green

You may be getting tired of me raving about cleaning supplies. But I have one more tidbit for you.  Let me tell you a story, which really has nothing to do with cleaning. at all. But sometimes I like to share, even when it has absolutely nothing to do with why I originally sat down at the computer. And sometimes I like to babble, not sure if you had ever realized that, but yep. it's true. I'm a babbler. like right now in fact...so let me get back to business...

I was walking Barkley one day when I bubbly girl in yoga gear asked a woman in front of me something, she shook her head and kept walking, then the yoga geared girl offered me a lululemon bag.  I jumped on the freebie.  Who doesn't love a reusable lululemon bag? Well, I know one person that doesn't like them...the lady right in front of me that said no, that's who.  Her loss.

Anyway the girl in spandex gives me this bag and inside is a sheet of paper to write down your personal and professional goals. (I didn't do that part.) But I turned the paper over and started to read all these interesting mantras. (this is where I circle back to the natural cleaning supplies...)

All the quotes about the environment and taking care of the earth reminded me of my favorite Chief Seattle quote:

"The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."

And then I read further and saw this quote that reminded me of my new found environmentally friendly cleaning supply, bon ami...you know the one that I'm probably a little TOO excited about since it is, after all, still just a cleaning supply.

"Do not use cleaning chemicals on your kitchen counters or floors.  Someone will inevitably make a sandwich on your counter."

And because we are talking about how much we love the earth, and because I have no other pictures to add to this post... here is a picture of Mt. Shasta as my mom and I drove by last summer.

green clean

I typically choose natural cleaning products, however I have always LOVED a good chlorine smell in the bathroom. It just says clean to me.  I love that smell. But recently I nearly asphyxiated myself while cleaning our shower...
...OK I over dramatize sometimes, but it was enough for me to seek an alternative to a good ol' Ajax clean.

I have an addiction to buying Method cleaning supplies, so every time at Target I need to stroll past the Method section to see if there are any new cleaning products, more specifically any new scents to their cleaning products.  That is when I took a gander a few feet away to see the bon ami  sitting there on the shelf so cheerfully.  So i picked it up and after reading on the label that you can clean nearly everything...from your shower to your pots and pans. Hello! Did you just read that? You can clean the soap scum off the shower floor and clean something that you are going to use to cook with.  Sold.

So I brought it home, cleaned the shower, worked great.  no asphyxiation here.

I told Mike.

And then I cleaned the stove (you know, like I seriously, cleaned the stove)

And I raved to Mike.

and then I cleaned the teapot and all the crud that turned the silver teapot brown.

Came off.

Easy as pie

[Side note: pie is not easy, making a pie gives me toddler like tantrums, so whoever came up with that saying, needs to come make me some pie.]

Back to cleaning....

Hello! Our teapot is silver again!

And I told Mike.

At this point he was getting slightly tired of me raving about a cleaning product but then I pointed out how spic and span our apartment is and then he gave me a high five.

Seriously, thank goodness for the near asphyxiation in the shower to bring me to the wonder drug of the cleaning world.

Now, who needs a high five?