Last Shreds Of Sanity

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009

Laundry Stains: Out! Out! Damn Spot! My Quest For Spray 'N Wash

I hate cleaning. Period. I avoid it like the plague. I hate doing laundry even more. Well, except for cleaning the bathroom, I really hate that. But what I hate above all is doing laundry. Why, do you ask? Well, it's because I cannot stand stains. I hate seeing them, and I hate trying to remove them even more. I will not allow my daughter to wear clothing with even the smallest stain on it. It bothers me. {Let's not even go into the cat pee stains/smells that litter my house and idle baskets of laundry.} I would even go so far as to say I am a bit OCD about it.

Therein lies the problem.

It takes me a good hour just to get one load of laundry into the washing machine. I have to sort, not just color, but fabric and/or wash in warm water/cold water. Then I must check every inch of each garment for stains. Then I must treat each stain, hopefully effectively. Then it can finally go into the washer, where I let each load soak for a minimum of 25 minutes.

Then I start the actual wash cycle.

Here is where the fun begins...After each load is finished, I inspect each garment thoroughly before it can go in the dryer. Spots dried in by the dryer are likely permanent. And that, my friends, just won't do. So the freshly washed yet still stained clothes go into another pile. I usually end up with more piles of laundry than I did when I started.

It's sad, really. I could use two entire bottles of Spray N' Wash Dual Action Oxy Power Stain Remover on one single load of laundry. And that stuff ain't cheap. And they have stopped carrying it at Target or anywhere else. I am heartbroken. Truly.

Do you know how hard it is to find a good stain remover? It's like finding a good hairdresser. Once you get one, you will use nothing else. Did I mention that my hairdresser closed up shop and I haven't had a haircut since last December? Yeah, just like that.

I do not want to go through the pain, anguish and expense of trying out new stain removers only to find that they don't get the job done and I am left with yet another pile of stained but freshly washed clothes. It's horrible. This is why my house always looks like the aftermath of a natural disaster. I have piles of everything everywhere. I hate it.

First, Spray N' Wash discontinued the fizzy laundry booster tablets {Those little suckers ROCKED!}, then they got rid of the In Wash Laundry Stain Remover, forcing me to use that Oxy-Clean liquid crap. Now they have taken away my beloved Dual Action Oxy Power! Let's not forget that Biz Bleach has been discontinued. I have nothing left to use! Oh, the humanity! However will I get the stains out? My daughter will have to go to preschool nekkid.

I think I need a company like Shout, Zout or Spray N' Wash to sponsor me on this quest. They could give me a 2 year supply of stain removers/laundry additives to test out. I could tell them what works and what doesn't. It would be a win-win. They would get a much improved product line and I would get something I dream of: Truly clean laundry.

I think that is a fair trade for a virtually free product tester/ walking, talking Consumer Reports article, don't you? I think it would also be helpful if they threw in a set of those snazzy LG front load washer and dryers. Hey, I need the proper tools for the job, right? It's all in the name of science and making better consumer products. I could single handedly make doing laundry a breeze for everyone. That alone is worth the LG set, isn't it?

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Shan's Week ~ End Wordles

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Tropical Island Hell: MomDot's Small Talk Six

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Asylum Announcements

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

In Honor Of Those Lost Today At Ft. Hood

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I'm A Beauty Queen, Damn It!!: My Bloggers And Tiaras Entry Post

MomDot.com is having a Blogger Beauty pageant and I'm entering, damn it!

**I am beautiful! I am beautiful!**

I figure that I won the Mouthiest Blogger Award, so I am on a roll. This will not be a traditional "Beauty Pageant", though. Of course when is anything Trisha and that group does traditional? You will likely see some wacky and weird posts {Well wackier than usual, anyway} over here at The Asylum.

But fear not, it does not mean I have finally gone completely over the edge {I like teetering on that ledge. It keeps me on my toes.}. No it only means that I have to follow the rules if I want to win. And I do want to win. There is a great prize involved and it will be mine, all mine. Without further ado, here is my initial entry into Bloggers And Tiaras....

1) Name, Blog Name, Twitter:

Name: Shan
Blog Name: Last Shreds Of Sanity
Twitter: @babyrocasmama

2) Have you ever entered a pageant before?

No

3) Do you have any special talents we can look forward too?

Yes, I have many hidden talents. Some are suitable for broadcast, others are not. I can do things with my toes that defy what is considered normal human physicality.

4) Name your top 5 favorite sites to visit on the net..no, you do not get brownie points for putting MomDot.

Top 5: Jeannie's Happy World, Bee and Rose, The Bloggess, MomDot.com, Post Secret, Fail Blog

5) What is your favorite thing to do when you are not blogging?

Not that I ever leave the house or get to do any of these things but if I did get to do something other than blogging, I would be doing at least one of the following:

Shopping, reading {A real, adult level book. With no pictures or pop-ups or rhymes} and playing with my 4 year old daughter. I also enjoy crafts {I make holiday wreaths and dream catchers} and sex {with my Husband! Get your minds out of the damn gutter!}.

6) Whats your dream vacation?

My dream vacations: #1 is a Jamaican beach with my own cabana boy. Dream vacation #2 is a leisurely trip to Ireland. Dream vacation #3 is to Alaska or some other far North destination during Winter so I can see the the Northern Lights in person.

7) What blogger do you look up the most too?

The Bloggess {Sorry, Trisha}. I want to write like her. I want to have her wild abandon and ability to make a hilarious, well received blog post that is essentially about nothing. She's like the X~Rated Seinfeld. She's my girl crush.

8 ) If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which would you chose and why?

Vogue because I want to show all those girls and women with low self-esteem that you don't have to be built like a 2 by 4 to be considered beautiful and intelligent. I want to prove that all those models they beat themselves up over because they will never look like are airbrushed and don't even look like that in real life. It's all an illusion. Real women are beautiful and come in all shapes and sizes.

9) Tell the truth…you want a tiara, don’t you?

You're damn skippy!! Of course I want the tiara. Why else am I entering this pageant and subjecting myself to Trisha's devious and likely embarrassing tasks? For my health? Uh, no. I want bling bling, baby!

10) What is your definition of blogger success?