When your winter home is inside a van you need things to take up as little room as possible. For this reason most RVers prefer items that can be used for more than one purpose. But, occasionally, you need a specific item for a specific purpose.
Like this little gadget:
That’s a brush. Specifically, as shown on the left, it is a brush for cleaning the inside of a drinking straw.
I have two insulated glasses with screw on lids with acrylic straws. These are what I drink from when driving. Sometimes those glasses, lids, and straws need to be washed. I found cleaning the straws to be VERY challenging. They are too thin to run a corner of a dishcloth down the length of them. I could wash each end but not the middle.
So when I stumbled across these brushes on Amazon I order a package of two of them. I left one at home but brought one with me. A very special, single use, but much appreciated item.
Until today.
I found a second use for my brush.
You see, my kitchen sink backed up. Would not drain. We all know what that means. There was something stuck in the plumbing. I puzzled about that for awhile and wished I had bought a Zip-it as I said I would in case my shower drain got clogged from washing my hair. It never occurred to me it would be my kitchen sink that would clog. Which didn’t really matter since I never bought the Zip-it.
Then I remembered my drinking straw brush. Long and slender it would go down the drain just fine. Maybe, just maybe, the brush would grab onto whatever was plugging the drain and drag it out of there.
Success. After several tries a hair ball came up with the brush. And the water went down. And this single purpose item now has two purposes.
Once I wash it well, that is.
I wonder if I ever would have found a second use for a Zip-it?
TTYL,
Linda
