Bathroom Cleaning Tip

This tip on cleaning one's bathroom really might be ridiculous to my readers. But it was not ridiculous to me in my humble state, so I am going to share one of the best housekeeping tips I've ever received.

It came from my friend Elaine who had two children at the time when I had my first newborn. You see, the only way I knew how to clean a house was the way a single woman does it: I kept my apartment very neat all the time because I was the only one living in it and I'm a neat and orderly person. Then once a week like clockwork, I set aside a few peaceful and uninterrupted hours to clean. I'd put on my Cleaning Clothing and get out my utility caddy full of my perfect Cleaning Supplies. I'd clean my nearly perfect-anyway apartment and get it back up to perfection.

But now I had a newborn and was in that phase of having only one child and having no idea how to get anything done. My newlywed house was a sty and I couldn't keep it clean. I cried to my friend Elaine about it.

She told me to stock each bathroom with a big canister of Clorox or Lysol disinfecting wipes and wipe down the bathroom every so often. And be done with it.

Well!

That was not very environmentally friendly, buying those plastic containers full of disposable wipes. It would be much better for me to use my spray bottles of excellent cleaners (some of them homemade, like my vinegar-and-water phase!) with washable cleaning rags.

So, I didn't take her tip . . . and my bathrooms remained scuzzy and not cleaned.

Besides, those wipes are expensive! Have you calculated the cost per wipe on those? No, I won't do that! No good, frugal homemaker would do that.

So, my bathrooms remained scuzzy and not cleaned.

In addition, it is downright Lazy and Not Proper to do such a simple, slap-dash cleaning of a bathroom! I am not lazy, nor am I not proper.

So, my bathrooms remained scuzzy and not cleaned.

I don't know how many months into new motherhood it took me to accept Elaine's housekeeping tip and, let me tell you, I think it is one of the best housekeeping tips ever. I have each bathroom stocked with a big canister of wipes. When I am in there bathing the kids or just for whatever reason, once or twice a week, I grab a wipe and first wipe down the faucet, counters, and sink. A second wipe does all the outside surfaces of the toilet. This takes fewer than 60 seconds and I can even do it with a baby on my hip. If I'm in the master bathroom and I'm three months postpartum and, therefore, shedding an entire head full of long hair due to normal hormonal changes, then I grab a third wipe and swoop all over the floor. (Or I might even just use a wad of clean toilet tissue to swoop up hairs.)

Voila! It is amazing how refreshed a bathroom looks with this simple, slapdash method.

I am no longer too prideful to highly recommend it!