It’s the only Apple-recommended LCD screen cleaner, but at around $30 a pop for the kits, I’m skeptical. Of course, I was skeptical about getting anything Apple-related at first anyway; sure, it’s a nifty machine and all that, but damn, why does everything Apple have to be so expensive when the competition (uh, PCs, that [...]

A column of ants are next to my desk, interested in some invisible residue at the bottom of my empty trash can. They are black and tiny, so I presume they will not bite me as they clean up my mess. Am I wrong to not be disgusted or frightened by their presence? There is [...]

We have been trying to sell our old junk on eBay, because that’s what you do. We’re dumb! So far, everything has sold for a pittance, especially when you consider the amount of hassle in posting stuff to eBay, packing it up, and sending it out.
Instead, we should have given this stuff away. Or at [...]

No organizational tool has been more useful in our household than the Rubbermaid tub. We moved from Kansas City to New York with all our belongings packed in about twenty of the tubs which we bought from Wal-Mart for something like $10 apiece. (They weren’t all Rubbermaid brand proper.) We’ve since used them to not [...]

This is a totally personal, self-indulgent rant with no point other than to bitch.
It’s no wonder why I’m kind of a slob. I don’t blame my wife, not really, though it’d be easy because she’s just got way too much stuff to deal with. (I swear the moving sale is going to be astounding; [...]

While searching around for germane stuff to talk about on the subject of men and cleaning, I came across a site that definitely pertains, but also straddles the NSFW line. I doubt that there’s anything too obscene here. Nevertheless, you may still get some funny looks from the IT guys after you click on [...]

Almost more than actually driving, I miss washing my car. When I lived in Kansas City and had no money, my friend Mike and I would often head to one of the local Big Bay car washes and spend a couple hours detailing our rides. I surely had the cleanest Honda Civic Si in the [...]

When I was a young pup, full of self-loathing and sloshing reservoirs of fluids, I would often endear myself to others by cleaning up their homes. It started with my friend John, in whose room I would often find rotting piles of chicken underneath Star Wars toys, stormtroopers drowning in a pool of fetid ranch [...]

We cook a lot. I work from home and don’t leave the house for days at a time, plus Susie makes dinner almost every evening. We’ve got a dishes problem—there are always some in the sink, and even when we dig into them it seems like it takes hours to clean up even a single [...]

Nobody likes squalor, but too often we just get used to it as it builds up until it finally reaches the point where it’s overwhelming and too daunting a task to deal with. Both sexes are capable of this and it’s a sure sign of an unhealthy lifestyle. Cleaning that shit up makes the world [...]