Sometimes, you just have to admit that some people are smarter than you are. No matter how much it hurts or how much pride you have to swallow.
I had posted in the Forums at Hambones a silly mundane item about some glass cleaner I had bought – Windex Drip Free. Well, it might be drip-free, but it sure ain’t streak free. I have been using it for about 2 weeks and now my bathroom mirrors are all streaked up, big white streaky marks all over them. I’ve tried a dozen times or more to clean them, lots of cleaner, a little cleaner, newspaper, soft paper towels, cheap paper towels, big strokes, little strokes, baby circles. You name it, I’ve tried it. Decided it must be the new glass cleaner. Put “glass cleaner” on my Walmart list to pick up a new bottle next trip and throw this crap away.
This morning, Tim is getting ready for work, and finally (he’s a good guy, never fusses about a thing) he remarks “what is up with this mirror, why does it look like this?” I started to tell him the story and before I got one sentence out of my mouth he goes “why don’t you just mix up some ammonia and water and clean it?”. Silence. HUH? He looks at me like I’m a total clueless alien from another planet. “Ammonia will clean it” he says. OK, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I thought I was halfway smart. I had no idea you could do that.
And, he’s right. I mixed up about 5 tablespoons of ammonia (I have a jug under the kitchen sink that’s been there for years) with some water in a squirt bottle. Cleaned the mirror and in a few seconds, the streaks were gone. Not to mention now I have my own bottle of glass cleaner mixed up for just a few cents. Don’t cha hate it when other people are smarter than you? 😀
The moral of the story – Tim is smart. And I may never buy Windex again.
ya know what i wanna know? where is ammonia in walmart?? i can’t find it ANYWHERE!:?::?:
It’s there somewhere! I think I found this out recently about the ammonia for mirrors too stacy……actully I think I have known it for a while but had forgotton about it until I was having to do some heavy duty cleaning and I wanted some mirrors to look spotless and windex just wasn’t doing the job. I guess I need to get a spare bottle now that I can mix some in and keep it mixed up to use. It does work, I used it like that a few weeks ago!
He’s not smarter, sometimes we just can’t think of it when we need to…….might have been thinking about it too hard!
[…] A couple of years ago, I blogged about how smart Tim is (read it here). I had bought some Windex Drip Free glass cleaner at the store and it had all of my mirrors all streaked up. Tim told me that when he was in high school, they used to do car washes a lot, and they made their own glass cleaner from ammonia and water. Ever since then (and I just checked, I posted this in Aug 05), I’ve been making my own glass cleaner. It just takes a few seconds and it’s a lot cheaper than Windex. I think it works a lot better too. I had to mix some up today before I got busy cleaning bathrooms, since I was almost out. I have to clean the back door glass really often too – you know, the door Beau is always looking out, all day, while he’s “on patrol”. He gets it really messy! […]
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