An anal retentive solution to a problem with an anal retentive solution
I can be a bit compulsive about some things. We have a very efficient clothes washer (Energy Satar and all that) but we buy the standard washing fluid. It seems to work just as well – you just need to use very little of it each time. Quite a long time ago (was it really over a year and a half?) we bought two bulk size containers of laundry detergent. With each load taking no more than a few teaspoons just the first one has lasted a long time.
But we have a cup with detergent in it that we keep putting back in the cupboard above the washer. With my old clothes washer i would just rinse the measuring cup with the water that was filling the machine. But the new one is front loading. And you can’t rinse it every time – so we end up with laundry soap running down the side of the cup. And that runs over the base of the cabinet.
So i started to wipe the outside of the cup with a piece of clothing that was going into the load of wash anyway. That helped a lot.
But we were still leaving a circle of drying detergent in the cupboard. So then i used the lid from a can of pringles as a coaster of sorts for the detergent measuring cup. Worked great! Until one day the “coaster” stuck to the bottom and let go just in time to fall behind the washing machine. So i replaced it. And it happened again. After the third time i decided that we neede to figure something else out.
Today i applied a large square of adhesive foam to the Pringles lid and stuck it to the cupboard base.
Silly to spend a half an hour taking pictures and writing about something like this. Consider it an extension of my anal retentiveness.
I hereby nominate Carli to handle this one. We’ll begin by sending our children to your house, but I somehow trust that you’d have them lined up, in Scout uniforms, teeming with efficient productivity inside a few hours.
YOU ARE JAPANESE!
(I would like to empty my vaccuum cleaner’s cylinder thing all over the sticky mess of detergent)