Today's Housecleaning Mystery

[hrj]

How is it that I have managed to acquire several dozen small decorative soap-cakes without ever having actually purchased any of them? I hardly ever use cake soap (preferring the liquid type). This is a bad combination. Fortunately, most of them are still in the original packaging, making it easier to get rid of them in a useful manner.

Since the weather forecast for the weekend involves a delightful amount of rain, I think I may tackle the first round of sifting through the kitchen equipment. This will almost certainly be followed by a list of odd equipment and appliances looking for good homes. (If I haven't used the several-dozen-piece cake decorating kit since the day I picked it up at a garage sale 25 years ago, I'm unlikely to start using it now.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Clearing out should be confined to closets, and bedrooms and the like, NOT the kitchen! Don't you know that "She who dies with the most kitchen toys wins"? ;->

I have a theory that decoratve cake soaps breed like tribbles. you just let one pregnant stray into the house & all of a sudden you're drowning in them. Especially the stinky perfumed ones!

[cellio]

I've received a lot of decorative cake soap over the years as gifts in both SCA and mundane contexts. (I actually do use it, albeit slowly.)

[gunnora.livejournal.com]

I put them in a basket in the guest bath usually.

Or just grind them all up, put them in a pot and melt, then re-cast them. Or up the liquid content to make liquid soap.

I do like body wash myself, but I do keep one bar of soap on hand for things like soaping wooden pieces when building a tongue-and-groove item. It lubricates the wood just enough to slide easily, when applied dry.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

These aren't semi-used soaps -- they're all in the original unopened packaging. I simply don't use much bar soap at all. However the perfect solution came along in the form of a FreeCycle listing looking for unused toiletries for a shelter of some sort. The soaps now have a good home. On to the extraneous kitchen gadgets!