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Out Damned Spot!
Thu Dec 14 2006


It's is amazing how persistent I can be in avoiding the one chore in my house that just puts me over the edge.

Today I have done 3 loads of laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, vacuumed and dusted the whole house, taken out all the garbages, even done a little surreptitious paper crafting that I promised myself I wouldn't do until this other project that I'm avoiding was done.

I have now stooped to writing my diary entry instead of ......

Bum bum pa bum....


Cleaning the master bathroom.

I just don't know exactly why it is so daunting. It's not THAT big, but it is kinda big, and the floor is hard to wash so that it looks nice, and there are two sinks, and waaa waaa waaa.

But the thing that gets my goat more than anything else is that no matter what cleaning product I use and how much elbow grease I apply, [and believe me, I DO use lots of elbow grease], I cannot get our shower really what I would call 'clean'.

There are stains on the floor, gray ones that will not come out. I have poured straight bleach on them, used every 'Lime-O-Blast' product I can find, soaked it in vinegar, sloshed it with foamy bath cleaners and sprayed it with after shower sprays and that floor is still icky looking. Oh the germs may have been killed. And the soap scum banished, but those stains remain. I have almost decided to just buy a rubber shower mat of enormous size and cover them up. But that would look like defeat on my part.

And though I am able to procrastinate for days and days, avoiding cleaning that shower, I don't seem able to admit defeat either.

Sigh.

Therefore, here I sit, typing away, moaning about my stupid shower rather than . . . . well, there's the crux of the matter..... I was going to say 'cleaning it', when in fact even if I DO 'clean' it, it's not really clean.

It's the futility of the thing that's doing me in.

Grrrrrr.....

I almost bought one of those automatic shower cleaner doo dads I have seen advertised. But even with the 5 dollar off coupon I have, I can't see the 20.00 [after taxes] price tag on the thing. I'm skeptical about how well it would work. And if it doesn't work, then I will be right back where I am right now, only 20.00 poorer.

Bah.

Now that I have finished this entry, I don't have any more things to do to avoid cleaning that bathroom.

Crikey!
11 Comments
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 14 2006
    Could it be a oil from shop in which none of the above has any effect. After all HUB Man does have all kinds of that from work.
  • From:
    Ariella (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 14 2006
    My problem is doing dishes. I would rather vacuum, dust, mop, scrub, cook, etc., etc., etc. rather than do dishes. But I know how you feel about the shower. My tub is the same. It's old. I live in an old house, but no matter what I use or how hard I scrub I can't get it to "look" clean. The germs are gone, but it looks unclean. I hate that but I think it comes with old bathrooms.

    As for your PC on the smoke bomb... I don't think they have to be mechanics to like these particular cars... they just have to be male and of a certain age in order to appreciate the "specialness" of it. We recently had a guy pull us over to ask if we'd sell it to him, smoke and all! BF said "no, I'm keeping it till I die!" and the guy said, "Good man! I don't blame you!" I was aghast. I would have sold it in a second!
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 14 2006
    Oh, if they only knew what other thing you did to procrastinate doing that bathroom! Webcams are fun now aren't they? Shhhhh. I won't tell. :o)
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 14 2006
    From what you're describing it sounds to me like the surface color has been permanently changed which means there isn't a darn thing you can do to correct it but I'll give you a little hint that will make cleaning the walls easier. Car wax. Clean the walls thoroughly and allow to dry. The smear them with wax and buff. You've now put a protective coating between the wall and the soap scum which keeps the walls from getting soap and hard water residue. I do it about every 4 months or so and it makes a HUGE difference.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    Hey! the bathroom is CLEAN already. So there's a spot. Give it a rest. No. Give yourself a rest. It's a spot. Not dirt.

    Go buy that shower floor thingy and stop obsessing.

    Sheesh!

    You don't have enough work to do? C'mon over and give my new Oreck a shake-down trial.

    Shalom

  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    Oh... I like WA's comment about the car wax, I'll have to give that one a try as soap scum is one of the banes of my existence!
    Alli
  • From:
    KiwiKimi (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    If neither bleach nor vinegar has moved the stains, I'd say they're permanent. Spend the $20 on yarn or chocolate (or both) instead.
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    I like KiwiKimis comment - a much better use of $20 in my book! :o)
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    You would feel so much better if you could see my shower. After 25 years we have some very impressive hard water and rust stains that are there forever or until we remodel... ok, make that forever. lol I wish I had known WA's car wax trick years ago.

    Spend the money on a $10 mat and then go treat yourself to yarn to make yourself feel better. Trust me it will work. :)

    We are verrry windy here tonight. The power was out for two hours this afternoon, but thankfully came back on by early evening. It is still howling though. The coast was seeing gusts up to 97 mph; Portland was seeing 50. It is going to be a noisy night.
  • From:
    LifeOFLouise (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Dec 15 2006
    I don't do Windows or mirrors. I'll do your bathroom if you come and clean my windows. If I moved the curtains in my room I'm not sure I could still SEE through my window anymore!
  • From:
    MizzM (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Dec 16 2006
    Buy the rubber mat already...