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[titusnowl]

I am an utter failure at the housewifely arts. My stovetop is a huge mess and I'm afraid to take it apart to clean it. It, and the counter next to it, are covered in baked-on flour and cocoa powder and pancake mix and other assorted side products of baking and making dinner. There are cornflakes and sugar in the little metal cupthings under the burners. BOTH of the front burners are making scary "pop" and "snap" noises when I turn them on, one in the back is producing huge epic clouds of smoke when heated, and the other rear burner is all floury. I'm out of lunch-food except for one box of macaroni and cheese, and I'm afraid to turn the stove on to cook it for fear of burning the house down. I don't know how to take anything on the stove apart for cleaning, I don't know what products are safe to use if I *did* know how to take it apart, and in fact I don't *own* any cleaning products besides paper towels, water, dish soap and some Clorox wipes that I keep intending to use to clean off the counters, but forgetting. Cleaning the kitchen is something I really need to do but it seems so hugely impossible that I can't figure out where to start - i need a home for the plastic bags and a better way of storing things and a place to put all the stuff on the counter while I clean the counter and I need to do the dishes and I need to sweep the floor and I don't own a mop or a bucket or a sponge and it's all so intimidating.

I'm in tears over the whole thing.