While I am at it...

[katallison]

Really rewarding moments, on a Sunday afternoon:

1) Tweezering masses of confetti out of the thoroughly-jammed paper shredder, bit by bit by bit.

2) Going to dust off the top of the cabinet hanging above the range, which has about a one-foot gap between it and the ceiling, for the first time in *ahem* ten years or so quite a while indeed, and discovering that it is covered in a quarter-inch-thick layer of grease felted with dust, so thick and tarry that a putty knife will be required to scrape it up.

3) Discovering that nobody on the entire planet makes or sells replacement drip pans for the weird-ass range in your apartment, and hence the original drip pans, which you have cavalierly burnt black over the years of slopping your cooking about, cannot be replaced and your landlords will probably be forced to kill you when you move out. (Assuming they haven't killed you already for the disastrous spots where the long-defunct cat puked red-food-dye-infused cat food on the unsealed wood floors.)

4) Spending several hours on Google, trying to figure out how in the hell a person is supposed to clean unsealed wood floors, anyway, since every cleaning product in modern commerce, including those specifically made for cleaning wood, is labeled "Do Not Use on Unsealed Wood!"

Oh, Sunday late afternoon, you saddest of all sad times of the week, why do I make you even bleaker by diving NOW into a full month's worth of deferred cleaning??

Comments

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

If you figure out how to get the greasy dust (dusty grease?) off your cabinet, please let me know. Our stove hood is covered with the stuff. It is not pretty.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

It seems like scraping off the worst of it with a plastic putty knife that doesn't scratch the surface, and then going at it with a baking soda/water paste, is the best bet. The baking soda really does a better job of cutting through the grease than any of the fancy modern much-more-toxic cleansers, although you're left with a whole secondary clean-up project with the baking-soda splatter; it does tend to get all over everything.

(And I hug you! and apologize for being so out of touch for so long!)

[debchan.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have the answer! It's something I picked up at Cub in the cleaning section called Goo Gone. It's made with orange oil and it works really well. I've found it's also good for the million and one stickers my male offspring used to like to put every where (and I'm still finding).

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I shall have to try that. It means buying a putty knife, but that doesn't seem to be too daunting a task.

I'm totally with you on the baking soda, but so far it hasn't budged the stuff; I guess it needs scraping first.

And don't apologize. I'm so glad to see you posting! ::hugs::

[heresluck]

Yes! Baking soda!

Putty knife first, yeah, but then... paste of about equal parts baking soda and water, smear it on there, and leave it for, I don't know, thirty minutes? maybe longer? and wipe and rinse.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Aha! I have used baking soda on it, but evidently I haven't left it lying there long enough. Now I know the secret and no grease shall thwart me! Bwahahahaha...