As a woman, I am happy to live in a society where I can now vote and show my ankles. However, there is much to be said about that ‘50s housewife! They were the epitome of what a wife “should be” (in that era – I think my brazen “housewife” etiquette is a little better…
When you were a child, you may have watched your parents or grandparents struggling to lug a monstrous machine up and down flights of stairs. The roars of that beastly contraption were second only to the curses being shrieked from the unlucky individual having to use it. The first vacuum was invented in 1869 and was a…
If you are choosing a cleaning product there are a myriad of choices, but come down to essentially two different chemicals. Bleach or ammonia. Now we know the golden rule of chemical compounds is DO NOT MIX THESE TWO, but what else do we know? Yes they smell pungent and clean amazingly well. Bleach should…
Who is that vaguely frightening bald guy with an earring who only wears white shirts and hates dirtiness? How come people all over the world can recognize his face and know that suds and brute and excessive cleanliness are sure to follow? He is known as “Don Limpio” in Spain, “Monsieur Net” in France and…