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Original poster

if i use 2 buckets when I mop the floor?

69 replies

bohemianbint · 26/06/2007 14:10

Basically I just do not see the point of getting clean, soapy water to clean the floor and then squeezing filthy water back into it. So I use two buckets. Is that so weird? DP thinks I'm a bit odd.

To be honest, it's a fairly momentous occasion if I bother so I don't mind being a bit scrupulous.

What an exciting thing to post about, slow day in the bohemian house....

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muppetgirl · 26/06/2007 21:01

Maybe i should do that with my pesky jack russell.
that would stop him chewing everything...

whomovedmychocolate · 26/06/2007 20:59

Only if the spinning arm isn't getting the crap off the dishes

muppetgirl · 26/06/2007 20:55

......YOU PUT THE CAT IN THE DISHWASHER!!!!!

whomovedmychocolate · 26/06/2007 20:50

Actually I don't own a mop bucket. I use the kitchen bowl because I put everything in the dishwasher so it has no other purpose.

You do the shake and cat and put the freshness back. Do the shake and cat and put the freshness back.

Boco · 26/06/2007 20:48

I have three buckets. One of them is a holding bay.

Not really, i rarely mop, just wanted to see what it would sound like. I don't think it was convincing.

muppetgirl · 26/06/2007 20:38

pmsl!!!!!

whomovedmychocolate · 26/06/2007 20:33

I just dampen our white cat down and push her around ice hokey style, when she turns into the black cat, the floor is clean

Cappuccino · 26/06/2007 20:16

I always use two buckets

and the dirty water is always v dirty and the clean water slightly dirty

so much better

and it doesn't take any longer ffs, you're talking seconds if at all

tell your dp I found out to do this from a book telling men how to do housework

iota · 26/06/2007 20:13

thank you Dior -and I'm of course posting on the really important threads like this one

Dior · 26/06/2007 20:12

Message withdrawn

iota · 26/06/2007 20:11

hi Dior

I'm sort of here - not been posting much lately, but on a roll today

iota · 26/06/2007 20:10

like this one

Dior · 26/06/2007 20:10

Message withdrawn

iota · 26/06/2007 20:08

I have one of those double buckets - with a little strainer to wring out the mop on the top

doesn't that make me sound like a domestic goddess

I don't use it often though

StarryStarryNight · 26/06/2007 20:05

But I love housework!

NOT.

Actually I have a cleaner, so it is not so often that I mop myself...

Devonshire · 26/06/2007 20:05

i remember watching kim and aggie and they said you should rinse with clean water after washing.

(having said that, i have only ever "rinsed" once even though i am a sahm with time on her hands who doesn't get out much )

Original poster
bohemianbint · 26/06/2007 20:02

great minds noodle!

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Original poster
bohemianbint · 26/06/2007 20:02

isn't mopping twice just double the work? I'm a lazy trout really so I'm always on the look out for ways to cut time spent doing rubbish jobs. (Not bothering at all seems to work quite well but not always the most popualar option round here...)

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NoodleStroodle · 26/06/2007 20:01

If you use two buckets you only have to clean half as often

StarryStarryNight · 26/06/2007 20:00

I just mop the floors TWICE. First once, then I change to new water, and then again! I use Ecover, so ner ner. Of course I vacuum clean first.

kookaburra · 26/06/2007 18:55

lol - good idea - if I ever get to mop the floor will invest in two buckets...

NoodleStroodle · 26/06/2007 18:52

I have

2 buckets
&
2 mops

ComeOVeneer · 26/06/2007 18:46

You're clearly a SAHM with too much time on your hands

snowwonder · 26/06/2007 16:23

i just spray flash lavender spray (lush) in the floor and mop and every few mops i run the mop under the tap to clean it

bundle · 26/06/2007 16:17

if:

a) no one has ever died as a result of your floor's "contamination"

b) the floor police haven't caught you and flung you into jail

then:

c) life's too short. ffs