~Hmmm~
I'm been laying low for the past two days even though I honestly planned to share a couple fun things with you! For a day and a half I've had a splitting headache and it's gotten the best of me I'm afraid. I don't get headaches very often and I have only had one migraine in my life... That said...I'm pretty WHIMPY WHIMPY WHIMPY when any kind of pain makes it's way into my brain!
Is there a cause, you ask? Yes! At least I THINK maybe there is!
~OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR~
Enough said!
Anyway...that really isn't what prompted me to pop in just for a second or two (Um...RIGHT! Like I can EVVAH be on my computer for less that 20 minutes at a time!).
It's this:
As many of you know this past Summer the Dishwasher Industry (think of products Cascade TM, Electra-sol TM, ALL TM, etc.) was required to go PHOSPHATE FREE. I've known for quite some time this was coming as Phosphates cause more problems to our environment than most consumers know. Excessive levels of this nutrient can fertilize our streams and this can lead to nuisance plant growth, unsightly and smelly lakes and ponds that are unable to support fish and other aquatic life...
So hear me...I'm fully supportive of removing Phosphates from all products because I LOVE LOVE LOVE our beautiful Planet Earth...(that means please don't write and yell at me, OK?)~
I just don't appreciate it when I'm lead to believe from every corner of the advertising arena that all is good, things are under control, and that we can believe a Company (and their Ad) when they say their product works.
Feels like I'm being lied to again by a big-wig, minuscule politician...
In my mind the companies out there who are manufacturing household products have known LIKE FOREVER for a measurable length of time the new "Phosphate Free" standards would become law in 2010. This means that SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE needed to begin working on creating a DECENT product many, many, many moons ago OR TELL US THE TRUTH that they are stymied! I'm actually OK with hearing that...but don't try to snow me in the process!
Well...I'm now on my 3rd box of Cascade Powdered Dishwasher Detergent and to me it's absolutely WORTHLESS CRUMMY PATHETIC HORRIBLE! Simply put to me it is the worse cleaning product of ANY KIND I have ever purchased during my years of marriage. It did NOT get my dishes clean and it did NOT make them sparkle and shine like it claims it will do on the outside of box. In disgust (and with that headache I told you about) I unloaded my dishwasher and washed every single glass, plate, cup and pan by hand before I could put them away.
Whatever P & G put in their bright green Cascade TM box it didn't even remove the lipstick on the edge of my teacup! GAAAAAHROSS!
So~after using almost three boxes of the stuff (I think I was hoping it was going to get better) I finally decided to sit myself down (head-throb and all) and pen a little on-line-lettah to the 'powers that be' at Proctor & Gamble.
Now...I was nice.
I'm almost always nice! :)
I just told the Company that I had given up trying to get their product (again, that would be CASCADE TM) to work and that I would be washing ALL my dishes by hand and scrub them clean until I could figure out something better to use that might work.
Well...this afternoon I gots me a litta-lettah back from P & G! Would you like to know what it said?
Basically the five line NOTE commented on the fact the entire industry was required to go Phosphate Free, NOT JUST CASCADE/TM! They are also sending me a coupon for "Action Pacs" (which is nice since I'm tossing OUT the remainder of my almost full box of Cascade TM)...
Looks to me like I'm going to be doing a bunch of hand dish-washing this year...
Thanks for allowing me to RANT! :) You can betcha I'll be looking REALLY CLOSE at both my drinking glass and eating untensils when dining away from home!
(Oh...I still have my headache, but at least now my dishes are now clean!)
Love to you~
