Easy Steps to Keeping Floors Clean

Every week we know the home needs to be vacuumed, dusted, mopped, and laundry needs to be done. Most of us wait till it really needs a cleaning and that attitude fosters negativity. If we can learn to do it weekly, it doesn't take long and it can be enjoyable.

One of the easiest jobs is vacuuming carpets (at least it is in our home). The reason it's so easy is the fact that we use a machine to help us do the work. Depending on what type of vacuum you have, it can quickly clean or it might take more effort than we really want to exert. Mopping the floors might rank right up there with kissing your brother or sister. Dusting is going to be difficult if you have a lot of furniture or pictures.

Can you imagine back 75 years ago when everything had to be done with good ole elbow grease? Well, cleaning floors can be easier if we apply "elbow grease" to some of the nastier spills but today we have a machine called the Swiffer Wet Jet. That thing makes mopping a breeze and it's worth every penny. Forget the buckets, squeezing the mop and all that other stuff, this machine needs a little squirt and away you go. If you use the Swiffer weekly, it doesn't take very long at all to mop the kitchen floor, bathroom and any other hard floors in your home.

Our kids fight over the floor cleaning duties because it's fun to use. The beauty of the Wet Jet is there are no cords to slow your progress down and it reaches hard to get places. Heck, our kids will fight over who gets to clean the kitchen floor, thanks to the wet jet.

The easiest way to clean your floors (kitchen, bathroom, wood floors, etc is to make it a weekly routine. If you have big spills then you must clean the floors immediately, however if you have a weekly plan in place cleaning floors will get easier and quicker.

I know when we forget to clean the floors for a week or two, it takes a lot longer to get them back in shape. However, with a weekly maintenance plan it's fast and effective.

Wood floors offers a different set of challenges and we don't use a mop on these floors. We never use water on the floors unless it is an isolated case of muck and then we are very careful to wipe all water away when the muck is cleaned up. However, using our swiffer max makes it's a breeze to clean the wood floors. When one of the wipes is dirty we simply take it off and add another one to the pad. It normally takes us two wipes to clean our hardwood floors.

Once upon a time when we were both working, we hired a maid to come in and do the cleaning with us. Now that we are a one income home everyone pitches in to help keep our home clean. It gets harder as our children graduate and head off to college but then again, we don't have nearly as much traffic in our home.

Keeping the kids in the loop teaches them responsibility and develops a work ethic they will fall upon as they start their own families or have their own apartment.

Autor: Ryan Hogaboom

As you told you before we use Swiffer products and if you have one you know how expensive it can become, so we now have a site that helps us find cheap replacements or refills. Check out Swiffer Wet Jet Refills for ideas to keep the costs down.

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Added: December 26, 2009
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