Cleaning

I'm somewhat in cleaning mode today. We have a lot to do before we start another week and I start working again. It was so wonderful having an entire week off from teaching. What a blessing! Anyways, my father-in-law is coming to visit tonight and my stove was looking yucky. And I mean, REALLY yucky! So, I sprayed my usual cleaner on there and had a bucket of hot soapy water and started to wipe. Sick! It was greasy and tons of food was stuck on there...I did not feel up to cleaning this stove top for the next two hours. Then I remembered a cleaning solution that I saw on Pinterest! Happy!

Make a paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and smear it all over the top. Let it get a little crusty and wipe it off with a damp washcloth. It took me less than 20 minutes to get my stove looking pretty clean without a lot of elbow grease! I wish I had taken a before picture--if you guys saw how gross it was, you would be amazed at the transformation! I will be doing this to my oven on Sunday. If the grease is especially hard to get off, make the paste, let it dry for 1-2 hours and then use vinegar in a spray bottle and spray it on the surface as you're wiping it off. I'll take before and after pictures of my oven and let you know how that works. If it does as good of a job as my stovetop--I will not be wasting any more money on oven cleaners. Do you KNOW how much those cost and how toxic they are?! It's about $5 a bottle and I've been known to use 2 to get my oven mediocre-clean. Definitely not worth the time OR the money. And believe me, my time is way more valuable. :-)

I love, love love cheap AND easy cleaning solutions! Hope you guys try it out for yourselves and see the difference!

Next on the list of things to do: clean my living room before 5 tonight and paint Miss Phoebe's room tomorrow. Thanks to my mom, that is so gonna happen! Yay! It's yellow right now, but it will be a lovely lavender by the time we're done. Oh, and I really gotta clean her room. It amazes me that she's turned into such a packrat. Hmmm, wonder who she gets that from? I'll give you two guesses and the first one doesn't count.

Now, I'm off to reprimand my daughter for being too loud during quiet time and then taking a little nap myself to get me through til tonight. :-) Have a great afternoon!