College Cleaning

Well it is just after 1 AM and my roommate is out so I took the opportunity to pull myself away from my Xbox to do some cleaning. Main areas of cleaning are the Kitchen and Bathroom. 

Kitchen was very easy, put clean dishes away and then fill up dishwasher. Also took the keen opportunity to re wash the dishes my roommate did since he doesn't know how to clean anything, and then put those away too. wipe everything down and call it a day. Here is a picture to prove it:

Moving on to the bathroom. I had cleaned it last weekend so the only real order of business I had was to fix the shower head. Over the last week it had seemed to get really bad water pressure coming out of the shower head, but water pressure was still fine on the spout thing on the bottom. With my amazing Mr. Fix it skills, I derived that the issue was solely in the shower head. 

Easy enough fix. Take the shower head off, find some vinegar oil or whatever it is called and soak it until it works. 

Unscrew the head part from the hose. Here is the hose hanging in the shower:

Now that it's off I go back to my clean kitchen to find the vinegar. No dice.

Problem: It is 1 AM and I have a shower nozzle that is in pieces and since my roommate and I already hate each other I have to find a way to finish this before he gets home. I have no vinegar and I know for a fact that the 7-Eleven and Circle K don't sell it.

Solution: look through all cleaning supplies until I find something that will substitute for a calcium solvent. 

Still standing in the kitchen with have of the shower head dripping all over the place (it surprisingly holds a lot of water) I discover there is nothing of use in the kitchen. move onto the bathroom sink. Open up the doors and with a Aura shinning around it I find this:

Yaaa Buddy!

On the back of the bottle it says for a shower head, soak in a solution of 50/50. I can only assume that means 50 percent CLR and 50 percent water. But who knows. Or cares for that matter.

I go back to the kitchen to find a huge zip lock bag. again No dice. Back to improvising, this is what I come up with:

Oh ya. That is my bathroom sink, with a guesstimated 50/50 solution of CLR and water. So as of currently I am sitting writing this blog, enjoying a well earned drink:

But I'm under 21, so I wouldn't know anything about those types of beverages. I'm just drinking some special water

All in all, 45 min later my roommate still isn't home (YAY!!!) and by the time tomorrow morning rolls around I'm going to have a nice hot shower with some serious water pressure!

College students are forced to improvise and come up with wild out of the box solutions on the spot. I feel that we don't get enough credit for the ingenious solutions we have for everyday problems! 

How Cleaning Works College Style

So I now that I am back at school I had to clean the apartment so certain people don't get pissy with me. I realized that there is a very strict order to cleaning. I believe nothing is ever truly clean, it just migrates around in certain groupings with other objects.

I start near the front door and move back deeper into the apartment all the way to my room, which is opposite of the door across the apartment.

Starting in the Kitchen, Everything is clean just need to put all the pots and pans and stuff of that nature in their respective homes. Easy. Since I don't have a dishwasher everything is done by hand, therefore everything sits out until it is washed, then resumes sitting around until it is dry and someone (me) puts it all away. Instant counter space. Wipe down counter and Kitchen is clean.

Moving to the kitchen table the problem begins. With everything from Mail from months ago to present day, Coasters, A bamboo plant, Homework, Bike Lock, Bills, Xbox controllers, and anything else that gets left there it seems hard to clean. Like most people I am going for speed so I can move on to doing something fun. Move all the bills and mail into to neat piles and throw all the other stuff onto the couch in a pile. Couch is only a few feet away but counts as the next room since it is on the carpet and the table is on the tile.

Move to living room. Note the pile has moved from the table to the couch. Things are now all over the couch and surrounding area. Remotes, backpacks, pillows, chargers for phones and laptops, game cases, plates and drink glass, soda cans empty and full. various boxes with instructions for bike locks, RC helicopter, Football and Kick stand are all object now in pile on couch. Grab the obvious and put them away, Xbox controllers and game cases. Move rest of personal crap to room. Move kitchen items into sink.

Everything in room is messy, pathways literally determine how I get to stuff I need. Everything in pile from couch is moved to already huge pile on desk. I put away shoes (just line them up). Next is clear flat spaces, Take everything put in on bed. New Pile. Keeping track we now have two piles in bedroom, one on desk one on bed. All paperwork is moved to desk, into pile. Other objects that are used daily are also moved to desk or put back were they were in a somewhat neater fashion. Pile on desk is now huge.

Forget the bathroom. The sink area is just sorted roommates stuff on one side mine on the other. Just make it look kinda neat and walk away.

Now There is neat pile in my room and one in the Kitchen with all the dirty sh*t I found around the apartment. The Pile progressed from kitchen table, to couch, to desk in my room. Once we have achieved this point in the cleaning we are done. Huge pile of shit in room therefore apartment is clean.

Daytime: Move shit to bed.
Nighttime: Move shit to desk.