40: You Just Need To Appliance Yourself

This week, a listener calls in to ask if we’ve ever found ourself in a state of Total Cleaning Consciousness or, as she puts it, “a cleaning fugue state.” And the answer, dear listener, is yes. You are safe here and you are seen because who among us hasn’t found ourselves sitting surrounded by soiled rags, looking at the cabinet, drawer, or other surface we had suddenly decided to clean?

That said, dear listener, we do differ in some ways. For example, not everyone’s Cleaning Nirvana includes the sultry vocal stylings of one 1990s Hair-And-Open-Sexuality Icon:

Instead, as HBO explains on the show, her best cleaning moments include a winky, bookish gal called Libby, who is a bit like Wendy (of Wendy’s fame) except for books. Find more about the Libby app here.

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In other news, this show contains the following:

A completely gross story about a washing machine that will give us nightmares forever. Oh, you don’t believe us? WELL HERE IS SOME PHOTO EVIDENCE:

BRB BARFING ETERNALLY.

Wow. Vom. Ok. So. If you want to prevent such a THOROUGHLY GROSS OCCURENCE in your own home, here is a rundown for how to do it using — YOU GOT IT — vinegar.

We also exchange notes on a Big Cleaning Task that we accidentally are doing in rather close succession. Well, we didn’t do the work. We just set our ovens to SELF-CLEAN and let heat (AND SMELL, JESUS CHRIST) do the rest.

Not everyone has space-ovens which clean themselves with the use of tiny elves, though. In which case, they may want to watch this video:

Finally, we cap off with an interview with HBO’s Sister, Emma, who owns a dog grooming salon in Oregon. She saw our head-scratching over this weird spray bottle:

…and she has a really pretty obvious and good answer. Now here’s the hard part: Try to figure out which one is Hanna and which one is Emma!

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