First of all, I have exercised more than 150 minutes a week for each of the last two weeks. They say it takes 21 days to build a new habit. We'll see. Right now it's more like a job than a habit.
Recently I saw a Pinterest pin that informed me that a packet of Koolaid powder would clean the hard water rings out of my toilet with hardly any effort on my part. Well, the "no effort" part got my attention right away. It just so happens that I have a lot of little packets of Koolaid. (My grocery store used to give them away free with a sugar purchase a couple of times each summer. We don't drink Koolaid, but hey! It was free!). Anyhow, the picture with the pin showed yellow Koolaid and the blurb said that it was actually the citric acid in the stuff that did the cleaning. I only had red Koolaid, but citric acid was the first thing on the ingredient list. So, following the directions from the pin, I sprinkled my red Koolaid all over two of the toilets in my house. It said to let it sit for an hour or longer, so off I went to the grocery store. When I got back to those bathrooms a couple of hours later, the Koolaid had solidified and I had to scrub for quite a while to get it all off. At this point the toilet looked like someone had bled to death in it. It took several flushes to get the water clear enough to enjoy the sight of my toilet bowl without the hard water ring. (After all, that's what the after picture on Pinterest promised.) Uh oh! The very pale tan ring was gone, and in its place there was a pink ring. Pink is prettier, right? Wrong! It looked much dirtier than it did before.so I ended up scrubbing toilets in the usual way. The kicker? I did this in two bathrooms. The moral of the story? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If I had thought before I leaped, I would have tried it out in one bathroom first. The bonus? The bathrooms now smell fruity..., with just the slightest essence of artificial flavoring.
Oh well, I still love Pinterest........
Haha! Made me laugh out loud!
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