Gritsar - I'm thinking of you

[pbjmaker]

As I mop my floors twice a day from all the muddy dog prints. Spring is finally showing up in the midwest. You warned us several weeks ago of what was coming.

Did you ever get those footy prints off the white bedspread?

 

[gritsar]

Yes and the floors are clean, but only temporarily. We're due for some rain this weekend.

I don't like swiffer mops - more waste for the landfills - but goodness knows I can't be hauling out the mop bucket every hour.

 

[pbjmaker]

that is what I'm using along with a steam mop. I agree - don't use it often but we had 2 feet of snow melt in the last few days and it is supposed to be near 70. With 5 dogs in the house - lots of foot prints.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

I like the swiffer mops but also do not like throwing the "swiffer" thingy into garbage either.


I use

older washclothes and stick them in the swiffer like their product, but the clothes can go into the washer

 

[firedancer57]

Just my .02, Use some older washcloths that are ready to be thrown out, they tuck in the holes, can be washed and save in the land fill.

 

[gritsar]

Yep, I've used the washcloth trick too. Also - trying to figure out a way to clean the side of the refrigerator, when it's very tight against a cabinet. I found that putting an old cloth on the swiffer, spraying it with bleach cleaner (I am the bleach cleaner queen, much to DH's dismay*) and turning the mop head sideways I can get the side of the frig spotless

*For years now DH has been trying to get me to use pine-sol, like his mama did. Pine sol cleans NOTHING. It just makes your house smell like a bunch of pine trees farted.

 

[arabianequine]

What do you use to clean the floor?

My kitchen floor is laminate floor and I use Murphy's oil soap once in a while but sometimes I just use water.....or the swifter mop type thingy.

 

[gritsar]

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Another much-to-DH's-dismay product - the original lysol, in the brown bottle. Same as my mama used.

Our floors are very old tile, and have asbestos in em to boot. Can't take em up, can't figure out what to cover them in. I just do my best to keep em clean. I stopped worrying about shiny a long time ago.

 

[pbjmaker]

where do you get the original lysol?

My hubby likes pin-sol too OR bleach water. But I can't stand the smell of the bleach water (it means I'm using too much bleach)

I do like lysol products. And nice smelling candles.

Hubby got up this morning and said: "The house is smelling like a kennel" So I am trying to remedy that today.

The smell was because the dogs had been out and were damp.

Thank goodness for ceramic tile/ and wood floors. No carpet here except in the sons room and he doesn't let the dogs in there.

 

[annaraven]

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Pinesol sets me off - I cannot breathe around it. Terrible stuff.