Aug 23, 2006
Cleaning My Damned Apartment, Day 2: Things I Learned About Vinegar
1. It laughs at 6+ years of unsightly shower door buildup.
2. It dissolves in minutes the faucet scale that hours of swearing and hacking away at with a paring knife will not.
3. It has the potential to make corporate America very, very nervous.
4. Ditto the medical-industrial complex.
5. It burns! It buuuuuurns!
xxx
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Photo by evil Beth (best Flickr name ever!), used under a Creative Commons license
TOPICS: 21 day salutes, Cleaning My Damned Apartment™, List-o-rama!.
8 Comments, Comment or Ping
Ben
Thank you for those links! The cleaning one is espcially helpful. I can relate to your cleaning woes. I’m a student living on my own, finding the time to eat, sleep, go to school, and go to work is enough of a chore..cleaning always becomes the last priority.
P.S. I watched Subject Line Here last night and your bit was absolutely hilarious! I loved it.
Cheers!
Aug 23rd, 2006
Jessica Doyle
That’s awesome! I’m so happy to see people begin using alternatives to bleach and other marketed liquids to clean with.
As for vinegar ingestion… If you eat chicken and tend to cook a whole roast chicken every so often… After you have eaten the whole chicken and have just the carcass (bones and scraps left) boil it for a few hours but add a teaspoon of vinegar to it. By adding the vinegar at the beginning of boiling to make chicken broth you will draw more calcium out of the bones of the chicken. Good for any female of any age.
Both my 92 year old grandmother and my mom tell me this every time I cook a roast chicken or turkey.
Nice info! thx.
Aug 23rd, 2006
Bon
Question: Did you start out with a LIST of what you’d tackle each day? Or is it just… get up, look around, see what needs doing, and get to it? The organizational goddess inside me must know!
Aug 24th, 2006
communicatrix
Ben - always happy to help, especially someone who thinks I am hilarious.
Jessica - That is bitchin’ info! I am totally going back to the vinegar sites myself. Maybe that’ll be a later series: 21 days with vinegar!
Bon - it’s a mix. I’ve got a bunch of things I know I need to get to. The big ones, like Mr. Skanky Refrigerator, I’m scheduling. But the rest I’m leaving up to whim and fate.
Aug 24th, 2006
Peggy Archer
I’ve been cleaning with vinegar for years, as I’m hyper-sensitive to the chemicals in home cleaning products.
Distilled vinegar (additionally distilled to make it stronger) can also be used as a weed-killer.
I have to tackle Mr. Skanky Fridge this weekend.
Aug 24th, 2006
Fred
I’m late coming to the vinegar party but what solution, if any, did you use to make the vinegar laugh at your shower door? Mine needs some serious help.
Aug 28th, 2006
communicatrix
Peggy - Mr. Skanky Fridge was scheduled for this weekend…and has now been rescheduled for next. Maybe I should make it a game: how many times can I reschedule Mr. Skanky Fridge before I actually wrestle him to the ground?
Fred - Straight up, 100%, and LOTS of elbow grease. Now, don’t be such a stranger!
Aug 28th, 2006