Cleaning with Marth… erg… Jaspenelle Stewart!
I think I am totally having a nesting instinct day. Michael ended up having to work until 13:00 today so I can’t move any of the furniture (heck I picked up a stack of newspaper this morning and I felt it. I didn’t realize those suckers were so heavy!) I can however clean, and not the light cleaning, that “let’s pull out the big guns!” cleaning.
Whoever said that cleaning doesn’t count as working out has obviously never cleaned like this.
I do not like harsh chemicals, I am one of those people who like to keep their homes as “green” as possible. However I am also frugal, even if Michael and I made an exuberant amount of money (which we don’t) I would probably still be frugal for three reasons:
- I hate waste.
- I like to do things myself.
- It is better for the environment.
So my cleaning my arsenal mainly consists of eco-friendly stuff. Even better then that factory made stuff is my favorite weapon, diluted apple cider vinegar. It is cheap and it works miracles. Yes elbow grease is required, however it is not matter what cleaner you use.
Step aside Pinesol, you cannot remove winter boot scuff marks on my linoleum floors, but vinegar solution can. They are now sparking clean (and smell like vinaigrette ** too…)
You can step aside too Windex, I use scrunched up old newspaper and a diluted apple cider vinegar field spray bottle to clean my windows and mirrors. I don’t know by the black ink doesn’t smear off on the windows, but it doesn’t and they get so sparkling clean!
Do any of you use homemade cleaners around your home? What are they?
** All my cats have always hated freshly mopped floors, (they’re wet doncha you know?) But Aos really enjoys skidding across of them. He also smells like vinaigrette now.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Not yet. When all the chemical cleaners I have run out, I’m swithcing to chemfree varieties (I can’t afford to waste all the stuff I already have.) Certain things I wont forgo–for exmaple lysol, and oust, and febreeze. (My roommate is disgusting and smelly. I thus chem-nuke the stank of her out of the air, the furniture, and also lysol the bathroom stuff.)
But on my floors I just mop with plain ol’ water. I don’t like using cleaner on the floor because the cats walk on it then lick it off their paws–I’ll never feel like I’ve rinsed the floor off enough, so I just use hot water.
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February 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I would like to see this “clean” apartment…
And how the hell do you get black ink on your windows?
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February 17th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
what a tard. read much eh? i would like to see your “clean” apartment you icky boy with all your boy germs! oh wait, alex is a girl name too…hmm…slut! lol ha ha jk
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February 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Hey, that is my brother!
He always acts like that…
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February 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
oh yeah i was gonna say apple cider vinegar is in fact a great cleaner, especially for calcium and hardwater build up. lysol is bad bad bad. where do you suppose all those chemicals go when you rinse it down the drain? right back into your water silly! im trying to wean myself off of airwick plug in air fresheners cuz that is unecessary electricity sucking upage. but they smell so good!
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