Updates on the laundry and decluttering
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walkitoutWe ran a cleaning cycle with citric acid, and that really helped the drum. Unfortunately, the towels that ran next came out with distinct paste wax smell. So I ran them a second time (towel cycle, which is loooong, high temp, max detergent dispensed and some citric acid thrown in for chuckles).
I drove A. in and also had to retrieve her. In between I did the OAC/MEPFP meeting and also did a meeting with C. and H. regarding C.’s transfer. I have to say that as a Real Adult who actually has some vague comprehension of money and contracts, it is hilarious to me how people spout all kinds of nonsense about what’s involved in getting into an old folks home. Dude, it’s just another fucking subscription. They tell you what happens if you quit paying. There’s a bunch of relevant law and precedent. Whatever. This is an even easier one to accomplish, because it’s respite, so it’s honestly not appreciably worse than making a hotel reservation and then checking in (most of my hotel stays are more expensive than this). Altho in this case, they apparently were satisfied with whatever background check they ran on me based purely on my name and address (which, honestly, is going to be more than enough to convince them I have capacity to pay). Cosigning for S.’s apartment lease was much more of an ordeal than this was.
So I wasn’t home when the laundry ended (picking up A.). R. took the towels out and hung them out on the back porch railing because they still have some scent. He then started a peroxide cleaning cycle. I think we are all learning a lot from this experience. The drum had smelled great after citric acid; after peroxide, it smelled substantially more like the paste wax, which makes me think it actually got it loosened up. We’re going to try round 2 of peroxide and see what happens next. If it stops smelling like paste wax after round 2, I’ll run the towels again and see what happens.
T. came home, so I explained to him what had happened and that he had the option to go to the West Concord Laundromat and catch up on laundry over there. I’d be doing that now, except traffic was evil, so I’m thinking I might just get up ridiculously early in the morning and do laundry at 5 am instead.
ETA: Things are going pretty well with round 2 of peroxide, so I’m going to run some kitchen towels next, and check for smell after hot water / dry cycle. If it’s good, I can finally do the trip laundry!
I deleted a bunch of my sold listings on FB marketplace, refreshed some, and listed a couple of things I had meant to list but not got around to yet. Then R. and I went for a walk, and discussed the dinnerware. We had Le Creuset since 2011, but I bought some RAKstone that we both really like. We’d gotten rid of the large plates already because R. refused to use them as they did not fit in the dishwasher. We’d also moved half the mugs along. But after some discussion, he agreed to get rid of the rest of it, and we’re keeping the corelle for now as a backup set to get us through the transition to the new house next year. And because he uses the cereal bowls in that set for cooking. I feel like we should actually use the real mixing bowls, but we don’t because they are off in a corner and we never remember them and the corelle is right there.
Anyway. Someone who wanted the earlier le creuset but missed out on it wanted to be notified, so I told him, and he snagged all of it to pick up tomorrow (woot!). I also listed the enormous white mixing bowl, and another regular is going to pick that up. R. found a really pretty, smaller bowl with lizards (probably a gift from I.) that I’d forgotten about, so that’s now holding the squash on the counter. And he also offered up a salt shaker and pepper grinder for listing, and a regular has asked for that.
I drove A. in and also had to retrieve her. In between I did the OAC/MEPFP meeting and also did a meeting with C. and H. regarding C.’s transfer. I have to say that as a Real Adult who actually has some vague comprehension of money and contracts, it is hilarious to me how people spout all kinds of nonsense about what’s involved in getting into an old folks home. Dude, it’s just another fucking subscription. They tell you what happens if you quit paying. There’s a bunch of relevant law and precedent. Whatever. This is an even easier one to accomplish, because it’s respite, so it’s honestly not appreciably worse than making a hotel reservation and then checking in (most of my hotel stays are more expensive than this). Altho in this case, they apparently were satisfied with whatever background check they ran on me based purely on my name and address (which, honestly, is going to be more than enough to convince them I have capacity to pay). Cosigning for S.’s apartment lease was much more of an ordeal than this was.
So I wasn’t home when the laundry ended (picking up A.). R. took the towels out and hung them out on the back porch railing because they still have some scent. He then started a peroxide cleaning cycle. I think we are all learning a lot from this experience. The drum had smelled great after citric acid; after peroxide, it smelled substantially more like the paste wax, which makes me think it actually got it loosened up. We’re going to try round 2 of peroxide and see what happens next. If it stops smelling like paste wax after round 2, I’ll run the towels again and see what happens.
T. came home, so I explained to him what had happened and that he had the option to go to the West Concord Laundromat and catch up on laundry over there. I’d be doing that now, except traffic was evil, so I’m thinking I might just get up ridiculously early in the morning and do laundry at 5 am instead.
ETA: Things are going pretty well with round 2 of peroxide, so I’m going to run some kitchen towels next, and check for smell after hot water / dry cycle. If it’s good, I can finally do the trip laundry!
I deleted a bunch of my sold listings on FB marketplace, refreshed some, and listed a couple of things I had meant to list but not got around to yet. Then R. and I went for a walk, and discussed the dinnerware. We had Le Creuset since 2011, but I bought some RAKstone that we both really like. We’d gotten rid of the large plates already because R. refused to use them as they did not fit in the dishwasher. We’d also moved half the mugs along. But after some discussion, he agreed to get rid of the rest of it, and we’re keeping the corelle for now as a backup set to get us through the transition to the new house next year. And because he uses the cereal bowls in that set for cooking. I feel like we should actually use the real mixing bowls, but we don’t because they are off in a corner and we never remember them and the corelle is right there.
Anyway. Someone who wanted the earlier le creuset but missed out on it wanted to be notified, so I told him, and he snagged all of it to pick up tomorrow (woot!). I also listed the enormous white mixing bowl, and another regular is going to pick that up. R. found a really pretty, smaller bowl with lizards (probably a gift from I.) that I’d forgotten about, so that’s now holding the squash on the counter. And he also offered up a salt shaker and pepper grinder for listing, and a regular has asked for that.