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I had to sit down and rest after just reading everything you did karla
LOL! I agree...I'm out of breath and tired just from all the work HE did!
MoMark....If you really want to kill the germs, do the clorox thing unless you have a way of getting commercial products for medical facilities -- and even some of those use Clorox. Clorox kills just about everything that would be bad for you. (I know this by working in/around bloodborne pathogens, etc.)
LOL! I agree...I'm out of breath and tired just from all the work HE did!
MoMark....If you really want to kill the germs, do the clorox thing unless you have a way of getting commercial products for medical facilities -- and even some of those use Clorox. Clorox kills just about everything that would be bad for you. (I know this by working in/around bloodborne pathogens, etc.)
Do you all mean Clorox bleach? If so, that's what I've used.
WooHoo! I'll continue then with that as the Pine-sol makes my eyes water and my nose run
Great ideas here and tips. I use Clorox bleach water anyway in my kitchen since to disinfect my sponges and then I wipe down the counters as I detect the cat paw prints on the counter surfaces and also find cat hairs on the counter...and I just get the urge to regurge thinking I'm making food on a surface walked on by a cat that (though I love 'em!) has been kicking litter in the box.. So the bleachdowns happen frequently in the kitchen, and I often do the floors with it too as well as leave the mop in bleach water when I'm done to disinfect that and then dry it outside. Right now I have to keep it in the mudroom sink as it'd freeze outside. I also fill the sink in the kitchen with hot water, add Clorox, then soak things in it and it also serves to disinfect the garbage disposal, other drain, and keep the sinks nice and white. I don't know why the manufacturers make square and rectangular sinks. I hate that shape as the water doesn't drain out without me pushing it with a sponge, same thing in my bathroom where the sinks are "artistic" sinks with stepped sides...so toothpaste builds up and ...YUCK. I also frequently bleach toilets and the rims and counters in the bathrooms. I've also discovered how effective Pumice bars are on hard water deposits in toilet bowls. Works QUICKLY and is very effective.
I'm not a cleaning fanatic, but when I clean my house, I like to do it all the way or else I feel like I've left too much undone and it nags at me. And with animals...well...I guess we all understand that challenge!
I truly appreciate all the tips!
Clorox has a new spray called Anywhere Hard Surface, it says it kills 99.9% of bacteria on hard nonporous surfaces and is safe to be used around kids, pets and food. I got some and there is no harsh smell.
WooHoo! I'll continue then with that as the Pine-sol makes my eyes water and my nose run
Great ideas here and tips. I use Clorox bleach water anyway in my kitchen since to disinfect my sponges and then I wipe down the counters as I detect the cat paw prints on the counter surfaces and also find cat hairs on the counter...and I just get the urge to regurge thinking I'm making food on a surface walked on by a cat that (though I love 'em!) has been kicking litter in the box.. So the bleachdowns happen frequently in the kitchen, and I often do the floors with it too as well as leave the mop in bleach water when I'm done to disinfect that and then dry it outside. Right now I have to keep it in the mudroom sink as it'd freeze outside. I also fill the sink in the kitchen with hot water, add Clorox, then soak things in it and it also serves to disinfect the garbage disposal, other drain, and keep the sinks nice and white. I don't know why the manufacturers make square and rectangular sinks. I hate that shape as the water doesn't drain out without me pushing it with a sponge, same thing in my bathroom where the sinks are "artistic" sinks with stepped sides...so toothpaste builds up and ...YUCK. I also frequently bleach toilets and the rims and counters in the bathrooms. I've also discovered how effective Pumice bars are on hard water deposits in toilet bowls. Works QUICKLY and is very effective.
I'm not a cleaning fanatic, but when I clean my house, I like to do it all the way or else I feel like I've left too much undone and it nags at me. And with animals...well...I guess we all understand that challenge!
I truly appreciate all the tips!
As for keeping them off of the counters, I'm told they don't like the feel of aluminum foil under their feet. Have you every tried to lay any across it to see if it deters them? Or there's always the fun of getting a water bottle, only you'd have to catch them in the act and then all your hardwork would be a wash
I have two dogs that allow us to share the home and some of you might get grossed out, but if I find one of their hairs in my food it's no big deal........ if I find human hair other than mine it's
As for keeping them off of the counters, I'm told they don't like the feel of aluminum foil under their feet. Have you every tried to lay any across it to see if it deters them? Or there's always the fun of getting a water bottle, only you'd have to catch them in the act and then all your hardwork would be a wash
I have two dogs that allow us to share the home and some of you might get grossed out, but if I find one of their hairs in my food it's no big deal........ if I find human hair other than mine it's
Aluminum foil on the counters..hmmm! I'll give it a shot and see what happens! I wonder what a feline mental "ewww" sounds like! The water bottle trick I've used for years, but.... I never catch them on the counters, just evidence they were there. I'll hear a thud on the floor from one jumping down if I approach and they know I don't want them on the counters..They're sneaky little boogers...they know how to "lie".
As for hairs, the hairs themselves don't particularly gross me out, it's the paw prints when I know they've been in the litterbox and knowing how much bacteria lives in feline fecal matter, etc.
Honestly...and I know this will gross everyone out...I'm not particularly grossed out by either human or animal hair. Most people I know will hurl if they run into a human hair in their food that's not theirs, or feel it in their mouths and then reach for it and realize it was in their food. I would just pull it out and keep on eating, not particularly concerned with it. For whatever reason, it just doesn't trigger my "ewww" buttons. But... cat paws on my eating and preparation surfaces disgusts me to no end and I keep a plastic Clorox Wipes container on my kitchen counter to do a quick wipedown most days.
this is so strange, I was just having a cleaning conversation with my husband over the weekend. I've been using the Swiffer, but it's just not cleaning enough for me. It's like it just glazes over the floor and the dirt is still there and you have to put so much elbow grease into it, that you could've just used a regular mop and been done with it already. I have a 3 year old boy and he uses the guest bathroom and it's a small bathroom so it reaks of urine all the time. That was my main concern with the cleaning effort to begin with because his bathroom always smells like pee. I always buy scented bleach because I even put it in the laudry so i was thinking of just buying a regular mop and bucket and going at it with scented bleach in the kitchen and both bathrooms and calling it a day. At least I know that germs will be blasted to oblivion. I have some floral scented pine-sol so maybe I'll add that just to cut the bleach smell so we're not all being run out the house. Thoughts????
this is so strange, I was just having a cleaning conversation with my husband over the weekend. I've been using the Swiffer, but it's just not cleaning enough for me. It's like it just glazes over the floor and the dirt is still there and you have to put so much elbow grease into it, that you could've just used a regular mop and been done with it already. I have a 3 year old boy and he uses the guest bathroom and it's a small bathroom so it reaks of urine all the time. That was my main concern with the cleaning effort to begin with because his bathroom always smells like pee. I always buy scented bleach because I even put it in the laudry so i was thinking of just buying a regular mop and bucket and going at it with scented bleach in the kitchen and both bathrooms and calling it a day. At least I know that germs will be blasted to oblivion. I have some floral scented pine-sol so maybe I'll add that just to cut the bleach smell so we're not all being run out the house. Thoughts????
I use my Swiffer for simple, fast, in between clean ups. For doing the normal cleaning of the floors, it's on my hands and knees with bucket, sponge and rag
Now I'll admit I'm stumped on how to control the urine smell in your son's bathroom....... gimme critters and I can come up with an answer.
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I'll continue then with that as the Pine-sol makes my eyes water and my nose run 
