Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: babyjane on July 13, 2016, 12:22:42 PM
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This morning I used a new bathroom cleaner that I have not used before. The instructions told me to just spray it on, leave it for a minute then rinse off, no rubbing required.
I could not help casting my mind back to my mother's bathroom cleaning day, I think it was Tuesdays, which would start with her liberally sprinkling the bath with a pink powder called Ajax after which she would scrub and scrub and scrub and rinse and rinse and rinse. Even so there would often still be a gritty bit in the bottom when I was given my weekly bath.
Times have certainly changed. What do you remember from your childhood that has changed a lot?
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I remember Ajax babyjane and vim and good old brilo pads still available today ! Blanco for white school plimsoles for pe ! Dr whites sanitary towels with loops and sanitary belts! Vosene shampoo still available. Mondays were wash day with the twin tub ! Clothes were passed amongst brothers sisters and our cousins , in fact its a,family joke how we never caught anything from the pass me down wellys !
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Oh good thread! Toys were passed down. I still have a teddy and a panda from my elder cousin.
Vim, Ajax, Omo ……….
If the bath was metal rather than plastic, it would over the years get 'ruts' in the bottom so any cleaning powder would remain embedded.
Oh - what about those plastic halo-things over the head to stop water running into the eyes on hair-washing nights?
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Gosh clkd you were lucky my dad used fill a bucket with water and pour it over my head to wash my hair , I still have a fear of my head in water,
Did anyone share a bath with siblings my brothers,and I used to when little and as got older one after other in same bath water ! Cant imagine that happening today bath water share !
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Shared with my Mum until my sister arrived when I had to share with her :sigh:
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Siblings! :)
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1 will do ;D
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Yep, shared baths with both my sister and mum. And I remember eyeing up my sisters homemade dresses every season, hoping she had grown. Mum had a top loading washing machine with a mangle. Later on graduated to a spin drier.
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Oh the times Mum would say 'mind your fingers' when I was pulling sheets through the mangle.
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I used to do my Nan's mangle when we stayed with her. Mum hand washed until she got a Bendix. When our boys were tiny we had a spin dryer, then a second hand twin tub before an automatic when they went to school. I used to wash towelling nappies by hand or soak them and pile them one end of the pram and the baby the other and push to the launderette. thought nothing of it, nowadays I get a meltdown if my auto washer as much as hiccups ;D
What's a sibling? ::) seriously I was a lonely only child. I would have loved to share a bath or a bed or a bedroom.
Mum had a Bissell carpet sweeper. She yearned for a Hoover but my father would not buy her one >:(
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Mum still uses her Bissell! but she parted with her very old, very much repaired hoover-thingy a few weeks after Dad died ;D. I loved my twin-tub because I would spin into a bucket for the garden.
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When I lived in a bedsit years back, I washed by hand, but had a spin dryer, which I kept as my washing machines seemed to break down when a child was sick, usually all over their bedding. :-\ I love my sons top loading washing machine in the USA. Takes a huge load and very quick. Not like over here. Programmes take ages and smaller loads. Yes, I know it's supposed to be economical, but soooooo time consuming. 21/2 hours for a full towel wash. Still better than hand washing.
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Daughter asked her husband to clean bathroom for her at weekend as she was working. This is something he has done about twice since they've been together. 3 year old GD was in bathroom with him at the time & said "I'm so proud of you daddy!"
As for old cleaning methods well where do I start? Washed clothes by hand, no spin dryer, so had to drip on a clothes horse in bath until dry, which took about a week, then whole process started again. Thank goodness I eventually got a twin tub! ;D Remember my mum using a washboard & a wringer.
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Tin bath
Outside loo- wooden bench with a hole in and a bucket underneath, that use to be emptied once a week by the "Toilet Man" :-*
Omo
Tide
Ajax
Vim
Mangle
Brick copper in the wash house that you put a fire underneath to heat the water for washing.
My Grandmothers well.
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Oh yes, outdoor loo at my grandparents! I had to use a China potty in the night when I stayed. Grandma had a commode. And no bathroom, just a tin bath though I never used that. When I was small enough I was bathed in the large kitchen sink. And I remember sainsburys with a counter round the shop, sawdust on the floor and a wooden cash desk at the back. Oh dear, that dates me!
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I use to have a bath once a wk on a Sunday evening before the school wk started.
In front of the fire in the winter and outside on the concrete under the kitchen window in summer.
Just as well our kitchen was at the back :-* :-\
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We used to share the bathwater until everyone got impetigo. Then we each got our own bathwater :)
I use microfiber cloths to wipe the shower down each time I use it. They keep the tiles clean and shiny The bath gets a once over with cif (jif as was) and this rinses away nicely instead of leaving grit. However, does this contain the same plastic microbeads that are in cosmetics, and that fish eat? This has been worrying me but I can only find info on cosmetics.
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I use 'cif' for everything
I can't bear the feel of those micro-cloth thingies :o :sick02:
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I buy the expensive eco ones in the sales. They are nice - like towelling. Also, the thin glass cleaning ones which polish the tiles (and the mirror) nicely. The dusters can be a bit yucky on dry skin though but they collect huge amounts of dust ;).
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Dust :-\ - is that the stuff that flies around the room when I show it a mop ;)
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The best thing I ever did was replace all the carpets in one go (following major extension work) No dust for months - just carpet fluff. ;D
(Made up for all the dust the plasterers made)
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Pledge Fluffy Dusters - pick up and trap the dust so none flies around. I am allergic to dust and these really do work.
I have been known to wipe the bedroom surfaces with something out of the laundry basket if I am really bothered, which isn't very often :)
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We have a mix of carpets and hard flooring. I have to remember not to polish the stairs :-X
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I use whatever on offer ! Lost total interest in housework past couple years I do live in a clean house its just not as high a standard as was !
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I have lost interest a lot. The time between cleaning and it needing cleaning again is very short. I have a lot of redecoration that needs doing.
I was particularly apathetic after I had an op. It went on for several months and got better once I found out I was low on Vit D and it did improve. Still a way to go :-\
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Same here WTD.
Use to have a day for cleaning this,a day for cleaning that. Not anymore.
Apart from cleaning bathrooms every wk everything else gets done when & if.
I do check the loos though just in case company drops in unexpectedly.
Dahliagirl :hug:
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We have just had someone come who needed the loo. I had to check it <embarrassing> but it was fine <phew> ::)
I my defence, it is not my lack of housework that is the problem there - just the son who does not seem to be able to learn..............
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I keep our main bathroom clean. Himself does the hoovering and steam cleaning. We share the rest …..
As an aside, as typing that silly advert for a loan company came on: where the lad tells his Mum that the boiler has packed up so 'there's no hot water' - give him a kettle and flannel then?
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My son needs a bog brush :diablo:
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Buy him a Porta-Potty and build a shed ;)
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;D
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I'm clean and I'm obsessed with loos and the kitchen sink but standards have dropped :-\
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Oh don't get me started on our kitchen sink >:( ::) - I have a routine/regime and it's *my* sink. Many years ago his mother was here and offered to wash up 'for you …….. ' - no thanks, it'll get done in the morning with the breakfast dishes. I was in the bath, Himself was in the lounge with his mother ……. I came down the next morning to find the washing up done and he reckoned that he hadn't noticed his mother leave the room >:(.
So I had to do it all again because I knew that she mixed utensils, i.e. cooked and raw ……. and I keep separate cloths for cooked and raw and didn't know what she had used. So she hadn't 'helped' at all :kick:. I am so pleased that she didn't mention that she had washed up …….. or I would have let fly. :-X
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I remember before we were married I washed up for my mother in law to be. I scoured a particularly grease encrusted pan only to be told I had ruined it! Apparently the baked on grease acted like a non stick coating ::)
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Apparently ::) ………..
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Yes - I have never managed to convince my husband of this. The frying pans always shine (even non stick ones ::) ) and everything sticks to the meat roasting tin.
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Mine cooks, I'm in charge of the sink and dish-washer. ;)
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Mopped my wood floor with zoflora yesterday and ruined a new ish dress in the process when tipping water out the mop touched bottom of dress and bleached it 😐
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Just Cif'd the bath after washing the dog. Need to go rinse it now :)
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WtD - I did that with a new T-shirt in March - must have touched the bleach when doing the loos >:( - it's OK for gardening in though. Are you able to lift the hem?
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Sadly not it had spread up the dress quite a bit! 😐
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I use 'cif' for everything
I can't bear the feel of those micro-cloth thingies :o :sick02:
Me neither. They set my teeth on edge😣
Ariadne xx
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>wave Ariadne< - I thought they would be good to have in the camper :sick02:
WtD - smock top then?
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Drat why didn't I think smock top its,away in bin 😒
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Fish it out ! ;D
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cleaned out the dishwasher filter - yeuch, no wonder there was a smell ???