Monday, May 07, 2012

Housewife experiences

Housewife experience #1

It's incredibly... exhilarating, -while sipping the hot tea and munching the breakfast you made in the morning in a hurry to catch the usual morning bus-, and then suddenly realizing : Oh, wait, ... I don't need to be in such a hurry! I can make my schedule around the timing I want.

I then realized, it's such a luxury to be able to properly put the plates and eating utensils to the sink, wiping off the counter and the dining table after my breakfast (I know why my apt is always in a mess now *excuses*). Usually I rarely even have time to properly finish my breakfast!

And this morning, I could enjoy it all! mwahahaha xD

I know how silly it sounds now.. but... yeah, wow... having the control of time is such a powerful thing!

Housewife experience #2

Properly defrosting and cleaning your freezer doesn't necessarily involve long hours spent in messy, wet puddles of the defrosted freezer matters!
I always put off defrosting and cleaning my freezer.
As far as I remember to do that I would need to be prepared to :
1. Get my hands and arms (and sometimes my clothes too, yeah I'm that sloppy) wet and cold handling the icy-cold water from the melted freezer frost.
2. Make a mess in trying to empty the freezer from the melted frosts.
The only method I knew was using sponge and lots of kitchen towels and the mopping bucket. It involves trying to soak up the sponges and kitchen towels with the waters, then wringing them dry onto the mopping bucket. This method causes lots of mess and drips all around the fridge area. Not to mention it's not very practical.
One of my flatmate back then had a super practical way to deal with water problem in the fridge like this. She just stuck up the mop there, and mopped the area like she would mop the floor :D
I would admit it's such a brilliant way to solve the problem.
That method certainly got me and my other flatmate rolled our eyes and exchanged glances though, and swearing we won't put our food in that area xP

3. Mop the entire floor as it's going to be all wet around the vicinity of the fridge up to the sink area.

As a result most of the times my freezer can always be seen super fully packed with built up frost and all my frozen foods.

But hey, I just finished cleaning my freezer in less than 10 mins just now!

Turns out the key is not to let it all get watery! Cold, solid frost chunks are easier to handle than the same amount of frost in liquid form.

I just had to wait for around 40 mins since the time I turned off the fridge until I heard a loud crack. A huge portion of the frosts on the freezer ceiling had cracked :D

I then only need to transfer any of the cracked frosts, all still solid, to the nearby sink. The things I used were just a flexible cutting board (Ikea stuff) that I used to transfer the solid frost from the fridge to the sink, a plastic ladle to get most of the crushed frosts, and last, a wipe cloth.

And in less than 10 mins I finished cleaning up my freezer, and putting back all my frozen stuffs.
I amazingly feel super proud about it xD

2 comments:

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