Some of you know I had a little rough time trying to make my new house habitable. Don’t get me wrong: I love it and it felt like home to me since the moment I stepped foot in it. But it was dirty. Very dirty. Everything in the kitchen was covered with a sticky-oily-dusty layer of months, maybe years of disuse or misuse. I cleaned everything. It took me long afternoons, one after the other, and a long weekend to think everything was usable again. I cleaned every piece of cutlery, every dish, every glass, pan, pot… Cleaned the bathroom before using it (there were some really nice presents in the now-ready-to-throw-away toilet bin, such as orange turning to red cotton swabs stuck in the bottom of the bin and a beautiful used carefree stuck in the top), the floors had huge dustballs and stains… I even cleaned the windows, for fuck’s sake!
And I’ve been living here for quite a while now, it’s been already over a month, and obviously every now and then things get dirty and you don’t always have the time or the will to clean, but today was one of these days when you feel you can’t let it go any longer, you have started feeling unconfortable with all the mess and the dirt going around you and you think, ok, today is the day. And when I clean, I go to great pains to clean properly. I’ve discovered a whole new bunch of shit in a not too obvious place, and that’s understandable. Then I’ve decided to turn the toaster down and… man, I couldn’t believe my eyes! Seriously, how dirty can a toaster be? It had all sorts of things, obviously burnt bread, which is fine, normal for the toaster use, although they were huge burnt pieces of bread (I guess), but it had a whole lot of PLANTS!!!
How do you get all that inside the toaster?
Are you living in a rented house and the toaster was there before you? If everything was dirty the day you arrived, I would have a look inside the toaster, just to check you don’t find, who knows, bugs that eat your bread every morning when you are too sleepy to realize.
I’ll leave you guys with this image… and I’ll get back to cleaning and organizing, hoping I won’t find many other nasty surprises for today.
Have lots of fun. I will certainly do.
