Nevertheless, the cleaning guru from The Hague is still jumping on his bicycle today to buy fabric softener. And for this reason. Now that it’s getting a bit colder in the house – and I still haven’t turned on the heating! – I notice that it is a lot more humid in the house. I can see that on my hygrometer. Everything that shines and glitters, such as copper, silver, the photo frames and their glass, has a little more tarnish than normal. The frames stick a bit, they are dirty and a bit dull. It also has dust on it. When it’s warmer, it disappears more easily. We now grab blankets, and all those movements also create more dust. It is sometimes nice to dust off frames with photos or watercolors. You do that once or twice a year at the most.”
“Even I, computer literate Marja, went to look on the internet and came across what you can do with fabric softener. I’ve always been passionately against it. But women are allowed to be a little whimsical about what they find. What I would recommend: you take a plant spray, fill it half with fabric softener and half with lukewarm water. Then you have to shake it a bit, so that it mixes well. You then take an old, washed-out washcloth, so that you can reach all corners with your fingers. Make sure you have a wet and a dry side, so you don’t have to work with different pieces of cloth.”