The question of the day was dumb today - what did you overhear today? so I am writing about dish soap. Riveting people, I know.
I needed to clean out my car! Lord have MERCY I needed to clean out my car. The rubber mat in the ljftgate area was a disaster, something spilled, I have no idea what and when but what I can tell you is it's clean now.I have a bottle of Joy Lemon Scented Dish soap from my dad's house. and I used it to clean the mat. the waves of memories came pouring in.
In our house we always used Palmolive Dish Soap - the green one. I always wanted to use Dawn because of the way it smelled. there was one exception. My dad always used lemon joy to clean the boat.
Why?
No idea.
Maybe it was cheaper.
There is a way that lemon joy smells, it's not like regular lemon soap. And other lemon dish washing soaps do not smell the same way as Joy.
I needed to clean the back rubber mat and I grabbed the Lemon Joy and an old scrub brush from the boat and got to work. So many memories came flooding back. It was nice to think about my dad and all the fun times on the boat!
Also... I cleaned the mat on the apron of my driveway because I didn't want the soap on my flowers. Weird yes, effective - also yes.
May you find the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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