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Ode to a sink brush and Mr. Clean
OK. So the sub-title to this posting should be “How pathetic is my life.” Oh well….
Yes folks, today I am blogging about the lowly sink brush. A bit of background: last fall, I got fed up. I decided we didn’t need to live like paupers with ragged holes in the kitchen towels, tatty potholders shedding their innards and so on (hubby detests spending anything on the house). I decided that each month I would replace something small and shabby…nothing expensive, mind you, but still… (we are still on a tight family budget…retiring and then having kids, who keep eating and growing, is not the smartest thing financially, but it sure beats not having the kids!).
At about that time, I visited a Target for the first time. LOVE at first sight! Reasonable prices with style! (“For the first time” I hear someone muttering? “Where has she been, living under a rock?” No…just on a small island of 7000 off the coast of Washington State, where it is very expensive to take the car ferry to the mainland….and even then there were no nearby Target stores…that required a couple hours of driving….even now that we live in mid-Coast Maine (two hours north of Portland) the nearest one is about an hour and fifteen minutes away.
On my last visit to Target, in early March, I needed to buy a new sink brush. Among the boring white usual stuff, I saw the lovely “dot” brush in my favorite tropical citrus colors (well, the blue is tropical, the lime is citrus). Decision made! Then, a wonderful thing happened at home….
After nearly two months of use, it’s not smashed! In this second photo, you can see the business side of it, 
and it barely shows use compared to the (!!!!) extra brush head that comes with it! Even better, the bristles are kinda krinkly, not super-straight. For some reason, that means food and gunk rinses out of it relatively easily!
The negatives: I’d love it if it had a straight edge on the end for scraping pans, but we have one of those on the soap/sponge wand, so I can cope. And the handle is a little short: But I’ll live LOL!
As for Mr. Clean …. have you tried those magic sponges? WOW…they even got the rust stains from water drips off the kids fiberglass tub…took a bit of rubbing, but nothing abrasive needed that would scratch the tub. I bought an extra box and now have one in each bathroom (we have 3 in the house….one on each floor…good thinking by the guy who designed it!). Now, if I can just get anyone else to USE them!
Oh…and as for being fed up: tossed the old ratty potholders, have two nice new ones (from Target!), two new kitchen towels, two old ones were relegated to dog-drying towel duty and two others were so awful they went into the trash, and the yellow lemon thing under the sink brush: four new placemats on sale at a dollar each…score! Next, new bath towels without shreds on the edges……..
Hopefully soon I’ll get back to blogging regularly, reading my favorites on the blog ring, and actually include some quilting / fabric content that isn’t the same picture with a little progress of the Tableau quilt!