How to have a sink so clean your mother in law will notice

I originally learnt this from fly lady. If you don't know who fly lady is then your life is likely in chaos and you're probably not wearing any shoes. Anyways... here's how to have a super sparkly sink.

step one: fill the sink up to the brim with water and one cup of bleach. Walk away and allow the bleach to do it's thing for about an hour.
step two: drain the sink. wipe sink down and rinse thoroughly.
step three: scrub sink with vim or another awesome cleaning product. Make it sparkle. Get the scum that gathers around the faucet and handles and whatnot.
step four: rinse really really super well
step five: shine that sink up with some window cleaner
step six: keep a clean dish towel beside that sink; every time you use the sink at all, dry it thoroughly with the dish towel... this will keep it super shiny.

"What," you may ask, "is the point of having a clean sink...there are always dishes in it!" Let me enlighten you girlfriend.

When your sink is clean, something weird happens inside your husband, children, guests and random homeless people who may be eating in you kitchen. Something marvelous but weird.

You see... people don't put dirty dishes in a clean sink. People don't toss bacon grease in a clean sink. People don't leave soggy dishcloths in the bottom of a clean sink for days on end and allow them to grow scientifically unexplainable stinky germs. Keep your sink clean and people will put their dishes in the dishwasher (which you of course emptied out as soon as it was finished it's last cycle so that there's always a place to put dirty dishes, right?)... likely without ever being asked (or if you don't have a dishwasher, the dishpan you've conveniently set beside the sink before you served dinner so that there would be a place for them to put their dirty dishes, right?)

But more importantly....something weird and marvelous happens inside of you. You take pride in your sparkling sink...which means you take pride in your sparkly kitchen...which means your kitchen stays sparkling clean.

And believe it or not, a clean house is all about the kitchen... if you keep your kitchen tidy you will likely keep the rest of the house clean too. In short: clean sink means clean kitchen, clean kitchen means clean house, clean house means more time for scrap booking and bubble baths.

That is this weeks entry for wfmw (works for me Wednesdays) over at rocks in my dryer. Click the links to find more tips and tricks from the smart ladies out there in the blogosphere.