I bought a big things of floor cleaning solution at Sam’s Club. I pour a little into the spray mop container with water, and then sprayed it and cleaned. It worked pretty well. I find that the less water you use, the less streaky a floor will get. My floor has ridges in it, so it does a better job at hiding streaks too.

Thanks for the tip on the stove drip pans. I will have to try that out (because the other ones I tried never worked perfectly). Thanks so much.

I have Adobe Premiere Elements 12, which I am still learning how to use. Keeping the house tidy is the way to go, but sometimes life gets busy and your house ends up like this. And this mop actually does a fantastic job! Better than Swiffer (which I had and hated, just the regular wet cloth ones) and better than our current regular mop.

Lauren

Such funny stories Becca. Love it! And I prefer to clean up some everyday too. It’s just over the weekend that I get lax and so sometimes the house ends up like this, but it’s not normally that much of a disaster; although, there have been times it’s been worse than this too. And I wish my MIL would just show up and clean my home when I was at church too. What a great gift for them that day.

Seriously, I find if I try to pick up every night before bed, it’s much easier to keep on top of the mess. I try to do about 20 minutes of housekeeping every day (make beds, make sure the dishes are all put away, tidy up, plus one more in-depth chore which rotates) and then on Fridays I do a more thorough approx. 90 minute session.

A funny story – Years ago my sister in law and her husband came home from church knowing that when they opened the door, they’d have to face the messy house and spend all afternoon cleaning it up. Dejected, my sister in law said to her husband as he was unlocking the door, “I just wish the cleaning fairies would come and do it all.” Then they walked into a perfectly clean and organised house. While they’d been at church, my brother in law’s mother had come over and cleaned the entire house. (She was a very sweet and wonderful woman so there was no passive-aggressive-insult meant; and she loved cleaning.) For the next few weeks it was impossible to get the kids to do any housework – “Oh, the cleaning fairies will do it.”