The Lazy Girl's Guide to... Vanishing!

This post bought to you by Vanish

By now you should well and truly know that I am a lazy girl. Well, if you're a regular reader you would know. I hate cleaning. I hate shopping (unless it's online of course!). I hate cooking. And I really hate laundry!

My lounge room as it looked at exactly 11:01pm last night! #keepinitreal
And yes that is a potty you can see next to the coffee table!

When we moved in to our house we had no clothesline so we bought a couple of clothes horses and hung all of our washing on those. Then in August 2008 when we were away on our honeymoon, my parents came round and installed a clothesline on to the side of the house for us.

In the 5 years since we've had the clothesline I've used it about 5 times. Maybe once a year.

There's nothing wrong with the clothesline at all. It's really good, it's in the perfect place to get sun all day and it's the perfect height for me. It's just the extra effort it takes to get the clothes in to a washing basket and walk over there to hang them, usually through waist-high grass that gets me (waist-high may be a slight exaggeration but I am married to a lazy boy). The worst part however is that when I hang clothes on there I often forget about them. Because it's not in my line of sight from the kitchen window, and I get sidetracked very easily.

My drying station

The ultimate evidence of my lazy girl status can be found in the fact that I once hung a fitted sheet on the clothesline to dry and it didn't get taken off for about 3 months. And by then it was no good anymore and needed to be thrown away. In my defence, it did happen when Punky was a newborn and I was suffering from an extreme case of baby-brain but still! That really is almost beyond lazy, I do admit!

So now, even though we have a clothesline, the washing almost always is hung inside on the clothes horse. Or if it needs to dry quickly, it goes in the dryer. So our house constantly looks like a Chinese laundry. But that is not the end of my laundry laziness.

Clothes, clothes, everywhere!

I'm shit at actually folding and putting away said laundry. What about ironing I hear you ask?  Don't even go there. Clothes only get ironed in this house if they absolutely require it for the occasion (like say a wedding, funeral or baptism) and even then most wrinkles fall out of clothes after an hour or so of wear anyway! But the mountains of clean washing that requires folding and putting away is often taller than me.

So when it comes to actually doing the laundry, soaking, putting it in the machine, etc I need something that is quick, simple, easy to use and gives good results. That's where Vanish cleaning products come in. I've been using them for years. They are super simple and easy to use and haven't let me down yet. Especially with 2 kids who are World Champion pooers and spewers!

One of the piles of clean washing in my house, waiting to be folded. Yes, there is more than one!

My favourite Vanish Napi-San products are the spray and the power shot things that are the coolest shade of pink you ever did see. I actually feel like I am prettying up my wash when I drop one of those bitches in with the load. I also love the carpet foam but that has nothing to do with laundry...

When I need some heavy-duty stain removing muscle I have to go with the powder. I just dissolve some of that in the tub with hot-water and leave the poo clothes to soak overnight. Gets rid of those poo stains nicely and it's also proven more than up to the task of removing ink and blood stains from Dave's work uniforms.

I could have taken a really nice, styled product picture, but in the interests of keeping it real I have photographed the laundry products in their natural environment... my un-finished 'laundry-in-the-garage'. Note that I'm so lazy I couldn't even be bothered throwing out the empties!

Now the carpet foam. It's great for cleaning spew and where it really paid for itself was after Dave's 30th birthday blow-out in 2010. Imagine a lot of drunk adults, one of whom had consumed way too much red wine, and then passed out in the spare room. The next morning, while still drunk from the tequila shots I may or may not have consumed at 6 in the morning, I walked in to the spare room after everyone had left, to be greeted by what looked like a murder scene. Only it wasn't blood.

Said red wine consumer had done an epic spew through the night, all over the carpet beside the bed. And when I say epic, I mean epic. I've never seen such a large area of vomit, and so red! It explained why she had apologised so profusely to me as she was leaving, in between spewing in to a plastic bag. She was dusty to say the least.

In my still drunken state I just did not have the stomach to deal with that mess so I sprayed the shit out of it with the Vanish carpet foam, opened the window, shut the door and left it overnight for future, sober Kylez to deal with, pretty certain we'd have to actually replace the carpet, it was that bad! When I built up the courage to go in and vacuum the foam the next day it had removed all but a few spots. So I sprayed it again, left it another night and after the second vacuum the stains and the smell were gone. Damn you Vanish, you cheated me out of an excuse for new carpet!

It's weird to think that room is now the home of a newborn. My how things can change in a few short years!

The only difference is the furniture. It's just as messy now as it was before we cleaned all the junk out!
And wouldn't you know it, there's some more clean clothes on the bed just waiting to be folded and put away!

So to make a really long story short (too late!), anything that saves me time and effort when it comes to any kind of cleaning task, especially the laundry or dealing with red-wine induced voms while drunk and/or hung-over, gets my tick of approval. So the Vanish range of stain remover products certainly gets this lazy girls biggest tick!

Now if only it would actually vanish all my bloody housework without me having to actually do anything that would be awesome!

And now that I've aired my (dirty) laundry, literally, it's time for you to fess up. What's the worst thing you've neglected when it comes to housework and laziness?

Disclaimer: I was sent some Vanish Napi-San stain remover laundry powder & spray to use {but not the power shots :-( } and I was paid to write this post. However this did not sway the opinions I've expressed as I've been using Vanish products for years {and loving them!}, long before I ever thought someone would pay me to blog about them! You can read my disclosure & PR policy here.