReplyDeleteCrazy right?! It could not be easier, well, unless you had a handsome buff guy to do it for you. But if you have to do it yourself this is the best thing ever.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding, Bridget? You're lucky I could come up with even one cleaning anything!