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PRODUCT

Today is cleaning day.

I do the "wets".

That means, in order, getting the toilets wettened with the Lysol toilet cleaner, apply upside down into the rim. I like squirting the thing. I use the kind with bleach.

After that, I wipe down of tile, baths, counters, and finally the toilets, brush with the Lysol stuff inside and the 409 outside.

Then the glass.

The kitchen counters (Windex) and sinks (Comet).

And then the floors (Fabuloso, a local product for the Latins), by hand, on my knees with my new knee pads. I can't stand mopping and it doesn't do a very good job.

It all takes about an hour.

I do my desk, dust and Windex for the black formica. Works best.

The materials I am using need revision. I just picked up on using the same ones our housekeeper used at the old place.

The tile cleaner, 409, is choking when I am cooped into the tub and the shower doors are closed.

Maybe an organic thing would be better.

The other stuff is OK.

The best is the glass cleaner she/I use on the mirrors. Sprayway.

It is like the old glass wax. No streaks. It sprays on with a huge frost on the glass and wipes off easily. It is probably as toxic as the 409 but I like the effect. I make grand sweeps with the spray on glass.

I am sure this is boring to read about but it is a new experience for me. We haven't cleaned our own house since we lived, for a year, temporarily, in the apartment in Boston.

And maybe never before that although that couldn't be true.

When I was a kid, I cleaned the house for my mother. She worked. I couldn't have done much of a job but everyone seemed happy with it.

I like the cleaning actually. The process and the good smells afterwards along with the good feelings of having done the job.

Labels: housekeeping