How to Make Cleaning a Kitchen Easy

Written by Stephanie Davies


Kitchens arerepparttar centers of our lives. We cook, converse, and even eat in our kitchens. Perhaps that is why getting motivated to clean a kitchen is 99.9% ofrepparttar 111387 battle...and elbow grease isrepparttar 111388 other 0.1%.

The reason for this is mostly because of allrepparttar 111389 rooms in a house,repparttar 111390 kitchen alone hasrepparttar 111391 position of havingrepparttar 111392 most traffic, use, and just plain dirt!

To start yourself off, it can be extremely helpful to have a checklist handy of allrepparttar 111393 possible things you can do so that you can mark them off as you go. It also helps to have a distraction to makerepparttar 111394 time go by faster, such as your favorite music, book on tape, or TV show playing inrepparttar 111395 background.

When cleaning, always clean fromrepparttar 111396 top ofrepparttar 111397 room, and work your way down (which saves a lot of time), except inrepparttar 111398 case of washing walls, where you work fromrepparttar 111399 bottom up to avoid streaking.

So let's start atrepparttar 111400 highest points. Each household is different in layout, so be sure to adjust these hints to specifically fit your particular dwelling. Begin withrepparttar 111401 tops of any cabinets, that top ofrepparttar 111402 refrigerator that's been needing wiped down forever, and any "higher ups" that you see (exceptrepparttar 111403 walls...those are next to last)

Next lets get torepparttar 111404 hardest parts. The mid-range, and mostlyrepparttar 111405 places that are hardest to clean, such asrepparttar 111406 oven, dishes, sink, countertops, ect.

It is sometimes easiest to start in one corner and work your way around in a circle. For an example, we will start withrepparttar 111407 oven. It will make things go by easier and faster if you dorepparttar 111408 hardest things first, and saverepparttar 111409 easiest things for last. Using an all-purpose cleaner, clean offrepparttar 111410 top ofrepparttar 111411 range, and if you have a gas stove, takerepparttar 111412 burner grates off, and soak them in a solution of water and oven cleaner, before rinsing and replacing. If you have a self-cleaning oven, now isrepparttar 111413 time to turn it on and clean itself while you skip torepparttar 111414 next item. If you are not so lucky, thenrepparttar 111415 best cleaner to use is either a commercial oven cleaner, or a paste of baking soda, borax, comet, and water. Rub this paste intorepparttar 111416 walls, and wipe clean with a damp rag. It may take a bit of elbow grease in places, but will be worth it inrepparttar 111417 end. Be sure to cleanrepparttar 111418 window inrepparttar 111419 oven if you have one, and wipe downrepparttar 111420 outside with an all-purpose cleaner.

Next go torepparttar 111421 refrigerator, and wipe downrepparttar 111422 sides and door first. Then take out everything inside..yes, EVERYTHING! Using an all-purpose cleaner, or a mixture of water and baking soda, wiperepparttar 111423 sides, shelves, and clean out those veggie drawers! If you have a real mess inrepparttar 111424 drawers, or something caked on,repparttar 111425 easiest way to clean them is to fill them with hot water, adding a capful of bleach, and set them aside for an hour or so while you clean, then empty out and wipe clean. Then replace everything inrepparttar 111426 fridge, and be sure to add a small dish with baking soda in it to capture all odors.

Breasts - baby-feeders or sexual objects?

Written by maria miller


Breasts in North America are a taboo: going topless on beaches is not generally accepted, breastfeeding in public is often frowned on or seen as 'indecent exposure', women going topfree is considered shameful and immodest behavior.

Onrepparttar other hand, entertainment industry andrepparttar 111386 media constantly show women wearing very scant clothing that barely coversrepparttar 111387 nipples and just draws more attention torepparttar 111388 breasts. Fashion swimwear covers less and less ofrepparttar 111389 female body each year. Media and advertisements signal to people that breasts are sexual, and only beautiful when big and protruding. But we know big breasts is a fallacy since women in ads and movies use push- up bras and breast enlargement to artificially 'enhance'repparttar 111390 way their breasts look like.

Just think what young girls learn about breasts if they continually see this 'propaganda' without a balancing view ofrepparttar 111391 real purpose of breasts! Breasts are to be hidden, they are sexual, forbidden. Parents teach their childrenrepparttar 111392 same way, and many times children don't see a single pair of naturally nude breasts apart from their own (if they are girls) while growing up. It is totally possible that a child grows up in North America and never sees a baby breastfeeding!

How many pairs of real breasts have you ever seen? For many young women, most of their knowledge about breasts comes from movies and magazines, so it is no wonder that even teenagers talk about getting breast implants, and that most American women seem to be unhappy with their breasts.

If women are obsessed about their breast size and shape torepparttar 111393 extent of surgery, men aren't doing any better. For many men female breasts are a source of sexual inspiration, fascination and fantasy. They get inspired from looking at pictures where they see some cleavage, where breasts are enticingly almost visible, yet hidden. The pornographic industry gets much good aboutrepparttar 111394 taboo-ism of female breasts by letting men see these taboo items for good money.

It is not so in Europe or in many other parts ofrepparttar 111395 world. European women commonly go topless on beaches, and many European countries also have nudist beaches where people sunbath naked, yetrepparttar 111396 atmosphere is decent and non-sexual and people are at ease. The sauna culture in some European countries makes people used to seeing nakedness, and they don't view breasts as any special thing or taboo. Primitive tribes in hot climates wear very little clothing and it's no big deal to them. It seems that North American culture is almost alone erotizicingrepparttar 111397 breasts to such an extreme.

Carolyn Latteier,repparttar 111398 author of Breasts, The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession, said in a TV program "All about breasts, "In many cultures, breasts aren't sexual at all. I interviewed a young anthropologist working with women in Mali, in a country in Africa where women go around with bare breasts. They're always feeding their babies. And when she told them that in our culture men are fascinated with breasts there was an instant of shock. The women burst out laughing. They laughed so hard, they fell onrepparttar 111399 floor. They said, "You mean, men act like babies?"

She also said inrepparttar 111400 same program that ofrepparttar 111401 women she interviewed,repparttar 111402 ones that were happiest with their breasts were breastfeeding women. They weren't thinking about, "Is it too small? Is it too big?" They were doing something wonderful - that which isrepparttar 111403 REAL purpose of breasts. [1]

Breastfeeding in USA

An infant formula industry study found that only 31 percent of US infants are still being breastfed at 6 months, and even though experts recommend exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, one study found that only 13% of breastfeeding mothers at 3 months and a MERE 1% at 6 months were doing so. [2]

Why do women fail to breastfeed or wean too early? There are many reasons. Some mothers think breastfeeding is 'yucky'. The husband or partner might think woman's breasts are for sexual purposes and become jealous overrepparttar 111404 nursing mom's breasts, or start thinking thatrepparttar 111405 baby is doing something indecent and pervert when it feeds.

The numerous women who have negative experiences about breastfeeding pass them on to their friends. Doctors know very little about breastfeeding and aboutrepparttar 111406 dangers of bottlefeeding. Actually, a study found thatrepparttar 111407 majority of pediatricians believe breastfeeding and formula-feeding are equally acceptable methods for feeding infants. [3]

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