I put a cast iron pan in my porcelain sink overnight, intending to clean it in the morning. The next day, I found a huge rust ring under my pan. Horrors!! I scrubbed it with Soft Scrub with bleach. The rust ring remained. Horrors!! After I finished bemoaning my terrible luck – and wondering how […]
Cleaning
How-To: De-Stinkify and Polish Sea Shells
While in Belize, we collected an enormous amount of shells. Well, maybe not a ton of shells, but plenty of pretty ones. They made me happy – both searching for them and bringing them back to remember our wonderful island experience. There was just one problem: Some of the shells had a musty odor and […]
Fixing a Running Problem
This isn’t about running form or sore feet or chafing. No, this is about another running problem: Rust stains. Sometimes you’re given bum safety pins to attach the race bib to your shirt. Unfortunately, you don’t know that you have bum safety pins until after you remove the pins and find that your massive amounts […]
Help – Agave/Syrup/Sap Spillled!
This story begins at the intersection of thoughtfulness, warm weather and false advertising. During my pantry purge, I found not one – but two – bottles of agave nectar. Why I had two bottles, I’ll never know. But the great irony of the agave was that we quickly discovered after buying one bottle that agave wasn’t […]
Two Pinterest Tips Worth Trying
The test subject: The guest shower that’s been a bit grody since we moved into the Hayley house nearly four years ago. Test one: Vinegar cleans hard water off of shower heads. Like I said, our guest shower has been a bit grody. This isn’t technically dirt, but it is an abundance of hard water […]
Too Much Junk in the Trunk: Organizing the Car
Hi, my name is Shannah and I have too much junk in the trunk. Seriously…this normally well-organized, a-place-for-everything-and-everything-in-its-place woman has a deep dark secret: My car trunk is in complete disarray: Erp. I decided it was high time to clean up that mess. Let’s just call this part of getting our lives pulled back together. […]
Removing Silver Tarnish: How Pinterest Sometimes Sort-of Lies
I saw a pin on Pinterest many months ago that I knew I had to try out: A how-to on removing tarnish from your silver all at once. Here’s the how-to photo: And the instructions: De-tarnish ALL your silver ALL at once… line your sink with aluminum foil, add 1/2 c table salt, 1/2 c. […]
Clean Your Washing Machine (Please, Shannah, Do It!)
Since I (accidentally) showed you my disgusting washing machine yesterday: I thought I’d better show you how to clean a washing machine. First, fill the wash tub with hot water. Add 3-4 cups bleach. Allow the machine to agitate for 1 minute, then let it sit for an hour. Those black specks in the photo? […]
Clean It Up: Pillows
Once a quarter, I wash our mattress pad and deep clean our mattress. It helps freshen everything and delay both normal wear-and-tear, as well as gross build-up that happens over time. Then I saw a note on Pinterest about the importance of washing your pillows. I’ve washed my pillows in the past, but not on […]
Now For the Rest of the Story
Saturday’s run around White Rock was a huge failure. We didn’t meet up with the running group, so all we truly accomplished was a drive downtown and a drive back home. In the rain. Kind of dampened the spirits, to be honest. So we decided to be uber-productive around the house. Amongst the many projects […]