today I commited mass genocide of disgusting freezer-bugs
Cleaning the fridge? No big. jsut trash the rotted stuff and make sure the margarine is alright (still haven't checked, b/c see below. but I will).
Cleaning the freezer? Ooooooh, Christ on a cracker.
I was going to come on here and brag to the Land of the LJ about the dubious honor of not having cleaned my freezer for a year. But! What little dubious honor there was to be had in such a statement was lost entirely in the fact that, once I opened my freezer, I discovered:
bugs.
Bugs.
THOUSANDS OF LITTLE LARVAL MASSES
ALL OVER MY FREEZER WALLS
AND IN THE FROZEN ROTTED FOOD
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I have had a particular dislike for cleaning bugs out of house/home/foodstuffs ever since we had to clean my Grandma's house a couple years ago, after her passing. There were, as I remember, silverfish in the papers, egg-sacs in the curtains, and white cockroaches in the silverware (oh god ew).
And so this?
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I took the drawers out, one by one, into the hall and dumped them, one by one, into the giant-sized trashcan. Stuff was long-ago rotted, but began to thaw in the trash; stuff had leaked and then refrozen, sticking some extremely noxious bags, and their green-and-black contents, to the inside-bottoms of my freezer drawers.
I went back to my room and got a basin of hot water, a new roll of paper towels, a bag of bags, and a bottle of bleach. A little hot water into each drawer, and sloshed them around a bit. I took bags out of the bag of bags: old grocery bags and fruit bags and veggie bags and clothes bags and etc bags I'd been saving over the year, because I figured they'd just go into the recycling when they'd accumulated enough. (not that there's special/specific recycling here, but I put recyclables aside anyway, due to habit.)
I made double-bags, and used thicker bags as gloves. Took the drawers and, one by one, divested them of the shit still sticking to the inside-bottoms, pouring the resulting mixture (orangey-brown, with bugs floating in it) into the double-bags and knotting them, then tossing them in the bin. I poured bleach and hot water into each drawer after. You know how you're supposed to dilute bleach by appx. one shotglass/liter? I added half a shot to each of these.
By the time I'd gotten to this point, a dorm-cleaning lady had come by and was ???ing. I asked if she had any extra large trashbags, and she finished up mopping and brought one down, all the while adjuring me not to help. (And no, I did help; as if I'm going to let someone else clean this shit up.) We got the trash out and the hallway cleaned up, and then I brought the drawers back into my rooms, where I put them into the bathtub. Brought back the paper towels, and began the disgusting part.
The bugs were about half-centimeter long, about half that thin, and clustered around the open edge of the freezer - not the cold unit at the back, but towards the front top edge. They had, thank fuck, been kept within the freezer by the seal, but within they were scattered like brown-orange rice stuck to everything.
I took hot water and bleach and paper towels, and, towel after towel, wiped things down. This is one of those freezers where you can't move the separators, because they have freezey tubes in them, so I had to get a wire hanger and bend it into a long shape and wrap papper towels around that to clean with. It couldn't even be an easy task - the wire separators above the freezey wires were less than a centimeter apart (like little grilles) and so I had to get a kitchen knife and clean between them. Add to that all the little crevices, the edge of the seal, the plastic bit holding grille wire and freezey wire together, freezer units themselves, and the fact that there is a centemeter-wide gap between the top freezey/grille and the freezer's ceiling ....
it took me two hours, overall. Two hours of holy shit this is so fucking disgusting.
(I do not think I am going to have rice for dinner.)
Cleaning the freezer? Ooooooh, Christ on a cracker.
I was going to come on here and brag to the Land of the LJ about the dubious honor of not having cleaned my freezer for a year. But! What little dubious honor there was to be had in such a statement was lost entirely in the fact that, once I opened my freezer, I discovered:
bugs.
Bugs.
THOUSANDS OF LITTLE LARVAL MASSES
ALL OVER MY FREEZER WALLS
AND IN THE FROZEN ROTTED FOOD
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I have had a particular dislike for cleaning bugs out of house/home/foodstuffs ever since we had to clean my Grandma's house a couple years ago, after her passing. There were, as I remember, silverfish in the papers, egg-sacs in the curtains, and white cockroaches in the silverware (oh god ew).
And so this?
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I took the drawers out, one by one, into the hall and dumped them, one by one, into the giant-sized trashcan. Stuff was long-ago rotted, but began to thaw in the trash; stuff had leaked and then refrozen, sticking some extremely noxious bags, and their green-and-black contents, to the inside-bottoms of my freezer drawers.
I went back to my room and got a basin of hot water, a new roll of paper towels, a bag of bags, and a bottle of bleach. A little hot water into each drawer, and sloshed them around a bit. I took bags out of the bag of bags: old grocery bags and fruit bags and veggie bags and clothes bags and etc bags I'd been saving over the year, because I figured they'd just go into the recycling when they'd accumulated enough. (not that there's special/specific recycling here, but I put recyclables aside anyway, due to habit.)
I made double-bags, and used thicker bags as gloves. Took the drawers and, one by one, divested them of the shit still sticking to the inside-bottoms, pouring the resulting mixture (orangey-brown, with bugs floating in it) into the double-bags and knotting them, then tossing them in the bin. I poured bleach and hot water into each drawer after. You know how you're supposed to dilute bleach by appx. one shotglass/liter? I added half a shot to each of these.
By the time I'd gotten to this point, a dorm-cleaning lady had come by and was ???ing. I asked if she had any extra large trashbags, and she finished up mopping and brought one down, all the while adjuring me not to help. (And no, I did help; as if I'm going to let someone else clean this shit up.) We got the trash out and the hallway cleaned up, and then I brought the drawers back into my rooms, where I put them into the bathtub. Brought back the paper towels, and began the disgusting part.
The bugs were about half-centimeter long, about half that thin, and clustered around the open edge of the freezer - not the cold unit at the back, but towards the front top edge. They had, thank fuck, been kept within the freezer by the seal, but within they were scattered like brown-orange rice stuck to everything.
I took hot water and bleach and paper towels, and, towel after towel, wiped things down. This is one of those freezers where you can't move the separators, because they have freezey tubes in them, so I had to get a wire hanger and bend it into a long shape and wrap papper towels around that to clean with. It couldn't even be an easy task - the wire separators above the freezey wires were less than a centimeter apart (like little grilles) and so I had to get a kitchen knife and clean between them. Add to that all the little crevices, the edge of the seal, the plastic bit holding grille wire and freezey wire together, freezer units themselves, and the fact that there is a centemeter-wide gap between the top freezey/grille and the freezer's ceiling ....
it took me two hours, overall. Two hours of holy shit this is so fucking disgusting.
(I do not think I am going to have rice for dinner.)