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Does anyone here catch rainwater to wash with? I have a barrel that I catch in to wash on my test runs of newly repaired machines in my shop. I guess this would take some engineering to pump that rainwater into the house seeings that my shop is situated perfectly for this .wife tells me that the rainwater is really soft on her sheets.
 
Think Pink

Speaking of cleaning toilets...

The original bath in this house, now officially the "guest bath", is pretty much all pink. It dates from 1941.

The original pink toilet is in great shape, but from the day I moved in, it's sported a nasty ring right at the water level in the bowl. I have tried the usual commercial toilet cleaning preps, but nothing worked.

Finally yesterday, drawing on my experience getting rid of hard water mineral deposits on the RCA Whirlpools tub ring, I set about to use Zud to get rid of the ring in the pink loo.

30 minutes later, and after a LOT of scrubbing, it was finally gone. And here's the sparkling result:
 
Thought I'd show some more of this bath. When I bought the house, the inspector said that the separate tiled shower stall showed signs of leaking. His recommendation was to rip out the shower and put in some plastic contraption. I looked at it and it seemed obviousl that the shower pan had been replaced already and that the signs of water damage was, as Condi Rice so delicately puts it, "historical".

Sure enough, while there was a significant leak from the tub drain (requiring nothing more than replacing the drain fitting), the shower is water tight and I was able to save the lovely original tiling. Here's a photo:
 
Another view of the shower stall. You can see the last two rows of tiles have been replaced, as well as new tiling on the shower floor.

I might add that pink is not really my favorite color, but I did not want to destroy the original tile work, with the nice maroon accent trim tiling that sets everything off so well.
 
Now, Toggle, it's a part of life!

Incidentally, don't throw out your old toothbrushes!

Use them to clean all the nooks and crannies on bathtubs, toilets, etc. and THEN dispose of!
 
And here's a shot looking into the bath. Sadly, at some point they replaced what probably was a pedestal sink with a fake marble cabinet thing. Well, at least they chose a pink sink for it.

Please excuse the plastic covering the window. It's my version of an insulated window. The glass one is really frosted jalousie window panes, which are notoriously energy inefficient (they leak a lot of air) so I built a wooden frame over the weekend and fitting some polyethylene opaque plastic to it. It will remain up until I'm able to shut the furnace down - probably in April. I guess I could tack some curtains to the wooden frame, but ..
 
Incidentally, don't throw out your old toothbrushes!

The ex called me to find out how to remove doogie mess from shoes.

I suggested a toothbrush. Then I wryly suggested he move past his urge to recycle and reuse. We both had a laugh.
 
PS- that shower drain is what became a sauerkraut geyser a few years back... 50 foot of snake from outside the home by the kitchen cleanout fixed that problem... but I've also learned to refrain from trying to dump 1/2 gallon of old sauerkraut down the disposer (darn that Costco!).
 
Gary, we had this discusion about you putting things pretty much clean in your dishwasher(s), which causes me to reach for the oxygen mask. This was the 2nd appliance issue I thought of when I found out you & Toggles ... Cuz I know he won't rinse a thing!! Buddy, get with the program. You don't have 1950s dishwashers, you have modern 1970s & 1980s dishwashers that clean like the beez kneez.

I"ve used cloth for napkins since college in the early 1970s, in fact Mom had started befoer then. But, for our casual everyday eating, she'd always get some nice looking (wash rags) and they'd be used. Yup, it just adds a little ibt more to the laundry. AND, btw, I use a discloth 99% of the time to dry my hands and at the end of the day wip up stuff. A dish rag is used for wiping up spills while cooking and prepping & gets put in the laundry at the end of the day. I can literally keep using one roll of paper towels for up to a yar or more because, as mom taught me, you can wash towels, but ya can't wash a paper towel and reuse it!!! This was engrained into me by age 10. I bought like 6 or 8 rolls of Brawny back in 2001 because of aging dog issues (the patterns were beign closed out and I got them for like 2/$1). Anyway, I still have5 rolls from that purchase!!!
 
I suggested a toothbrush.

Reminds me of years ago after a night of partying...Came home and tried to brush my teeth......Sitting on the toothbrush was a cockroach....So I turned to my best friend and said...

Do I put the toothpaste on top of the roach or under the roach?????
 

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