I'm so excited...I bought a mop!

To fill in the blanks, our house has always
had wall-to-wall carpet, including the
bathroom. Ugh!

As of late, I've been ripping up the carpet in the bedroom
and the hallway, but am not ready to tile the floor just
yet, so I painted it white.

Up until now, I've just been using the hands and knees
method of keeping it clean.

Today as I walked through the store, I spotted the mops
and realized "Oh my gosh, I can use a mop now!"
I was so excited, that when I got home, I was telling the
dog about it. "Look!" I said, "It's a mop, watch this!"

She thought I was nuts while I showed her how to mop
the floor. Does anyone else get this excited about such
trivial things others take for granted or hate to do?

LOL.

You need to get out more :)

LOL...That might not be such a good idea for me.

I'm the weird lady who takes from the recycling bin as well as gives.

Ha ha!

Wuvie, I'm sure your enthusiasm made for some good entertainment for your dogie!
And, by the way, I do believe pleasure in the simple things of life are the best. Have fun mopping! :)

WUVIE - I know exactly what you're talking about.

After I ripped out all my wall-to-wall carpet years ago,
I had such a feeling of satisfaction when I would mop the
floor and see it shine. Of course, that wore off after a
few months, but I do agree with you - it's a good feeling.

Enjoy.

I don't know if I'll ever have a euphoric moment about mopping per se, but I know what you mean. Now that I have a house, I get enthusiastic about the silliest little things, like when I went to Target and brought home the first ironing board I've owned since living on my own. I can't find my iron yet, mind you, but I am now the proud owner of a real ironing board.

And sometime this week or next, I'll buy my very first snow shovel. And I was so thrilled when I planted my very first shrub.

You know it's all over when you get happy having
to buy a toilet plunger.

;-)

A couple weeks ago we got a new vacuum cleaner. It was the highlight of the day. I thought, "Man, I need a life." (It is a much better vacuum cleaner than we had before and makes cleaning easier.)

Cute topic. I too am the one who got all excited when I purchased and then used my Dyson vacuum cleaner the first time. I have had it for over a year now and am still amazed at what comes up from my carpeted floors. I have three dogs and there is always loads of hair. The dust that comes through the filter on this thing is super, super fine. the dust looks much differently than what I used to see in my bagged vacuums.

If I ever have to use my vacuum when a new person is here, I always make them look at what I get up. Still loving that machine.

Ruby

A girl after my own heart. It doesn't take much to tickle me either. Keep that spirit because it gets you through sometimes.


Ruby-a dyson would make me smile a lot.

I haven't calculated the energy/time difference between using a vac as apposed to a mop - have done a lot of both - but I have very definite ideas about which should be where in my home. I do *not* want carpet in the kitchen! Area rugs are fine, but not carpet, as I am a very messy cook. So far, so good - only area rugs in my kitchen. I do *not* want, but *do* have, carpet in my bathroom. I have not, as yet, told DH that I will be making some changes in that room - some day (soon?)!

Mopping always gives me much more of a visual sense of "clean" than using the vac.

And, yes, we are all a little off center, but so what!!!!!! If we are happy, then that makes it worth while.

I won't even go into the fun I have had with my Swiffer duster!!!!

OK - I'm ready for a nap now!

I agree, no carpet in the kitchen except for throw rugs that can be thrown in the washer. DH has a couple small carpets in his bathroom, but the my bathroom and the downstairs bathroom (which I control) have no carpets.

Kelli or Ruby, you can come vacuum my floor. How's that for the highlight of your day? I don't even want to see what you get up off of it though!! LOL

Ruby, I hear you on the vac passion. There are days
I could spend running the vac. I take the filter out to
hubby's shop and use his compressor to blow
out the sponge and fuzzy filter. WOW. You won't believe
the dirt living in a house! Some days I amuse myself
by putting all the dirt sucked up for the day into a big
plastic meat tray, then admiring all the dirt I removed
from the house. :-)

Look, honey, look at all the dirt I got out of the house today!

One day, try running a freshly emptied vac with a
fresh filter and run it over the mattress you sleep on.

GASP..!

I am in a rental but if the landlord agrees I plan to rip out all the old ugly carpet and put in a laminated floor that can be swept and mopped. Carpeting is warm on the feet but it is just too much work to keep it clean and fresh. I hope I can soon join you in a euphoric happy dance over a mop!

Many, many, years ago when my 4 children were much younger. (I think there were only 3 children then). My Mom asked what I wanted for Christmas and I told her I wanted bath towels. She’s thinking more like clothes or a more personal thing. We didn’t have a lot of extras back then and I was always on the bottom of the need list. I said “No bath towels” The ones we had were thread bare and getting down to the size of rags. Mom gave me a huge box and when I opened the box it was filled with big fluffy bath towels my kids started to jump up and down yelling bath towels, bath towels. Mom said she never saw anyone get so excited over a bath towel in her life. We still talk about it at Christmas. I got a big fluffy robe too. ;} Holly

When I was younger, we had many a moment with our socks having
holes in them. In fact, our holes would get so big, that we would simply
put the sock on, twist the part with the hole in it, and then stuff the
wadded up part between our big and second toes. When I learned
how to operate Mom's sewing machine, I would turn the sock inside
out, sew a straight line across and wa-la. A fixed sock.

Not exactly comfortable but could be do-able in case of an emergency...
like "Take off your shoes" day in gym class - egads!

Needless to say, Christmas socks and underwear were the bomb!
And gloves? Gloves? Wow, what a great thing those were!

Isn't it funny, though? Socks cost a few bucks for a package full, and
yet many put such an item off and will buy, say, a six pack of Pepsi,
which goes down the drain and still run around with holey socks.

LOL. Aren't we humans odd?

Odd?? I remember how pleased I was when we put a wall-to-wall carpet down in our small bathroom, with a toilet-cut-out rug on top of it. I thought, no more ugly white, linoleum with gold speckles.

Recently our very old cat decided the litterbox in the basement was too far, so he started using, what else, the bathroom. I tried cleaning that carpet, and putting up a barrier so he couldn't get in there, but the smell kept coming back. Then the hot air furnace started kicking on and it was obvious the carpet had to go.

When I yanked it out, I was pleased with the "new look" and now the bathroom seems brighter and cleaner! Maybe it's just me, but that seems to make no sense!

I had to look at this thread to see if WUVIE had bought a floor mop or wig!!

LOL Indy,

I'm afraid I would have no place for a head mop. Even though
I've cut it quite often, I have way too much hair to stuff under a 'rug'. Ha ha!

I would NEVER buy a six-pack of Pepsi when I'm going around with holey socks.

A six-pack of Coke, though, YES! LOL!

I do have holes in my socks, some of them, and I still wear them. I figure if they're useful still I might as well. No one sees them but me, and I hate to throw away something that still has some use in it.

I hate the carpet in this house. The previous owners apparently replaced carpet more than once, but not everywhere, so it doesn't all match. The worst is the carpet over the stairs heading down to the den. It's this awful orange color. I would love to take it all out and put in hardwood floors, but that would be beaucoup expensive. But with my asthma and allergies, I really shouldn't have carpet, anyway.

I got a chain saw one yr. for Christmas. I was so excited over that. Then another yr. I got a red wagon. Great for pulling around from flower bed to flower bed. This yr. I am hoping for a log splitter.

My husand just looked at this, laughed and said "Not this yr. You are going to have to continue using the splitting maul". Will have to talk to Santa about that. LIZ

Oh, Liz, I hear you!

Years ago I made a cute grapevine fence for the yard. At
that time I had but a hand held hacksaw. I would walk to the
woods, cut down trees by hand, then come home and use
the table saw to cut the trees to length. Side note...these were
small trees.

Finally, as the fence progressed and neared completion
years later, I purchased a chainsaw. Before I ever finished the
complete fence, it had deteriorated.

Perhaps I'll start again one day, LOL.

This thread is so funny. I detest cleaning, but love a clean house. Soo, come on over and have at it!! I'll be thrilled by all the dirt removed too, in a different way. We have threadbare towels and holey socks too. Sigh. These kids, they insist on eating every single day, won't even consider one day off. tgif I didn't realize you were a cat. That's cool.

Prairie,

Too funny. I love to clean and organize, but don't
have enough time to keep up with it all. One would think
that as often as I'm cleaning that we would have a spotless
house where you could eat off the floors. LOL.

I love to clean other people's houses. In fact, the other
night I had a dream that a rich couple who had a ton of
kids hired me to clean and organize their house. What fun!
If someone paid me and could buy the materials needed, I
would love a job like that!

I've often thought of putting an ad in the paper. Will organize
your husband's messy garage.

I should be confined in a rubber room, shouldn't I?

Now I really wish you lived closer!

This thread is TOO FUNNY !!!!!

As a guy, I felt the same excitement when I got my first DeWalt cordless drill.

I grew up in a house with 7 kids. When the youngest was finally potty trained, my dad bought my mom a gas drier....she said "I don't know whether to KISS you ...or Punch You In The Nose!!!" (this was back in the day of CLOTH diapers...)

The very, very best present my husband has ever bought me was my Dyson Animal..I had a Kirby (heavy old monster) and a Kenmore canister for probably 20yrs. I got the Dyson, vacumned the heck out the hallway with the Kenmore, brought the Dyson in, set it up and vacumned the same area again & we were amazed to watch the junk suck up into the Dyson...and the very best thing is I don't have to have two separate vacumns to do the same thing and when the Dyson needs to be cleaned I take it to the shop & use our leaf blower to blow everything out of it....Then damp wash it with PineSol to kill anything in the tank, blow it out again to be good & dry & I'm good to go again...We have a Jack Russell & a Boston Terrier and the JRT is the worst of the worst shedders so we really use the vacumn....I would never consider another no matter what.....Deb

Depsi,

Isn't that a hoot? I LOVE vacuum cleaners! Some days I do nothing but
run the vac, empty the filter, blow it out with the compressor and go at it
again. LOL.

And try running the vac over your bed mattress some day. Wow.

Glad I'm not the only odd bird around here.

Karen Marie

:-)

We have a Tempurpedic mattress so vacuuming is not an option because of the cover that surrounds the mattress and believe me, not worth it to remove it. I tried it once!!!!! love the mattress but not user/clean friendly....I vacumn with the hand attachments. But what I really love is to lift the unit up into the rear of our SUV and vacumn with the carpet setting...WWWWWOOOWWWWWW! so easy and so efficient...when I lived in CA a lovely person named Gina Spafordi who writes a Pet column for the Sacramento Bee really praised the Dyson. She had the first model and was asked by Dyson to test market the Animal...She did and just glowed about it in her column....I told my husband about it and he found one at one of the Box Stores before it had even been unpacked and put a deposit on it.....I Love The Dyson.....isn't that funny that you are an odd bird? I always consider myself an odd duck....what's with the poultry comparisons? haha....Deb

You vacuum your mattress??? I've never heard of such a thing. Am I living in filth? (My mattress is like 30 years old, but let's not go there.)

Trust me, if you are like me & sleep with two little dogs, a husband and have Idaho Winter dry skin, you will be amazed at the flakes/yuck you will pull out of your mattress...If you still are skeptical, take one of your pillows outside and beat it up....You will be surprised at the dust that flys out of that & just your head rests on it.....Sometimes I wish I had never started 'cause then I wouldn't be weird about it....but I am an offspring of the original Queen of Clean so it's just genetic.....Deb

Hmm... I'll have to give it a try some time. I don't have dogs or cats but I have CA autumn dry skin and this is Dust City, U.S.A.

Oh, Kelli, dear, I hate to be the one to tell you this,
but you are sleeping on top of a few dead bodies!

:-o

A lot of people think I'm nuts when I talk to them about
running the vac over our mattress, but you would be left
with your mouth open when you see what you suck out of
it.

Take all of the sheets and blankets off your bed, then
put the vac up there, stand up there with it of course, and
vac just like normal. Start with a clean filter and cup & such
and WOW. The whirlwind cannisters where you can see what
you are sucking up are the most fun, you can see all that white
skin flake stuff whirling around in the tornado.

Weird!

Another good tidbit. I have the kind of bed cover that has to be
dry cleaned, but I know it gets dusty between. So I toss it into
the dryer and put it on fluff, no heat, nothing. Clean the lint filter
on the dryer and let 'er rip. You would be amazed at the stuff
that comes off a comforter.

Karen Marie
Who does not like sharing her bed with dead bodies!

This is a very funny thread. I've really enjoyed reading it. I thought I was a clean freak until I read about doing the mattress thing. Never even thought of doing that!! Wash everything to within an inch of its life, but never used the vacuum on it.
Diane

Me I'm old fashioned. Open the doors and windows break out the leaf blower and go to town.
Wife hates it no sense of time efficiency I guess.

I wish! I'm a clean freak in a house of pigs I'm afraid.

Oh, snipe, a man after my heart!

No kidding, I do the leaf blower routine, too!
You would be amazed at all the dirt you have in your house
that no one ever seems to acknowledge.

I have a detachable leaf blower from our Shop Vac with
a fantastic blower on it. I wouldn't drag the gas powered
jobber in here, but the electric, heck yeah!

Blow under the refrigerator, the beds, the furniture. Put
the fine cone attachment on and blow your car out. Wow!
People really should have one of these things. They
are the best!

OhOh, now I'm getting scared....you may have turned me on to one more thing to pursue my obsession with....My doctor actually told me that I have tennis elbow from pushing & pulling the vacumn cleaner...by the way, what is the correct spelling of Vacumn? Onward & underward Clean Freaks......Deb

In your case since the vacuum cleaner is causing you tennis elbow the correct spelling would be heavy sucker!

I've heard nothing but good things about the Dysons. My DH and I drool over them every time we see them in the stores. We have a water bed though, so I don't think we'll be vacuuming our bed anytime soon. LOL I wipe the mattress down with a wet cloth when I change the sheets.