Sorting Rubber Gloves

Chubacheroo

Just a little idea I came up with today..it may have been mentioned before, and I'm sure it's by no means revolutionary (although it is to me!).

I don't know about you, but I have a big pile of (mis-matched) rubber gloves for various jobs around the house. Now, I had tried to colour-code them, but I forget, hubby forgets, and you always end up with the glove of your dominant hand getting a hole in it first. So I came up with a variety of sneak plans!

1. I'm a lefty, so married a righty, hence we have roughly the same hole wearage of gloves (cunning!). Not practical for everyone, I know. :rotfl:

2. I've used a permanent marker pen to write on the cuff of all the gloves, identifying as "kitchen", "bathroom", "general" or "pet" gloves. This way, the gloves you use in your bathroom arn't used for cleaning the kitchen (yuck).

Now I need a cunning system for my clothes. I thought about colour-coding, but it's the same problem as I had for the gloves. Oh well, will just get my lovely bleach out regularly. Any ideas on this, anyone?

kathyd_2

I only use gloves when I'm cleaning the bathroom. Blue.... for the loo. Pink....for the sink. Same goes for my cleaning cloths.

Quasar

To avoid holes on the tip of the glove fingers, turn them inside out and stick a bit of sellotape on the tips. This will strengthen the area where your fingernails (even if very short) exercise the most pressure and wear the gloves down until they fray or split. Replace the sticky bit as needed. That should make your gloves last for much longer.

As for cleaning cloth I also use colour codes: white for the bathroom, pink for the kitchen and blue for other areas. And whenever I buy cleaning cloths such as microfibre, I cut them in two so I have two smaller cloths - each half does the job as well as the whole.

Becles

I just have buy green gloves for cleaning and yellow gloves for washing up.

After cleaning each room, I wash my hands with the gloves on to clean them

tawnyowls

Unless you're disinfecting the gloves (which will perish them quite quickly), you're probably carting bacteria all over the house. There's no particular problem with cleaning most of the house with the same cloths/gloves, but bathrooms should have their own cleaning materials, kept within that space. While I wouldn't go as far as Anfea with her "blue for the loo, pink for the sink" diktat, it makes sense to start with the sink, move onto the bath, and finish the cleaning with the loo (i.e from the cleanest to the dirtiest bit of the room).

Austin_Allegro

If a rubber glove gets a hole, you can mend this with a fabric plaster or a bicycle puncture repair kit.

If you have to throw one glove away, keep the other one to make up a pair in future.

If you get two gloves for the same hand, simply turn one inside out.