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Keeping up appearances
I was just doing the washing up and trying to scrub the tannin stains from a few mugs and I suddenly remembered that when I was younger, every couple of weeks or so my mum used to bleach all the crockery.
She actually applied a concentrated corrosive poison to our eating utensils in order to render them spotless - not to mention letting it go down the sink and into the water system - crazy.
So, what crazy things did or do your parents get up to in order to maintain appearances in the home, at work or socially?