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I have been having trouble with a stray cat getting inside and "marking", so I borrowed a black light to find any hidden stains...
There needs to be some kind of warning on that!!! YIKES!
The black light shows anything organic...food,hair,dander,slobber (in abby's case) ect.
Now, you have to understand...I clean my house end to end every day. Sweep, mop, the whole deal.
Even the mouldings and stuff I wipe down frequently...they look clean with the lights on, but with the black light, I can see where I'm missing, or just sort of wiping around!
Yuck...I gotta go clean. With the lights off. As if the neighbors weren't worried enough.
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Barley...I've watched something like that before on either HSN or QVC....They were selling Urine-b-gone or something like that....And it came with a black light to put around your toilet...EWWWW, is all I can say....and the urine crystalizes and doesn't come all the way off with normal cleaning, just with that product.....especially on the carpet....that's why a dog pees in the same place...even though you think the area is clean it isn't....
Pretty gross stuff...I'd buy some of it but I'm totally afraid of what I'd find.....
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quote: Now, you have to understand...I clean my house end to end every day. Sweep, mop, the whole deal.
Oh, I spend WAY too much time on the forum to do crazy stuff like that. I mopped my kitchen when my internet went out last week... ...or was it last month.
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quote: BIG dog feet + mud + white tile floor = Mop at LEAST once a day, usually more.
When I lived with Rachel after my divorce I mopped several times a day. She had white ceramic tile floors in the huge kitchen and dining room...and she didn't even have a big dog! Man, that thing looked nice after it was mopped... .....for about 5 minutes!
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They just had a news story on our local ABC channel about a woman who had so many cats and did not keep after them - the house was deplorable. They were able to rescue 20 cats, 8 others died on the ride to the kennel, and there were so many decomposing cat bodies in the house that the rescuers were only able to stay inside for 2-3 minutes because of the filth and stench! So very very sad... They are looking for the woman - she was nowhere to be found, and she faces 75 counts against her so far.
I know we're joking around here, and it's all in good fun, but something like this just sobbers one up really fast!
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Cindy, the white tile was here when we moved in...in fact, the whole kitchen is white! Counters, cabniets, floor...I understand why, becasue it's a small kitchen,and white makes it look bigger...but man...not easy to keep clean.
Bill, uh...I think you've got bigger problems that the blacklight! I'd be worried about things with eight legs. Still love ya, though! (note to self...always check for spiders...........)
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Lynne, some people need more help than we humans know how to give. There are sad stories everywhere you look, unfortunately...
Sometimes I wish we could do more. Quite frankly, I know my limits on animals, and although I do feel bad for strays, I will only take in what I fell I can adequately care for, and that includes the vet bills that are inevitable with any animal.
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I love those fake wood floors we put in the kitchen....clean up nice....
One of my things on my xmas list this year is one of those Dirt Devil broom vacs...they've had a lot of ads on TV lately...I think that would work great in the kitchen....
Bill has something really pretty to put in that cobwebby spot!!!!
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I have one of those vac's...absolutely LOVE it! One of the best things yet...where there isn't white tile in the house, there is pergo. No carpet.
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Great, I'm glad to hear that you have it and love it...that just makes me want it even more...I'd hate to buy junk....That'll probably be one of my most fav. xmas presents...a vac...LOL
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Hey, don't laugh! I thanked my mom for mine for months after she gave it to me! i am the world worst about sweeping things into a pile in the corner. Seeing as I sweep SEVERAL times a day, I don't always get out the dustpan and sweep it UP.
Drives Mike nuts. So to avoid WW3, mom gave me the vac! Pah, where's the fun in that?!?!?
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quote: I don't always get out the dustpan and sweep it UP.
Get out of here, are you my long lost sister or something????? I do that all the time too...half the time I can't find the stinking dustpan so I just leave it in the corner until I do find it....I swept the piles up I had on the porch the other day...only because it was trick or treating----Mark said, I wondered how long it was going to take you to do that.....he he he.
Now I can't wait to get it at xmas!!!!
I've already started asking my dad if he's excited about xmas??? It's this stupid thing we do...when I was little I'd ask him, and I kept asking him as I got older--just earlier and earlier....He always answers--if I were any more excited I wouldn't be able to stand it....
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quote: Especially at 3am in a dark bathroom when you sit on the seat and your butt goes way down where it shouldn't....LOL
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Sure....laugh all you want ....but it does happen...and it's disgusting....and kind of scary to tell you the truth....you expect to stop at a certain place and you just sort of keep going....
Speaking of bathrooms--I fell asleep the other night in there....
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quote: i am the world worst about sweeping things into a pile in the corner. Seeing as I sweep SEVERAL times a day, I don't always get out the dustpan and sweep it UP.
Hey, Loz and Barley!
On this HGTV show called "I Want That" (I think is where I saw it) they showed a trash can that also has a little vacuum in it, so you just sweep the crap up to the little vacuum, and SWOOSH! How cool is that?
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quote: so you just sweep the crap up to the little vacuum, and SWOOSH! How cool is that?
A bachelor's dream machine!
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loz
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That sounds like a pretty neat invention....I could handle one of those....
Bill it's just those late night trips in there....I'm usually half asleep and then before you know it I'm nodding off..... Only for a few seconds, but it's really weird when that happens....
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A black light, maybe if I had one of those, I wouldn't get bounced at for cleaning 24-7. I even started cleaning for the neighbours (I get paid). Hey, my OCD is making me money now.
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You guys need the "ROOMBA" it's on HSN, click it on, and it vacuums' all by it's self, all over the room.. back and forth.. Realllllllly cool, but $$...
***Barley and Loz,
quote: I don't always get out the dustpan and sweep it UP.
quote: Get out of here, are you my long lost sister or something????? -----------------------------
Maybe so! Let me tell you, that pile will drive Mike insane if I leave it.
I have your long lost brother then!!!!
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quote: Hey Bill....you didn't show them what you put back in that cubby area.
After Karen posted her question about refrigerators, and I bragged about how well my old Coldspot had held up... Karen's fridge completely recovered, and mine promptly died!
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Well...I can certainly tell you when I get my dream kitchen it will have all stainless steel appliences! They are just beautiful...
then I will be too old to cook! But...come to think of it...I think they do have all stainless steel appliances in the nursing home!!! It's a win/win situation here!
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Black! I looked at the stainless steel ones first, but they just didn't seem to be my style... they reminded me of my days (long ago) when I worked at McDonalds!
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I told my Hubby that I wanted black appliances but,he wouldn't listen so of course I have white...and they show every single speck of dirt that comes through my kitchen The stainless didn't appeal to me for the same reason as you...reminds me too much of the years I spent as a cook in restaurants.
Are you really gonna redecorate your whole kitchen? What else are you thinking of doing?
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I have black, and find that it also shows all the dirt that comes by it, especially the cat fur! The appliances are very old, and I'm looking to replace them with white to help brighten up the kitchen.
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i don't think there is a "good" color for appliances...my mom has the stainless, and it showes everything, plus the oils from you hands...fingerprints all over
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quote: i don't think there is a "good" color for appliances
I agree, Barley - it's all a matter of personal choice!
We have an old stainless steel kitchen sink - from the previous owners as well... it shows EVERY single little scratch or ding. I much prefer the white porcelain that I grew up with, but we're not in the position to do a whole kitchen remodel right now, unfortunately...
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My sis has a stainless stell fridge...and they wont hold magnets...so I would be in trouble there! I just get tired of the white....and I don't mind black but I change my kitchen colors a lot...and black just doesn't blend with some of my odd color schemes. Like when I had my kitchen done in the kakhi...black would not have worked! It was one of my favorite kitchen colors. And now...with the red kitchen...the black would make it look to much like the Spanish style ...
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"I have black, and find that it also shows all the dirt that comes by it, especially the cat fur!" Everything I own, especially clothes, is always COVERED in cat fur. I don't notice it anymore... We bought a new propane oven/range last year, a model with one TURBO burner and one SIMMER, and I thought I was going to love it. Turns out, I don't think I'd be happy with anything less than a professional kitchen setup. If I ever get to design my own home, it's going to be designed around the KITCHEN first, then the dining area (even if it's like a breakfast bar setup), then the rest of the house.
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" i don't think there is a "good" color for appliances " What, is there actually a bad color? I'm so obsessed with anything kitchen that I even love the old avacado, the yellow, whatever. And that retro red plaid for dining tables and countertops! rocks! Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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quote: Everything I own, especially clothes, is always COVERED in cat fur. I don't notice it anymore... If I ever get to design my own home, it's going to be designed around the KITCHEN first,
Hey, pepper, me too. I swear, I could build one spare cat a week out of the fur that comes off of my 5 cats. Between that, and one and a half kids, if I ever get to design MY own home, it's going to be designed around ease of cleaning. No grout ANYWHERE, that'll be number one-- solid surfacing in kitchen and all baths. Central vac system, maybe. One of those toilets that's built into the wall, so you don't have to clean that spirally part on the side that holds dirt and dust and...well, everything. And NO STAINLESS. (I'm glad there are so many people here who don't like stainless. I thought I was the only one in the world.
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I'd like a bathroom (*well, I should say a room with just a potty*) I could pull the hose out on, and spray it all down, and it goes down a drain, and it's all clean.
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Hey Weezie...I have seen such a bathroom! No joke...it was originally designed as a handicap-acsessable, tile everything. big drain in the middle of the floor, watertight door...
It's awesome!
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quote: tile everything. big drain in the middle of the floor,
I'm thinkin I might do that to my LIVING ROOM & KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And then I will invest in one of those power sprayers! What a PLAN!!!
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