Wednesday, August 04, 2010

VICTORY! In the Glistening, White Toilet Bowl



Truly, is there ever anything so glorious as scrubbing a toilet bowl to clean, pristine whiteness?!

Allow me to help you know the delights of such a cleaning.

The whole process of attaining the victory begins with the application of the toilet bowl cleaner. You must apply this with strength and precision, making sure to get it into those “underneath-the-rim” parts. Then, you let it sit. Perhaps you don’t let it stay and soak for the full ten minutes the bottle prescribes, but you give it some time and allow the bleach chemicals to break away the bonds between the other molecules. Once that product has completed its duty, you summon the scrub brush.

Now, scrub brushes can tend to be the more delicate of the bathroom cleaning tools. I have broken at least two toilet bowl brushes in my housecleaning career. Not too great a number, but considering my lack of toilet cleaning time, you acknowledge the weakness of the brush.
Therefore, powerful scrubbing must be done with self-control.
Haste makes waste.
Power crushes the brittle.
Crazy toilet cleaning snaps the toilet brush in two.

Don’t do it.

Scrub away the mold, but not to the point where the life of the scrub brush must be endangered.
No, that is not necessary.

I use my scrub brush not only for the INSIDE of the bowl, but for the upper edges of the rim, under the toilet seat, on the toilet seat itself, and even in that middle part between the tank and the seat.
Oh excellent device is the toilet brush!!
You can keep your hands a clear distance from the muck and mire WHILE scrubbing proficiently. Brilliant.

Next, we move on to the green scrubby. NOW!!!! This is key!!! This is the most disgusting part of the whole toilet cleaning process, but this is where all the DETAIL work is accomplished.

Listen carefully: you MUST possess the scrubby that has the sponge on one side and the green, rough scrubby on the other. The green scrubby is VITAL to the removal of stains and mold. I pity the bathrooms who have never seen a green scrubby clean their insides. Oh! the DEPTHS of clean that are missing!!

With this green scrubby/yellow sponge I wipe and scrub the toilet seat top, under the toilet seat, the base of the toilet, the outside bowl of the toilet, and KEY to this whole process (while being disgusting in the upper most): cleaning the bathroom floor.

For PITY sake! All those NASTY hairs and fluffs of dust are disgusting! I mean, week after week of tending to the toilets and MORE hairs come and MORE dust bunnies come. And I don’t just mean short hairs litter the ground, I am talking about those long, disgusting hairs as well.
Eew! I do NOT like the feeling of unknown, wet hair strands touching my person. Bleck.

After splashing off the dusty hairs, make sure to thoroughly ring out Mister Scrubby. We need him to be well aired in preparation for his next usage.

At last, you will grab a towel and begin to double-check your work. This is the time for mopping up any spilled water, for scrubbing up dirtiness left behind, and for making sure all has been scrubbed to its dazzling perfection.

As you flush the toilet and wave good bye to all the disgusting things you have been scrubbing off, you push yourself up off the ground and gleam triumphantly over your toilet.
Hoorah!
It sparkles in its whiteness!
It appears germ-free!
It smells as clean as bleach!
And now, more booties can come take a seat on the throne!

Until next week, oh mighty , glistening toilet!
We are thankful you are so steadfast and sure in your service to the household.
Bravo.
Indeed.

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