Ok – so maybe I was a little over ambitious with the whole only using vinegar and water to clean my house.  I mean it totally works for everything…counters, stove, fridger, bathroom, everything.  It’s just the damn floors.  Ok – I’m just going to say it.  And you can get mad all you want – I don’t really care.  I…miss…my…Swiffers.  Before you cancel your subscription to my site and trash me all over the net (or the playground) here’s what I’m up against.  I miss the convenience of pulling out a pre-soaked wipe that just slaps on to the end of a mop that will never have to be cleaned.  I miss the no bucket, no rinsing, no mess convenience of my said Swiffer.  I hate that I’m so weak and lazy when it comes to cleaning…but hey, when you’ve got a nine month old who learned to crawl like, during his last nap and is all over the flipping place…you want to clean your floors FAST!  So I’m still all for the vinegar-baking soda-warm water routine…just maybe like when Kindegarten starts.

I decided to product test Method stuff.   You know..the stuff that you can get at Target?  I bought the OMOP starter kit..came with dry wipes, mop, microfiber floor mop pad thingy and floor juice.  Or cleaner or whatever you want to call it.  Anyways – container was made of recycled materials, floor juice is made from natural products like soy, coconut oil and the like.  Plus it smelled really good.  Not at all chemie like.  Anyhoo – I tried it, I liked it and I just might to continue to use it for a while.  Oh  – once you’re done with the microfiber floor mop you just toss in the wash and reuse. Sweet.  I’m sure someone out there will have something negative to say about Method Products…so feel free to let me have it.  If you want to check them out for yourself here is their site…www.methodproducts.com.

Naturally yours, Dallas

When you have a baby, you truly get to experience what dirty really is. I don’t mean like stuff all over the place messy….I mean poop, pee, food, throwup and all sorts of what I like to call, unidentifiables. 

Anyways – once Kiki started feeding himself full throttle ( AKA yanking the spoon out of my hand a flicking it’s contents across the room) I found myself cleaning my kitchen floors about three times a day.  Which is not that exhausting because my kitchen floor is like 10 x 6 feet and I was using…AHH!  GASP!!….Swiffers! Which we all know are super convenient.  I hate to admit it but I just haven’t been able to let them go.  I know their full of all sorts of lovely chemies but they’re SOOOOOO CONVENIENT and they make everything smell fab!  But the more time Kiki spends on the floor and the more I want to move towards a chemie-free home (like my new word for chemicals, yeah, I made that up ya’ll!),  I just knew I needed to cut the cord and get rid of them.  Sooooo guess what I came up with today that totally worked??  I took my swiffer mop and used a microfiber cloth instead.  I just wet the cloth, wrapped it around the bottom and punched the ends into those little holey things and  BAM!  Now for  a cleaner I used my vinegar/water mixture to spray on the floor and cleaned like normal.  Clean as a whistle and no chemies.  Those microfiber cloths are great because you can just toss them in the wash to clean them and hang them out on the line to dry.  BONUS – no trash because you using a reusable cloth.  I feel like I discovered fire or something…go me.