by Ivory Soap | Dec 16, 2011 | Cleaning Products, Household
“Surely not!” This is what I thought when I heard TL say that if she wanted her kitchen floor to stay clean she had to get down on it with a scrub brush every week or so. With soap and water? Hot water, even. And the baseboards? Every other month....
by Daisy | Feb 8, 2010 | Cleaning Products, Household
I gaze in horror at the tv ads for spray fresheners. The lady of the house spritzes away like a madwoman then sticks her nose right in the middle of it and inhales deeply. She goes after it all: sneakers, beds, clothes, everything. Why, I wonder, don’t they...
by Daisy | Oct 21, 2009 | Cleaning Products, Household
My car doesn’t smell bad to me, but someone was making a stink-face every time we had to go somewhere. Enter child-labor. What we did: Draw (or have someone draw) the motif of choice. Someone wanted a star. Cut out pattern and pin to felt of choice and cut out:...
by Daisy | Oct 2, 2009 | Cleaning Products, Household
It’s a little early for Halloween, but I wanted to show you what’s happened to my furniture. The rain finally quit, but the extreme humidity left a moldy, green haze on everything. Pretty gross. It got me thinking about furniture cleaners/polish, and how I...
by Daisy | Apr 11, 2009 | Cleaning Products, Household
I live and die by this salad spinner. She’s no spring chicken, though. She has a pull string. She has those little hairline cracks from being dropped too many times. She’s been with me a long, long time. I use the strainer part to carry vegetables from the...
by Daisy | Dec 9, 2008 | Cleaning Products, Drama, Fencepost, Household
Last night, around nine o’clock, my husband and I had HAD IT with our left bathroom sink drain. It has been clogging worse and worse every day for weeks. So, I employed my 100% Natural Drain Cleaner–taught to me by a dear plumber friend: Step 1: Get a...
