Organizing Cleaning Supplies
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Welcome to Day 16 of 31 Days of Getting Organized!
I wasn’t going to post about organizing cleaning supplies… but then yesterday I got an orange bucket…..
No I didn’t buy one. I got one. Free.
Ok, so this is how the story started… I wanted to get a few kitchen odds and ends from one of my favorite Dutch shops – Blokker. I’ve loved Blokker every since I lived here as a teenager – it has all sorts of cool kitchen things, and candles, and tea cups…
When we turned up there yesterday, this sign was in front of the door:
I said to DD – hey, we can get a free bucket!
And she’s like – full of cleaning products?
So I read the rest and it said that we would get 20% off of whatever we put in the bucket. In the orange bucket. And if it added up to more than 10 euros, we’d get the bucket free. The bright orange one.
Well, we didn’t really need a bucket, but getting 20% off would be handy, so we proceeded to buy what we needed (not cleaning supplies) and went to the register to get 20% off…… which was really nice 🙂
But then I told the lady I didn’t want the bucket. The free one. The orange one.
And she was horrified!
“But it’s free!” she said….
And I said, but it won’t fit in the suitcase… would you like it?
Apparently she didn’t want it either, but she did put everything I bought back in it….
And so I walked out the door with an orange bucket. A free one. One that I didn’t really want.
I took that bucket with me into a bookstore, to the supermarket, and on the bus home. I had a few strange looks, but not too many. Maybe it is a normal sight here to see people walking around with orange buckets. After all, orange is the Dutch national color.
Now if I was able to take the orange bucket home with me, I would use it to store cleaning supplies – because that is how I usually like to organize them… in a bucket so that it is all in one place and I can drag it around the house with me. Tomorrow we are going to clean DD’s room, so I shall use it for just that… but after I use it for our cleaning supplies? Not sure… don’t think it will fit in the suitcase….
Anyone want a bucket? It’s orange. And it’s free. You just need to come to Holland to get it.
How do you organize your cleaning supplies? Please don’t tell me in an orange bucket………..
Funny that you should post about organizing cleaning supplies because, encouraged by http://www.abowlfulloflemons.net/2018/10/cleaning-card-system.html, I’ve been looking for a nice caddy with which to organize my stuff. I don’t care enough for an orange bucket to make a trip clear to Holland though. Thanks anyhow.
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Lol. Thanks for cheering me up this morning Joy. I have my cleaning supplies in a bucket too. Well it’s a rectangle metal bucket i bought from Aldi(i think). Has cleaning written on the side. I’ve a matching on that holds my laundry powder. I’ll have to pass on the ornage bucket too even if it’s free. Hugs,xx
Haha. I’ve already been to Holland and even though I would take your orange bucket I can’t afford to go back! Our cleaning supplies are stored in the garage and under the sinks. If we had small children crawling around we would have to rethink under the sinks! Nancy
This post was too funny! Thanks Joy, love your sense of the ridiculous. Of course, the bucket wasn’t really free….. for a 20% discount and an eye-catching bucket you can’t get rid of, you just advertised their business for them all over town! lol But you got a great post out of it, so I think you can call it even. 🙂
Alas Holland is out of reach for me too….but I love this post! Perhaps you could set it outside the door with a ‘free to a good home’ sign?
Cleaning products? What are they? On a windy day I just open the front and back roller doors of my garage. The most environmentally friendly way of cleaning!
LOL 😂 great post. Shame you can’t take the Orange 🍊 bucket home.
LOL, I am sure you will come up with a great idea of what to do with an orange bucket!
Thanks for the offer – and the laugh – but orange is just not my colour!
My husband does most of the cleaning and he sticks it in a round blue bucket…(really a rectangular one would be more sensible) but I have extra supplies under the kitchen sink.
Now that’s a funny story! I lug my supplies around in a plastic tool looking thing-for the same reasons-it’s all in there! Good idea!
Haha great post 🙂
Ha, ha, I store my cleaning supplies in an orange bucket! No, not really. They are just stuck under the sink, and not organized at all. To be honest, there aren’t that many! =) I love the orange bucket story, though.