Thursday, June 26, 2008

Are you ready to play "What's that smell?"

Well if I liked it or not I got to play this fun exciting game! You know, I smell something gross in my house and I need to find it. Of course it had to be that sour milk smell. So first thought "Is there a missing sippy cup?" Nope looked all around and nothing. So okay I have to walk the house sniffing to see where it gets worse. And its the kitchen. Well the other night one of the boys was getting the milk out for us and spilled it. Will cleaned a bunch of it up and I thought I got the rest. Nope still stinks, yesterday Will pulled the fridge out for me and he sprayed all under it with bleach cleaner, in case more of it leaked under there. No, I think it was just in grout. I could still slightly smell it so here I am looking in every spot to see and its under the oven! OH my, I pulled out the under drawer, cleaned, sprayed bleach and crossed my fingers. This morning it is still there okay time to resort to drastic measures... I hate gross smells in my house. I pulled the whole oven out, unplugged it and swept really good, then washed it with soap and water. Then it was on to the 409 and ended it with bleach cleaner! GO BLEACH. The smell is gone! Yippee but to make sure I took out the trash, did the dishes in the sink, put bleach down both drains in the kitchen, washed out the trash can with Pine-sol, and cleaned the stove top. New liners for the pans and scrubbed underneath the burners really good. My usual tactics 409 and the bleach spray LOL! Now my house smells much better and hey some deep cleaning was done. I can scratch a couple of deep cleaning jobs off my list this month! Under the fridge and oven are sparkling. The good thing is I did under the fridge a week ago or it would have been worse and this one is for you Bob, I did vaccum the fridge back side out! Long story but I promised I would do it every three months. Thanks you! You are the best gift giver!

2 comments:

Lianna Black said...

Gross smells are the worst! Especially when you are pregnant..LOL (which Im not :( but sometime soon! ) I do the same with the 409 and bleach! There is just nothing like the sanitizing power of bleach and the cleaning and antibacterial power of 409 - peace of mind for us germophobes..LOL!

The Jones Family said...

Oh, I hope you never come over to my house because I don't ever clean behind my fridge except like once a year! haha I just hope and cross my fingers everything is alright under there. I love clorox and 409 also, and I have also started using the clorox anywhere spray, and clorox wipes too, but I can't stand the pine-sol because it reminds me of the old folks homes smells. Smells are sometimes BAD! Glad you got to the bottom of that one. By the way- have your kids ever dropped a fish stick behind the couch and it stayed there all summer until you found it? How about half a cheeseburger smushed into the back seat of the van where you never check? Dried barbeque sauce? These are the smells that are BAD NEWS!!! LOL