HELPFUL HOUSEHOLD HINTS: #1

Okay. Although I enjoy reading useful household hints, I seldom remember them and rarely share them. But in this case, I feel compelled to share something I learned the hard way.
GARBAGE DISPOSER CLEANERS - Several months ago I purchase a package of Plink Garbage Disposer cleaner & Deoderizer. They are little yellow balls with some sort of rubberized or silicon coating, filled with a lemon scented liquid. Supposedly, it cleans the food and greasy residue in your garbage disposer, leaving a fresh lemon scent. The key is that you must run hot water into the disposer while using the product. I did, in fact, follow instructions carefully. But I guess my disposer is too old and dull to chop up the rubbery coating. The little goobers became lodged in the disposer and randomly hang up the machinery, causing it to make this loud, haunting shriek, like its possessed by a banshee! When that happens the disposer may be out of order for several days at a time until I can get hot water to shift the little boogers enough to use temporarily. What a pain this turned out to be!

The moral: If you want fresh lemony smell in your garbage disposer, use fresh lemons. But remember to take out the seeds!