Friday, February 11, 2011

what works

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It's such a pleasure to find something that works -- something that does not require anyone to say it works. It just does work.

I was cleaning the bathroom this morning. I took about a half a cup of ammonia, added a quart-plus of warm water and ... voila! I couldn't immediately find the old-fashioned mop that might have lasted for years and likewise worked, so I got down on my hands and knees with an old dish towel for a swab.

Ammonia works. No, it does not smell like some angel's armpit, but paying for all that perfume in other products adds up and the cleaning power rates from medium to poor. One mop and a two-quart container of ammonia would probably cost something less than $10 and last for ... hell, I don't know how long, but a lot longer than sprays marked Windex, Chlorox, etc.

How nice the bathroom is clean.

Ammonia works, irrespective of what anyone says.

Buddhism is like that too.

I like things that work.
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5 comments:

  1. Amen to that _/\_

    Thanks for the ammonia tip too.

    Today I am thinking how sad to see hatred, even when it is masked with righteousness.

    Is there any other way?

    Buddhism works but why so many left.

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  2. No one can see what they don't have. That's how Buddhism works.

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  3. 'Have' but also 'not have'

    And of course yes to what you say, and yet a little sigh.

    _/\_

    Vielen dank.

    Abu

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  4. floating_abu said...

    Amen to that _/\_

    Thanks for the ammonia tip too.

    " Today I am thinking how sad to see hatred, even when it is masked with righteousness."

    Honesty works, sentiment and wishful thinking doesn't. Semantics can cover what works with a devious deep unsettled mind.

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  5. Certainly takes one to know one that's for sure!

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