Ssssteam Heat!

Ah I am indeed truly embracing my inner fauxhousewife. I have gone gadget mad & filled my FauxSurreyHome with the power of steam.

Firstly, due to major limsecale (if it was any harder our water would come out as chalk), the old steam mop furred up and died and then my trusty steam iron started to just be - well - not quite as good as it used to be no doubt also because of limescale despite always filling with once boiled water and always cleaning / descaling it. Ironing FauxSurreyHubby's shirts had become a real pain in the whatsit & a major chore. And no-one likes a chore.

So flopped on the sofa whilst trying to recover from THE COLD I was bored rigid & flicked to the shopping channels - and landed on Thane Direct. After suffering dreadfully dubbed American ads for The Slim'n'Lift Aire Bra and the WonderStep door mat, on came an ad for the X5 Steam Mop... and I was transfixed! Not only (promised the man) would this amazing mop steam clean the floors brilliantly - cleaning AND sanitising AND do carpets - I could use it to clean windows, steam clean the hob & oven, wet dust all the furniture & the wood blinds, and get rid of limescale with a power blast of steam from the specially designed blast nozzle. I was convinced. Chi-ching. One X5 wonder mop purchased.

Mop duly arrived and I wondered if I could use for FauxSurreyHubbys shirts as it also had a built in garment steamer ... (yes it's a marvel) but no - I really couldn't get to grips with that bit ... but our ensuite has never been so clean, the wooden blinds are spotless, the kitchen is sparkling and I even had a go at the windows.

But the shirts were still an issue ... so I did some online exploring and landed upon the Phillips GC8328/02 EasyCare Pressurised Steam Generator Iron..! For an amazing £140 off the RRP at Argos. Donning a disguise I popped into our local branch (me? Argos??!!) and have just finished flattening a kingsize duvet & 4 housewife pillowcases & 4 of FauxSurreyHubby's impossible cotton work shirts in 20 minutes!!

 OK OK I confess to now living in a semi sauna as I trawl the house looking for things to "sanitise" or flatten but as it's -4 outside I don't really mind!