Accomplishments... my Happy

I have to show you my happy!



Well this morning it got transformed into this:

better yes?! Yes.

It wasn't pretty. There were corpses and moulds and all sorts of nasties, but i braved it and now, I feel all accomplished, if somewhat dirty.

First off I had to pull everything out and fill my tiny kitchen floor with all the piles of rubbish.
Then I cleaned the base of the cupboard and the walls with a solution of vinegar and water, rinsed with hot soapy water and dried with a dish towel.
I then put in my shiny new organisational tools:
I bought these forever ago from www.24studio.co.uk they've sat around since then until this morning!
Any how, I went through most of my chemical collection and got rid of what I don't use any more. Like oven cleaner. I just don't use it any more since I discovered a super easy way to clean the oven using bicarb and water. I read about it here: http://www.websiterepairguy.com/articles/h

ousehold_tips/clean_oven.html eliminates all those fumes and nasty chemicals and it really does work!
So, I kept the super strength bleach and most of the laundry products. I kept de- icer for the car because yes, I am trying to cut down on the noxious gases I contribute to the environment but, when you've been frozen out of the car so you can't retrieve your scraper, you have to use *something*. I use this only on the locks of my Vincent.
I kept the Cillit Bang just because it's so expensive and I kept the carpet treatment stuff - A likes to spill red wine occasionally. Oh yes, I kept the furniture polish too. I hardly use it, and when I do I'm very sparing but those two bottles have lasted me nearly 2 years and they're both still nearly full.

On the door I nailed the best of the duster collection. Nowadays I use handmade cotton dusters anyway, but these were in too good a condition to throw away. I also nailed my toothbrushes. No! I don't clean my teeth in the kitchen, they're for tile grouting, silly!

I gathered all the scrubby sponges together and put them on another nail, and another bag holds all the cleaning cloths. Again, we use handmade cotton ones now but I felt wasteful thinking about throwing these away so I kept them.

I found we had tons of black bin bags strewn all over the cupboard so I put them all together.

The bucket holds the latest concoction of 'gloop' - home made washing... stuff.. that we use for laundry now.

Turns out, with all the flinging I did, the other side only ended up with the shoe cleaning brushes and some polish!