Three-week Challenge: One Room

[ninetydegrees]

Do you manage with weekly cleaning but keep putting off less frequent tasks? I have a challenge for you: get one room completely clean/tidied up by March 28th. Get your stepladder and dust the top of those cabinets. And isn't it time to wash those curtains? When was the last time you moved your furniture and hoovered behind it? Threw out or donated what you no longer needed?

Come on, just choose a room and do what you always postpone to never later. Feel free to comment to say which room you want to tackle, mention whenever you managed to accomplish something - small or big - so that we can cheer you on, and ask for or share some tips.

(P.S. Thanks, Yvi!)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Overhead thing dusted. It was disgusting. *shudders*
Curtain in the washing machine.
Not sure all the hair is out but some is.

*looks at the cupboard* *sigh* Later...

[schnurble]

I found that getting hair out of the drain works rather easy this way:
Take a thin wooden stick (I use the ones that are meant to skewer meat or veggies and then grill them), hold it into the drain and spin it around. The hair will cling to the wooden surface and wind itself around the stick.
So you'll reach easily hair that's already a bit down the drain and you won't even have to remove the sink strainer :o)

The more hair is in there, the better this works actually...

[ninetydegrees]

Good thinking but I don't have a strainer in my bathroom sink. I have a stopper and my hair gets twisted around its rod and another rod below which I can barely reach with my fingers. I do have some sort of strainer/cover in my shower, though. I can't seem to be able to remove it very easily and the holes are very small. I'll have to investigate further. Thanks for making think about it!

[landshark]

I've found that laying a washcloth over the drain when I get in the shower lets the water pass through and all the hair collects on top/around the cloth so I never have to clean the drains. This might work on a sink, too.

[ninetydegrees]

Oh, I can certainly try this. Thanks a lot for the tip!