wrenb | I cleaned out under the sink (Reply)

Last week the weather was just horribly humid and hot. Our house doesn't have air conditioning, and many of the cabinet doors are made from solid wood. The end result was that the child safety latch on one side of my kitchen sink cabinet didn't latch for several days. We tied a ribbon around the two handles, and that's doing the job for now. I can't wait until the latch works again.

Since the cabinet was no longer reliably child-proof, I cleaned out the cabinet. I pulled all the almost-empty bottles of cleaning formulas out of the cabinet and arrayed them on the kitchen counter. Anything that hadn't been used in a year was thrown out. I know they should have gone to the Household Hazardous Waste place but I just wanted them OUT, you know? I threw out:

Ammonia
Soft scrub
Window cleaner
CLR
Fantastic
Several kinds of "cleaner with bleach"
Toilet bowl cleaner

I moved to the laundry room:

Bleach
Rubbing alcohol
Goo Gone

Now under the sink I have:

Borax
Dishwasher soap (homemade formula)
Bon Ami
Shaker bottle of baking soda
Vinegar spray
All-purpose cleaning spray (homemade formula)
Lemon oil
Murphy's Oil Soap
And tucked away at the back, silver polish and furniture polish
Dustpan and brush

Once I get the laundry room organized and get all of my old housemate's stuff (like the stinky Febreze laundry detergent) out of there I'll probably move the silver polish down there. I just tried cleaning silver with baking soda and it worked, so I can phase out the silver polish.