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Hello. This is Toraneko!

Thank you so much for coming to visit this little corner of the blog today, despite your busy schedule. Just knowing that there are people who read this always makes me feel so overwhelmed with emotion... Oh, I'm sorry, I got a bit sentimental all of a sudden.

Today, I'm going to talk about "cleaning," something I've been hesitant to write about for a long time.

Actually, I'm not very good at housework. Every time I see "mindful living" or a sparkling white kitchen on social media, I'm the type who gets a little down, thinking, "Oh, I could never do that." But there is a magic powder that quietly supports a lazy, insecure person like me.

That is, as you all know, "OXI CLEAN".

You might think, "Are you talking about OxiClean now?" But the way I use it is a little different from the so-called "official method"; it's my own "lazy-friendly cleaning technique."

"Oxi-soaking" to give up on perfection

Often, articles introducing OxiClean are filled with bold words like "Sparkling house!" or "Thorough sterilization!" But I can't work that hard.

The reason I use OxiClean is that I want an "indulgence" that lets me not have to try so hard.

Things like the range hood filter after cooking or the bathroom chair. Scrubbing them hard takes a lot of physical energy, doesn't it? It ruins my nails, and I feel like it wears down my spirit, too.

That's why I always do this.

"Just throw everything into the leftover bathwater."

Toraneko's ultimate neglect technique

At night, after I get out of the bath, I dissolve some OxiClean in the water (I'm supposed to measure it, but I always just go, "Maybe this much?" and toss it in!) and submerge everything I'm concerned about.

"After this, Oxi-san will do the hard work for me tomorrow..."

When I go to sleep thinking that, I feel like I can forgive myself a little. The next morning, when I drain the water and rinse it off with the shower, seeing the brown dirt slide right off makes me feel like, "Even I can keep my house clean!" and it gives me a little bit of confidence.

A novel approach? Washing away the "guilt" of shoes

I haven't really told anyone this, but...

When my favorite sneakers get dirty, I feel like my own heart has become dirty, and it makes me so sad. But it's a hassle to wash them, so I hide them in the corner of the shoe cabinet. That time spent "pretending not to see them" is when my heart feels the heaviest.

At times like that, I make a "confession" to OxiClean.

I put warm water and OxiClean into a Ziploc bag and toss my sneakers in. As I listen to the fizzing sound of the bubbles, I whisper in my heart, "I'm sorry for neglecting you."

Actually, OxiClean lifts away dirt with the "power of oxygen." It doesn't force it off, but gently wraps around it and lifts it up. I feel like that gentleness is somewhat similar to me (oh, that's presumptuous of me, sorry...).

When the water that was pitch black turns murky after 30 minutes, and the shoes regain their original whiteness, it feels like it's not just the shoes that have become clean, but that my guilt for "having neglected them" has been washed away along with it.

Is its true potential actually outside of "laundry"?

The common way to use it is for bleaching clothes, but lately, I've been using OxiClean for "handprints on wallpaper."

Around the light switches in your room, doesn't it look a bit dark? Every time I see that, I feel sad, thinking, "Ah, the weariness of daily life is showing."

But, I soak a piece of soft, unwanted cloth (I use scraps of old pajamas) in a concentrated Oxi solution, wring it out tightly, and then gently dab at it.

When I do that, the room becomes surprisingly "brighter."

It's strange, but when the room gets brighter, my own face reflected in the mirror looks a little brighter too.

Things I want to share because I'm someone who makes mistakes

Even though I'm saying "I love OxiClean!" so much, I've actually made plenty of mistakes myself.

I've been greedy and soaked my favorite wool sweater, only to cry when it turned stiff, and I've also soaked an aluminum pot and turned it pitch black.

But, I realized something through my failures.

It's that "OxiClean has things it's good at and things it's not good at".

People are the same, aren't they? I, too, can't do things that everyone else does naturally, and I get anxious easily. But, I've realized that's okay.

OxiClean is weakly alkaline, so it's not suitable for delicate items. But for stubborn oil stains and unpleasant odors, it stands by you more powerfully than anyone else.

In closing

How was it?

It ended up feeling more like me talking to myself than helpful information. I'm sorry.

But if you are blaming yourself, thinking, 'I have to clean, but I can't move,' please just try dissolving a scoop of OxiClean in a bucket.

You can just sit down and have a cup of warm tea.

While the bubbles are fizzing away and doing the hard work, you have already done enough.

Let's leave the 'cleaning' to OxiClean, not you.

It's not a bad thing to rely on 'things' once in a while like that.

Thank you so, so much for reading until the end today.

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