Future Plans

This was Leon this morning...  

He was at work.  

He found a belt and a hat in his dress up box, then asked me for a tie.  "I'm going to work!"

A Grinch tie was all I had, because Robb has like ten of them.  And that was acceptable.

So he sat there for a few minutes, then said he was done working now and put his stuff away.

What example am I being for this boy??

And yes, I rented the Rug Doctor again...  Someone had dumped pop on the carpet and put a rug over it.  With Leon's fifth birthday coming up and the potential for 20 kids in my living room on Saturday, I needed to do SOMETHING!  besides get after the person who did a horrible job of cleaning up the dumped pop...

I told Robb that when we get rich, I want to buy a Rug Doctor.  He said that when we get rich, let's have our servants use it.

Okey doke.

The Best Cleaner In The World...

I discovered this on Pinterest of course... Now I can't find it to link to, but that's where I got it. Thought I'd try it out. What can it hurt? I had all two of the ingredients, but I did splurge and get a cute blue spray bottle to put it in from the Dollar General.

My outside investment of $1.

Here it is. 1 part Dawn dishwashing soap (I'm using the blue generic stuff) plus 2 parts Hydrogen Peroxide. Pour them both into the spray bottle and you're good to go.

I need to buy another spray bottle because my daughter in law has fallen in love with this stuff and taken it upstairs.

Spray a little bit around on the counter and it cleans up really well with a damp cloth.

Spray some in the shower and the soap scum and grunge clean up quickly.

For Carpeting!!!
I used this mixture for a pretreatment on our cream colored carpet. We have 5 dogs (6 this week, we're dog sitting). With dogs, there are occasional accidents, vomiting and chew ups of messy things. We have a carpet steam cleaner, but it hasn't been able to keep up with the dog stuff. And to be quite honest, I haven't been working that hard to keep my carpets pristine lately. Too many other important things to attend to... Like this blog and popcorn making.

Plus when you tilt this cleaner up a little, one of the many brushes fall out. It's not in the best shape anymore... But then again, who is?

So when I was preparing for the baby shower, I attacked the carpets. Spraying this mixture on any and all spots, especially high traffic areas. Then brushing it with a scrub brush or wet washcloth. Then in my steam cleaner, in addition to the cleaning solution, I've been adding another 1/2 to 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide to it. I went over the entire living room carpet really slowly. I must have emptied the dirty water 2 dozen times in the process. Oh, did the same thing to the rugs in the kitchen. The carpet still isn't like it was 14 years & 3 weeks ago when we moved in... but it's looking a heap of a lot better than it did last week.The left side is the pretreated and the right is after a pass with the steam cleaner.

So anyway. That's my testimonial to a recipe that I didn't invent. Don't know who did, but THANKS!!! I need to go now and pick up a few more spray bottles to make more.

And buy some stock in Hydrogen Peroxide...