A couple of months ago I was contacted by Black and Decker and asked if I'd like to review their Steam Mop. I've never had a steam mop, but my sisters have raved about them so I was excited to try it out. I received the mop for free, with no other compensation. The opinions are all mine.
Here's what we liked:
- You turn on the mop and it only takes 15 seconds until it's ready to roll. (Plus, my kids love how it lights up when it's ready :)
- The swiveling head makes it easy to maneuver around corners. It's not very tall, so it's also easy to get underneath things with it. (Hmmm...just like my kids.)
- It only uses water. I like not needing soap or products with chemicals. It kills 99.9% of germs with just water. Sweet.
- It uses little water. I had envisioned not liking the mop because I thought the floors would get really wet. The mop just uses a little steam and it evaporates really quickly - a lot faster than my regular mop.
- It comes with more than one pad so you always have one when the other is in the laundry. Nice. They are also easy to remove and throw in the wash.
What I didn't like:
- It still takes some work to get the really dirty spots off. I thought the steam would almost magically remove the dirt, but you still do have to go over the dirty spots a few times.
- Steam mops are okay for "sealed hardwood floors," but to be honest, I'm not sure if ours are sealed or not so I'm sticking to the tiled areas for now.
Overall, we give the Black and Decker Steam Mop two thumbs up. Now, who wants to win one?
You can enter only ONCE by leaving a comment here about the biggest mess you ever had to clean up. (No need to get too graphic in your descriptions :) Please include your email address is your profile isn't linked to it. That way I can contact you if you win.
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Hmm.. The biggest mess I've hd to clean up? Hmm, that's a tough one! I can't remember any terrible messes, since I have 2 girls.. But I still need the mop. :)
ReplyDeleteOh I've been looking at those! Hmm biggest mess. A whole bowl of paste dropped 2 the floor with a toddler and 2 cats in the kitchen! That was fun!
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We really don't have a lot of messes here (I thrive on cleanliness)... but we finally tackled our master bedroom a few weeks ago (and closet) and that was pretty much not fun. We seem to just put everything in there like a permanent junk spot. It feels great to have it clean now though!!
ReplyDeletesarah8914 at gmail dot com
biggest mess I've had to clean was when we drywalled our entire living room/dining room... after sanding the mud off there was soooooo much dust!
ReplyDeleteWe always have a mess around here...but I try not to cry over spilt milk! :) I could really use the Mop! Crossing my fingers!
ReplyDeletedeborah
debevans at bellsouth dot net
It's hard to choose--I make a big mess on a regular basis! I guess I would have to say the biggest mess is always my sewing room at the end of prom season.
ReplyDeleteI am dying for one of these!! Worst mess... When my son was 1 he found a blue ink pad in my craft room and decorated the walls, the floor and ate some of it!!
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When my daughter got sick and threw up from the front room all the way to the bathroom in the back of our house. Yeah...that was bad.
ReplyDeleteAhh, the day the toddler found the plastic container filled with dozens of little acrilic paint containers and glitter. I still find glitter in random places and we've even moved since then.
ReplyDeleteHmm, the biggest mess I had to clean up was when my daughter got into some bright blue fingernail polish and got it in the carpet, on the wall and some furniture :\ Anyways, I would love to win this steam mop!
ReplyDeleteWhen my husband and I were newly married, our friends were having their wedding reception at my parents house. The day before my husband was making a red kool-aid slushie in the blender and forgot to put the lid on. That red stained everything!!! lol.
ReplyDeleteMy mom was already stressed about keeping the house perfect, so we tried to clean it up before she could find it. We thought we did a pretty good job, but she still found some red stains. Sorry Mom. None of the guests noticed.
The biggest mess I can remember was when my hubby broke a bottle of soy sauce in the fridge. Of course, he wiped up a few spots, but he did not deep clean it. Months later when I cleaned the fridge, I found soy sauce EVERYWHERE - under the produce drawers, on the underside of shelves, etc. And it was super stuck on and icky. That took a lot of work to clean off.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this. We're getting ready to move into an apartment with all tile floors. This would be great. The biggest mess I've had to clean up was probably when the shelf on our fridge door broke. Everything fell & several glass bottles broke - glass and food all over the fridge and floor.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great giveaway -- thanks! As far as my biggest mess: three kids under 6 + stomach flu + one bathroom. It was a really, really rough few days!
ReplyDeleteSpaghetti EVERYWHERE...and we don't have kids HA!
ReplyDeleteI would love to try this mop! My biggest mess was recently actually. I got home from a trip to the grocery store and was trying to fit a new gallon of milk in my refrigerator. The 1/2 full bottle already in my frig fell out and poured all of the floor. I quickly put the new one in the frig and cleaned up the mess. The next time I open the frig, the new one fell out, busted a hole in the side and poured all over the floor. I wanted to walk away and leave the mess but I cleaned it up. Later that day, the floor was still sticky and had to be cleaned again! Crazy mess!
ReplyDeleteThis looks great!!! The biggest mess....I would have to say it was when my 2 year old got into the fireplace that hadn't been cleaned out. Ash and soot was every where!! It amazes me how 20seconds of them "playing" can create HOURS of work for me! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteNot that a mop would have helped with this day, but my worst mess day was the day when I got thrown up on, spit up on, and pooped on, all in one day. Gotta love motherhood!
ReplyDeleteI'm not including bodily fluid messes because I just really don't want to re-live them. ;) My worst mess was when my 2 year old climbed into the kitchen cabinet and dumped out an entire thing of Nesquik and an entire bag of powdered sugar. It was EVERYWHERE!
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I was cleaning out the refrigerator. I dropped a big glass jar of applesauce and being completely flustered, then dropped a glass jar of syrup into the mess. I had glass from two broken bottles, applesauce, and syrup everywhere. The big jar chipped my kitchen tile when it fell. Months later I was still finding applesauce splatter in random places. Horrible mess!
ReplyDeleteIt all started one dark and gloomy night...
ReplyDeleteNot really. But my youngest boy had the strangest vomit fest ever. One of those that after you clean up and the boy is sleeping, you high five your husband because it was really cool!
We dropped a bottle of liquid laundry soap on the ground- talk about hard to clean up! It just kept getting soapier and soapier!!
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest messes i have had to clean up was an exploded baby diaper and dropped spaghetti dinner!! I would love a steam mop. With 2 little boys lots of fun messes to clean!!
ReplyDeleteSorry jeffaimez@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteJust yesterday I was trying to make couscous. First I dumped the box of couscous all over the stove and floor. After that was all picked up, the water and spice packet boiled all over the stove and floor. I'm not sure it was my biggest mess ever, but it certainly was one of the most frustrating!
ReplyDeleteI once spilled Mod Podge through a crack in the counter (it was new and still needed to be connected) into our silverware drawer... but didn't realize I had done it until hours later when it was already dry. It's definitely not the grossest mess I've had to clean, but it was a pain!
ReplyDeleteOur biggest mess would have to have been when my oldest son thought he would help us paint. He went into his room and got his paint and painted the floors while we were in the other room! We have 2 boys also so there is ALWAYS a mess somewhere. Also, we have tile through the entire house so this would make cleaning a lot easier. Thanks for all of your great ideas.
ReplyDeletePS yesterday we made the "Momma's gonna snap" shirts. They are too cute!
jenny62682@gmail.com
the biggest mess I ever had to clean was about 11 years ago when I about 18 or 19 years old and I worked at Rite Aid. A little girl came in and had asked to use the bathroom. She looked like she really needed to go so I said yes, told her where to find it and went about my way. My boss came back later and told me that the bathroom was the biggest worst mess she had ever seen This poor little girl had wiped her ......"stuff" all over the walls, floors, faucet, toilet set , EVERYWHERE!! My boss then said that she would do my job if I cleaned the bathroom because no one who touch it. Sorry if it was graphic, however that was the biggest mess I have ever had to clean and I now have kids...i have seen some messes.
ReplyDeleteBiggest mess....Umm....Once I dropped a whole dish of fudge I was placing in the fridge to set. Chocolate everywhere.
ReplyDeletenicolerichins(at)gmail(dot)com
by the way this is the first time I have ever left a comment on a blog and I have been watching your for a while. I love your well rounded opinion and how you let that walk into your craft and artwork.
ReplyDeleteWe had a 14 year old dog. 'Nuff said :)
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I ever had to clean was when I dropped a bottle of cooking oil all over the kitchen floor. Oil is really hard to clean off.
ReplyDeleteWe have some messes around here but the most recent one was me dropping a full bottle of cranberry juice while putting away groceries and it exposed all over the floor, cabinets, walls, and my new kitchen rug that I had just bought! Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOur worst mess was when our dog got a stomach bug. I'll spare you the gory details--it wasn't pretty!
ReplyDeleteI guess our worst mess was when a bunch of eggs hit the deck! What a mess to clean up! Would love the mop!
ReplyDeleteAmy Clayburn
Worst mess ever was our dog + plate of double chocolate chip cookies. Yuck! Would have killed to have had hardwoods instead of carpet at the time. : ) PS my Saturday project today is Upcycled Boy Hats...I'm so excited!!!
ReplyDeleteI have 3 boys under 7, enough said! My life is a constant mess. Besides bodily fluids the worst mess: I was pregnant with my 3rd son and I decided to start a cookie business from home. It was the holidays so I had lots of orders to fill. I had a HUGe rubbermaid storage container full of powdered sugar, I ran to the bathroom for no more than 30 seconds, when I came out my 2 and 3 year old were covered from head to toe in powdered sugar. They had gotten inside the storage container and covered themselves, the floors, the counters and smeared it on the walls. It took me hours and my trusty Dyson to clean it up. I have a steam mop and I love it! Cleaned up the powdered sugar no problem!
ReplyDeleteWith three little ones I constantly have big messes to clean up, especially in the kitchen. My two year old loves to take things out of the fridge but frequently drops them on the floor and they spill and splash everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win! The biggest mess I've cleaned was a "baby blow out". Enough said.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
blancacarlson@live.com
I would LOVE to win one of these! We live in Army post housing and have the ugliest grocery store floors. The biggest mess I ever had to clean involved one of my older children, their crib and a poopy diaper. I'll let you imagine that one. ;) But with three kids and two dogs my floors get messy often.
ReplyDeleteThis would be great for apartment living. So little space!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I have ever cleaned up was helping my parents remove bat guano from their building. About 300 pounds, and it smelled.
One time, one of my second graders handed me their glue because they needed help getting it "unstuck." I did not realize it was a new bottle so it apparently had a "seal" that happened to look just like dried glue. For some reason, I thought SQUEEZING the bottle was a good idea. The seal broke and a FOUNTAIN of glue squirted out! It scared the be-geez-us out of me! I'm so glad I didn't let a dirty word slip out. Haha...there was glue on the CEILING and even some in my hair! It makes for a pretty funny story now but it sure was a MESS at the time!
ReplyDeleteOh I want one! Pick me, pick me! lol. So I don't know what would be considered bad since I have 3 kids and 2 dogs. Vomit? Red juice that stains the grout? Spilt grease can? I can go on and on.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance.
jessica
jspara324@gmail.com
The biggest mess I've had to clean up was my little girl's vomit when she had RSV this past winter. It was TERRIBLE! Oh, the joys of being a parent. ;-)
ReplyDeletethe biggest mess i had to clean up was the gallon of milk i dropped on the floor one day :) that was fun.
ReplyDeleteYou said not too graphic. But let's just say our labrador had an upset stomach and I didnt see the disaster until both my boths were downstairs amongst the mess. IT WAS GROSS.
ReplyDeletePICK ME! My hardwoods and lab and boys will thank you! hgalavan@hotmail.com
We have a Great Dane. Let's just say Great Dane + upset stomach + me not getting up to let her out in the middle of the night when she asked = one HUGE mess on my hardwood floor! That stuff had splattered everywhere! I felt really bad for her because she is normally a prissy dog who doen't like for stuff to be dirty.
ReplyDeleteSTEAM MOP!!! SO GREAT!!! I have two small people (4 and 1) and we had beets for dinner last night. Do I really have to elaborate?? My floors are pink. It's not okay.
ReplyDeleteThe two biggest messes I can think of off the top of my head both involve a crib, a sick child, and mess ALL over... and I mean all over. Best part? They're not even MY children!
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ReplyDeleteMy toddler had projectile vomit and our washing machine was broken at the time :)
ReplyDeleteMy 2yr old is now able to open the door to the fridge. While I was upstairs, he took it upon himself to get a drink. From upstairs I hear "uh oh Mommy, this a big mess." By the time I got downstairs all of the Hawaiian Punch (the larger container) that he was attempting to serve himself was all over the kitchen floor, cabinets, and him. It took me nearly an hour and a half to clean it all up. We now have a lock on the door.
ReplyDeletedaniellejpatel@gmail.com
Thanks for the great review! I'm in the midst of potty training my 2.5yo son, so all of my messes lately involve that...yuck! Poo in the undies is much harder to clean up than the diaper. Glad he is turning the corner and figuring out the potty!!
ReplyDelete2 kids are my biggest mess, there's something new everyday!
ReplyDeletebeckylamunyon at gmail dot com
Awesome Giveaway!! The worst mess happened when I had first started to decorate cakes and honestly didn't really know a lot and wasn't very sure of my self, with good reason apparently.
ReplyDeleteI tried to be Duff Goldman and move my cake, two tiers, after it was iced with only a little cardboard cake circle under it. BAD IDEA!! The board buckled and the entire cake went all over the counter, the floor and me. Then just because I was ... lets just say mad, I smashed it a few good times with my hands. Then I laughed, took a picture, and realized I had to deliver that cake in a few hours! So I had to re-bake and re-decorated the entire thing in half the time.
Needless to say - Lesson learned! :)
My worst mess was when I was carrying a bowl of chili to the table (carpeted dining area), and tripped. Oh yea, chili and pride everywhere. It was a horrible mess from the dining area to the kitchen. After my husband was done laughing he helped clean it up.
ReplyDeleteHeather
melody806@yahoo(dot)com
Never had a steam mop...I've been looking at the Shark ones...
ReplyDeleteBiggest mess I've ever cleaned was when my son sprayed an entire bottle (or close to a whole bottle) or spay sunscreen in my dining/kitchen. Do you know how greasy that stuff is? ARGH! Let's just say he won't be doin that again!
We own a cabin, that we rent and I use this Black and Decker Steam Mop to clean the floors and I used it to death, actual death. I need a new one so I am not on my hands and knees! The worst mess, was someone who rented our cabin ate sunflower seeds and they were on the floors, in the gargabe cans, in the beds, on the couches - ugh!
ReplyDeleteA full gallon of milk, all over the kitchen. I hate milk so it was all I could force myself to do to clean that up! Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Tara
~A Mustard Seed Dream
t.erickson@rocketmail.com
W/out graphics? Hmmm.. Ok. I've got two dogs, big. I like to take them to my grahamcracker's house to run in her backyard. She has a compost heap that she puts EVERYTHING in... Didn't think abt that. Well, apparently before we had arrived she had just dumped a huge pile of homemade, leftover soup and beans that had expired in her fridge. Made w/ virtually an entire ham, unbenounced to me (or anyone) they devoured the ENTIRE pile! Do u know what beans does to a dog? ~ Esp dogs that NEVER get any food other than dried dog food. Let's just say that night.... WALLS were sprayed. They typically sleep soundly in their kennel. Sigh, it lasted for 4 days! Like a water sprinkler... OH! And my favorite part, it snowed the next day. Too cold to just keep them outside. That's when I found out chicken noodle soup wasn't just good for humans.
ReplyDeleteNot sure that the mop would help with this one, but my little guy tossed his cookies...in the car. All over his car seat, over the edge and into the carpet, and even down in the crevices of the actual seat. Oh, the smell!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess? That is a toughie, there was the bacon grease fiasco, and the time 64 oz of hot coco spilled on the carpet, but I think the biggest mess I ever had to clean up was the bathroom after we left our house for 9 months with a sitter and he never cleaned the tub once. Gross.
ReplyDeleteOur biggest mess would be when my three year old squeezed out the syrup container all over our hardwoods in the kitchen. Talk about a MESS! I would love to try one of these out. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great giveaway! The most recent [one which I can remember amongst the many] mess was when my ds dropped a whole cup of chai on the carpet. It has stained it. Well, we are due for a free carpet clean, that should take care of it for now :D.
ReplyDeleteWould love to win this.
pallavi(dot)herle(at)gmail(dot)com
Biggest mess? I'm not really sure, but the least favorite to clean up after was a baby diaper blowout, and we'll leave it at that.
ReplyDeleteOne time I dropped a gallon of milk and it exploded on the floor.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any kids yet so I don't have any crazy mess stories yet.
sunnysummersmile at gmail dot com
I know there are bigger ones, but one that comes to mind is when my oldest 2 were toddlers, they got into my 5 gallon bucket of flour and spread it all over themselves, and my kitchen floor.
ReplyDeleteAll of my kids have horrible reflux when they are born, so I think the worst mess I've ever had to clean up is constant barf!!
ReplyDeletewe always have a mess but the worst ones are the ones you can't see real well but leave you stuck to the floor - i hate stickiness (and this is why my children will never know how good a pancake can be with syrup on it).
ReplyDeletecould really use a steam mop!
donna(dot)black(at) att(dot)net
Cranberry juice on the tile floor that stained the grout
ReplyDeletelittlegray88 at yahoo dot com
My 2 year old pulled a brick of cream cheese out of the fridge and proceeded to "paint" the kitchen florr with it. What a sticky mess!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think my biggest mess came from working on dinner one night. I was heating up tomato sauce and I got distracted. Meanwhile, it started boiling and spattering the stove top, wall, and ceiling.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest mess involved a toddler potty training, some pooh and my entire bathroom... use your imagination. Nothing is off limits when you have home made fingerpaints... eeeewwww.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of the steam mop. I love the idea of short cut cleaning. Sign me up please!
The biggest mess that I have had to clean up is a Pineapple Upside Down cake that just slide off the plate and into the floor. Our floor was sticky for months and I mopped it everyday.
ReplyDeletealeighoop @msn.com
Lots of messes are cleaned up in this house, like when I found my daughter making snow angels with a gallon box of potato flakes after she threw it all up in the air to make it snow. It was an easy clean up, though.
ReplyDeleteThe messiest story my friend told me: her 18 month old triplets and a gallon of vegetable oil!
kri55ten at yahoo dot com
Woah, lots of comments already! Anyway, I'd love to win one. Probably the biggest mess I ever had to clean up was the infamous "peanut butter mess" of 2010. My 2 year old got into a brand new jar of Jiff just days after I'd opened it. He painted himself, the cabinets, the chairs, the walls, and the stairs with peanut butter. Best of all, I got video of it with a little "you're in trouble" post-mess interview. Ah, kids!
ReplyDeleteLink to MY post about this mess:
http://www.lildeanfam.com/2010/07/destroyer.html
my email: jennifersdean@hotmail.com
Biggest mess would be...My husband! Ha Ha Broken mop, 9 months Pregnant. Had to "mop" the floor on hands and knees.
ReplyDeleteBiggest mess? Probably when one of our kiddos dumped 4 bottles of my scrapbooking paint all over our tiles. Yep that was the biggest.
ReplyDeleteMy toddler got into the fridge and grabbed a glass bottle of red marinade and dropped it on the tile floor.
ReplyDeleteMy birthday is in a couple weeks and this is something I've been wanting!!!
Thanks for doing this giveaway!
Abby.Hobson@gmail.com
Biggest mess? Not my husband or the kids....not even something I did. Our Lab ate something that didn't agree with him..at ALL. He wound up having it and 3 feet of intestine removed. I wound up cleaning up messes from both ends and as we all know..that NEVER happens outside and NEVER happens just once.
ReplyDeleteI doubt this is the "worst" mess I've ever had, but my most memorable was being 30 mo. pregnant... ok, maybe it only felt like I was 30 mo, but I was very pregnant, and was making oatmeal for my (then) 1 year old one of my favorite vintage pyrex bowls. I dropped the dish, it shattered and there was glass and oatmeal everywear, plus a hungry toddler running mad. I quickly gave up trying to clean it and called my sister in tears. Thank God for sisters, she came over and cleaned it up for me. :)
ReplyDeleteMy little man wasn't feeling good, and he had a peanut butter granola bar and red koolaid... my carpet is still pinkish! But I'd love to use this instead of my swiffer!
ReplyDeletecyberfey@gmail.com
Well. I had to clean up several messes yesterday. I will just mention the worst of those. My little girl got sick all over the blanket I was using as a cover for me. Fortunately just the blanket got messy and nothing else, until we made it to the bathroom.
ReplyDeleteThis one goes under WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. Our yellow lab had surgery and the specialists insisted that we keep tubes in his side that would drain the area (of course if things can get out things can get in right, yikes) So our poor dog went around with two tubes into his body that leaked, well we'll leave that to the imagination, constantly so what the t-shirt we changed every hour didn't catch I had to. We had two kiddos under 4 at the time and I was pregnant with our third so it was super important to keep the 'leakage' cleaned up. It's been several years now and I still can't laugh about it.....maybe someday! Love your blog! Thanks for all your hard work!
ReplyDeleteOh poor dog Sadie has a sensitive stomach... this sometimes leads to well BIG messes. Thankfully it usually ends up in our kitchen and not on the carpet but YUCK nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteCugarris@gmail.com
Hmmmm...biggest mess...I'd have to say when the kids used sharpie to "decorate" their bedroom walls. It was more of a painting situation rather than cleaning. ;)
ReplyDeleteO my! What a fun comment section. So, I was Cat sitting for a friend, and the two cats got into their medicine. To fix the situation I had to give them peroxide and make them regurgitate. EK! They threw up for 2 days, so I just kept cleaning.
ReplyDeleteChristina.May.Andrews@gmail.com
The biggest mess I had to clean up was at work when I dropped a FULL water-cooler bottle on the tile floor and it shattered. I completely flooded the kitchen! Definitely needed more than a steam mom to clean it up!
ReplyDeleteI guess when he dropped his glass of milk. It was everywhere even on the walls. Did you know milk stains walls? I had to paint over it!
ReplyDeleteWhen my toddler decided to take a poopy diaper change into his own hands while he was supposed to be napping. Enough said.
ReplyDeleteooo! so my husband works for the morgue...and he has to leave to pick up people in all hours of the night. lets just say the car still smells like a body he picked up a week or two ago after we cleaned it with clorox!! ;/ heelllppp!!!
ReplyDeletetanithstradling@live.com
I would love to win this mop! No kids yet... but apparently they are messy :) Biggest mess so far has been broken eggs on my kitchen floor!
ReplyDeletelof03004@hotmail.com
Soy sauce...all over my husband's truck when we were moving. Gross.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest mess has been my new house! No one had lived here for 2 1/2 years but a lot of the previous owner's stuff was left inside...So we had a lot of work to do! And we have ALL hardwood/tile floors...so this would be amazing to have!!!
ReplyDeleteMany years ago we hosted a Mexican themed shower for some friends. We were too tired to clean up at parties end so we left it until the morning. Woke up to find my 3 yr old son "painting" guacamole & salsa on the dining room walls! BIG MESS! And yes, he lived to tell the tale (he's 25 now!)
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of big messes around here, but I think the place that would benefit most from this steam mop would be the floor in my salon. All that dried on hair product stuck to the floor. So hard to get clean.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely when a brand new plastic bottle is syrup cracked wide open on the kitchen floor. It was everywhere, including under the fridge. What a sticky mess. Great giveaway.
ReplyDeleteWith two little boys we have had our fair share of bathroom messes(boys are gross). I wont go into too much detail, but having a way to clean up after them without the chemicals would be great.
ReplyDeleteLets just say we have cats that likes to throw up, gross.
ReplyDeleteI once dropped an entire bag of sugar on my counter that exploded all over my kitchen and dining room! gritty and sticky and gross!
ReplyDeleteIt would have to be the time I was babysitting my cousins. I came out of the bathroom and the two of them approx. 2 and 3 years old had gotten into the chocolate chips! They were melted in every crevice imaginable and all over the floor! The steam mop would have been great for the floor....but you can't exactly steam mop a baby! =)
ReplyDeleteThe worst mess involved poopy little girls and messy clothes, lol.
ReplyDeleteSo far the biggest mess I had to clean up was when my year and a half old son went into one of our cupboards and pooped(we didn't know this) and when that eerie quiet fell we found him in there with poop smeared all over him and the cupboard. It was not fun...hopefully we won't have to experience this with our little girl :D
ReplyDeleteOh I forgot to give you my email in my last comment. It's prettypeople69@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy biggest mess was brought on by one of my dogs knocking over the trashcan right after we left the house for the day. They ate something that made both of them very sick. Living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway... every room on the first floor of the house was "affected." And then we were out all day. What a surprise to come home to!!!
ReplyDeleteEasy enough for me... I left for work one day and had to put our blue heeler in the master bathroom as usual.. well, maintenance came in to fix our toilet & let her out. She and our cat had tore up 12 rolls of toilet paper to shreds (in every room), she ate cd's, a cranium game, and 3 remote controls. Chewed holes in the carpet and peed and pooped at least once in every room!! I came home to ground zero! Let's just say our deposit wasn't returned. Now with the twins I'm scared to see what may happen if I turn my back!
ReplyDeleteBiggest mess I had to clean up was made by my little sister when we were younger. Decided to make cereal right on the CARPET with TWO boxes of cereal and TWO GALLONS OF MILK. Not so awesome!!
ReplyDeletejtervortn@gmail.com
I would love to win one, my shark steam mop just died the other day! The biggest mess I've ever had to clean up was when my maltese poodle ran away and rolled in every grass pile he could find. I spent hours brushing out every stinking piece of grass, it was awful!
ReplyDeletehpickett183 (at) hotmail (dot) com
The biggest mess? Definitely when my son dumped strawberry jam all over the floor!
ReplyDeleteI think one of the biggest messes I've cleaned up was grape syrup from an exploded mason jar. so sticky!
ReplyDeletevenessa petersen at yahoo dot com
We dropped a jar of jam on the tile floor once.... ooooo sticky and gloppy MIXED with little shards of glass! Now that was a tough one to clean up!
ReplyDeleteI once had three large dogs rip open a bag of dry cement colorant and then run through the house. I think we were cleaning up that mess until we sold the house. Every time I mopped the stairs the water turned pink (it was red dye).
ReplyDeletephoebefaden at gmail dot com
The biggest mess? Last night! When my 19 month old peed on my leg and foot and ultimately the floor when I was preparing to bathe him. :-) I guess hearing the water run got him going. -- does that count as a big mess? Otherwise, I clean around his highchair daily as I'm trying to encourage him to eat on his own. I'm down on the floor with a wet paper towel mopping up the crumbs/mess. I (or rather, my back ) would LOVE for a steam mop to do this instead! Thank you for this opportunity.
ReplyDeleteNo graphic details? Hmm, let's just say, 10 year old boy on the top bunk, 1 am, throw-up, 2 days after bringing home our newborn baby girl. Hubby cleaned up so I could rest and deal with the baby and I was surprised to wake up to find him still cleaning at 7 AM!
ReplyDeleteI have been wanting a steam mop. The biggest mess I have cleaned up is when we thought it would be cute to give our one year old boy a bowl of Spaghetti O's and let him feed himself.
ReplyDeletebretinsley@hotmail.com
In college my roommate and I carved pumpkins for Halloween, left them in our dorm room, and went home for the weekend. We returned to a rotted pumpkin mess all over the carpet. We scrubbed the carpet for days and days, then once a week till the end of the year. Then prayed no one would notice when they checked our room for damage before we left.
ReplyDeleteA steam mop probably wouldn't have helped that - I don't think anything would have!
I am always cleaning up big messes with me 3 boys (one is my husband) around. I would love the mop to help me out a little bit!
ReplyDeleteI don't want to go into to much but my little guy is a throw upper. Yuck! erikamarnold@hotmail.com
ReplyDeletebiggest mess - my dog when she got into the garbage after a meal of sticky, sweet ribs. She wanted to get at the bones, and got sticky sauce all over the kitchen floor! My kitchen and bathroom could really use this mop! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I ever had to clean up was when my 2 year old snuck my giant bottle of cinnamon out of the kitchen while I was cooking, and proceeded to cover the entire house in cinnamon. It misted everywhere, and I was cleaning cinnamon for weeks!
ReplyDeleteOur family all partook in a round of the stomach flu at the same time. That was a mess!
ReplyDeleteLizpitcavage at gmail dot com
The biggest mess was many years ago when I had 4 kids and my sister with 4 kids came for a vacation visit. All the kids are about the same ages so we had just turned 4 -11. Since we had so many people visiting & lived way out in the country I bought the largest bottles of shampoo and conditioner that the store sold. Sister and I decided to take a quick trip to town leaving the two dads to watch over all the kids. Well it was hot so the 4 yos asked to take a bath. Once in the bath they discovered that shampoo makes the tub slippery. Letting the water out and adding shampoo is even more fun but not much room. The best fun is to take all the shampoo and all the conditioner onto the floor and add just some water. The bathroom was long they had a great deal of fun running and sliding about the entire room & tub. Finally the dads noticed they had been in there quite a long time and there was a LOT of thumping so went to check the situation out. Two very naked, slippery and happy 4 yos and one totally coated bathroom. There was a sit down built in vanity in addition to the regular bathroom fixtures and every single item was coated with "slip". Now we did have to laugh cause they were cute but that mess...and adding water took forever to clean up. None of my bathrooms have ever been that clean & shiny again.
ReplyDeleteI've got 4 kids, ages 2-4-6-8. I am constantly cleaning up some sort of a disaster. The worst has probably been a bottle of canola oil all over the kitchen floor. THAT was not awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win!
the biggest mess just happened a couple of months ago. We went out and the kids got Icee's. My daughter got the bright cherry red one. Well when we got home she literally dropped it in the middle of the living room floor on the beige carpet!!!!! I just freaked out. and it spattered on the wall, the couch and then landed all upside down on the carpet!!! NOT fun!!!! so talk about thank goodness we had a steam vac!!!
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what my biggest clean-up job was, but I know I have spent hours cleaning my kitchen floors from food, drinks, my in-laws dog accidents, grease, even paint. This could make my life easier
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The biggest mess I ever had to clean up was when I dropped a new bottle of ketchup on the kitchen floor when I was about 12. My mom HATES ketchup and I didn't want her to know about it because it would make her sick. My dad hates waste so I didn't want him to know about it either. Soooo... I cleaned up that whole bottle of ketchup with paper towels, constantly afraid that one of those two people would walk in. Fortunately, they didn't. One roll of paper towels later the ketchup was off the floor and in the trash and I very stealthily got it out to the trash can with no one the wiser. Icky icky ick.
ReplyDeleteI still like ketchup a lot though.
Probably not my BIGGEST mess but my favorite one is the day I shook up my sons sweet potatoes with the lid not on all the way. There he sat with a clean bib and strange look on his face... sweet potatoes all up the wall and ceiling. Silliness! Thanks for the chance to win!! :o)
ReplyDeleteThis is soooo easy. I won't get graphic but we woke up this am to multiple messes that came out of multiple places from our eldery dog.
ReplyDeletevintagevitality (at) gmail (dot) com
The biggest mess I have had to clean up would be the whole bottle of syrup on our carpet. yeah, it was a sticky mess!
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My biggest mess...The time I spilled and entire gallon of OIL BASED paint on the inside of my parents new car!!!! No joke! Not sure the Steam Mop would have helped with that one! :) But it would be great for all the messes my two boys make on a daily basis.
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When returning from a summer vacation, our house was full of (read: about 30) dead cockroaches that had left body parts and other juices everywhere. Gah!
ReplyDeleteI have two under two, so my son throws things on the floor, and I have to pick them up before my daughter eats it! I'd love a mop to make that easier!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I ever cleaned up: I put my 4 year old in his room and told him he could play in there for 1/2 hour while I took a nap when I was pregnant and could not keep my eyes open a second longer. 1/2 hour later, I came in and EVERY item that had been in a drawer, on a shelf, on the wall, on the bed was dumped in a pile over a foot deep on the floor. It was such a deliberate mess made by my son. He looked up at me and said, "Look what I did! It even made me TIRED!" You can imagine it made me more tired to pick it up than it made him tired to make the mess. Isn't that always the way? I would love the mop. Said 4-year-old, now 5, LOVES mopping and he owes me big time for all the messes in his life, so I would put him right to work with it. :) brittanyajensen@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy biggest mess was when we moved into our current house. Both our real estate agent, and the seller's agent were totally incompetent, and the day I got the keys (which were under the mat in front of the house), I walked in to find YEARS of dirt on the hardwood floors, the (formerly white) linoleum was a depressing gray, and the fridge still had moldy food in it.
ReplyDeleteWith the help of my mother and a good friend, we tackled the mess, but I remember being *so* upset while I mopped. After two days of intense cleaning, the house looked much improved.
A full tub of yogurt all over the kitchen floor! A steam mop would have come in handy.
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When my husband and I were first married I was excited to learn how to cook so I got a lasagne recipe from my mother and made it. It took me most of the day and I was so proud. It smelled so fabulous and was WAY more than the 2 of us could eat - it would have taken all week or more. Well, we didn't end up having that problem as I dropped it while taking it out of the oven and it shattered the glass casserole dish everywhere. The other problem was that it was too hot to clean up, so I just left it there. After the tears were done we went out to eat :) nattiesue2 @ hotmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess that I had to clean up was when I was grooming a Golden Retriever once and let's just say, it wasn't feeling well...all.over.the.shop. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteI could use one of these for home and grooming!
PiccolaJellyfish at gmail dot com
http://piccolajellyfish.blogspot.com
biggest mess? getting the melted wax from a HUGE red candle out of carpet, it was awful... and we were renting, eep!
ReplyDeleteDish soap. It just kept sudsing and sudsing.
ReplyDeleteIce-cream & Kool aid all over the floor!
ReplyDeleteLaura
laurarodz1969@netzero.net
I live in a house with two little boys who spill EVERYTHING! Just yesterday I had to clean up green smoothie out of white carpet...obviously we didn't choose the carpet color :)
ReplyDeleteThis would be great for the tile in my house, which gets lots of spills since it's in the entry way and kitchen!
With three busy kids, a hubby, a crafty mom (me!), and a cat I could mop the floors everyday! The biggest mess we have cleaned up lately is when a half gallon of grape juice was dropped on the floor and the plastic bottle exploded...ewww! Sticky, stain-y, mess! I would LOVE to have a Black and Decker steam mop...I have heard they are great! Thanks, Cheri, for giving us the opportunity to win one. :) Best of luck everyone...
ReplyDeletewaltleighann5@att.net
How about baby poop...all over the back seat of my car. And believe me I could get more graphic than that. GROSS!
ReplyDeletepetteyr(at)gmail(dot)com
I don't know about the biggest mess, but messes from the flu is the first that comes to mind. . .
ReplyDeleteLove your blog....esp. all the cute boy sewing projects. I have three and have always complained that there wasn't enough sewing to be done for boys. Now I just come here and pick a project! Of course tons of messes around these parts (my dreaded is the pee puddle around the base toilet seat when the boys are goofing off while going....)That steam mop looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteMine is kind of graphic, but kind of funny, so worth it.:) My son was just getting potty trained, so he was wearing underpants. We had beets the night before, and he had eaten A LOT! pretty soon my toddler, just younger than him was teetering around the floor with a hand full of something that looked like red velvet cake batter... Then I noticed piles of it all over the floor... Once I figured out what it was I hollered "Adia, that's POOP! Drop it!" She immediately tried to get it off of her hand, but it wouldn't come off, so she wiped it on her shirt. After realizing she was now coved in it, she started to vomit. Hearing the commotion my husband ran into the room, stepping in the "stuff" (with bare feet) on the way. My son yelled, "Dad, you just stepped in my pretty red poop!" Letting out a woman-like squeal he started vomiting too (just once, but still...) As if in a chain reaction my son started heaving. I knew what this was leading to, so I stripped down the kids and shoved all three of them in the shower to hose down while I cleaned up the mess on the floor. It turned out alright once everyone got a grip, but still, we don't do beets anymore!
ReplyDeleteThe summer before I got married, my brother threw a kegger in the the basement during my birthday party while my parents were in Europe for their anniversary. That was a pretty big mess.
ReplyDeleteA whole bottle of baby powder. NOT awesome.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to win this Cheri!
Love your guts
mandi
It was totally my fault... I left a large bottle of applesauce and some yogurt on the table that the boys did not eat at all. So there was lots of liquidy stuff to play with full and Dallin(the 2 y.o.) decided it would be fun to paint the kitchen with the yogurt and applesauce. I was taking a shower. When I got out the boys had somehow gotten applesauce and yogurt all over the floor, on the cabinets and doors and were starting to work their way to the carpet. It took forever to wipe it all up. And then I had to give them baths as well. As I said though, it was my fault for leaving it on the table where Dallin could get it!
ReplyDeleteYour floors are probably sealed. Unless they stain every time you spill something no matter how quickly you wipe it up. It is incredibly rare to have unsealed floors right now. Ours are unsealed because the previous owners sanded them down and then I guess changed their mind and covered it with carpet. And I use my steam mop on it ANYWAYS! :D because we really don't care what happens to the floor at this point.
ReplyDeleteIf your floor is even a wee little bit shiny, or if you are able to wash it without it soaking in water, you're good to go! I have a steam mop and I LOVE it.
Had a pretty bad incident with our baby who tried yoghurt for the first time recently, the result being projectile vomit.
ReplyDeleteWhat to clean first - the entire wall or the baby?
Tough call,
Nelly xxx
...biggest mess? hmmmmmm... I don't know...
ReplyDeleteit is probably something KID related though!!! and probably something "being sick" related. :(
I feel like a clean up a big mess everyday though just keeping my kitchen floor clean so you don't get food stuck to your feet as you walk through.
I've been looking at getting a steam mop for a LONG time...pretty much since I saw them in the store...my biggest mess story...my four year old has been able to get herself worked into a tizzy since she was itty bitty...so much of a tizzy that she can make herself throw up...ALOT! Anyway, the messes I clean usually involve an aforementioned tizzy. So, a steam mop would come in VERY handy at my house as I have since had two other children and they are learning to mimic their big sister's behavior...blah! Here's hoping I win!
ReplyDeletehmmm ....biggest mess... that usually means something or someone exploded at our house!! I also remember the time the new container of liquid soap shimmied off the top of our washing machine and went everywhere...inculing down the heating vent... nice!
ReplyDeleteJen
jensplace@myctmh.com
With two boys Id have to say the biggest mess was when my now 4 year old got into the fridge and pulled down about 6 eggs that splatted all over the floor...worst part, I was at my SIL house, I cleaned forever! Now, with two boys....the messes haven't even come close to stopping.
ReplyDeleteJust this week during his tv time my Donaven (3) decided to dump a whole box of whales in the living room and mashed them into the carpet in a million little pieces leaving orange stains everywhere. Since that wasn't enough he took a 1/4 a gallon of milk and spit it all over my coach, the ottoman, the whale carnage and the carpet. It took me 2 hrs to clean the place up! Needless to say he was grounded from anything with a screen for a week. I would love to win, thanks for the give away. felicia_cooper(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy worst mess ever was the first time we left our beagle puppy, George, alone for a couple hours. Let's just say he seemed to have panicked a little. Lots of shreaded stuff to clean up and LOTS of other nasty, smeared, stinky, brown stuff to clean up. The kind of stuff that I would have LOVED to have a steam mop for...
ReplyDeleteFunny enought the dog has made more messes than either of my two children.
ReplyDeleteLets just say the bark off feature stressed her out a little too much taking me more than three hours to clean up both floors of my house!
gk_kaiser@msn.com
My biggest mess? My husband left a very large, orange candle on our glass coffee table and left it unattended for a little while. When I came back to it, it had malted through the sides, leaked onto the table, and down onto our rented apartment carpet! Bright orange on a beige carpet? Horrible! There are still remnants, too, nearly 6 years later.
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Let's just say that the worst mess I ever had to clean was while working at a physical therapy clinic with older and injured people that can't always clean themselves well. It would have been nice to have a steam mop but I still would have cleaned about 6 times! Thanks for the give away!
ReplyDeleteHands down the biggest mess I ever had to clean was when I was 18 and my Mum went away for the weekend leaving me on my own - with 20 of my closest friends! Let me say two words to avoid the gory details: Rockaberry Cooler.
ReplyDeleteOhhh, I had an adventure a couple weeks ago. We learned that paints aren't the only thing you can fingerpaint with.... I wrote all about it, but it's not for the faint of stomach... http://www.eclecticmamma.com/2011/jun/29/trial-by-fire/
ReplyDeleteThe worst messes I hate cleaning are dog messes especially on carpet!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I ever had to clean up was when I accidentally flung a HUGE container of glitter across the room. I am still finding glitter in the corners of my room, and that was over a year ago!
ReplyDeletecraftymariko(at)gmail(dot)com
Laundry soap all over my basement, liquid and powder. Mixed together, awesome!
ReplyDeleteI've been shopping around for one of these! I hope I win! I have 3 young boys....everyday is a mess around here;). My entire main level is hardwood...such a pain to clean!!!
ReplyDeleteDaniellebressner@msn.com
I have had a few big messes, living in the country (mud) with two dogs, three kids, and a mechanic husband gives me messes,
ReplyDeleteBut one of my biggest messes?
Hot canned Peaches --drop a jar while canning and glass, boiling sugar water and peach juice are everywhere---
I would love to have one of these steam mops to help me out!
My biggest mess involves: one dog that didn't want to go out into heavy rain to do his business, one husband with work boots on tracking mud and then tracking what the dog didn't do outside. Nuff said. I really need this steam mop.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't so much BIG mess as constant mess! A white kitchen floor plus 3 boys under the age of 5 who love to help me cook, play outside and have lots of boyish fun means my floor need all the cleaning it can get and a tool that makes it easier on me sounds fantastic!! Erin etfolkerts-at-nucleus-dot-com
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess I had to clean up was when our little one was bout 6-8 months old, and had finally started using her Jump-a-Roo, and we had also recently started using cloth diapers. I apparently didn't have the diaper on properly, and I could hear her passing gas while jumping along. Next thing I know every time she jumped poo seeped out through her diaper and ran down her leg. We laughed about it afterwards saying she was making poopy puddles!
ReplyDeletetwo kids + hubby + 24 hr flu = 'nuff said : ( had to repaint the bathroom wall!!!
ReplyDeleteI was pouring soup into 6 perfectly balanced gallon size ziplocks when all of a sudden one started to fall and when i tried to save it..... A domino effect. Suddenly I had about a gazillion ounces of soup running down my island, on the floor, and in my drawers....boo.
ReplyDelete5 KIDS 6 years and Under!!! I think that explains a big mess! Would love the mop. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway, I've always wanted to try using a steam mop! I think the biggest mess I've had to clean up involved a stomach virus...I'll just leave it at that!
ReplyDeleteTwo wet muddy boys, and a potty accident all in the bathroom .... enough said!
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Not the biggest mess but the most annoying was after I had mopped the kitchen floor and that afternoon we spilled a whole bunch of flour all over. I hate seeing something so clean wrecked so quickly!
ReplyDeleteMy biggest mess? The backseat of my car! And sadly, it's a constant "clean up" project. But I LOATHE cleaning the kitchen floor and have been longing for a steam mop. Thanks for the review and a chance to enter! :)
ReplyDeleteThe worst mess I had to clean up involved my son's lack of desire to keep his diaper on. I'll avoid the graphic description. Needless to say, it was not pretty and the clean up was not restricted to just one wall of his room. What I can say is the solution required duct taping his pajamas to him.
ReplyDeleteI would love a steam mop!! I have two little boys (plus five daycare kids) that are making constant messes!
ReplyDeleteone dozen eggs and a smashed 8x8 pyrex! I would love a steam mop!
ReplyDeletemrsemilywhite(at)gmail(dot)com
I would LOVE one of these!! I have 3 boys, 2 dogs & 1 hubby....these messes are endless and daily! :) Thanks for the chance to win one of these rockin mom machines! :)
ReplyDeleteI have two. One being the time when I went to get my daughter from her nap and discovered her new "talent": she could remove her diaper! Ugh!
ReplyDeleteThe second one is when my son was eating spaghetti in his highchair. Boy, did that take a while to clean up! I'm still finding sauce in the the tiny crevises of his highchair! Eww!
Hmmm... biggest mess ever? I can't think of it just now, but my girls are constantly dropping yogurt on the ground at the table and I'd love to have a quick way to clean that up daily. Thanks for hosting this give away! - Jess (at) OlyMomma
ReplyDeleteBiggest mess ever? Just my kitchen floor in general. No matter how hard I scrub with a normal mop ... it never seems clean. Maybe a steam mop would help me out?
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My lame old linoleum always looks dirty, so I bet a steam mop would help that.
ReplyDeletejoellenedmunds @ gmail.com
Well, I like to cook, Alot. So I always create HUGE messes in my kitchen...... Would love a new mop!
ReplyDeleteWith 3 boys, one of which being a toddler who refuses a high chair, the food messes are pretty bad daily. But the worst was when my middle son had just learned to open the fridge and decided to help himself to a full pitcher of lemonade! Talk about sticky! Would love to win! Thanks for the giveaway! geocachingmama @ gmail.com
ReplyDeleteone of the biggest messes i've had to clean up was when my 1.5 year old decided to pull out the vacuum bag & tear it open on living room floor. thankfully, all i had to do was put in a new bag & sweep everything up. :)
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mess - while babysitting my then 3 year old cousin, I had to clean up his (#2) accident in the bathroom, minutes later the dog threw up...a lot. A close second was when, just for a second, I took my eyes off my 1 year old while she was painting.
ReplyDeleteHow about my most recent big mess? Not too long ago I was rushing around trying to get ready to go to the airport for a trip. I managed to drop a whole bottle of apple juice on the kitchen floor. The lid broke off and there was apple juice everywhere. Why do those things always happen when you have NO time to deal with them? I could have used the mop that day!
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ReplyDeleteMy 17 month old likes to color with the contents of his diaper! That's our biggest mess to contend with.
ReplyDeletebritneyawright@gmail.com
Oh, too many messes to name. Diaper blow-outs, cat messes.... but the worst is PLAY-DOH! I hate cleaning it out of my carpets!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I also am clueless as to whether my hardwood floors are sealed or not. I Googled:
ReplyDeleteThere’s a quick way to test and see if your hardwood is sealed or not. Place a drop of water on the floor. If it beads, sits there, looks at you and says, “Whatchya gonna do?” It’s sealed. However, if the bead of water sinks down into the floor and makes a spot the sealant on your floors is no longer sound and water damage can and will occur.
I decided to put flour in a pan for my toddler to play with his tractors in at the kitchen table. Why I didn't just stick to oatmeal, I don't know because FLOUR WAS EVERYWHERE in the kitchen within a few minutes! Now he has a can of oatmeal that we reserve for playing tractors in.. no more flour!
ReplyDeleteI have two boys and the littlest one has explosive poop all the time. I totally need to win this!
ReplyDeleteRamsey. Weaver @ gmail. com
Two words, CLAM JUICE!! Need I say more?
ReplyDeleteSorry, above comment. Megan. boseman @ gmail. com
ReplyDeleteYears ago while in uni, my housemate and I decided to throw a huge Xmas party. And then promptly abandoned the house for two days as we couldn't face having to clear the whole house from top to bottom. Let's just say as bad as it is cleaning up after a crazy student party, leaving everything for two days does not help...
ReplyDeleteMy 2 year old got into a tub of Vasoline while my husband and I were trying to carry a heavy dresser in the house. We have carpet too :( I was up all night shampooing the carpets.
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