Organizing

@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
May 22, 2012 6:29pm CST
We have done a lot of cleaning and rearranging since the first of the year. Also, we buy some products a lot and often they come with a spray bottle "extra" as part of the deal. One such is a product called Odoban. Now, this is one we like to put in our laundry to kill cat smells and other smells. I did a load of my client's laundry yesterday and I noticed the gallon bottle was VERY low. Okay, its low, but in the kitchen we have 4, yes FOUR, of the spray bottles mostly full! I also noted a partial gallon of vinegar in the laundry room and another partial on the kitchen table. (don't ask me why its there - I don't know) So, I pull those to bottles in, and pour 3 of the 4 bottles of Odoban into the almost empty gallon and then filled up one of the partial vinegar bottles and took the partial vinegar and the now over half full Odoban bottles back into the laundry room. I then took something called "Nature's Miracle" (another odor removing product) and put that into one of the now empty Odoban bottles and recycled the other two. I stored the full bottle of vinegar and the rest of the Nature's Miracle back where they go and pulled out 3 of the 4 bottles of 409 and combined them into two. I recycled the extra. There was yet another cleaning product that I've got 2 of open, I poured the emptier one into the fuller one and then stored it so you pull the emptier one out first. This is one of those that you only need a few ounces of it with water. Then, because I had spilled some on the kitchen table, I cleaned that! Anyway, I feel that I have done something constructive today at home. You ever find yourself with too much of something in one place and not in another?
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
23 May 12
Mostly toilet paper and paper towels, because you cannot pour them into anything. I keep vinegar in the laundry area, and on the kitchen counter. Some goes in the rinse cycle of the wash and some goes in the dishwasher, down the drains, in the coffee pots, etc. I have always used odoban full strength, but I am told you are supposed to dilute it in the spray bottle, oh well. I am surprised I have no vinegar upstairs. I have other things, like diluted Simple Green upstairs and then some other cleaning products. I save the half gallon jugs from our salsa and mix up diluted cleaning liquids. I got quite a bit done today, but wish I had gotten more.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
23 May 12
I've been trying to find a place to store those paper items and I think I've finally found one! Now, if I can just train the OTHERS to know where these things are! I've got the roomie informed, but the totally blind one hasn't been home since mid-April and I so seldom see the other one, since I work mornings into early afternoon and she works early afternoon until 10-11 at night! Now, Odoban doesn't dilute the stuff in their sprayer, so why should I?
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• United States
23 May 12
Condensing cleaning products is always productive to do! Especially since so many of them come in larger bottle sizes. Just be careful mixing though as some ingredients don't so well together and can actually burn through the bottle.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
23 May 12
Oh, I know about that one! But the Odoban and Nature's Miracle are both more related to Febreese than other cleaners.
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@GreenMoo (11833)
23 May 12
I seem to have too much of everything, everywhere!
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
23 May 12
I only have too much of some things... and we keep trying different cleaning supplies I guess.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
23 May 12
If I could only pound the idea oif using up pine bottle of something before opening another one into my husband's head, I'd be happy .
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
23 May 12
yeah... sometimes those guys don't even understand about that one - takes a single guy living alone to start to figure it out...