Works-For-Me-Wednesday: Prevent Laundry Detergent Goop

I have no idea how laundry detergent, etc. ends up all down the side of the bottle and in a sticky pool on the shelf. Because I know I am not that messy with it.

I have attempted to clean the laundry shelf several times before and never really put the effort into cleaning all the goop because I knew it would just re-accumulate.

Then I decided I would do something about it. So I cleaned the shelf really well. Seriously, I had to get a tool I last used to scrape varnish off of furniture.

And determined the shelf would not get goopy again, I laid down a plastic bag until I could find a more permanent solution.

A cheap one.

I wanted a dish drainer. You know, the plastic thing that’s sloped and looks all pretty that you set underneath a dish drying rack. The problem was that my shelf wasn’t deep enough to hold one of those. Plus, they were about $6. Not quite as cheap as I was hoping.

So I had to improvise.

I went to the auto department. They have super cheap floor mats that are also super flimsy. They were not what I would choose to go in my car, but for this they were perfect. And they were $1.88.

It was still a little deep for the shelf, but being all thin and flimsy, I just measured and cut it off with a pair of scissors.

Fits like a glove.Now I can just wash the mat when it gets all goopy and not have to scrape the stuff off the shelf continuously.

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