If you know me at all, you know that I have a tendency to be lazy (which is why there hasn't been a blog post in a loooong time). So, of course, I put off my cleaning until the last possible minute and held some expectation that my husband would do some of it while I was at work (that's another post). We were expecting them to come on Thursday sometime after dinner. I got off work early and came home to find it was clean on the surface but there was a lot that still needed to be done. I didn't want our good friends to see some of the fruits of my laziness. At the top of that list was the fridge. It was absolutely disgusting. Right after I cleaned it the last time, which wasn't that long ago, my son spilled the baking soda all over the bottom shelf and it just never got cleaned up. Add that to the natural spills, drips and bits and pieces that seem to find their way into the bottom of the fridge when kids get into it, and you have one big mess. Why I don't seem to care that my mother or sister see the inside of my very gross fridge is beyond me, but they've known me to be a slob all my life. But I digress....
I wish I had a "before" picture to show you. In addition to the baking soda, there was some spilled milk under the vegetable drawer that had become kinda crusty, bits of cheese in the bottom of the cheese drawer, a whole bunch of ring stains from the bottom of jars and bottles and so forth. I had to completely disassemble the entire interior of the fridge to get it all. It took gallons of hot, soapy water, almost an entire roll of paper towels and a couple of magic erasers to get it all cleaned up and looking pretty. After about an hour, here is the finished product....... TA DA!
I think it looks fabulous! I also need to go shopping.
The other thing that we did this weekend was put up our Wii. It was a gift from my husband for our 9th anniversary, which we celebrated last week. And since it has been in a closet all this time, we decided now would be a good time to finally get it together. But pulling out the entertainment center to get it hooked up sent us knee deep into another intensive clean up project. One of those long neglected areas of my house includes behind the television set, which sits in the middle of an oak entertainment unit. There was so much dust back there that we could see our footprints in it (I know, eeeeewwwwww!). So we rolled up our sleeves for the second time in two days and pulled out all the shelving, cleaned up all the excess crap that had accumulated on the top brought out the vacuum. Over all, I would say it was easier than the fridge but equally gross. Again, no before picture, but here is the wall unit with all the stuff organized, neatly dusted and the Wii all set up with the cords neatly hidden out of view.
If this is what it takes to get me moving, the friends, come on over. I'd love to have you. And my house will be cleaner for it!
1 comment:
You're so sweet! I miss you too. It was great to see you. Next time hopefully we'll see the girls too. I was very impressed with the frig! I wish mine looked that good. You got a Wii! Fun..Fun!
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