Ms Domesticity

As much as I love tumblr I have decided to start posting on blogger.

So I had been doing a bit of research on Oxyclean and I haven't been too impressed environmental wise. I did need it in an emergency and it did do it's job (way to go advertising).

But I was recently having some children over (mama had her a new baby! yay! new life!) and one of her little darlings wiped her hands with sauce on my light colored chairs! NO! so I jumped into action, I read about cleaning ovens with the power of baking soda and vinegar, just the regular white distilled kind. So hey why not couldn't do any more damage.

1. Make a paste of the baking soda and water. wipe onto stain and let sit, probably until you can see some of the stain color on the white of the paste

2. Spray vinegar onto stain, don't worry about the amount of vinegar. 

3. Blot dry, and stain be gone!

Soooo when I wrote my gnat post I was...well...having an ocd moment; with my home invaded by little foreign insects I was having sleeping problems. No vacuuming up gnats is not going to work I promise you I tried multiple times. They are in fact evil with obvious teleportation powers or ninja skills.

What you do is take a jar roughly fill it between half way or a 1/4 of the way up with apple cider vinegar. Take the lid of the jar and poke holes in it. Gnats are attracted to apple cider vinegar and when they smell it they will go into the holes and not be able to get back out. While the evil little ninja insects are fast like lightening they seem not to grasp the concept of getting out the same way they get in. so either they drown in the vinegar they were attracted to in the first place or lose their food source and die. Either way I'm a happy camper.

Gnats are attracted to food being left out and reproducing in said food. While you are treating your gnat problem take out the trash frequently and if you have a kitty clean out their box as frequently as you can. They will bread in the kitty clumps and it's gross

So thanks to maids.com I'm using an non-acetone nail polish remover and a washable cloth to blot at the polish. This isn't a light stain, it's a very deep stain that was caused by a bottle breaking and the whole bottle spilled onto the carpet behind the night stand.

I'm blotting with the cloth applying generous amounts of remover straight onto the cloth until the stain has been removed as best as I can then after I can't blot anymore I rub the cloth into the carpet to grab the stain deep in. 

So a quick trick I've found to my stress nail biting is using any glitter nail polish at the ends of my nails. Even in my most stressed out moments my hands have stayed away from my mouth. 

Trust me after you've bitten into glittery nail polish once you will never do it again. (Not a fun experience). It started from watching nail art videos on instagram and trying to get into nail art. I did several coats of the glitter at the ends. when you run your finger down your nails it feels like a bump at the ends of them. 

I was told when I was younger by our regular nail salon lady that the reason that the reason that my acrylic nails would only stay on for 3 days were because if my severe oily nail beds. 

Ever since then I have been on the hunt for anything to stay on my nails, jamberries, and I have tried every nail polish known to man. Even tried wiping down my nails with rubbing alcohol to no avail.

I finally found Essie nail polish, for the first time I actually had to take the nail polish off instead of peeling it off.

Normally I'm about cures but sometimes it's about products.