House Cleaning Blues

I love to cook, but I can't say that I love to clean.

While I don't mind cleaning WHILE am cooking, I do mind cleaning AFTER I am done cooking.   This unfortunate attitude applies to all realms of cleaning, not just in the Kitchen.

Most of the time I feel like I am Betty Boop in the episode "House Cleaning Blues".

Betty is waking up the morning after her late night party and must face the dreaded clean up.

Like myself, she isn't that efficient, but unlike myself, she cannot leave the house to go for a ride with Grampy until the house is clean.

Grampy puts on his thinking cap and gets to work with his homemade inventions:

Find out how Grampy helps Betty gets the job done:
Betty Boop: House Cleaning Blues (1937) Max Fleisher

Cleaning should be fun and fun to me is having my husband do the cleaning. This is not always possible or fair on my part, so I am put to the challenge today to clean our hardwood floor.

While I like the idea of the Swiffer mop and have seen it in action, I do not approve of the purchase of boxes of expensive Swifter refill cloths and I do not like the attached fragrance.

To the rescue, the old-fashioned, but sort of new-fangled mop and bucket, about $9.00 each at the local Target store. The vibrant red caught my eye:

Below, the O cedar Quick Wring Bucket with "Hands dry wringing":

Below, the O cedar Pro Wring Delf-Twisting Mop that "Picks up hair and particles!":

I can relate to this because the procedure it akin to eating spaghetti.

Wet mop:

Below, wring mop with built in self twister:

Below, wrink mop in bucket, like twirling spaghetti, with detachable push down wringer:

Below, Voila, barely damp mop, perfect for the hardwood floor:

Below, I cleaned the floor as instructed by my husband, who recalled his training in janitorial skills for  a job during his college years, from the far end to the near end, in a figure eight pattern, just like I imagined Popeye the Sailor Man would swab the deck:

In a mere few minutes, the floor was clean and I was done!


Below, removable head that can be washed, dried and replaced separately:

Cleaning, like cooking, CAN be fun!