In Praise of Dish Soap
It's been a while since I've offered any new cleaning tips or recommendations. That's because what I've been doing all along, and have recorded in previous posts, has been serving me just fine. But, as we all know, necessity is the mother of invention, and need arose recently for me to discover something new - or, rather, rediscover something not new at all. You see, I ran out of Mr. Clean and I needed something to mop a floor with that would be gentle and not leave streaks. Then I remembered back to the days of my youthful poverty when I would mop my kitchen floors with dish soap rather than buy some special product. So I took my empty spray-bottle added a few drops of dish soap* and filled it the rest of the way with warm water. A short time later I was looking at perfectly shiny, streak-free floors. Being out of Mr. Clean for the rest of that day, I ended up using the dish soap mixture on everything I would have used Mr. Clean for. ...