Glass shower, you are high maintenance

Hey, guys!  It's been a minute since I posted.  Most of my projects have been on hold because around the time of my bathroom makeover post, I suddenly had Ashford home with me after 10:30am everyday.  (Side note - what the heck is up with 'half day' kindergarten, which is really only 2.5 hours?)  I found out real fast he didn't like being bored with me all day, and I was about to lose my mind, so now he is happily at the YMCA after school in their great after-school care program!  And I can do things again, like work on my photography business.  And clean.  And clean.  And do laundry.  And clean.  I got to thinking about our master bath today, and how much I love and hate our glass shower.  Love using it, hate cleaning it.  The glass always looks like this, even though we use a squeegee after each shower. 

I tried everything on the glass.  Windex, CLR, Limeaway, Kaboom, Scrubbing bubbles, etc.  Nothing touched the hard water stains.  So, I got on Amazon and saw what was available with great reviews.  This product was highly rated, so I bought it. 

It's got a kind of minty smell and it also a mint color thick gel/paste.  You put it on a cloth or paper towel and buff it into the glass.  I did test it in a small area by the sink wall to make sure it didn't scratch, since this is a mild abrasive.  Being that it is meant for glass and other surfaces, I wasn't expecting any issues - and didn't see any. 

I didn't think it required that much effort, but if your stains are really bad, you might need to use some elbow grease!

After you rub it in, you just rinse it off and then remove any streaks with Windex or similar glass cleaner.  I can't believe the difference!

I swear it feels brighter in the shower, too.  I still need to perfect everything with the regular glass cleaner, but it is awesome to have all those spots gone!

Some before and afters (some taken with light on, some off):

Now, I need to tackle the grout and caulking around the tile.  Ugh, never ends!  I hope to have something more fun to share soon.  We made some changes to the basement, and I need an opinion on our doors.  Have a great week!

 

So, I cleaned again

This time I had to do something about our disgusting garbage can. 

Ok, it was way worse than this shows.  Let me try a closeup. 

It was like this all over the outside, and don't even get me started on the inside of the lid!  I decided to give Shaklee Scour Off a try on this gross dried food-drippiness. 

Have you tried it?  It's a thick paste that smells like cherries and won't "burn off your nosehairs" - it actually says that on their site!  Here it is with my oldest yuckiest sponge just waiting to be slathered on. 

And slather I did.  I buffed it (with water) all over the outside of the can.  In some spots, I used a lot of elbow grease as well.  Ok, I got a pretty good bicep workout.  I can't lie. 

And afterwards I used a soft towel and a bit more water to remove the paste.  Here are the very nice results!

And the full can in all her sparkly prettiness! 

I'm very happy with the results, it looks brand new!  For the record, I bought my Scour Off on ebay about a year ago because I didn't win it on a blog giveaway.  I have been using it since then for polishing faucets, cleaning the stove, and many other things.  I'm glad I picked some up!

A hairy review

We usually have enough hair on our couches to make another cat. So I clipped a coupon for the new Scotch Fur Fighter and took it home to try it out.

It's a textured paper that sticks to a large plastic handle.   

This is what it looked like after one pass of the top of the cushions, where the cats love to sprawl out.  Yum.

And after the couch was done:

After both the couch and chair were done, I guess it just couldn't look any worse than it already did.

Yowsa!  The tool works really well, but I can't justify using it daily...I think it's a waste to throw out the sheets after every use and buy replacement sheets all the time.  My good old Magic Brush does a fine enough job when combined with the vacuum.

I may buy replacement sheets when they are on sale and I have a coupon, for all those "people are going to be here in an hour!" situations.  Have any of you tried the Fur Fighter yet?   Any new devotees?