And Hubby Gives a Cleaning Tip

Eric had worked on our cars yesterday and he was GREASY-GRIMEY!! UGH! So, thankfully, before bed, he took a shower-whew! After he was done, he called me into the bathroom to show me a nice, clean tiled floor! Woah! What did he do? I envisioned him on his hands and knees, scrubbing away-like I do...No, he discovered, by accident, a new cleaning solution.
Our tile is so hard to clean and I would rather not get the harsh chemical cleaners, but I was beginning to get to that point-I have never been able to really get the mold off. It was nice and white when we moved in-lol! I know it probably needs to be re-grouted (if not completely re-tiled-ugh). Anyway, DH was using his hand cleaner to get off the grease off while taking his shower and some slipped out of his hands, onto the shower floor... he rubbed it around with his foot a bit, in order to break it up so it would slide on down the drain-that is when it happened-he saw how well it cleaned! He grabbed a scrub brush and tried it in other places...it was still working!!
So, if you have gross stuff in your tub or shower, grab some good ol' hand cleaner-the kinds mechanics might use. The brand my husband was using is Go-Jo :)

Cleaning Tip Monday

Oh yes, I know it is not Monday, but I had to use this late last night when one of the kids broke a bottle of nail polish on the carpet :( I started with the last little bit of nail polish remover we had left, and sent Eric out to the store to buy more (it is so nice to live close to the stores!). While he was gone, I looked online for tips on cleaning nail polish out of carpet-thankfully this seems to be a common problem :) People were saying peanut butter (wouldn't that just be a whole other issue to clean up?), dry cleaning solution, nail polish remover (which I was trying and having some small success with) and other odds and ends things. Then, one person's post caught my eye-they used the same shaving cream gel my hubby used! I got the can (which was running very low) and tried it on a small section (btw, did I mention that it splattered pretty good-ugh!). It started working, and the shaving cream was not hard to clean up. So, here is the process I did. I squirted a very small amount of the Gillette Fusion Shaving Gel (remember, shaving cream-especially the gels-goes a long way) onto the polish (did I mention it was red?). I used my fingers to lightly spread it around the stain-not rubbing it in, just barely and lightly rubbing the surface of the carpet. Then, I dabbed/blotted the shaving cream with a wet rag-a bit more than damp and it was wet with cold water. I took another slightly damp rag and blotted/rubbed some more. Then, when I could see the polish was gone from that section, I took a dry rag and blotted some more to get any excess water out. I got about 99% of the stain out. I started to get tired, so I will get the rest out today. But, overnight, on the last teeny bit of stain, I sat some paper towels that were weighed down by a couple heavy books :) Anyway, try it if you ever have this happen.