Why the Friggity Frig <GLARES> didn't anyone, not one of you, think

[Honeydragon]

to tell me what a piece of piss Chicken and Sweetcorn soup is to make! It takes 5 minutes and costs fuck all. I have being buying this stuff you know? With ACTUAL money.

One idle google and 10 minutes later dd and I have a pan full for lunch, it's lovely.

It was bad enough finding out about cleaning washing machines, and Veet to unclog hairy plug holes.... and now you failed to tell me this

Well you horrible lot, what else have you being holding out on, and keeping from me?????

Okay okay, hang on right there. Last week, or maybe the week before, I put a clean your machine tablet in. Why did I get so many soap suds today if it was recently cleaned?

My steering wheel is on the right.
My diesel hole thingy is on the right.
My fuel gauge is on the left.

Cos it didn't work? :)

Apparently the hot wash cleans out all the crap inside the machine, it only works if it's hot and empty, although don't ask me cos I've had several washing machines and in 14 years had never heard of a blasted maintenance wash til I read about it on mn :)

Never heard of clean my machine tablets either

Actually this seems to be a recurring theme in this thread, someone mentions a cleaning tip or product and I promptly reply "never heard of it"

What a state my house must be, I always thought it was sort of quite clean

And the fuel gauge, steering wheel theory doesn't apply to my car either :(

If you have a toddler who likes to crayon on walls, televisions everything that stands still WD40 is ace at getting it off.

Also, baby talc is great for getting sand off wet legs at the beach.

Thanks GrimmatheNome that sounds much kinder than what my DH had planned for the local cat population.

Stealthsquiggle why do you put oil in the water?

Well bugger me! I bought some dishwasher cleaning stuff from aldi this morning, ran the first ever cleaning wash on it (disclaimer it was fitted not 6 months ago) i can see my bloody face in it!

Here's a proper driving one.
If you can see the tyres of the car in front of you, you'll be able to pull out and around it in one manoevre.
Brought to you by the bus drivers of Dicks base.

Stealth... actually, I do have a loaded (just water) supersoaker by my backdoor. An occasional murdering bastard cat occasionally comes into the garden and sits right under the bird table. Last time (quite a long time ago now ) I crept up on it (cat engrossed watching birds), got a direct hit and then chased it off like Rambo, followed by my madly barking dog who'd just caught on.

Quenelle - DH's theory was that if nasty bully cat has to spend ages cleaning oil off itself, the "don't go in through that cat flap, there is a scary madman in there" lesson would last longer.

I have no idea if there is any science behind that at all whatsoever.

DW tabs for oven cleaning? Why not. Biological detergent is good for cleaning all sorts of things too. Another use for DW tabs is if you've a 'spa' bath - fill with hot water, bung in a few tabs, turn it on to circulate. Obv refill with clean water a couple of times to rinse.

I don't need to do this now, the bath with jets is the ensuite which is full of canoe, buoyancy aids and - as of today - DHs bulk buy and nowhere else dog and mouseproof to put it, 12kg of dry dog food

OK I've been kind of ignoring the washing machine maintenance/cleaning cycle posts until now in a kind of 'lalalalala hands over ears' way but I'm going to have to go and do it. And the dishwasher. And I've looked up the costs of an oven cleaning man online but seeing as though I spent nearly ten quid on some sort of all singing all dancing magical oven cleaning stuff from Lakeland (with good intentions that have never quite come to fruition) I don't think DH would be too impressed at me then spending money on having someone come and do it for me.

Although I am on mat leave and home all day so he could come and go without DH knowing... he'd come home to a sparkling oven and I could be sitting there with rubber gloves on looking exhausted...

If Pesto is still around, I could have written your post. Not long after we moved into our house the sink in the bathroom started doing exactly the same thing, not the bath or any other sink, but our down pipe and drain etc are in the garage and that used to whiff a bit as well.

We took the trap off etc, etc but in the end I bought some stuff from our local shop called Knock Out Kitchen and Bathroom here ? it's evil stuff that says it's corrosive and that you have to dispose of the bottle at a hazardous collection point!!! but it definitely worked ? I put half the bottle down the drain and half down the offending sink. DH did wonder if there was a faint smell in the garage this morning but I did it a few weeks ago so it might need another dose.

I have never laughed so much at a thread. You lot are hilarious

I've spent ALL afternoon on this thread - rarely have I been so informed and entertained! Thanks, everyone

Microfibre cloths on shopping list, dishwasher tabs turning a tea-towel into oven magic, am shortly going on a hunt for the secret filthy tumble dryer drawer.

... when I've finished laffing.

Somersaults...I could be sitting there with rubber gloves on looking exhausted after the man has been to clean my oven
Puts me in mind of an old Band of Gold storyline
[fnar]

If I put a tortoise/hamster/hedgehog in my fridge, will it clean out the stinky drain hole thing? Should I spray it with WD40 before hibernation? Or Veet?

Don't be silly garlicbutter you rub a banana on it, obvs.

Oh, of course. And an abstract coal sculpture. Thanks!

So I've bought the e cloths (was a but disappointed tbh, thought they would be more exciting?!)
I haven't actually cleaned anything with them yet but tomorrow is another day really mean I will give to dd and make her clean mirrors

I have don't the maintainance wash, sadly was a bit over eager and didn't read the whole thread which said you must do it on a regular basis not every 10 years otherwise your kitchen will smell of horrible old water

I cleaned the washing machine drawer with a lot little help from this thread and I've booked the oven cleaner man (haven't mentioned to DH as yet!)

After the banana-sex incident of last night I hate bananas and will never touch one again, can't do the apple thing, far too weak, and there's no room in my booze fridge for tortoises

What can I do next?????
I feel a bit lost:( :( :(

Oh and I've just made chicken and sweet corn soup, how easy was that?? My kind of recipie, especially as it looks and tastes very complicated

Have you googled dragon butter yet?

So when I do my maintenance wash I should have the doors and windows opened? And wash DH's socks and undies something unimportant in the next wash?

Evening all!

Now then. This e-cloth business.... Firstly what does the sodding 'e' stand for???? Odd and suspect if you ask me.

Also I see them EVERYWHERE and have zero clue what they do. That website has lots of women banging on about using them to clean their entire houses with just water...surely this is a lie? I cannot be the only person with a family mucky enough that my surfaces laugh in the face of water and this mystical cloth....?? Neeeeed to know why these things are like catnip to housewives. Cannot all be Lakeland's impressive marketing surely?

So come on. How do they work? I want SCIENCE people, SCIENCE!