OK, I left briefly to clean the kitchen. As I was mopping the floor, my teenage son comes home from school and asks me why I do that when he’s just getting home.
You see what I mean? Believe me, when the mood strikes me to mop a floor – I’ve learned to go with it. So, I’m getting ready to go and finish mopping the floor. I’m not going to log out, it will only take me a minute, or two. Hold on.
OK, floor done. I feel better when the floors are clean.
You know, I have a unique way of cleaning my floor. A few years ago, when we had some money to burn, my husband – at my request – bought me a Hoover Floor Mate. I have tiled floors throughout my house except the bedrooms and my office and dining room areas. I’d tried some of the new floor gadgets from the supermarket, but the problem with tiled floors is that the grout lines are recessed and these lovely mopping gadgets only clean the surface. And – as in my case – you have a pattern in the tile, sometimes it doesn’t really clean dirt that makes it way into those depressions.
So, I chose the Floor Mate because on the box it specifically showed a tiled floor. Perhaps this modern cleaning machine would have something nifty that actually cleaned the tiles and the grout.
Surprise, surprise. It didn’t. However, what I did like was that it sucked up all the water.
My Dad was a Navy guy. He was the only person I ever remember mopping the kitchen when I was growing up. He was a true “swab the deck” kind of guy. And our kitchen floor was truly clean. Unfortunately, my husband barely knows what a mop is.
So, with the handy water sucker-upper, I could lavish the floor with water. The cleaning part of the machine was no better than the other handy mopping gadgets. So what I use now is a Mr. Clean bathroom thingy. I just put a goodly amount of water on the floor, and I can use my big toe to push on the thingy to get the hardened stuff off that the kids drop- and leave on the floor. Plus I can usually get anything out of the grout areas that doesn’t belong there.
So that’s my adventure of the day. I’ve got to go get my clothes ready. My son is in a play at school, and my husband and I have tickets for tonight’s performance.
Later.
