🚨 First-Time Homeowner Tip: Garbage Disposal Edition 🚨

(AKA: How to keep your sink from smelling like the inside of a dragon’s mouth 🐉🫢)

So you’ve got a shiny new home, and with it comes the magical under-sink beast known as the garbage disposal. It chomps food scraps like a champ… until one day, it doesn’t. And instead of a kitchen, you’re standing in a garbage-scented swamp.

Let’s avoid that, shall we?

Here’s how to keep your garbage disposal fresh, fierce, and funk-free:

🔧 1. Run It Often

Like a car battery, if you ignore it too long, it gets cranky. Flip that switch every couple days—even if there’s nothing in there—just to keep things moving.

🚿 2. Cold Water is Your BFF

Always use cold water while it’s running. Hot water melts grease, which sounds good until it solidifies farther down the pipe and stages a greasy rebellion.

🚫 3. Don’t Feed It Everything

This isn’t a goat. Avoid fibrous stuff (like celery or corn husks), coffee grounds, and bones. Your disposal is tough, but not that tough.

🍋 4. Smell Something Funky? Lemon Drop It Like It’s Hot

Toss in a few lemon peels or a splash of vinegar and baking soda. Boom—natural deodorizer and a mini science experiment for your inner child.

🧼 5. Scrub-a-dub

Turn off the disposal (safety first!), then use a toothbrush or small brush to scrub the rubber flaps at the top. Trust me—you don’t want to know what’s living in there.

Your garbage disposal is like a roommate—it works hard, doesn’t complain much, but if you neglect it... oh, you’ll smell the consequences. 😅

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