Spring Cleaning

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  1. Nancy Hart

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    Does anyone still do spring house cleaning?

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    Yes, I'm afraid so. The semi-annual wood blind cleaning is staring me in the face and I'm not enthused. :(
     
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    Housecleaning when I was a kid involved mainly cleaning the wall of most of the rooms: they were wallpapered and accumulated a layer of oily dirt due to our heating plant (we figured). We used a product called "Wall-vet" to clean them. It came in a can, felt like mushy clay, but was dry, stank of a hydrocarbon filler like benzine. You could squeeze it into shapes, after rubbing it over the wallpaper, concealing the rubbed-off grime within. We are going back here very long.....perhaps to ~ 1950.

    Anyone remember this stiff? I could find no images or reference to it.
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    Never heard of that, Frank. Sounds similar to a clay bar, which is used to remove contaminants from automotive paint. Hope it didn't contain benzene!!
     
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    I've heard of it, but we never had wallpaper. My mother decided we would wash the (painted) walls.

    Who does that now? I've vacuumed the walls though.
     
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    @Nancy Hart - you have to have the music on when cleaning - otherwise a complete drudge :)
     
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    Vintage Retro 1956 Absorene Wallpaper Cleaner
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    @Nancy Hart - Ha ha -- I wouldn't object to Bruce doing my cleaning as long as he sang a song while dusting :p
     
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