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?????

Jux - if you haven't tried baking soda yet, give it a go. Slather the mark with it, leave it overnight and try mopping it off with warm water.

A far better idea, however, would be to ring your contents insurance company!

I have baking soda, I use it for, um, baking! Thanks, I'll try that.

hey all! been a super lurker over here, mostly because ive been too busy smashing up bananas/apples/washing machine drawers to post anything useful. im really surprised no one has mentioned the wonder that is sugar soap! i think im addicted to it, it cleans EVERYTHING! so far ive used it to scrub DS old baby walker, got the mould off the shower sealant, stains out of DS old baby clothes, pen out of my grandparents extremely porous white stone fireplace and get hair dye out of the towels! im now going to use it to scrub my eyes after looking up dragon butter :)

The sugar soap that is supposed to be used before decorating?

Yes, sugar soap is almost as wondrous as WD40 and at least as wondrous as baking soda & vinegar. I have a tub of Astonish mega-cleaner, which is basically ready-made sugar soap. Works :)

DIY sugar soap = detergent (er, proper stuff not eco-bollox) and sugar. That's what mechanics use to clean their hands & surrounding surfaces. It's only 1 step away from gelignite, which makes it sound all the more effective in my book!

I have now AMAZED family and passers-by with my apple-twisting skills. But have manually puréed several bananas ...

And borax - brilliant stuff.

Sees off ants, bleaches mildly, unfelts wool a bit

Bananasqueezing Doesn't Work.

The End.

HomeEco maybe you're just a really good scrubber?

I think that's it, kickass! And I'm just an old soak.

Well that'll teach me to skim read... Thought I'd check out the fire.hazard but couldn't find fluff filter on tumble dryer, but found similar panel on washing machine. It's a drain filter apparently. Cue water with black bits in all over kitchen flour. Am soaking filter piece in bowl of water with dishwasher powder. . May move on to oven soon, but am a bit scared!

Floor, not flour. Also, banana squeezing didn't work for me either.

I made your soup yesterday Honeydragon. Was very nice, DH took the last of it to work today and declared it delicious. That makes three delicious meals I got out of Sunday's roast chicken.

I am confused about the banana squeezing. I thought you were all saying that if you squeezed the bottom the top opens, but it doesn't does it? I squeezed the bottom and the bottom opened - really easily too so it's my new method of banana-opening.

The banana thing does work. Which end are you squeezing? If you gently squeeze the black bit at the end it comes apart.

oh for gods sake you lot its really not that complicated look-> Hes wearing monkey pants too

Yes, but the way I read it was that you squeezed the black bit at the bottom and the top opened. Now that really would be worth broadcasting whilst wearing monkey pants.

Oh haha. Me too. I thought the idea was you squeeze the black end and the opposite end magically opened.

I tried the banana thing today and was suitably impressed.

I've been annoying impressing dh and dd with my banana-squeezing skills for days. They are about to kill me give me a medal.

Free at last, free at last, thank veet almighty, I'm free at last.

Ha ha kickass - possibly not the first time that observation has been made

right - so laundry balls are bollocks, banana squeezing works for some, and eco-stuff is best left to the scrubbers & soakers in life.

what else have we learnt?

Nobody tried my TePe brush plughole method?

Did you all check your scary secret tumble dryer draws?!!??!

Sugar soap is wonderful stuff, but if it works on shower sealant I may weep with joy. I have a very exciting weekend to look forward to now.