It’s a quick post from me today.
I’ve spent the morning doing my nails (simple neutral colour today) and getting ready for my husband’s high school reunion tonight. I promise to post dress pictures later.
We’ve heard that someone who bullied him in high school will be there tonight.
I’ve also been told by my husband I’m not allowed to greet him with “Oh you’re the asshole I’ve heard all about.”
Party pooper.
Anyway, today’s post is a total detour into some cleaning I did this week that brought me huge satisfaction. Oh, you didn’t know I’m a weirdo that enjoys cleaning? Yet my house is never spotless, definitely not because of my husband and child, or their magical abilities to leave dirt and glass clippings wherever they go.
Ahem.
Every week when I do my weekly planning, I pick a new zone of the house. In between my daily cleaning and tidying, I try to tackle one task that never gets done, or is due a deep clean.
Enter our living room window tracks.
They haven’t been cleaned since we moved in almost ten years ago. The dirt build-up was so bad. It looked like the bottom of the track was black, when in fact, they’re white. Or meant to be.
I attacked them first with a cheap tool I got online. Basically scourers attached to a handle that you run along the rail. It did OK in the middle of the track but not a chance it was getting into the corners.
I vacuumed up the dirt, then attacked it with a steam cleaner. Brown water spilled everywhere, and it was so disgustingly satisfying. If you’ve ever watched a pressure cleaning video, this was the window track version of it.
Here’s my glorious before and after.
If you have no idea what you’re looking at, it’s the dark area at the base of the window.
All up, it only took about 20 minutes, but it was so satisfying. Needless to say, the rest of the windows around the house are now in my sights.
What’s the most ridiculously satisfying thing you’ve cleaned lately? Or am I the only one who gets excited about this stuff?
Oh boy, the window thing is not on my list of things to do but I imagine it probably should be! I think I won’t go check mine. 😆 I DO need to do a regular cleaning of the house today. But I’ll just focus on the main areas- the kitchen, living room, and our sunroom. Thankfully the boys and husband handle bathrooms. I cleaned our bedroom last week so I think we’re good there. I definitely don’t have time to keep up with as much “deep cleaning” as would be nice. I do need to clean our front door storm door though because Charlie always breathes all over it when he wants to come inside and it ends up looking all streaky! lol.
I hope you had fun at the reunion and got be at least a little bit snarky!
I don’t know why the people who owned out house before us put ledges around the ceiling in the bedroom and bathroom — they just collect dust and are impossible to reach/clean without a big step stool. When I tackle them, I am both disgusted and satisfied to no longer have a dust mite village over my head,
I refuse to take this opportunity to look at my windows in this way, but I’m happy for you! Enjoy the high school reunion: I know exactly what you mean. I always want to go back in time and yell at the people who made my partner’s life hard in the past, and then I’m not allowed to yell at them today 🙁
That is so interesting that spouses go to the reunion as well. I have never heard about that in Germany. Weird.
Yeah for the windows. I feel your satisfaction. I am just lazy and wouldn’t want to do it. But the other day I cleaned out the cutlery drawer.
I totally understand the satisfaction of cleaning – I recently deep cleaned our kitchen and it took a while (also emptied each drawer and decluttered) but it was worth it.
Hope we are getting an update on the reunion?
Ooh, that DOES look satisfying! I love it. I just reorganized my office closet, which I was using just to throw things I didn’t know what to do with, and it feels SO GOOD to open that closet and not feel a sense of panic, lol.