Now That We're Friends....

You can just call me RT Homemaker. Or Becky Homemaker. That's my real name anyway. Google me. But don't look that name up on facebook. Unless you enjoy seeing a naked, morbidly obese Barbie. You're going to do it aren't you? Well THAT'S NOT ME! Unless I've had a lot to eat. Really. 

Once when I was 13 I cut my own bangs and they looked like this.

 I think I'm a somewhat conventionally modern homemaker, like lots of women and some men. I am mainly in charge of the baby raising and related products, I care more about cleaning products, detergents, and family paper products and am more brand specific than S. I know what cleaning product is best to use when and on what kind of stain. S knows how to cook and also how to resuscitate a dress shirt that is showing stains in the armpit region. If you would like that information, here it is. Here's another tip: men shouldn't be wearing undershirts anymore. Throw them out with your pleated man pants. The loss of undershirts means that someone in your home should know how to remove armpit yellowing that occurs due to deodorant. (or so this blog says.) Hopefully you are all wearing it and not smelling funky while staining your pits.

Get ready, now I'm going to give you cleaning advice. I had a moment last night with an expensive pot that food was burned to the bottom of. I was kind of sad and angry with myself for letting it happen. Then I remembered my special friend since 1882: Bar Keepers Friend. My pot was Calphalon and you can only use BKF on stainless steel and copper. Here she is y'all:

I sprinkled BKF on the bottom of my pot and got to scrubbing. It very quickly saved the day! I fell in love all over again and then realized I had not photos and I need to SHARE this with everyone. Not only is this amazing at cleaning hard stains on my pots and pans, it is also the only thing that will get my sinks and tubs sparkly clean. See, doesn't that sound totally homemakerish? P.S. This is not a paid review. If that starts happening I'll be shouting it out across the interweb.

In order to show you the power of BKF I figured I'd do a before and after of my sink. It was last cleaned on Friday and because we cook so often in Stainless Steel (that we have to wash by hand) our sink gets scuffs and such. It also absorbs everything and holds on to stains. Fun. Here is my sink:

So it's not atrocious. Some staining on the bottom and lots of scratches from our pots and pans. What you might not know unless you have them too, those little scratches are a bitch to get out. This product makes it easy. Get your sink wet and then sprinkle some BKF on top. 

Every day I'm Sprankle'en

Then you do your special scrubbing moves and within a minute or less, the sink looks like this:

My sinks are now reflective. To keep it real (because I feel it's important that we all do that) I do have a housekeeper who comes once every two weeks and I love her dearly. Her mom brings me homemade El Salvadorian tamales and papusas. She is a cleaning fairy. But the rest of the time I am the one doing most of the heavy duty cleaning. We have dirty dishes every day, not just once every two weeks. I'm the cast iron cleaning specialist. You might even call me the House Manager. Get that generic dish washing liquid out of my cabinet... I only work with the grease cutting power of Dawn.... or Palmolive. But whatever.. you get the point. 

Come clean closet House Managers... do you have a cleaning product you can't live without? Sharing is caring. 

- RT (aka Becky Home-ECky)