Bread Bag or Hazmat Suit?
I walked into the kitchen, gazed at my glistening counter tops, peered into the sink and winced. The glare of the sun dancing off the sparkling metal, stung my eyes. As I put on my sunglasses, relieved and happy the sink was so clean, I abruptly woke up to the sound of, "Mommy!"
I was dreaming. Dreaming of dishes free of food's its and bits, plates scrapped and bowls emptied, before being placed in the sink. Before the water goos the particles, before it becomes a clogging agent.
Soggy food in the sink just completely grosses me out. I don't like to see it. I don't like to smell it. I don't like to touch it.
Eww. Eww. Ewww.
To clean the gunk out of the sink, I use a plastic bread bag on my hand. Traditional rubber gloves don't offer enough grip to pick up the bits trying to worm its way into the drain. The waterproof bag, protects my hand from the slime and does an excellent job removing it, particularly from the crevices.
So, until my dream becomes reality, I will use this cleaning method. Its cheap and I don't have to touch the EWWWWW!
Melinda
P.S. when my cell phone jumped out of my pocket, dived into the toilet, and went for a swim, a bread bag came to the rescue. Unfortunately it could not revive my cell. The bag successfully removed the phone from its grave, without any water touching my skin. Although the toilet was clean, the mere of thought of spelunking after the cell bare-handed sickened me. So, thank you bread bag, this homemaker salutes you!
Posted by Mama Bear at 5/19/2009 10:27 AM 
Categories: Homemaking,Memes
Tags: frugal kitchen supplies cleaning the sink tips frugal kitchen cleaning homemaking humor
Categories: Homemaking,Memes
Tags: frugal kitchen supplies cleaning the sink tips frugal kitchen cleaning homemaking humor
Hey a tip if your cell phone goes for a swim again that just might save it. (I used to work for a cell phone company and have used this tip myself with success!) Obviously, get the phone out as quickly as possible. DO NOT attempt to turn the phone on to see if it works. Immediately remove the back of the phone and remove the battery. Use a towel to blot out as much moisture as you can see from inside phone and outside the phone as well. Lay the phone on a clean dry towel (with the back off, battery out, as open as possible (if you have a flip phone, open it, etc) and let it dry completely for at least 24 hours, up to 48 hours (if it went for a longer swim) and then put the battery back in and attempt to power on the phone. Generally speaking a phone can often survive being dropped in water, it's just that people try to turn them back on before they dry out completely inside. As soon as you do that, it shorts out the circuits inside the phone!
Great ideas for the breadbags though. I use them sometime for picking up doggie messes for the same reason.
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wow!! thank you for sharing that!! i did NOT know it was possible! (I did turn it on, right after I got it out
thank you
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Welcome! Yeah, that's most people's mistake, because they want to see if the phone still works, water + electricity = Bad idea
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I think I had that same dream last week. I woke up. and that is that.
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What a great idea. I hate all that stuff in the sink. Sometimes I hope that it will dissolve itself away. Or somebody else will come aroundand fish it out for me HA! HA! HA! I'm going to have to start keeping my bread bags close!
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