Under the Sink

So pleased that I am not the only one who purchases things like bleach, washing up liquid, cleaning things, and then they get shoved to the back of cupboards and new purchases are placed in front!!
A few years back, when I was having the cupboard and drawer fronts in my long galley kitchen taken away for spraying, I used the week they were not there to get down to clearing and cleaning all those cupboards.
In one, I found that I had eight bottle os lemon juice, tidied everything up and lined them up easy for me to see and use. A couple of weeks later one of my daughters visited and went to that cupboard and came into me very puzzled to ask why I had all those bottles of lemon juice.

When I moved a couple of years ago, I discovered that it would be many months before I would need to purchase any more bleach as I had so many of them stacked away.

In the flat I have a large cupboard in the hall, the shelves of which take all my cleaning materials, and there is room for broom, vacuum, mop, etc. etc. Much easier to see exactly what is in there now.

I don't have them under the sink but I do seem to have accumulated a huge amount of plastic containers originally from our local Chinese takeaways. I must have over 100.

I really do need to put most of them in the recycling but it seems a shame as they come in handy. But, how many do I really need !!

Just done mine - 8 bottles of bleach.

You have all shamed me into cleaning ours out today. I don't need to buy any cleaning materials for a long time - far too much.

All I have in the cupboard under the sink is baking tins. The cupboard doesn't have a shelf because all the plumbing for sink and dishwasher gets in the way.

The under sink cupboard and the one under the stairs are the last bastions of messiness that have escaped lockdown cleaning! The amount of cleaning bottles is reducing slowly as I now have a cleaner so have stopped buying new magic sprays but it is still a mess! Lurking somewhere is a pressure cooker which I’ve never mastered but have used it as a large pan many years ago - it is destined for the tip in my next tidy up! I’m sure I’ll find other random items stashed away like shoe polish in a rainbow of colours for the shoes I no longer clean!

I think it will be very satisfying to open the door and see a minimalistic, tidy space!

A hot water bottle right at the back!
Well, I'd forgotten about that.

Bleach, drain cleaner, a bucket, some sponges, a washing up bowl. Very boring really.

I found a lot of floor cleaning stuff at the back of ours.

Special cleaner for wooden floors, cleaner sold by the people who put the floor in the conservatory, bottles of special stuff.
Probably all used once and forgotten. And two bottles of stainless steel cleaner.

Ps I do clean the floors but just with whatever is nearest, usually Cif or Flash.

I was going to do mine today funnily enough annodomini but just can't face it!

I had a visit from Scottish gas this morning. He wanted to check the stopcock, as the boiler was apparently earthed on it. I was absolutely mortified at what I had crammed in there.

I also was expecting a washing macine enginer today and cleared out under the sink in the utility room. If was spotless before he arrived. I have learned my lesson.

I can't look in there or the 2 lower drawers. My mother is dead 20 years and I don't know what she has in there.

When clearing my cupboards a couple of years ago I found 13 bottles of Fairy liquid under the sink! I had been buying one most weeks and pushing it to the back. It was a long time before I needed to buy more!
I also found lots of hardly-used different cleaning products.

annodomini, I offered to feed a neighbour's cat while they were on holiday. They have an immaculate home - with everything put away 'in it's place' - unlike mine.

I looked in the cupboard under the sink, expecting to find some washing up liquid. They keep all their cereal there! Horrified (what if the pipes leak?) I found the liquid - in a wall cupboard.

I found three mice in my mother’s kitchen cupboard. Great hilarity had by all

Hilarity is not what I’d be feeling if I saw mice in any kitchen cupboard, aargh!

I was recently looking for pan scrubs I came across three unopened bottles of unstoppables three dry shampoo for dogs. Also believe or not three hammers and three identical saws! Under the sink I kid you not I must have a thing about the number three. All my purchases so I can’t blame my dh.

I discovered mouse droppings years ago in the under sink cupboard. They can get in through a very tiny gap and on investigation I noticed a gap around one of the pipes. I can’t remember what it’s called but I bought a product in local DIY store. An aerosol can of expanding foam. You spray it into any gaps and the foam sets solid. I’ve not had a problem since.

Lilliesmum79 it sounds like they’ve had a banquet with your dog food. The smell probably drew them in around the pipework.

I found 3 mice in my mother's kitchen cupboard. Great hilarity had by all. We rounded them up and took them to the Sandhills. Managed to get an humane trap and collected a further 3. I think they've gone now.

How can i get rid of wee *ts

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