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Catfat
Member

02-27-2002

Monday, November 15, 2004 - 11:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think you are probably right, Lum. I only sent the two letters, both testimonial type.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Question: I have a white ceramic sink. (I think that is what it is.) Anyways, it is white.

But now it is stained a brownish/red/rust color near the drain, maybe from coffee?? (I know it is not a rust stain, that is just the color.)

The question is what can I do to get my sink back to white?

Thanks in advance!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I'll have to look back in the archives for you, Julie. I have a white sink also and Lkunkel gave me really good instruction back along. I'll be back!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Porcelain Sink Stain Remover
1 teaspoon liquid dishwashing detergent
1/2 cup liquid chlorine bleach
1/2 cup white vinegar

Close drain and run several inches of warm water into sink. Add above ingredients. Let stand in sink overnight. Rinse out sink with hot water.


This was first posted back on 5/23/04 at 11:27 by Lk. It really is a good recipe, but I only had to use it once because, since then, I have kept up with my sink. Such a good girl am I!

Also, the new Mr. Clean eraser things are great for my sink. They work just like a charm. Have you tried them?

BTH, the search feature here at the Clubhouse is amazing!



Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee thanks a million!!!! You are wonderful! I'll be making that "potion" tonight during the Amazing Race!!!

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thought some of you might be interested in this..or perhaps we all could get some tips from here.

Thursday's Oprah:

THURSDAY'S SHOW: How Clean Is Your House?

She looks perfect, but she's keeping a really dirty secret. No one has been inside her house for two years, and you'll see why. Now, 24 hours and 50 trash bags later, you have to see this transformation.


Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Skootz! I'll set the VCR now!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I just finished the last window in the house (on the inside) and all curtains have also been washed and rehung. Now all I need is a willing tall guy to do the outside before the snow hits.LOL
Darn, I missed Oprah. Was it any good?

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just came back to check because I taped today's show...I do NOT pay attention...almost as good...bipolar disorder ...but it is tomorrow's show that Skootz was telling us about...so neither of us missed it. Sorry to lead you astray, Lum. Hope your tall, dark, handsome, willing guy shows up. Oh, he only has to be willing?!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tall, willing and able, Vee.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, that Oprah show was quite something. Poor woman! Makes me feel ever so much better about my little stash of clutter, but then she used to be a neat freak. Yikes!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Darnit, I missed it again.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I do have it on tape...

unbelievable...We had tenants like that..except there stuff was trash and crapy, not like this lady. Our tenants didn't have all the dog crap, but they did have a number of cats that lived in this house.

We burnt garbage for 2 days straight (including carpets because you couldnt get the smell or dirt out) The recycle truck took 7 minutes to load up up the truck. (It would normally take 10-20 seconds per stop)

It was gross to actually see people live like this. It is also gross having to clean it all up..you really don't know where to begin.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandmother had quite a good day today with a decision to share something that she had saved since 1946. It was a Christmas cantata from a well known big band of the time.

At first she tossed the music into the garbage, but my mother rescued it saying that perhaps a friend of ours who is a high school music teacher would like to see it. Maybe it would even be something she would use, which pleased my grandmother to consider.

So this afternoon my mother took it and dropped it off at this gal's parents' home so they could deliver it to her. When her father saw the piece he was so delighted that he could hardly talk! Seems that his father played the lead trumpet for that band from 1944 through 1949. That led to his getting out some of his father's photos one of which showed the band playing that very cantata. And they say that truth is stranger than fiction...after today, I believe it.

So my mother had a very happy day, my grandmother is happy, and it blessed this other family a whole bunch, too.

That does not mean we should all be saving everything I hasten to add, expecially after seeing the Oprah show!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Skootz, how do you suppose those English ladies and crew got that place so cleaned up? And they rescued the carpet with club soda? I found that hard to believe!

I can't imagine your having to deal with something like that...ewwwww! Found Oprah on the annoying side today...she's so good at stating the obvious..."Carol, something's wrong with you!"

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
At the very, very end did Oprah say she'd help that lady? Oprah did have a good point that the lady had diamonds on, (so she should take care of her inside if her outside was so well off...) I took it that Oprah was almost a little sarcastic or mean.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee...I totally agree, trust me..the carpet with dog feces and urine..would have to be replaced..you cannot get the smell out of it..esp in only such a short time like that.

I was getting annoyed at Oprah too going on and on and on about the lady and her jewels and her dirty house.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, I took it that way as well, Julie. No, I taped it and she did not offer to help Carol any more than she already had. Carol appeared to be almost asking for more help, but I don't think it's coming. And, Oprah has a point...the woman was wearing a ton of diamonds. Get your priorities straight was what I took Oprah to be saying.

Skootz, just as I suspected! I mean how in the world could one get that smell out of the carpets!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Double post...oopsie!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep Vee, that's what I was thinking too (about the diamonds and therapy). But then I thought, what the heck Oprah, you could spare a few bucks. This lady had no job/insurance and likely wouldn't sell her jewelry to get the therapy. I think she needs the therapy BEFORE she'd be able to get her priorities straight. (she needs the therapy in order to get her priorities in order...)

Vsmart
Member

02-10-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On this board we talk about the "reality" of reality shows. Perhaps the carpet was replaced with an identical one. Or the woman's nose had been desensitized after living in that mess.
Maybe she lived in a different part of the house from the animals?
She kept the refrigerator clean by ordering takeout?


Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i finally got the kitchen done at my new house. so here's the pics! i still have boxes in the garage, but nothing goes into the house without being organized!

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Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Looking good, Landi! Do you like your metal shelving? My mom uses a smaller one like those in her kitchen because she lacks storage space. It was actually given to my father for his garage, but he decided that it was too nice for that purpose. My mother really likes it because it's on wheels and moves easily. Very sturdy, too.

Julie, of course you are correct. That gal really needed help to set her priorities. I felt so bad for her by the end of the show because she was beginning to appear flustered and attacked. Hope she has some sort of support when she left the taping because I think she was probably going to need it.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i love it! it's easy to find things, and my husband loves the look of an open pantry