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What’s A Chore That You Started That You Didn’t Realize How Big It Would Be Till You Were Doing It?

I started lubricating squeaking drawer glides and door hinges, a total of 95 for the entire house....Probably one can of WD-40 won’t be enough for all of them. And that stuff stinks to high heaven, think it’s gonna take a few days.
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MarineBob · 56-60, M
Food grade lubricants has no smell.... cooking oil also works great
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@MarineBob I didn’t realize that. It won’t get a rancid smell later on?
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@cherokeepatti no and that's what restaurants use
4meAndyou · F
@MarineBob I once tried spraying a set of squeaky door hinges with Pam cooking spray, and unfortunately the door was right at the top of a set of public hallway stairs in an old apartment building.

I sprayed a LOT on there, because the hinges would not stop squeaking, and overnight the Pam all dripped very slowly into a puddle of half frozen Pam at the top of the cellar stairs. I was nearly killed when I stepped in it the following day.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@MarineBob Thank you for telling me. I already stunk up the kitchen doing about half the doors but will use my cooking spray now for the rest. The main reason I put it off is because I HATE that damned smell. They had 2 men hired at the university to go through every dorm room and lubricate door hinges and drawer glides every summer and it made me almost nauseous...the smell hangs in the air for a couple of days at least. Imagine them doing it to thousands of rooms.
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@cherokeepatti making a note of this that sounds like a very easy job
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@MarineBob oh yes it did seem very easy, you could do that for hotels there couldn’t you?
MaryJanine · 70-79, F
@cherokeepatti What really hangs in the air is that stuff people use to get rid of bugs of some kind. Week before last and now again today, the people hired by management sprayed the building. The smell lingers...the first week they were here, I went into the kitchen at eight in the evening, and the smell from the treatment floated up the back stairs and nauseated me. I think that is what made me sick this past week when i woke up and vomited all over my blanket and nightgown in the middle of the night.

They are here again today. I am keeping my windows and unit door shut until the end of the week and hope for the best.