Our house is so quiet!

Well, the doors are. With a teething 7 month-old, the house can really only get so quiet.

Our house had started to sound like an old mansion, straight out of an old-school horror movie. Every door let out a long and painful squeak, whenever the doors were opened or closed, no matter how careful we were to keep them quiet. The more my doors squeaked, the more they woke my daughter up, and the more I began looking like a character straight out of "Night of the Living Dead". Not good.

I did a little research before deciding what we should oil our doors with. It turns out that WD-40 is not a lubricant, but a degreaser, and will only help silence squeaky doors for a couple of weeks. Since the WD-40 Company refuses to disclose the ingredient list in WD-40, and the smell makes me sure it is not environmentally-friendly, I decided to look elsewhere for a solution to our squeaky door problem.

When my husband was in college, one day he was outside scrubbing his bbq when a World War II Navy veteran stopped by to chat. He mentioned that they cleaned all of their metal equipment with vegetable oil to prevent it from rusting, and suggested that it would help the grill as well. My husband gave it a try, and said that his bbq never looked better!

That gave us an idea... my husband put a bit of vegetable oil on a paper towel, and dabbed it onto our bedroom door. That was four months ago, and our door is still silent! Flash forward to today, and we decided that since using vegetable oil to fix our squeaky door was so successful, we should use it on all of our squeaky doors. We completely forgot about this solution until earlier this week.

For those of you wondering why we suffered with squeaky doors for the last four months and didn't remember to use the vegetable oil sooner, I suggest you re-read my first paragraph. We have a 7 month old baby.