To have let kitchen go because Tesco's do not come in anymore

[lazyfecker]

Just been cleaning the kitchen it is an absolute pit - when Tesco's used to bring the shopping right into the kitchen it forced me to do a little cleanup every week but that has been not been happening for months😝

Also please for the love of God could someone tell me about an easy way to clean up a bin? or a way of holding my rubbish in an easier receptacle than most pedal bins?

My current Adidas pedal bin is soaking in the bath with half a bottle of L'Oreal Dream Lengths shampoo the shampoo was hopeless for my hair let's hope it does a better job of cleaning the bin!!!!! It certainly smells good

I have a horse and a garden but of course I decided to do this in the dark and cold without thinking it through properly 🤪

Horse?! what the fuck good would that do?! I meant to say a hose!!!

@lazyfecker

I have been using possibly Brabantia as they don't seem to split And keep the bin cleaner for longer

Bin bags that is

@fuckfuckingcovid19

I'm not sure the horse will help op

😂😂😂😂😂

@GirlCrush

what? mumsnet BATH their bins??

i had no idea!

I bath my hoover

I don't have a bin - just use a carrier bag a day. No cleaning and all bagged up for the wheelie bin

@trevorandsimon

Why would "clean" a bin with shampoo ? Haven't you any bleach, Zoflora, disinfectant or other actual cleaners that kill all the germs that must be growing in there?! 😮

I am out of bleach but when I use it it really goes for my lungs something bad I have a lung condition

I should buy some disinfectant I keep forgetting

the shampoo was lying there and I was about to throw it out and I thought "Hmm! detergent!"

I do not normally treat my bin to hair products - certainly no Kerastase or anything like that!!

@Smallsteps88

I have a horse and a garden but of course I decided to do this in the dark and cold without thinking it through properly 🤪

Give it to the horse. Big long nose and tongue will clean that bin right out

Made me LOL!!

Just going to scrub out the damn sink now....

My kitchen bin situation is ridiculous.

We have four Brabantias:

1. 5l for food waste. Use compostable bags - only fill one a week but by the end of the week it has (surprisingly!) composted at the bottom and it is always a gross clean up operation.
2. 30l for general waste - has a bag in it, usually one bag/fortnight. Does not get smelly or gross because non recyclable food packaging rarely has food residue on it.
3. 30l for glass and plastic. No bag. All gets rinsed before it goes in.
4. 30l for cardboard and paper - No bag. No food residue.

I do worry about all the water I am wasting washing the recycling. We seem to have so much of it! Lockdown means we are producing way more waste (limits on on-line shopping/ one way systems in supermarkets/ supermarkets being generally shit to visit/ etc. mean I can't prioritise minimal packaging as I used to).

I only read the full thread to find out the name of your horse...gutted

@FangsForTheMemory

I clean my bin in the bath. Soak it in bleach and warm water, then rinse with the shower head.

Same here.

I feel like that about having visitors, it always makes me get off my behind and blitz the house, haven't had a visitor in months so the house is a tip.

I used to know someone who'd deliberately start an argument with her husband if the house was a mess. They'd yell at each other, he'd storm out to the pub (as she was being unreasonable and itching for a fight) and she reckoned she could do the house top to bottom in a couple of hours on the adrenaline rush. Then they'd live in harmony for a couple of months till she decided the house needed a blitz.....

Our kitchen is also a pit of despair. My plants have taken over the window sill, and my slow cooker is close to growing penicillin. Glad I'm not alone though!

If it makes you feel better, I used to have a frantic tidy up every week for DD's Zoom music lesson (they weren't allowed to do them in bedrooms, and we needed to have the laptop positioned to capture sound nicely).

I am a bit mystified by the bin issue. We dump all food waste into a separate caddy that we can rinse in the sink. Don't other councils insist on food waste recycling?

@CoralFish I just wash the recycling after the rest of the washing up, using the same water. Even with a dishwasher you might have some bits and pieces that need to be washed by hand.

Love the smell of L’Oreal dream shampoo (and quite like it on my hair also).

Gross

I put 2 bags in the bin, it doesn't get dirty?

I second the hose in the garden, who can be bothered to drag the dirty bin upstairs, mess up the bath, take dripping bin back downstairs, disinfect and clean bath...

I pay for someone to clean my outdoor bins

I wouldn't put the horse in the bath either. Dogs are messy enough!

Don't other councils insist on food waste recycling?

No, thank god!
It's one thing when you have a house, but I dread to think of people stuck in flats with a small kitchen. Yuk.

[quote Missingthesea]**@CoralFish I just wash the recycling after the rest of the washing up, using the same water. Even with a dishwasher you might have some bits and pieces that need to be washed by hand.[/quote]
Yes, I do do this, but I find lots of tins and jars are tricky to clean if you don’t rinse them straight away / have the water pressure from the tap. Plus our recycling pile far exceeds the non-dishwasher pile.

@TeamLucille

Don't other councils insist on food waste recycling?

No, thank god!
It's one thing when you have a house, but I dread to think of people stuck in flats with a small kitchen. Yuk.

I don’t get this. When we were in a flat we didn’t have separate food waste and the bin was always super gross because it all went in there. A separate food waste caddy (with a nice secure lid) is much easier to keep clean than a whole bin imo.

No one (I know) likes cleaning- but to have a filthy kitchen is disgusting.

And washing a bin in a rejected human shampoo.....

Hose down on the patio on a dry day, dishmatic all over with washing up liquid getting into the gross nooks and crannies, hose down again, leave to air dry outside.

Definite no to cleaning bin in the bath! 🤢

@SospanFrangipan

Our kitchen is also a pit of despair. My plants have taken over the window sill, and my slow cooker is close to growing penicillin. Glad I'm not alone though!

We need a support group!!!

I wasn't so bad when I was in my 20s and partying hard and working full time funnily enough.

I work from home now and the dog is very distracting and my health isn't so good and I just always seem to bounce from one thing to the other and never stick to anything I swear I have ADHD I have thought that for some time actually! I keep starting FLY lady but never followed through.

Penicillin could come in very handy at the moment though

Adidas do bins? Are you sure you haven't been putting your rubbish in an old trainer? I can imagine that would get a bit skanky!