{"id":57532,"date":"2014-01-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/mrbix12014x101x1deep-cleaning-high-chair-and-washing-htmlx1index\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:29:18","slug":"deep-cleaning-high-chair-and-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2014\/01\/deep-cleaning-high-chair-and-washing.html","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cleaning: High Chair and Washing Machine – Mrs. Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since it\u2019s been \u201csnowpocalypse\u201d outside, I\u2019ve been getting stir crazy inside. I\u2019m caught up on laundry and the house is pretty clean overall. So, I thought I\u2019d get a jump on my spring cleaning a little early this year.<\/p>\n

One of my least favorite tasks is deep cleaning my sons highchair. It gets really yucky down in the crevices and the straps get all kinds of food build up, and are usually stained red from spaghetti. Thankfully I got a highchair that I knew would be easy to clean. Before I got it apart\u00a0I took some before pictures. Sorry about the quality, I couldn\u2019t find my camera so I had to use my phone\u2026<\/p>\n

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See the food stuck in the crevices, and the red stained strap? Ick! The hardest part about cleaning this, is getting it clean and dried before he needs to use it again. I clean it at nap time, so that it\u2019s usually dry by dinner.<\/p>\n

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Take apart the straps and soak them in this liquid, and wipe down the seat part with a damp sponge dipped in it. I usually use a magic eraser<\/a>, just for the extra cleaning power.<\/div>\n
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Then, clean off underneath everything, it gets really nasty under there!<\/div>\n
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After soaking, about an hour, rinse everything really well, and allow to dry. Put back together, and it\u2019ll be clean for about an hour before your child yuckies it up again \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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This is after, but I didn\u2019t get another picture\u00a0until after he\u2019d eaten again, so they\u2019re already a little dirty. The soaking really takes care of the staining though.<\/div>\n
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Next, I moved onto my washing machine, which I\u2019ve never actually cleaned before. We\u2019ve had it for 2 years, and before this house I had a front loader. I used to just buy the cleaner that you ran through the front loader and it did an adequate job. But, I scoured pinterest and found this tutorial<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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You fill your washer up with hot water, add 3-4 cups white vinegar and 1\/2 cup baking soda. Let it agitate for a minute, then let it sit for an hour. Wipe\/scrub it out and finish the cycle. Then I ran another empty cycle on hot just to make sure all the gunk was gone.<\/div>\n
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Here are some before and afters:<\/div>\n
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Most of that nastiness is fabric softener build-up and just general dirt from clothes, etc.<\/div>\n
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Hubby had already thrown his work clothes in the washer, it is rarely ever empty\u2026<\/div>\n
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But, see the difference? The \u201cgunk\u201d came off quite easily, and the washer smelled much fresher and cleaner afterwards. I forgot to mention that I also put white vinegar in the fabric softener slot to clean it out as well.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ll probably be doing a few more \u201cspring cleaning\u201d type posts in the near future. What are your least favorite deep cleaning areas? And, do you have any easy and natural ways to get things clean?!\u00a0 ( I know the oxiclean on the high chair isn\u2019t natural, but it\u2019s the only thing I can find that will get spaghetti stains out, and I rinse thoroughly after using).<\/div>\n
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Also, check out my post about how to make your own bathroom cleaner here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Since it\u2019s been \u201csnowpocalypse\u201d outside, I\u2019ve been getting stir crazy inside. I\u2019m caught up on laundry and the house is pretty clean overall. So, I thought I\u2019d get a jump on my spring cleaning a little early this year. One of my least favorite tasks is deep cleaning my sons highchair. It gets really yucky down in the crevices and the straps get all kinds of food build up, and are usually stained red from spaghetti. Thankfully I got a highchair that I knew would be easy to clean. Before I got it apart\u00a0I took some before pictures. Sorry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleaning","category-diy","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}