May 27th, 2005 - Cleaning products
I’m Freecycling my purchased cleaning products! woohoo! It’s about time. Some of these I haven’t used since we moved into this house (Comet–I think it lasts forever). I’m getting rid of 12 things, plus some insecticide/fungicide/miticide for plants. My chemicals shelf is soooo empty. Need to decide on a few others as well. For instance, I have some crayon and ink-away products from the makers of GooGone, which altho petroleum based is fantastic. I use just a tiny amount when necessary. Need to think about these, with Maggie growing up. Do I want to just use natural remedies, or keep these around? my intial thought is that if the natural remedy doesn’t work, I can live with the crayon/ink stains! (On clothing, however, I do use hairspray on ink. I do this at least 6 times a year on my work clothes due to carelessness so have to keep it around as I’m not buying new clothes just to save on hairspray!) On the otherhand, our dining room does have nice wallpaper; I hate to have it permanently marked. On the other hand, I could always buy more if it came to that. (I also have a Magic Eraser which might work wonders. I supposed that’s toxic, but it has worked wonders when nothing else does. I’d prefer a solid object to liquids anyway. I wonder what’s in this thing. It’s magic!)
I also still have Murphy’s Oil Soap (I think that’s considered decent stuff; will have to check), GoJo (although I haven’t used it in ages, maybe it’s time to go; it’s a washing stuff that doesn’t need water. We used it as kids for really grimy stuff [and used water with it]), Terro ant killer, carpet cleaning solution (wonder if our machine can use something else?, also just realized some of that might be for the machine we rented. We own one now so maybe I can FreeCycle those containers, too. Also reminds me that I should put the machine’s cleaners in this lockable cabinet before Maggie gets to the back entry.), Basic H (heavy duty cleaner that gets stains off countertops from Amway; lasts forever). I think everything else is natural or laundry products (which I’m looking at moving over to 7th generation eventually). Wonder about the dryer sheets. We didn’t use any this winter, although we had some loads where it would have been nice. But we *can* live without them. Hmmm…..
The other nice thing about doing this is that I discovered 3 containers of waterproofing spray (one for outdoor fabrics, the others for shoes and backpacks. I will use this up!) and I found Eric’s shoe polishing brush that he wanted two weeks ago. I was looking right there, but didn’t dig under anything so missed it. At least it’s been found.
I just noticed after months of having it in my bookmarks that I misspelled this website. I called it my Bog.