Today’s Homemaker

Now let me preface this by saying I totally believe in non-toxic cleaning supplies. I even bought a bottle of this stuff, and I find it downright incredible. The fact that 1/4 of a teaspoon is ALL that you use in 16 oz. of water, so it lasts at least a year…and the fact that you can get these adorable spray bottles to use with it…I’m sold. But sometimes a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

Sometimes my grout gets nasty, okay? I mean really gross. I wake up one morning and realize “Wow! How did THAT get there?” I really do believe there is a little army of germs that are just waiting until I least expect it to gross me out completely with a sudden influx of mildew and mold. Or perhaps I just don’t notice it until it gets embarrassing. Whatever the reason, I’m sure yours never gets that way, so you might as well stop reading now.

Ahem. So since it’s just me talking to myself, I’ll be completely honest here. As much as I want to clean my house using safe, non-toxic means, I am willing to risk life and lung to get my grout really clean. Enter the bleach gel pen.

This glorious contraption fits the bleach right into those tiny little crevices, and it STICKS there. That’s what’s so great about it. I swear I can hear those nasty germs screaming “I’m MELTING! Baaaaahhhh!”

So I got down and dirty with my bathroom today, and I’m feeling rather victorious about the whole thing. I might just have a picnic in my bathtub, just because I can.

Oh, you’re still reading? Well, just so you know, I am not the sort of person to have picnics in bathtubs, and I do not hear voices very often. I mean, at all. I do not hear voices at all.