Eh, about half and half.

[jadesfire]

Today, I am not awesome. Today I am full of fail, there's no getting away from it.

On the other hand, I have done awesome things, mostly on the cleaning front. Vinegar is my new favourite cleaning item, especially in the bathroom. It got the cloudy marks off the shower glass, it cleaned the taps but most exciting was the shower. Seriously, it was NASTY and black and horrible and I hadn't got a clue what to do with it. So I balanced a bowl on my over-bath rack (the one I use for computing in the bath, shush), put the shower head in it and filled it with vinear until the entire face was covered. This morning? It just rinsed off! It was like getting a whole new shower \o/

...yes, okay, this is maybe only exciting to me, but it's VERY exciting to me. I cleaned something! Successfully! And while I do promise this journal won't just fill with cleaning tips, I am going to keep talking about it because it's something I'm actually ACHIEVING at the moment, which is something I'm conspicuously failing at in other areas of my life.

I'm going to be out of touch most of the weekend, so I'll drop in to see how you're awesome when I can.

Come on, folks. How are you awesome today?

Comments

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Corgigirl with her vinegar-and-salt mixture is making me crave potato chips. :-)

It, um, never occurred to me to unscrew the shower head to clean it. But when I lived in Florida I had that hard, hard Florida well water, and I filled a plastic sandwich bag with white vinegar and put that over the shower head, fastening it around the top with a rubber band. Left it overnight and it really did help. The bowl trick would've been a lot easier, though.

The hard part for me is just keeping enough vinegar in contact with the surfaces long enough to dissolve the scale. For faucets perhaps you could soak some rags/strips of cloth in the stuff and wrap them around the crusty bits? I'm not sure, never having tried it.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee, I didn't actually unscrew it - just lifted it from its holder. It's not fixed to the wall, but is on a long expanding tube thingy so resting it in the bowl is easy. And totally worth it :)

Hmmm...I'll have a look into how you do the things like round the taps. Because that's bugging me as well...