Otherwise, same. I also recommend some half-empty bins that were carefully selected for a variety of interesting color. (Also have Trofast here!)
At least with the plastic bins I have some confidence that I’ll be able to get the marker off if I ever try–I would not have the same confidence with fabric bins.
…I love bunnies a lot but if they’re coming in my house they better be using a litter box and also allowing me to hand-feed them dandelion greens.
The unf*cking is probably not obvious here, but this closet no longer contains clothes that don’t fit. Or I don’t, in some way, like. (OK, there are some items one size down stashed in the back. But only ones I really like.) Probably ~30 items left the shelves and hangers, half to give away and half to long term storage (eg warm sweaters for winter).
I unfucked some kitchen counters in the process of replacing Sparky McSparkson (the artist formerly known as our microwave). Took a bunch of things off the counter, rearranged as the new microwave is too big for the old spot, and things are much better and more usable.
Off the counter:
Electric kettle I brought home from work because global pandemic
Automatic can opener that no longer opens cans
Toaster (we’re using the convection oven on toast setting instead)
Coffee grinder (we buy preground - was still out from grinding TVP into protein powder forever ago)
Coming off soon:
A bunch of tea that can now fit in the cabinet, I think
Paper towels used only in cases of cat barf but up there because we have a cool marble holder
Staying because regular use:
The new, nonsparky microwave which can apparently also do our taxes and shit
Bread machine
Bread slicing guide
Convection/toaster oven
Bananas (where do other people keep bananas? They turn black in the fridge and I forget them if they’re in a cabinet)
The kitchen is already much more usable and looks better to boot.
I am going to be so, so sore. We’ve lived here nearly a year, and I finally got around to washing the walls and baseboards and doors upstairs. This uh…. Really should have been done before we moved in. They were bad. Bad bad. Like, I can tell what foods some of the splatters were bad but! It’s done. That’s what matters. And hopefully I’ve removed yet another cat allergen reservoir from my home.
It’s so much worse when it’s not your own filth though I’m a little ashamed to admit it took me this long, but this thread seems like a strict no judgement zone lol, so I decided to just be honest.
And full disclosure? There’s still other areas of the house I need to do.
I just wet a washcloth and ring it out so it’s damp. If something is particularly sticky, I use Trader Joe’s all purpose cleaner, which is basically a dilute soap near as I can tell.
I go back after the cleaner and do a just water wipe since I’ve always heard cleaner residue let’s dust cling to it?
ETA oh yeah and I’ve seen a hack where people take the reusable microfiber dust mop style things and do that. I had more spot scrubbing, but it would work nicely for just broad swaths.
I call BS on hot water mattering much here. It may help you keep your rag cleaner, but by the time you wring it out and touch a wall with it, your working rag surface is stone cold. More so after a minute of scrubbing