The Magic Shower Cleaner

Happy Friday!

Today has been a day of experimenting.  A few weeks ago my husband sent me a picture with a caption to try this magic shower cleaner.  I'm sure that some of you have seen the same picture going around on Facebook and Pinterest.  The picture displays the ingredients and the caption tells that after using this special mixture that you don't have to scrub the shower to get it clean---you just wipe the mixture off and tada!  Today I finally got the chance to try it and see how it works!

Here are some embarrassing before pictures of our master bath shower (WARNING: You're about to see soap scum and filthy soap ledges).

Now let's talk about this shower cleaner mixture.  You will need vinegar (regular or cleaning vinegar), BLUE Dawn dish soap (it has to be blue), and a spray bottle (I just used one that we had in the garage).

You will need 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of Blue Dawn dish soap.  The first thing you want to do is heat up the cup of vinegar.  I put mine in the microwave for a minute and a half.  Put the warm vinegar in your spray bottle and then add your cup of dish soap.

Once both ingredients are in your spray bottle, give it a little shake.  The mixture will look something like this:

The next step is to spray it on the walls, ledges, and bottom of your shower.  I made sure to cover all areas thoroughly.

One of the most important steps is to let the mixture sit on all areas of your shower for an hour before wiping it off.  Once an hour has come and gone, use a sponge to wipe off the mixture.  You shouldn't have to scrub at all.  Most of the grime and soap scum came right off, but there were a few areas in our shower that needed to be rubbed a little harder (probably because I haven't cleaned our shower in awhile).  I did use our wand style shower head to wet certain areas as I went along.  This helped things to not get overly-sudsy.  After wiping down all areas of the shower and rinsing them with water, our shower has never looked better! Take a look for yourself at how shiny and sparkly clean it is!

Amazing isn't it?!  I can't wait to take a shower in there tomorrow!  It's going to feel like we bought a brand new shower.  I'm honestly not even sure that these pictures do it justice!  I highly recommend this crazy cool shower cleaner!  I actually tried it on some of the filthy tiles in our bathroom as well to see if it would get the dirt off of them.  Guess what!---It worked on those too!

Now that you've seen the evidence that this mixture does indeed work, you need to go try it out on your own shower/bath!!  If you do try it out leave us a comment or a before and after photo down below to let us know what you think of it!! 

Happy cleaning! :)

Transformation Thursday: Pantry Edition

Hello world!  Did you miss us? This is our first post since last summer.  Since I am a school teacher and my husband is an engineer, it is REALLY hard for us to post during the school year.  Summer vacation is really the most opportune time for us to do projects and post about them on here.  This summer I'm not sure that we'll post every day, but we will try to post often. :)

One of the projects I got into this week was cleaning out our pantry in the kitchen.  I was beyond tired of opening up the pantry each day to find that it was jam-packed full of expired canned goods, old candy, and stale graham crackers (I quite literally found four or five boxes of opened graham crackers). Here's the pantry before:

It took about an hour or two to take out everything in the pantry, wipe down the shelves, and mop the floor.  Our pantry now looks like this (!):

I tried to put certain items on the same shelf for organizational purposes.  On the top shelf I placed all of our tins for Christmas cookies, our Advocare drink mixtures, and our Melalueca vitamins.  These are all items that we don't use all that frequently (hence the reason why they're on the top shelf).  The next shelf down has my tea maker, Naturebox snacks, disposable cups, plates, bowls, silverware, etc., my stand mixer attachments, and our Advocare cleanses.  These things we use every now and then.  The next shelf holds our cereal, crackers, and other snacks.  The shelf below that has all of our canned goods and the one below that has bags of various nuts.  The bottom shelf is where we store our bread maker, freezer bags, coolers, casserole carrier, and bonfire sticks.  Here's a closer look at my organization job:  :)

Eventually I would love to invest in some containers (OXO containers would be great with labels!) to put snacks and basic ingredients in.  In my head I imagine our pantry looking something like this image sometime down the road:

Pantry post found here 

But for now as a cheap and temporary fix, our pantry looks like the images I've posted above.  It is a little less of an eye sore now when I open the door.  Thanks to PicStitch, I created a pretty good before and after image of our pantry.

Not too shabby if I do say so myself! :)  I'm just glad that another part (though it be small) of our house is a little more organized.  Lord knows I need everything to be organized or I go a little bit crazy.  Am I the only one that feels this way?

What have you gotten into this week?  Have you organized your pantry?  Share your photos with us--We would love to see! :)