#Cleaning your carpet

[juno-infernal]

sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

[flooringtips]

5 Natural Ways To Maintain Your Carpeting

Your carpet gets dirty for several reasons; one of the most common reasons is your children or pets running around or dirt coming from outside into your carpet. Cleaning your carpet is a daunting task, and you need expert guidance to clean your carpet naturally.

[osseincactus]

I have no caption... just accept them and their poochyena :)

[tswwwit]

Much has been made of those old grand gestures of romance. To die for someone. To kill for someone. To hand over your whole heart, to ruin your life, to pluck the stars from the sky and place them in your lover's palm.

But when you're working with characters who actually can easily kill and die and be thrown into Big Dramatic Moments at the drop of a hat, it's much much funnier (and apt) to go in the other direction. They would do the unthinkable. The impossible! The only thing that could further soil their blood-soaked hands!

They would... do the dishes for them.

[copperbadge]

[ID: Three images; top left, a spray bottle of clear liquid, labeled PRO SPRAY, sits on a gleaming cutting board; top right, Dearborn the tortie glares at the camera from the work desk's copilot basket. Bottom, a white rug with blue patterning in my hallway, surrounded at the edges by dark dustbunny-looking lumps.]

NaClYoHo Day Two! Pardon my grossness.

Yesterday afternoon I did the first of what is usually several trips to the hardware store; I bought spackle, gnat traps, and a PROFESSIONAL spray bottle. PRO SPRAY. It has an adjustable nozzle and measurement marks on the side, so I can dilute the vinegar pretty accurately. Last night I filled it up with vinegar water and laminated the kitchen, and this morning found and killed several weevils it drove out of hiding. It's sitting on the wooden cutting board because I had taken ALL the cleaning supplies out from under the sink and was reminded I should oil my cutting board with some Walrus Oil.

Dearborn is very skeptical about this morning's activity: carpet cleaning.

I threw on an episode of A Date With Dateline, popped in my earbuds, took down my Tineco One X vac and vacuumed for the first time in Slightly Too Long. I didn't get all the way through the house because I was running it on high which drains the battery, but usually vacuuming is a multi-day process. For what I paid for the Tineco I could have a high-end corded vac that does a better job, but I know that I won't use corded vacs because I hate the cord, so I'm okay vacuuming more often with the cordless. In any case, I hit the rugs because the next step was to break out the Hoover Powerdash Pet carpet cleaner and figure out how to use it.

I know I'm dropping a lot of brand names but just because I usually get asked; I don't make money from affiliate links or anything.

Anyway, the Powerdash came to me secondhand from friends who were moving, and for a long time it sat in my hallway in its plastic wrapping because I was intimidated by it. We never had one growing up and I've never really seen one in use. But it turned out that it was super easy to use, you just add water and cleaner to the tank and go; you go over the rug once with the trigger down, to spread water/cleaner, then a second time without the trigger to rinse/dry. I only hit about half of the rugs in my home, just to see how it went, and then stopped because they all seemed to remain very wet after cleaning. (They've since pretty much dried and I'm assured by the internet that's normal.)

The white patterned carpet above is the cats' favorite place to roll around and shed on, and as you can see, those dark dustbunny looking things around the carpet? That's cat hair and other dirt the cleaner pulled up. Gross but visibly effective.

I got a slightly late start so I had myself on a hard time limit; I started at 7, finished up at 8, and still had half an hour left on A Date With Dateline (they sometimes run a bit long). The cleaning solution definitely adds a certain chemical smell to the air, so I'm running the HVAC's fan and I've added "scented candle or incense" to the shopping list. Which I wanted to do anyway; some people always have such nice smelling houses and scent never seems to stick around in mine, but I've never gone hardcore on Making This Place Smell Nice. (Yes, I promise to be careful about what scents I use, I know diffused scents can harm cats.)

Disposable nitrile glove count: Still just 1!

Hardware store trips: 1.....so far.

[mothhball]

how do I tell my sister that I don't really like her current boyfriend without seeming like a hater like,,, something about him gives me the ick.

From what I've seen, he's constantly starting petty arguments and being melodramatic. My sister is no saint either, but he's lowkey gaslighting her into thinking she's the damaged and insane one in the relationship. At least from my perspective.

I just don't have a good gut feeling about him idk And obvi I can't outright tell her because they've only been dating for 3 months and are still very much in the honeymoon phase.

He just seems like an exhausting person to be around idk

ETA

I love my sister but she's also the type of person who's unable to stay single for longer than 4 months very wild from the perspective of someone who's chronically single (maybe my unwillingness to put up with stuff like this is the reason idk)

[conspicuous-clown-car]

considering how fnaf was based off of chuck e cheese, them doing this sly 'fnaf but not legally fnaf' cash grab just proves my point of how spot on scott cawthon was with making fazbear entertainment a shitty company. CEC Entertainment really is that bad

[cobra-wives]

oh my god this show is sooo fucking stupid. why do we have to devote an entire montage (or three) in season 5 to johnny babyproofing his apartment when in season six he LITERALLY ENDS UP GOING HOUSE HUNTING FOR THE FAMILY. HUH.

[yearning-gay]

bro no im so sleepy i can't be developing a piss kink now

[nim-lock]

thanks me friend for saving me $3k in damage restoration company costs

I must still spend $2k in refinishing the floor but that is a non-negotiable amount after the sewer backed up into my carpet

[holdoncallfailed]

i miss the old grimes

[carbon8tion]

Kitty merch dropped, he wanted to feel included. + a quick Kidou edit

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[dragoncarrion]

its insane to me that having carpeted floors is normal in america

[crimeronan]

cleaned for almost 5 full hours today (4 hours 40 minutes, i was doing ten-minute intervals w a phone timer). full list of minutiae would take too long but it involved dishes, taking out trash, decluttering the entire apartment floor, vacuuming the entire apartment, reorganizing stuff in the hallway, multiple loads of laundry done folded n put away, and deep cleaning the bathtub. i was literally fucking Drenched And Dripping in sweat by the time i finished, like i'd just stepped out of a downpour outside. ate some food, got a shower, did a weed, and now i've crawled into bed to snz.

in conclusion. my body is gonna be So Fucked Up tomorrow.

[sanguith]

I had to look up "causes for carbon monoxide inside home" online because I kept being reminded that CO detectors are common in america for personal home use but I could genuinely not think of a single reason why carbon monoxide could form inside someone's living space unless they had a fireplace on at all times and terrible ventilation, but then I remember how non-electric stoves are so common in america and everyone has cars in a garage that is directly connected to the house or whatever and it made sense