My Degreasing Story
Scrubbing your stove tops is going to use a heck of a lot of degreaser
You know is often said about relocating....
You never know how many things you really have until you have to load it all up in a U-haul and then move it across town. When we first moved into the condominium, it took us one trip with a Tacoma, and we were done. About three years later, two trips with a ten foot box truck along with a 12 trips with the brother in laws Nissan, we still have enough garbage left to fill up the dumpster outside. Where did I get all this stuff from? I didn't go to cheap furniture stores or garage sales on a regular basis. I am flabbergasted by the way all this junk seemed to increase over a short space of time.
After all that tough work, there is still all the cleaning I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. I am also amazed at how dirty everything seemed now the clutter had been carried away. There were grease stains on the carpet from my bicycle, teeny little nail holes in the dry wall that required filling in, mildew on the tiles and around the taps in the bathroom and the kitchen. I don't even want to mention those little drip pans that were caked with grease from almost three years worth of meals
I had presumed falsely that my oven somehow was self cleaning. If you leave the burner on long enough and let it burn hot enough, all that crud underneath it should just burn away right? This was not the case. I know the truth, the longer you leave those little drip catchers without cleaning them, the more hopeless it is to clean them. I tried soaking them in heavy duty degreaser overnight. I did benefit slightly, but not nearly enough. It only took about half the grease off. It would have probably been smarter just to buy some new ones.