Under my sink….

My under the sink cupboard was due to be sorted today - a long overdue task ! Feeling rubbish and one lateral flow test later it will just have to keep for another time

Definitely not alone, MawtheMerrier. It's good to see others like mine!!
All my cleaning products look at me, each time I open a cupboard, they are very lazy, they just sit there, doing nothing!!
Maybe I should try to use them,? nooo, not today, maybe next week/month/winter/year..?

Oh, I've just spotted your "after" pictures, I'm very impressed.!

Oh you are certainly not alone. I won't send pictures of my cupboard under the sink. I am sure I could stock a shop with cleaning products.

During the last year I’ve switched to eco friendly and reduced plastic so my cupboard is a lot emptier. I’ve got flat cardboard boxes of dishwasher and laundry tabs. Cartons of bicarbonate if soda, citric acid, oxygen powder bleach, washing soda and a couple of bottles containing washing up liquid and white vinegar.

Leilla

Everytime we go away to a rented house, 3 times a year, I buy a complete set of new cleaning items and bring them all home. My own under sink cupboard is now overflowing. Next time I will take the half finished bottles and leave them behind.
And why would I want to spend my holiday cleaning someone else's house?

I do that as well. We usually self-cater and have a grocery delivery that I put everything on dishwasher tabs the lot. Then we find they have been supplied and bring them all home.
Years ago when cottages were not as well equipped I had a bag of all the essential cleaning products and cling film etc that I took.
It did come in handy one year when we went fishing with DH the DD would not get in the bath or use the loo until I had cleaned it with Cif. They were horrors.

We had to clear ours out fifteen months ago when the kitchen was totally redone. We got rid of bottles with dribbles of stuff in, rags put aside for ‘one day* a multitude of carrier bags and clothes pegs that had corroded. Started anew, with every good intention, sadly it’s now nearly as bad, but no carrier bags or rags.

polnan

no offence intended.. but

"more money than sense!"

and some people can`t afford to buy food

Well quite offensive actually.
I don't criticise your choice of products and if I choose to have a load under my sink what's that got to do with "some people can't afford the price of food"?
It's not going to be binned, it will get used, and as a pensioner I take exception to "More money than sense" with or without the passive/aggressive intro.

I try to put everything in categorised trays. I need a few more actually.
Ps. The iron rarely gets used.

Very impressed Nanika, especially with your neatly folded dishcloths.
Look at the state of mine ! Plus, look at the crumbs on the floor ! Rushes for the hoover ?

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What IS "passive aggressive" anyway?
I'd think you're either aggressive or not? Anything else is sarcastic / snide/ untrue.
Some folks have never EVER been in the company of a truly aggressive type otherwise they wouldn't use the term inappropriately. Or is it modern claptrap?

Why do people have to spoil a light hearted thread?

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Dunno Tizliz but it's a shame isn't it?

I am sitting wondering just how large your under-sink kitchen cupboards are, ladies.

Mine is a standard Ikea lower cupboard. I keep the washing-up bowl and a bottle of washing-up liquid in it. The cats' drinking bowl that is hopefully waiting for the new cats, along with the basin used to drown their fleas in and the fine tooth comb. All this along with filters for the coffee-maker in the one half of the cupboard,

The other side of the cupboard houses tin of scouring powder, two different types of oven cleaner, a packet of pot scourers, a tub of brown soap for washing floors in and a container of sal amoniac for cleaning paintwork and two very small plastic bowls for assorted cleaning purposes.

How do the rest of you manage to fit all the products you describe into yours? I literally cannot get more into mine.

I only buy one bottle or pot of any cleaning product at a time and replace it at need. Perhaps because I enjoy housework, I always know what is in that cupboard.

I had to move from my house to a ground floor flat , much smaller of course. So in the move I found how many washing up bottles and dettol bottles etc. Well I have been here over 6 months now and have not bought a single cleaning thing and am slowly using up these bottles and cleaning stuff and intend to end up with one plus a spare. But in my defence I used to live at the top of a hill where we would get snowed up in the winter and needed to have enough food and everything else to last for a week at least. With all the bills going up right now , it is a bit of help to have these spare cleaning things. Now I am a widow and living alone of course when I leave the bathroom clean and tidy it stays like it!! Such a pleasure after having a family using the bathroom and sometimes things left in other p laces or not to be found at all or more annoying than most things the culprit who uses the last of the toilet paper and does not put the new one on !! As I am the sole occupant it is good to know that this will not be happening any time soon!!

When my mother in law went into a nursing home and we had to clear her house, I found my deceased father in law's false teeth.
Can't remember what other gems there were as the teeth have wiped all else from my memory!

I emptied mine last week to tidy it and sort stuff out to throw away, it all went back and looks no different than when I started. It’ll all come in useful one day

I love having tidy cupboards and drawers and lockdown gave me the time too.
Always have to throw out stuff but the satisfaction is up there with taking the fluff out of the tumble drier filter ? Just realised I need to get a life haha

My son visiting from Oz to look after me….I can’t say he’s a cook. ! But he can’t half clean a kitchen AND he sorted my under sink cupboard ! But I got a telling off for the number of random cleaning cloths I possessed.

I planned the new kitchen so the undersink cupboard held the indoor cats litter tray. It had an air brick for ventilation and a plugin deodoriser , so they now have their privacy too . I have limited space for cleaning equipment elsewhere. Best thing I did

Maw, I will gladly take the excess silver polish off your hands. I cannot get it anywhere and the family silver is in dire need of a polish! ?

DH does our shopping and , oh , how he loves a " BOGOF " offer. As a result I have a lot of duplicate bottles under the sink .
He's soooo gullible ! Bless him !

Wow! What a fascinating thread!