Disco is My Cosmos

Here's some basic cleaning techniques: Baking Soda and Vinegar To scrub your kitchen sink, bathtub, toiler rim or around your faucet: put some vinegar in a spray bottle take one of the boxes of baking soda that's probably been in the fridge for 6 months instead of the recommended 1 month. They are really cheap, you can replace them...go for it! empty a plentiful amount of baking soda on the surface. spray with the vinegar. take a scrub brush ( I use one that I used to use on the dishes, ikea has them for $1, or the dollar store has good ones too!) and run it under water. then add the wet brush to the baking soda and vinegar. You can spray more vinegar at this point. You'll see that the mix makes this awesome scrub. Make sure you rinse it all off really well. Avoid doing this before guests come over, because your house may smell like vinegar for a while. You can also use an old toothbrush for the faucet to really get the grime off. Disinfectant spray take a spray bott...

I would say on the domestically challenged scale, let's call it 1-10, 1 being the least and 10 being the most, I wouldn't say I'm really low in the scale, but I could probably only give myself a 5 at this point. Growing up in a couple of decades where the "cool" thing to do was to buy the most chemically-concentrated products for cleaning and popping a meal in a plastic tray in the microwave was the norm, there are definitely some things I missed out on. Now, in 2010, it seems all the things people used to do...sew, cook, re-purpose, even make your own one of a kind apron - is in vogue again. That's really cool because it's obviously better to cook your own food (even grow it if you can), make your own curtains or even a skirt if you get adventurous; and finding a piece of furniture on the side of the road, sanding it, painting it and displaying it prominently in your kitchen is cool, even if you probably had the money to go to Ikea and get yourself a n...