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Roswell

I use cider vinegar mixed with water to wash my pots and to clean the tops of my worktops, I noticed today that there are strains from where the vinegar has dried running down the kitchen drawers and cupboard doors. I feel quite upset by it but I don't want to use the standard products sold in supermarkets as the ingredients in them make me feel ill.

I clean my bath with a homemade cleaning product I make out of a mixture of liquid Castille soap, water and lemon oil. It feels clean but there are odd marks on some parts of the bath that I think it's caused. 

There are many places in my flat that need dusting and there's unused space on the bookshelves and in some cupboards. 

When I hoover I struggle to get most the dust up from the carpet I think, and tend to just focus on picking up all the visible bits on the floor instead.

Some of these things drive me nuts sometimes. Anyone else?

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    :-) Does your Nan have very high standards for her tagine then? That owl looks like it's just seen something walking along the ground, maybe an ant?

  • in reply to Kitsune

    I do. I cook a bit for her. She probably looks at my tagine like this......

    I'm not on her level!

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    Maybe you could make a tagine for your Nan if she likes them?

  • in reply to Roswell
    Roswell said:
    Drool! Hope you had some syrupy sauce with them.

    I used cimmamon sugar, and made a sauce from Ovaltine to dip. I'm really getting into cinnamon sugar again. Mind you vanilla sugar isn't too sloppy!

    Kitsune said:
    YouTube is amazing for recipes and videos about how to do pretty much anything actually. I get a lot of my tagine recipes from online!

    I can get lost in YouTube cooking videos for hours sometimes. Mind you I watch Pioneer Woman most days on the Food Channel. She has a knack of making things with stuff you might have lying around. It's real accessible.

    I liked my nan's tagine, she's too old to make one now. She just had this knack for them!

  • in reply to I'm done with Christmas Cards

    Vinegar is good for lime scale, I’ve used it before, so is the combination of bicarbonate of soda and lemon juice. BUT they don’t ‘kill all known germs dead’ the way that bleach does. I’m also diagnosed with OCD and while I don’t consider that I currently have it, I do get ‘splinter’ OCD habits that prevail. Definitely with germs, especially sickness bugs, I mean why do those things even have to exist?! Best to just obliterate the lot! 

    I used Dyson hoovers for years, but they always end up blocked in a way that’s physically impossible to unblock. The manufacturers make them that way on purpose I’m sure, so that people have to buy a new one every few years! I switched to Shark on the advice of a friend of mine who used to be an accountant and is VERY switched on with cost effective products and equipment.

    Trying to keep the house clean and tidy with young children in the house is pretty much impossible though to be honest the other adults in the house make more mess than the litluns ever do!!!

  • in reply to Kitsune

    Vinegar is probably even better than bleach for limescale - you need an acid! Commercial products like Viakal are great too as they foam up and sit on the limescale to give it a good soak. We were Dyson fans for years but now have a Shark & it's great apart from the fact that it won't stand up on it's own & either has to be hung on its bracket or laid down on the floor!

    I read somewhere once that "Cleaning and tidying with kids in the house is like clearing the drive while it's still snowing" & this is true even when they are in their early 20s (perhaps even more so!).

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    YouTube is amazing for recipes and videos about how to do pretty much anything actually. I get a lot of my tagine recipes from online!

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    I love how you guys seem more into using natural cleaning products where as I’m more of a ‘just nuke it all with bleach’ kinda girl! To be fair though that’s an OCD leftover too and a Nursey thing! I ‘know’ the germs that exist and that ‘only’ bleach will annihilate them! 

    I only use pure bleach in my bathrooms though, just to be sure that they’re fully sterilised! Bleach is fabulous on lime scale too! I use Detol on the kitchen worktops and cupboards and on the dining room table cloth (it’s a water proof) cloth. 

    It really irks me if I’ve just hoovered and I can still see bits on the floor, I’d also go around picking up all the bits by hand. This was more of an issue with my old hoover which kept getting blocked up but I got a new one by Shark a few months ago and it’s not so much of a problem now, good hoover!

    That reminds me, those bathrooms could do with a good scrub today...

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    Drool! Hope you had some syrupy sauce with them.

  • in reply to Roswell

    Cooking with online directions is much easier! Love YouTube for recipes. I made churros the other day from a YouTube video. They came out perfect!

  • in reply to Plastic

    I have a 10tb drive for everything. I did a lot of downloading in the good old days of the internet, as well as the DVD's. I've got 2tb left after putting on all the music, films, and pdf's of comics.

    I tend to put a load of stuff on a flash drive in regards to films. So I can carry a good few films around on my keyring.

    Love the digital age for portablity!

    Vinyl's my last problem. I just can't be bothered to rip it all. That would be time consuming. I'll get around to it!

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    I bought a few Buffalo Mini-NAS drives - 2.5" RAID HDDs, 1TB each, 5W max power consumption - I've ripped all my CDs and DVDs to them so they're all available on the network - along with all the photos & shared files & Windows drivers in case of hardware failures/updates - all the drivers are on our network.

    All the discs are safely boxed up in the garage.

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    That's a sound idea ripping the DVDs onto the hard drive. I should probably get rid of most my cookbooks too, most of them never get used and I use more recipes from online. It seems better online with being able to look for second opinions on stuff and having youtube videos with video instruction too.

  • in reply to Roswell

    No problem Roswell, glad to help!

    Roswell said:
    Do you spend much time cleaning?

    Far much more time than I'd like to! It's a bit of a downer some days!

    I ripped all my DVD's onto a hard drive. Then boxed them up, taped up the boxes, and relegated them to the loft. I only kept a few out, those were just classics that I couldn't bear to box up! It saved me space and a lot of cleaning though. I've done it with books, and video games too. I couldn't save those to a hard drive, but I just chose which ones to keep out, boxed up the others, and put them in the loft or garage. It's saved me a lot of cleaning, and got rid of some dust traps!

    If you've got any a hard drive, get a decent DVD ripping program, and rip them onto a drive. I saved a load of space and hassle!

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    Ah brilliant, thank you for the tip about cleaning off the vinegar! (With ironically yet more!)

    And the bath cleaning tip too. 

    Do you spend much time cleaning? I think I should do more. Could do with clearing out some DVDs, serving trays etc. too to make it easier to clean my bookshelves. Cold sweat

  • I'm diagnosed as OCD, so I could probably go on and on about cleaning! OCD traits are more common in people with autism as a percentile, so I'd imagine there's quite a few more of us here with cleaning talking points!

    As for the vinegar stains, the solution is oddly enough more vinegar! Use a very mild dilution of white vinegar in water, and gradually lift off the stains. It might take a few goes over, but let it dry each time. White vinegar is usually the best vinegar to use as it has a low sugar content. Sugar can cause stains.

    With the bath use bicarbonate of soda, mixed with white vinegar. 1/4 of the amount of bicarb to a measure of white vinegar. Leave it on the bath for quarter of an hour, and it will be as clean as you can get.

    Hope that helps!