I don't remember my grandmother being a cleaning expert, giving all kinds of advice on cleaning tricks. Somehow grandmothers have become the experts of housekeeping and cleaning. They start with 'back in the day' and end with 'hacks that still work today' and pretty well all of them want you to wash walls from the bottom up.I browsed through them to find some strange ones and here they are:
'I remember watching my grandma pour plenty of dried tea leaves over the entire rug or carpet, then waiting 15 minutes before clearing them away with a vacuum to get rid off all the dust and stale odors."
'Notoriously hard to clean, the inside of bottles can be rinsed out with a mixture of sand and water. After a good shake, the abrasive combination will clean out all those hard to reach corners. Just make sure to rinse out the bottle afterwards and leave it to air dry."
"After cleaning windows with your usual cleaning spritzer, or better still, a diluted white vinegar solution, use an old sheet of newspaper to wipe away streaks on the window pane glass. The paper and ink act as a light abrasive when you wipe in a circular motion and the results are flawless."
Once you have your house clean with these old-fashioned methods, you can engage in old-fashioned slang sayings such as:
That's My Cup Of Tea
"Kick Up Your Heels
"I'll Be There With Bells On
"I'm Head Over Heels
"You Look Happy As A Clam
"Pardon My French
"Bring Home The Bacon
Next, I went over to Mental Floss for some thoroughly strange old slang sayings:
"Happy cabbage" is a sizeable amount of money to be spent on self-satisfying things. You know, like cabbage.
"Pang-Wangle" is to live or go along cheerfully in spite of minor misfortunes, like Mickey Mouse who goes along cheerfully despite having a dog who's a friend and also a dog who's a dog.
"In the ketchup" means in the red or operating at a deficit
As I browsed through these websites with all kinds of "cleaning" content that ranges from stupid to the absurd it made me want to find an image that matched the sentiment. So here it is.
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