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Today was our last chance to clean before Alice arrives tomorrow so I skipped Jackson’s soccer game (my god, when is soccer season going to end? but that’s a post for another day)(I’m rationing already) to stay home and scrape the toilets. No, not really, I just get in there with a toothbrush. Ha! Kidding! It’s really a chamois.
When it came to do the floors, though, I stood there leaning against the modern housecleaner’s most inadequate tool, the sponge-on-a-stick-style mop, and I thought, “Do I really want to be in here pushing as hard as I can against The Uncleanable Grout with this pathetic goddamn device?”
So I took my Mop N Glo and the small mountain of rags that I’d coaxed out of a terrycloth bathrobe as old and white as Ralph Lauren himself, and I got down on my hands and knees and I washed the floor by hand. It was one of the most satisfying household chores in recent memory. It was done quickly (granted, our bathrooms are Pee Wee League); the floors were dry right away; and all nooks and crannies were deemed respectable without my having to jam some too-giant-for-the-job piece of grocery store crap Swiffer into them. It’s not something I want to do every day — the phrase “housemaid’s knee” comes to mind — but thumbs up for the occasional application of old-fashioned methods and elbow-grease.
Today’s shoes!
Last spring when I was in New York I kept walking by a giant ad for these sneakers in Union Square station and I am proof that advertising can indeed work, but only if your product is TOTALLY AWESOME. The Pumas in the ad were blue, but I went with green in the end and I haven’t looked back.
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14 Responses to “National Blog Posting Month, Day 3”
I’ve never found a way to get the floors clean enough except for the old hands and knees method. I will use the spray mop sometimes, but I don’t consider it really clean…
The Boyfriend does indoor soccer ALL YEAR LONG. Sometimes I wish he’d just take a break for a couple of weeks.
I freaking hate Swiffers, along with any other cleaning method that involves a disposable rag that won’t biodegrade. Which reminds me, have I promoted The Great Plastic Challenge on your comments yet? No? Well there.
My bathroom is so teeny, that the preparation for the floor mopping takes longer than the actual mopping itself. Which would explain why I’ve only mopped the god damn floor a handful of times in the four years I’ve lived here.
Sasha:
Method o-mop and happy resuable/washable mop pads are the answer! Their floor cleaning kit has biodegradable swiffer-esque cloths.
I also love their cleaning stuff because it smells like something you would order as a apertif in a fancy bar.
yes, that was shilly, but I really do love the Method stuff.
And Mrs. Kennedy, I love the NaBloShoeMo idea. I will henceforth have to steal it for no-ideas-what-to-post days.
I actually bought a Scuba– the mop version of the Roomba– on ridiculous sale last year. I filled it up with hot water and cleaner, set it gently on my bathroom floor, and perched on the tub to watch. Three hours later, my bathroom floor was clean enough to roll a newborn baby on. The tile actually screamed when I walked on it because its nerve endings were so raw from the cleanliness.
In the end, though, I returned it. Even I couldn’t justify wasting three hours watching a machine clean my 6′ x 6′ bathroom floor. I’m back to doing it by hand. And it only takes me like two-and-a-half hours. But that’s with the nap.
i dont even own a mop or a swiffer! the tiled areas of my apartment equal about 2 postage stamps stuck on top of one another! instead i use a crappy old towel that once had life as my “i’m dying my hair and dont want to ruin my good linens” towel
just spray some bleach on the floor, scrub around with the towel and then throw it in the washer… sometimes i’ll even use it to do the shower stall!
I am a floor-cleaning utensil junkie. That’s because I’m always looking for the magic one that the Brownies sport. You know, the one that does it for you. Till then, I Swiffer–dry, wet, in-between. But you know, I’m noticing that my floors are kinda, eh. Like they need a good scrubbing.
Floor cleaning sucks butt.
My husband disagrees, but if I have anything to do about it, our son (10-mo-old) will NEVER TOUCH A SOCCER BALL for fear of the great time sink that is soccer. There are families that I know who play soccer year round. They have the school’s outdoor league in the spring, recreational outdoor leagues over the summer, then like three different indoor leagues during fall and winter. It never ends. All they ever do is go to soccer practice or games.
Which is why I love baseball. Not only is it the best sport, but it’s also only ever one season. There’s no such thing as indoor baseball (well, except at domed stadiums, but they don’t have their own leagues and rules and seasons).
When I scrub my tile floors in the kitchen, front hallway, and bathroom (which is rarely), I use my ScumBuster. I love it! My pergo (which gets mopped even less frequently than the tile) gets a regular mop…of course, then it has that film and looks even worse than it did before mopping, but at least it’s not sticky anymore.
I am overdue for a hands-and-knees scrubbing of my bathroom floor. ‘Cause I just HAD to have teeny tiles with white grout.
I can’t believe I’m going to admit this publicly, but I’m considering buying that electric toothbrush thingy that they sell on tv for cleaning your bathroom.
(well, MY bathroom)
FOR ONLY $19.95 YOU GET THE BATHROOM SCRUBBER AND A KITCHEN SCRUBBER.
CALL NOW.
My Mom bought us an electric bathroom-cleaning thingy (yes, thanks for the hint, Mom) and to get it to clean well enough, you (well, I) need to exert a lot of pressure, which eventually stops the spinning action, thus rendering it useless. But, your mileage may vary.
I’ve had better luck using a scrub brush with an ergo handle, while kneeling on two of those garden knee pads to keep my knees from dying.
I just think this whole thing is marvellous.
The shoes are like Stan Smiths but perky up front. This makes me want to apply the mullet formulation onto your shoes without somehow seeming offensive. Which is not my intent.
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