Under my sink….

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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 ?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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..?

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

no offence intended.. but

"more money than sense!"

and some people can`t afford to buy food

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inishowen

I HATE cleaning the shower enclosure. I have many products for this job. Basically I buy them hoping you can spray them on, then rinse them off and the shower is clean. No such product exists.

Yes it does and I live in a very hard water area.
Method Shower cleaner just needs spraying onto a wet surface and leaving- doesn’t even need rinsing.
I don’t have shares so I am not advertising but I would not be without it!
I hope my shower doesn’t look too awful, but that is all I do after running the shower over the inside of the walls while I am still in it, a quick squirt up and down over the surfaces and I’m done!

My kitchen sink cupboard is rammed with bleach and the one in the utility room has so many cleaning products and could sanitise the whole street.

I HATE cleaning the shower enclosure. I have many products for this job. Basically I buy them hoping you can spray them on, then rinse them off and the shower is clean. No such product exists.

It's like Aladins den under my sink....My children say I can produce anything from that cupboard....

Many years back, when I had so many young children, I cleared out everything from under my sink and stored them all in a lockable cupboard. As the years went by, and small children became bigger and then adult and then all left home, I continued with this, (although often only locking that cupboard when g.children visited).
So, under my sink - at my house (before I moved) I kept my pyrex bowls, colanders, etc.
In the flat, thee is a large, shelved cupboard in the hall, (t think originally it would have housed the hot water tank). It is in there I keep ALL cleaning products along with vacuum cleaner, mops, broom, ironing board, etc. etc.

When I first arrived I just put everything in there, and it was nearly a year before I got round to tidying it up and putting things where I could see exactly what I had. It is rare that I need to buy any item to go in there, as during that tidying up, discovered that most of the items I use had multiple numbers as (not being able to see what was in there), I had just kept purchasing more and more.
But under my sink........all I have are the dishwasher tabs, and the items for my washing machine and a large fillable spray bottle of White Vinegar (my main 'go-to' item for cleaning), and soda crystals.
When my new kitchen get fitted, will not even those there, as I will have a fitted rubbish bin and the tank for a hot water tank.

shysal 14 bottles of washing-up liquid

My cupboard is full of stuff I've forgotten about, and we've got a drawer that we keep all kinds of crapessential things in

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?

We, ve just had to clear ours out!! The joiner is making me a utility room on Monday. I started the job myself and DH decided to help I knew that meant trouble.
He is better than me at cleaning the actual cupboards but so untidy when putting things back. To start I had 3 bottles of plughole unblocker, 3 worktop cleaners. 4 detergents and I didn't dare count how many e cloth cleaners he's fetish, not mine.
DD is coming for Easter and I was planning to give her a large bag of cleaning products. I have had to fez up she no longer has anywhere to store as they were all to go in the Wendy house outside which GD never played in because of spiders and they have taken it down.
Then we had to start on the cupboards that will be in the utility room. Why do we do it?

Sodapop the utility makes my life so much easier. We extender the kitchen and turned the garage into the utility. I had two big hairy dogs so bringing them into the utility through a dude door, rather than through the house ?. Then to be able to walk them into the shower and keep wet dogs out the kitchen fab
Feel very lucky

This was my under sink cupboard on Christmas morning when the waste disposal blocked and disgorged vegetable waste everywhere!

My under-sink cupboard was cleared and tidied last month when I had some plumbing work done. There was a surprising amount of duplicates. I tend to take advantage of two for one products if they're ones I frequently use. Strangely, these included three containers of black shoe polish, all hardly used.

I've got 2 trays of chitting potatoes under mine!

I have a few long narrow storage containers and my 'stuff' is mostly divided into categories. Easy to pull out.