Under the Sink

Callistemon

^I go through my kitchen cupboards in rotation and so the cupboard under the sink has its turn every 2-3 months^

I feel faint JackyB, must go for a lie down! ?

Me too! Find it quite hard to get down low enough to turn out under the sink cupboards anyway.

I have got everything in those difficult cupboards in large plastic boxes like JackyB though, which makes it easier, NotTooOld

I once found 3 old packs of oven-cleaning stuff. My oven was still in a right old state
Yes, I knew I had one somewhere and was going to clean the oven last week, but alas I couldn't find one so I couldn't clean the oven after all. What a relief.

So far, three different floor cleaning products and two leather conditioning kits. For laundry: an Eco Egg and some mysterious 'seeds'? as well as the capsules I've recently been using. Some rationalising is needed. Oh, that's just the first quarter...

Loads of half used bottles of cleaning products in my Under the sink cupboard. Several packs of oven cleaning kits, sticky stuff remover, disinfectant, and floor cleaning / carpet shampoo . And a variety of cloths. Nothing too horrible yet. Someday I'll sort it out, but not today.

I inherited loads of kitchen cleaning stuff under the sink when I bought this place. I'm still using some of it.
I used to get mice coming in under the sink but read that they hate the smell of peppermint. So I bought some peppermint liquid stuff and every night squirt a few drops in there.
No mice since, and the kitchen always smells of peppermint
which is quite pleasant.

I usually find a full bottle of something I’ve just bought to replace the one I (thought I’d) just run out of!
Mine is well, well overdue for a sort-out. I looked for something under the sink yesterday and had to perform the usual balancing act and swift door closure to cram everything back in. Perhaps I’ll do it tomorrow…

After listening to the mice stories under the kitchen sink I know what my job will be today. If I see any you will hear the screams for miles.

Not exactly under the sink, but when my mother died, I found batteries in most drawers. I thought "poor old soul, starting to lose it". It was many years before I needed to buy a battery. When I retired, I went through lots of cupboards and found that most of them contained a roll of sticky tape....I've only just started to buy tape again- eight years on.

Sad to say I am a new cleaner product junkie!
Each time I do the grocery shop, either in the store or online, I have to have a look at the household section and now , with all the eco products available, I just have to buy the new ones - even though I haven't finished the old ones! I have no more room in my cupboard!
The only thing is that I did clear the cupboard out a couple of weeks ago but the only stuff that got thrown out was ones that had set solid, separated in the bottle, or the spray was so gummed up that it wouldn't work.

RESULT! I found a bottle of gin at the back of the cupboard under the sink!!

I have my cat food under my kitchen sink there must be about 10/12 boxes in total I bought extra every week when we where in lockdown I just couldn't have Oliver going hungry could I,also countless cans of air freshener when my favourite one is on offer/bin bags as I double bag all my rubbish/lots of pan scourers and countless packs of foil trays with lids for when I cook to much and want to freeze but never get around to doing it.

Because I have a cleaning lady I don’t look in the cupboard under the sink but this morning decided to do so. There were all sorts of sprays for cleaning all sorts of things and right at the back an oil lamp in case of power cut, a box of tools, a spirit level, a bar of Sunlight soap, a box of Robin Starch and some tins of old paint. Lots of dirt. Thankfully no mice!

Hi
I had issue with mice under kitchen sink a longtime ago. I was advised to push steel wool into any crevices around the water outlet pipes. Apparently the can come in through the smallest gap but cannot chew through Steel wool. It worked! No more issues!

I bet I could top you Witzend, I have different products for everything, hardly ever use them. My sister puts me to shame, she says there’s nothing you really need except washing up liquid, cif and bleach. Perhaps she’s right. I’d have a lot more room.

I,d had nice about a year before my clear out and my bill had "dealt with them" by putting down "friendly" traps that captured them and you set them free. I found a trap at the back with a mouse skeleton. So much for friendly, poor thing starved to death ?

Our under the sink it's too bad at the moment. DH fitted a new tap a couple of months ago so it got sorted out then.

I do, however, have far too many old towels and tea towels I use as cleaning cloths :-)

Pans and baking trays under our sink. I clean & line it regularly. All cleaning products kept in plastic boxes in utility room large cupboard.

Lilliesmum79

Help I've got mice in kitchen they got into dog and cat food bags under kitchen sink. Been cleaning since 5.30am ?

Store the cat and dog food somewhere else. If, as I suspect, it is dried food put it in airtight tins.

Next have a serious conversation with dog and cat - it is their job to get rid of mice, not yours!

Close both the aforementioned pets into the kitchen with you while you clear out that cupboard, hopefully cat will enjoy a good old-fashioned mouse hunt.

Scrub cupboard thoroughly then inspect it carefully to find out where the mice are getting in. This will entail the use of a strong torch or lamp and may well entail emptying all the adjacent cupboards until you find the hole or crack.

A crack the size of an ordinary pencil is large enough for an adult mouse to get in and out of!

Block hole or crack with polyfilla, if you should happen to have any wire-mesh lying around, place it over the crack/hole before applying polyfilla or plaster. Ground up glass in the plaster or polyfilla deters the little beasties too, but do remember if you use glass not to smooth the polyfilla with your hands!

Leave cupboard open at night for the next week or two and insist that cat sleeps in kitchen!

If after all this bother, you still have mice, buy a mouse-trap or a new cat who likes catching mice!

Good luck - they are right little bu'''''s to get rid of!

I clean my kitchen drawers before Christmas, when checking what I need for the baking, the china cupboards in the spring, the pantry in summer before I start making jam, etc. and the blanket chests and wardrobes in the autumn.

I thought everyone cleaned the entire house in their young days in one fell swoop and in later years on the rotation scheme.

I have just done the upstairs floors, as my pre-Christmas cleaning starts in October nowadays.

Since I’ve been cutting down on single use plastic my under sink cupboard is a lot tidier and even has space to spare. Washing up liquid, loo cleaner, and surface cleaner are either refilled at the local eco shop or come in small sachets which you add to your own empty spray bottle and fill with water. Dishwasher tabs and laundry tabs come in flat cardboard boxes which take up hardly any space. I’ve replaced kitchen paper with a roll of mopping up sheets which you throw in the washing machine up to eighty times then when they finally get worn out, cut into pieces and add to the compost bin. Still a way to go but at least it’s a start.

Nothing too hideous but lots of stuff I’d forgotten I’d bought! However, this post has given me an idea. Maybe this is where I hid my axe! I know I own one but it’s not something I wanted easily accessible. So put it in a “safe place”! I think I’ll join you in an under the sink clear out!

My cleaner has just done mine and found 6 poddle brushes - all new!

Ours was cleared out last December, along with every other cupboard before the kitchen was gutted and replaced. It took only a few months before ‘stuff’ started accumulating again, now I have to jiggle various bottles around to get them in and shut the door, scandalous!

I found a spiralizor...bought many years ago and used twice. Will I ever use it do you think? Do you use yours?

I "preempted" this post and cleared mine out about 2 months ago after DH had been rummaging for something. 4 bottles of disinfectant spray,3 of Cif and dishwasher tablets, rinse aide
endless e clothes and sponge scourers all unused. Kept when I had not found the no substitute button on the supermarket delivery and when there was a shortage.
I bought a set of plastic drawers for the garage we have very little storage, only to find him yesterday with everything out again I had forgotten to tell him about the drawers and where they were tucked away.
Our other cubby hole was the side of the airing cupboard, we had work done in there two weeks ago and I thought I had emptied it only for the plumber to find at the back a huge pair of men's thermal long Johns. he joked as my husband is of slight stature I could sell them on E bay. We are still trying to work out where they came from, obviously, the previous owner but that was 10 years ago they must have been lodged behind the tank as I had cleared the cupboard out quite a few times.