Cleaning Demons

Oh how I love the water and ice dispenser in my side by side refrigerator.


Oh how I hate trying to keep the spill tray clean!


Ice falls on it and melts. The hard water deposits build up and they do not come off, according to my lazy self anyway. Anything I have to scrub for twenty minutes is a lost cause. I took it off a few days ago to clean and couldn’t bring myself to do it. So there it sat in my sink for a week. In the mean time guess what I have discovered? Only time will tell but so far I like living without it! If ice spills out of the dispenser then I can see it sitting there and wipe it up right away. Yay! Another discovery that makes my life easier!!!

I’m sure there are other cleaning demons around us that are trying to make our lives miserable and that we could actually be living without. Can you think of any? Your children perhaps? Just kidding! (I think)

Oh I thought of a good one. How about horizontal blinds? I had those on every window when I bought my old house. First of all they are ugly, they block the view, they’re a pain to open and close and they are a nightmare to keep clean. (Sorry if you have these and like them!) I spent the first few years replacing them with drapes, basically just simple pieces of hemmed white linen. I like white to let in the most light and I’m using the same thing in this house.

I did get the tray clean by the way. I scrubbed half the plastic off in the process but it's clean! Now it's going into long term storage.