The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in Uncategorized, cleaning, thrifty on Feb 4th, 2010
Back here, the Old School discussed what happens when you use liquid dish soap in your dishwasher, and what to do to temporarily tide you over until your next trip to the market.
But is it possible to make your OWN dishwasher detergent? To use on a regular basis, not as an emergency substitute? Can you [...]
Posted in cleaning on Jan 30th, 2010
Want to know how to take care of your kitchen drains the un-nuclear way?
It’s easy, as long as your drain isn’t already backed up. If you do this every month or so, your drains will be happier, and you won’t have to use poison.
Grease gets stuck on the sides of sink pipes in the most [...]
Posted in cleaning on Dec 16th, 2009
Seems a little on the obsessive side, doesn’t it? After all, the dishwasher gets regularly sprayed with hot, soapy water.
Still, lime can build up in there, and some people complain of rust or iron streaks. The Damsel doesn’t spend a lot of time with her head inside the dishwasher and tries not to think about [...]
Posted in cleaning on Dec 3rd, 2009
Have you ever been late to a meeting, only to find out the shirt you must wear is wrinkled? You stand there in your undies, frantically ironing. Just when you are finishing the last section, the iron burps out brown gunk from the steam vents. The shirt is unwearable now, and the day slips even [...]
Posted in cleaning on Sep 9th, 2009
Here’s a recipe making your own spot cleaner for your carpet. Goodness, it’s cheap. Grandma would approve.
Put 3 cups (or thereabouts) of warm water into a container. The Damsel has a lot of quart jars hanging around, so she reached for one of those.
Add 1/2 cup plain white vinegar. The thought behind the “plain white” [...]
Posted in cleaning on Apr 29th, 2009
The Damsel loves pretty-scented soap. But when it gets down to a sliver, not so much. And, she’s had only limited success with gluing it to the new bar of soap.
Plus, her sprogs don’t know how to use bars of soap. They only know how to use soft soap dispensers, and she feels like it’s [...]
