You have heard me on more than one occasion lament that all of the living areas of my house are tiled with ceramic tile. I hate sweeping and mopping. Hate it! You know this, you’ve endured my tirades about this loathsome chore for years.
A few weeks ago, I was asked to review a shark steam mop. I had no idea what that was, but I’m always happy to review products for you, oh faithful reader, and any possible way to make mopping more appealing to me is welcome. (Honestly, what was I thinking when we purchased a house full of tile?)
Luckily, my steam cleaner arrived the night before my brother and SIL arrived, and about ten minutes before I was planning to mop the house.
Some assembly required!
After my husband very kindly assembled it for me (I have not the patience for such things, and anyway, I had to sweep before I could try out my new steam mop), and after I read the instruction booklet, I couldn’t wait to try it out!
It’s very light-weight, so if I lived in a two-story home, I’d have no trouble at all carrying it upstairs to tackle bathrooms. And the main part of the machine separates from the wheels so it can be carried around to do smaller projects with the handy-dandy tools.
If I must mop, and clearly I must (stupid tile floors), this is the product I want to use. Here, watch me use it:
While I would never classify myself as “green,” I have been making changes in our habits to try to lessen our impact on the environment. As such, I really like a product that does not require chemicals to clean. We have a limited amount of water in our world, and we pollute it with soap, shampoo, old prescriptions we were told to flush… it’s nice to be able to clean my floors without having to utilize chemicals. And the steam is hot enough to give germ-freak me peace of mind about knowing the temperature is high enough to kill whatever might be growing on my floors.
Blech, that’s disgusting!
Because I have so much tile in this house, I quickly discovered I needed to change the pad if I truly wanted clean floors. Happily, the Gruene steam cleaners work both with the pad they give you or any other towel/rag you have lying around. I think that’s brilliant! There is a frame thingy (technical term) that holds any cloth in place so that I don’t have to go out and drop a bunch of cash on additional pads. That’s one of my biggest gripes about certain floor cleaning systems that force you to purchase their replacement pads. You end up spending too much money on all their specialty crap.
I have not yet tried any of the attachments, but I really do plan to at least try out the angled spout thingy (technical term) that they recommend for use on the rim of a toilet. You’ve heard me lament before about the black gunk that I cannot scrap off with the toilet brush. Steam might just be the solution.
I don’t know why it never occurred to me that steam would remove spilled candle wax from my floor, but I was pleasantly surprised, after mopping my bathroom, to discover those wax droplets that have been there for five years (because I’m just that bad a housekeeper) disappeared the first time I utilized this steam mop! I’m a pyromaniac and frequently have wax dripping onto my floors, so this is a fabulous alternative to having to get down with a razor blade and scrape the wax off my floor.
Pinelope enjoyed having a hissing competition with the steam mop! There you have it: Mom tested, hedgehog approved!
::I am receiving compensation for this review, however, I really do like this product and really do recommend it. It won’t make me like mopping my floors, but it does a great job, you know, since I cannot avoid mopping for too long!::
I have been asked to do a product review, and part of the review is me doing this brief video:
I have lamented it more than once on this site: I grind my teeth. Apparently, they have a name for nighttime teeth grinding: bruxism. I am not alone in this annoying habit, and companies like DenTek have created dental mouth guards to help people save their teeth. My dentist warned me a couple years ago that I am damaging my teeth because I grind. Not to mention how it keeps tension built up in my neck and shoulders; I’m forever tense.
Anyway, I tried out this product. I rather enjoyed dropping the plastic pieces into boiling water and then forming the melted plastic to my teeth. It was like a science project! But, I must be honest here, I found it very difficult to cope with laying in bed at night with these two pieces of plastic in my mouth. I’m a mouth breather, so that wasn’t the problem. It’s that I’m claustrophobic, and having those pieces of plastic made me feel like I was suffocating. However, I can wear them for a little while, during which time it is impossible for me to grind my teeth.
Laugh if you must, but I’m seriously thinking of wearing them while I drive and while at work, as my grinding is not limited to nighttime hours. I chew gum all day long to combat the grinding; this product would be just as effective, if wholly unattractive.
*This review is a result of a feedback campaign by DenTek Oral Care, Inc. The recipients were asked to give us their honest opinion about the product they received. Good reviews were not incentivized and poor reviews will not be censored for their opinion of the product.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am by wRitErsbLock in fluffy stuff
The nice lady who gave me Peanut on Monday emailed me a little while ago to let me know she has two more lop bunnies needing a home. I replied with a firm No, because we just cannot handle more animals.
I was just looking at my email inbox, and noticed she had attachments.
Gah! Don’t click don’t click… dammit! I clicked on them.
Look at that sweet girl!
OMG! This little boy looks like my poor Petri did when he was a baby, see:
NO NO NO NO NO! I cannot have more bunnies.
But if you’re local and need some bunny(ies) to love on, please let me know.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:52 am by wRitErsbLock in fluffy stuff
Yesterday afternoon, while I ransacked the bedroom in a pathetic and ineffective effort to clean, RTY kept me company. One of the items I came across that needed to be put in its proper place was a spool of ribbon.
RTY: What ever happened to your ribbon idea?
Me: I guess I never followed through with it.
RTY: Why not?
Me: I’m lazy.
RTY: What’d you do with all of them?
Me: ::retrieved the box of crafty items, because I knew exactly where they were::
RTY: you should try selling them.
Me: I guess I could try to find a craft fair or something.
RTY: …
Me: Or Etsy. I bet I could sell them on Etsy.
RTY: What’s Etsy?
Me: Well, it’s kinda like Ebay for crafty items.
And so now, I’m perusing similar products on Etsy. I need to get pricing ideas and shipping cost estimates on similar products. And then, I’ll see about setting up an Etsy shop. Why not? I have a bunch of this particular product already made, and the supplies to make a bunch more. They take hardly any time at all to make. I think they’re quite cute. And, who knows, they might sell.
So, my question to you is this: do you have any Etsy experience, either as a buyer or seller, that you can tell me about? I have not dealt with Etsy at all. Just because I know it exists does not mean I know anything about it.
March 9th, 2009 at 06:22 am by wRitErsbLock in fluffy stuff
So, it seems the only company I still do paid blogging for deleted my account. At least that’s my guess, since I have been unable to log into my account all weekend, and I know I had assignments due over the weekend.
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