#housewifeproblems: thrifting dirty

So it's no secret that I love a good thrifty find.

Sometimes you have to look past the perfect find and seek out the "potential find".

I spotted this blue pyrex bowl from across the flea market field.

When I picked it up to inspect it the boy freaked out.

"Mom, that's really gross and dirty, don't touch that!"

I was looking passed the mystery dried funk that was on the bowl 

and looking for chips and cracks.

Under all of this gross was a perfectly good bowl.

The Bowl actually.

This was the one that would complete my set.

So the bowl on the left is post wash hot water and soap. Still funky.

Here is the answer to this #housewifeproblem

My secret recipe for cleaning dirty pyrex.

1 tbsp baking soda

a few squirts of hydrogen peroxide.

Mix these two into a paste and then buff onto the pyrex using your fingers.

warning: it may sting a bit... you can totally use a sponge.

I just find it works better using my fingers.

Once the entire bowl has been scrubbed down, rinse with warm water.

I have used this technique to clean all sorts of items:

 pyrex, glass, hard plastics, metals, ceramics...even the kitchen sink.

The Silver Lining

I have always taken a lot of pride in being able to find the "silver lining" in maybe not so great situations. I tend to be a glass half full kinda gal, and really like that about myself. But there are times that my optimism is challenged. Is there always a silver lining?

Today's events went something like this:

• Woke up this morning in a terrible mood feeling like doo.
• Started a load of laundry and quickly set out to burn some of my one year old energy.
• After a few hours at the pool, we returned home to find that there was about an inch and a half of water on the kitchen floor.
• After the immediate shock wore off, the panic set in.
• It's Friday and I need a repair person NOW (not sometime next week between 8am and 8pm) NOW!
• Call repair person in panic, there is something wrong! It must be the refrigerator.
• Pace. Pace. Pace.
• Discover that the water is not coming from the refrigerator, in fact it is coming from the laundry room.
• (side note: our washing machine drains into a utility sink)
• There is a towel in the utility sink, therefore blocking the drain.
• Light bulb.
• All of this water came from the washing machine/utility sink. AHHHHHHHHHHH.
• I have secretly feared this day since we moved in to this house.
• This also explains the suds and glorious smell of clean laundry.
• So about two hours goes by of sopping up the water.
• Obviously this answered the question of if i was going to mop the floor today. Yes.
• I mop.

So why all the rambling on and where is the silver lining?
I'll tell you where.....
The "pre-soak" that the kitchen floor got made for one really clean kitchen floor. I am not sure that it has ever been so clean. Even under the appliances. That is one super clean kitchen floor.