I hope y’all had a great Mother’s Day! I had breakfast made for me, watched a movie with my 2 little boys, giggled with my sweet little girl and they gave me a beautiful new purse. It’s stunning and has purple accents! I love purple!
While I know most mothers relax on Mother’s Day, I suddenly felt the urge to do a “mother’s day cleaning” of the banisters of our stairs. I have been going up and down those stairs, noticing them getting dirtier and dirtier. I rarely have that “urge” so I ran with it. However, after going through the cleaning supplies, I found that I didn’t have any “all purpose cleaner”.
- spray bottle
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 cup distilled white vinegar
- 2 TBSP dishwashing soap
Directions are very simple – mix it all together in the spray bottle. See, very simple.
I started cleaning with a paper towel, the graduated to a sponge and followed with a paper towel. Now, there’s a before and after picture. Don’t judge. Remember, I have 3 young children that go up and down these stairs at least 50 times a day.
I found a few “recipes” for this all purpose cleaner. I just went with the one I had all the ingredients for. Cottage Sweet Cottage is the one I chose to use. Big Box Detox also has one that’s similar. Any of these will work. I think it worked very well and I love my clean banisters
I finally used the white vinegar for what it SHOULD be used for instead of, I don’t know, plotting to seriously injure my husband.
Real {Cheap} Housewives of Texas 
Great job! I designated some cleaning and laundry tasks to my husband and daughter on Mother’s Day then FINALLY painted my craft room that I’ve been putting off for almost a year. I couldn’t stand it any longer! I got the urge, too, and ran with it 🙂 Glad you had a great Mother’s Day!
OH painting! I want to paint so badly. My craft room, my kitchen, my daughter’s room. … 🙂
Aw~ thanks for the shoutout! I’m not from Texas but I’m a real cheap housewife! 😉
Thanks for putting it up there so I could recreate it!
I ended up sleeping in and getting the royal Mother’s Day treatment on Saturday. Then I too spent most of Mother’s Day morning cleaning: the kitchen got a serious cleaning attack!
My husband thought it was strange of me to actually do a cleaning like that. I don’t know what got into me! haha!