What else am I forgetting to clean?

rosie383

I just burst out laughing at the glittery cobwebs monogram.
Thank you. I really needed that.

Now where is that list that I was going to make of all the bits I've forgotten to clean.
Like Suki, I must say that I'm enjoying having a built in cooker. I hated the job of cleaning the sides and back of my old one. It was always bits of penne pasta or spaghetti that I used to find for some reason!
I'm a bit reassured that I already do some of the things which have been mentioned but nowhere near all of them.
Enjoying the thread immensely 😋

janb5

I have high cupboards which get very greasy on top and I found Fairy Liquid shifted the grease. I found it easier to put down old tea towels up there rather than newspaper. If I were replacing the kitchen I would have cupboards up to the ceiling now!

dianasnan

Can I join in please. I checked the rubber drawer pulls on the 'hidden' drawers in my kitchen. Eeeew they were grubby. I also find a new pair of glasses illuminates the dirt very nicely😀

Linda32

I've not checked but I bet the two jugs that I keep the nice clean cooking utensils in could do with a wash

Aril

I have smiled at some of these. Never occurred to me to wash my corkscrew:rotfl:Can I have a gold star please because I pulled out my oven and cleaned behind it last week. It's a much loathed job but I had managed to spill the contents of the compost caddy down the gap so it was really awful:o Spent a week not doing it and then tricked myself into doing it and of course it only took 10 minutes:D Much as I enjoy cleaning both at home and professionally the one thing for sure is that there's always more you could do and it's never finished so it's important to keep a good balance. A house needs to be kept at a level so that it's not a health hazard...beyond that your home your standards. Mine is clean and pretty tidy, but certainly not perfect. Too many other exciting things going on to distract me!
Arilx

bilbodreams

I just thought of another one, the washing machine filter and drawers, they get filthy.....

YORKSHIRELASS

The mug in the bathroom cupboard where we keep our toothbrushes, yuk, must go and get it and put some bleach in it. The edges of the kitchen drawers, always forget to wipe those. Kitchen spotlights too, I got new ones and swore that I wouldnt let them get greasy and sticky like the old ones.

Quite like the idea of old/cheap teatowels on top of the kitchen cupboards.

Oh and I had no idea that you could buy new decals for the oven, very exciting, but the proper ones are quite expensive!

GreyQueen

bilbodreams wrote: »

I just thought of another one, the washing machine filter and drawers, they get filthy.....

Whenever I've used the washer, I spend about 20 seconds with a microfibre cloth. Use it to blot up the water which always sits in the bottom of the door seal, wipe around the inside of the glass door and blot the compartments of the power drawer. Drawer is left ajar to air dry.

24 months with this washer and no mould in the door rubber and have never had to remove the drawer for proper cleaning.

I did take the filter out once, looking for something which might have gone down there, but wasn't and there wasn't any gunk, either.

grunnie

I probably do too much cleaning - I just like hovering. But up a ladder to change a lightbulb I found cobwebs. Lots and lots of them. When I came down the ladder I couldn't see them inspite of having new glasses. Tomorrow they are going to be hoovered and will do a room a day and wash the lampshades.
My kitchen wall units go right up to the roof. I redesigned the kitchen about 17 years ago to suit me. Took down a wall and removed the breakfast bar and now have a dresser and a huge kitchen table. I have been experimenting with chalk paint but that is another story.
I follow the Marie Kondo thread on here and also follow a bowlfull of lemons on faceb ook which is another tidying and style book.

brizesaver

GreyQueen wrote: »

Whenever I've used the washer, I spend about 20 seconds with a microfibre cloth. Use it to blot up the water which always sits in the bottom of the door seal, wipe around the inside of the glass door and blot the compartments of the power drawer. Drawer is left ajar to air dry.

24 months with this washer and no mould in the door rubber and have never had to remove the drawer for proper cleaning.

I did take the filter out once, looking for something which might have gone down there, but wasn't and there wasn't any gunk, either.

I got a new machine 3 months ago and wipe it dry every time now.( I do only use it about 2 or 3 times a week, so easy to do) The old one had hideous mould in the dispenser and unreachable in the grid above it; hoping to avoid that by keeping it dry.
I also put some of those silica gel sachets in the dispenser drawer, you can buy them in various sizes on a well know auction site.
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