Housekeeping

Interesting experience figuring out what cleaning supplies to use for the bathrooms and kitchen etc., but we've managed thus far.  The tap water is very hard and leaves lots of calcium deposits within just a few days.  The 'calciclean' stuff takes them right off though!  Its strange how attached you get to certain cleaning products at home and how weird it feels not to be able to use them.  Even the smells of the products are different (and don't always combine pleasantly I've discovered).  Bleach and lemon scents always smell 'clean' to me, lavender...not so much.   I was astounded at how many choices of fabric softeners there were - one brand offered about 20 different scents!  We picked a pink one that David thinks looks like Peptobismol (ha!)  Although we have only a few patches of carpet, I really miss my strong beater-brush vacuum.  The small unit we have doesn't get the job done without repeated passes over the same spot : (