Cleaning Newsletter
Good, clean ideas for a good, clean home
By Kathryn Weber, BellaOnline Cleaning Editor
IN THIS ISSUE....
Clean Thoughts A Wrapping Treatise
Pain in the Neck
Featured Product Neu Homecare Products -- BOGO OFFER!
Featured Article How to Clean Dirty Grout on Your Tile Floors
CLEAN THOUGHTS
Happy Friday!
Right about now, I am in Holiday DEFCON 4 mode. Yes, a stack of presents roughly the height of an average Samoan sits patiently waiting to be wrapped. I can't wait. It's true. The smell of Scotch tape gets me giddy! My mother was a wrapper long before hip hop came out. And, this apple didn't fall far from the tree. Wrapping is the culmination of days of prowling the malls and haunting boutiques for just the right gift. It's when it "all comes together."
How about you? Are you a paper junkie or a wrapping fanatic? I remember going to a flea market many years ago (with my mother, who else?) and we came upon a woman selling department store wrapping paper and package toppers. BONANZA! We both became woozy with excitement. Oh, the weight, the density of the paper. Like a fine wine, wrapping with good quality wrapping paper is a joy. Crisp corners. Neat and tightly fitted to the box. It's a Zen thing.
And with such pretty packages, who wants to open them? I just want to sit in my robe on Christmas morning and make everyone sit there with me and just look at the packages...just for a moment, to soak it all in. Then, the opening frenzy can happen. Yes, this year, I'll insist we take a moment for admiration. OK...maybe not Christmas morning, but at least a day or two before!
Pain in the neck
Why all the waxing poetic about packages? I got the news today that I have a pretty seriously ruptured disc in the middle of my neck and am just a small rear-end accident away from a wheelchair. So, it looks like I'll be shopping for a neurosurgeon after the New Year to get this repaired as quickly as possible. Funny, though. The news made me much more nostalgic about the holidays -- and that's why I'm thrilled and excited about wrapping all those presents instead of overwhelmed and resentful. It's odd how tragic news can sometimes put a whole new perspective on what you thought of as a "problem." So, if you're at Holiday DEFCON 4, I hope you can look at all you have to do with humor, hope, and most of all, happiness.
This week's article
If you have tile floors, you know how wonderful they are -- unless, that is, you have dirty grout. This week's article talks about how to get your grout clean if you want to do it yourself or hire out the work. As for me, I've done all the "spot touch-ups" I can do on my tile floors. I'm going to hire a professional service to come after the New Year to clean -- and most importantly, seal the grout -- for me.
Have a great and wonderful Christmas and a Happy, Happy Hanukah! Thank you for reading my cleaning newsletter and allowing me into your email inbox. I am so glad to share my clean thoughts with you this year. I wish the best of health, prosperity, and happiness to you and your family. Please be safe if you are traveling this holiday season -- I want you back next year!
Happy Cleaning,
Cleaning Editor for Bellaonline
cleaning@bellaonline.com
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FEATURED PRODUCT
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FEATURED ARTICLE
How to Clean Dirty Grout on Your Tile Floors
Tile floors are wonderful until the grout gets dirty. Do it yourself and professional steps for cleaning grout in your floor tile -- and for keeping it clean.
Click here to read the article: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art16282.asp
ABOUT KATHRYN
Kathryn Weber is the cleaning editor for BellaOnline, Living Space newspaper columnist (Victoria Advocate, Beaches Leader, et al), Publisher of the Everydayclean.com Cleaning Calendar, and publisher of the Red Lotus Letter feng shui E-Zine (www.redlotusletter.com).
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