Anybody else super annoyed that it's necessary to clean things that clean for us? I'm talking about the vacuum cleaner, clothes washer, dishwasher--things like that. Their purpose is to clean things, so why can't they keep themselves clean?
Anyway, I'm on some kind of cleaning kick* and our dishwasher has been particularly gross lately, with rusty films and globs of particulates everywhere, so I decided to go ahead and tackle it today. It's a lot better now. Definitely not perfect (because calculus, and life experience, tells me that it can never be perfect), but a lot better. It was messy, though. And stuff ended up in a lot of places, including the utility sink, which I cleaned yesterday, and the floor, which I mopped yesterday, and now I have to clean those places again, which means yesterday's effort was wasted. Ugh.
So, for future reference, if you're going to take on a messy cleaning project, do it before you take on the less messy cleaning projects.
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In other news, you might** be wondering just what miscellaneous items my side of the master bedroom closet is home to, so I'll tell you.
- Broken down boxes and other shipping supplies for mystery shopping, plus two not broken down, filled boxes.
- Garden seeds.
- Art supplies, including, but not limited to, my hot glue gun, ribbon, cardboard for protecting work surfaces, old t-shirts that I cut up for staining, and the kid paint box, which has kid painting supplies that haven't been used in years and probably aren't good anymore.
- Two throw pillows that used to be on the bed, that we're not using right now, but I also don't want to get rid of, even though I got them from the thrift store, and likely could find similar shapes and sizes in the future to recover however I would like them to be covered.
- Two ukulele gig bags, which each contain extra ukulele supplies
- Overflow cleaning supplies, like bleach, vinegar, toilet bowl cleaner, sanitizing wipes, laundry detergent, and the outdoor window cleaning kit that I am hiding from my husband because he threw the old one away after asking me if he could and me telling him he should not.
- Coffee
- A gift for my HS freshman that I have literally been working on since he was in preschool
- A four pound bag of candy corn that I bought because my people love it and I didn't know if it would still be in stock the next time I went to the warehouse store.
- Cleaned out candle jars to put the candy corn in for display when it's actually candy corn season.
- An in-progress crocheting project, as well as an in-progress sewing project.
- Eleven decorative house flags (one for each month, counting the one that's on display now).
- Two pairs of slippers.
- A small wooden tray that I used to use for oils and vinegars, and stopped using a few years ago, but I can't get rid of it because it has two of the kiddos hand and footprints on it.
- Extra bags and a backpack.
You also might*** be wondering what kinds of clothes are folded on the shelves, so I'll tell you. On the shelves, I keep bras, shorts, pants, and pajama pants. And yes, I wore clothes, from the shelves, yesterday, and I am wearing clothes today. I have temporarily solved the problem of not wanting to mess up my neatly-est stacks of clothing by not putting anything back on the shelves.
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* Probably because the new year, aka kids going back to school, is coming soon, and I want a fresh start.
** You are probably not actually wondering. I don't think I've ever met a person as curious as me, out in the wild, which is annoying because the less curious people tend to look at me funny, or just not answer, when I ask my curious questions. And I also sometimes have difficulty deciding if my curious question is an appropriate one to ask.
*** Again, you're probably not. Wondering, that is. But I would be, if it wasn't my closet, and I wasn't sitting in it right now. You're welcome
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