Shine Your Sink

Sorry for the hiatus. I'm back.

With the start of the new year, I've got some new goals. 

Starting with:

Keep a Clean House

To help me with this new goal, I've taken the advice from my sister and joined FlyLady.

Basically, FlyLady is a website/email group

that sends you daily tips and tasks to help you reduce

CHAOS

(Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome)

Instead of trying to tackle everything at once,

FlyLady suggests working on mastering ONE habit at a time.

January's habit is keeping your sink clean and shiny!

Here we go!

(and yes, the cheesy song and effects made me laugh, too)

So, I've been shining my sink.

Yeah, I've only been doing this for two days, but seriously

IT WORKS!

Seeing a clean and shiny sink in the morning feels amazing

and makes me motivated to keep not only the sink, but also

the kitchen tidy throughout the day.

From the website, here are the detailed steps to shine your shink:

Note: Follow this procedure the first time you shine your sink. You do NOT need to follow this method every day. Just keep up the shine with a little window cleaner.

1. Take all the dishes out of the sink.
2. Run some very hot water into the sink and fill it to the rim. If you have a two-sided sink, only do one side at a time. Then, pour a cup of household bleach into the hot water. Let it sit for one hour. Now, pull the plug with a pair of tongs. If you don’t have tongs, then scoop some of the water out of the sink into the other sink and use your hand to pull the plug. Make sure you wear gloves so the bleach doesn’t irritate your skin, and don’t get the bleach water on your clothes.
3. Rinse your sink well.
4. Use some powdered cleanser (Comet, Ajax, or baking soda) and scrub your sink. Be sure to rinse ALL of the cleanser from the sink.
5. Take a sharp edge, such as a butter knife, and clean around the rim of the sink, just like you would clean dirt out from under your fingernails.
6. Clean around the faucets. You may need an old toothbrush or dental floss.
7. Now, get out your window cleaner; I use Windex. Give it a good shine.
8. If you still don’t like the way it looks, then you can try some car wax. Just know in your heart that you have cleaned it very well now, and it doesn’t have to be perfect. Our perfectionism is what got us in this situation in the first place!
9. Every time you run water in your sink, take your clean dishtowel and dry it out (I lay out a clean one every night as part of my before-bed routine). Before you know it, you will be doing this everytime you leave your kitchen! The rest of the family will, too. No more water spots. You will have a clean and shiny sink.

Here's mine! Now go shine your sink!