Seashells

Good Evening,

I was helping my mom clean her house today, when I thought to myself, "I should tell the world my mom's cleaning secrets". So here I am, about to tell you about one AMAZING cleaning tip when it comes to cleaning the toilets in your house! I've used this technique myself, and am so glad my mom is such a cleaning genius, and so glad she is letting me share her secrets!

Here in the Texas Hill Country, calcium and lime buildup on tubs, sinks, toilets and other stuff is a hastle and sometimes near impossible to get off. Even in El Campo near the Texas Coast, I was having a hard time scrubbing the lime buildup from 2 weeks of non-scrubbing from when we got home from summer vacation! Our house was built in the 1960's and the commodes were replaced in the 90's, so the commodes already had a stain on them previously when we moved in. I've been really frustrated at the way they looked after I'd clean them. I then proceeded to call my mom, and ask her how the heck I get that stuff off. It was turning colors and I was going to have friends over in hours and was starting to freak out! I tried using a brush, a toilet scrubber, several types of cleaning agents, and even used clorox figuring it would eat the stuff away if I put enough in the toilet (I later was told that I shouldn't do that because it would mess up the sewage system in town, oooopppsss! :/...oh well I just killed 1/1000th of the germs in the sewage) lol.

Then my mom laughed quietly and told me "Use a seashell...", I thought to myself, "mom, what good is a seashell going to do in my toilet when I want to clean it?". She told me to go find a seashell and use the edge to scrape off the buildup. Yes, a seashell is like a magic eraser when cleaning a toilet!

I was lucky enough to have seashells in my truck from a recent visit to Matagorda Beach. I had an entire bag of them, and took them ALL into my bathroom. I took one out and got to scrubbing, and with much less effort than I was using before, the lime buildup was disappearing!!! I was amazed. I used comet with my seashell and in 2 minutes I was flushing the buildup powder down! If you use it with the pretty side down, it seems to work best for me, however, my mom uses it flipped over with the pretty side up. So to each their own, on how to actually use the seashell.

Thank you mom for telling me your secret! She says its really not a secret, she just happened to be frustrated one day when cleaning her toilets and decided to try one last thing, a seashell, which she happened to have in a basket by the sink. She said she was so relieved to find something to remidy her toilet troubles! Haha! Who'd-a-thunk a seashell from the Texas Coast would work so well!

There ya have it Ladies! USE A SEASHELL!!!

For Now & God Bless, *Amber*

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