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MY TOP CLEANING TOOLS FOR THE HOME (How To Clean Faster)
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Dec 13, 2024
If you're having trouble getting all of your house cleaning chores complete, it may be your cleaning tools that are slowing you down. Here are the 8 cleaning tools I swapped out in my home to finally get it all done. Read the full blog post: “These 8 Cleaning Tools Changed Everything” - https://diannedecor.com/home-entertaining/cleaning-organizing/cleaning-tools/ ✨| FREE DOWNLOAD |✨ The Big List - 101 Places To Shop Home Decor Online https://diannedecor.com/the-big-list |MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO| MicrofiberDuster - https://sovrn.co/1mf0dri Bissell Crosswave - https://sovrn.co/cbsvdja Bissell Littler Green ProHeat - https://sovrn.co/dm0qhp7 Duster Mop - https://amzn.to/45oNhMC Dusting Gloves - https://amzn.to/3KAe3ts Color Coded Clothes - https://amzn.to/4540hHF
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I have tried every cleaning routine
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there is fly lady clean Mama the
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organized Mom method and while I love a
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great cleaning routine I was never able
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to complete all of the tasks I couldn't
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figure out how everyone was able to get
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these cleaning chores done so quickly it
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wasn't until I switched out my mop and
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bucket and upgraded to a wet vac that I
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realized how much time I was able to
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save and how much less effort I needed
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to put in to get that chore done and it
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had me thinking what else in my cleaning
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tool Arsenal is old and Obsolete and can
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be replaced by a better tool hi I'm
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Lindsay Diane from Diane decor.com let's
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jump into the list of cleaning tools
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that I've swapped out that have really
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cut down on the amount of time that it
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takes me to clean my home the first
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thing that I swapped out was a
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microfiber duster I purchased one from
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Amazon that was very highly rated but
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honestly it was just a disappointment
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there was something about it where it
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kept getting snagged on my light
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fixtures when I would bend it to adjust
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the angle so that I could clean the
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baseboards it would just bend again it
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was like too flimsy for me to actually
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clean my baseboards because once I put
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pressure on the duster it would just
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bend away from the wall it was just a
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little things like that that just did
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not work for me it was not until I got
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my hands on a new one that I realized
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the type that you really really need
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this is the microfiber duster that I
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have now this is from Walmart it's from
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the Great Value Brands it is extendable
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it kind of twists opens up and you'll
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notice that the pole is really nice and
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thick and sturdy it's not going to bend
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on you it's not gonna snap in half and
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the actual microfiber material is very
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different from the other one the other
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one claimed to be a microfiber feather
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duster this just says it's a microfiber
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duster I would say that it really feels
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like a cheap shag carpet kind of
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material it's very thick it's very dense
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the pieces aren't going to fall out and
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it snaps on and snaps off really easily
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it's pretty cool you can just kind of
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open the snap slide off the sleeve wash
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it put it in the dryer or you can lay it
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to dry either one have worked for me and
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I've had no trouble with it and it's
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good to go this thing has saved me so
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much time it has saved my back from
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bending over it's absolutely fantastic I
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highly recommend it so if you're having
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trouble with your duster and dusting in
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general think about getting one that's
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like this the next change that I made
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was I stopped trying to clean my light
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fixture is like my lamps and my vanity
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lights and my pendant lights over my
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kitchen islands and my blinds with the
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duster instead I got these microfiber
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dusting gloves these things are awesome
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they're pretty self-explanatory you just
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kind of put them on and you can dust
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everything with your hand when I tell
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you it will take you seconds to clean
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your blinds
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I mean it you all you have to do is
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Twist some clothes you kind of do a
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swipe swipe swipe swipe and you're done
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and the time it takes for you to wave
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goodbye to someone you can have a whole
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set of blinds dusted it is by far the
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fastest way that I have found to clean
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blinds and of course if you want to
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clean your lights if you have like
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delicate crystals or chandeliers or
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anything that you have to be really
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careful around use the gloves the next
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thing that I switched out in my cleaning
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routine was I stopped using microfiber
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cloths to clean my bathtub and my shower
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and instead I went with a push broom now
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this is a hack that I've seen floating
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all over YouTube and Tick Tock it is
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fantastic if you don't want to have to
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bend over or reach high up on your Tippy
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Toes that reach that a broom gives you
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changes everything you can get through
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the walls the floors so much faster and
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because you have that bristle bottom it
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will really give you that like abrasive
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scrub that you may need to get like
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dried soap conditioner shampoos things
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like that that are in the shower that
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you need that little extra elbow grease
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for it helps scrub them away so easily
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so all I do now is I spray down my
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shower or tub either with a dawn power
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wash or with like a Scrubbing Bubbles
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shower cleaner and then I just scrub
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scrub scrub with a push broom rinse it
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and I'm good to go and while we're
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talking about showers one of the things
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that would slow me down so much in my
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cleaning routine was the hard water
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stains on the shower doors what I ended
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up getting was The Scrub Daddy power
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paste now this is the combo pack it
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comes with the power paste and the scrub
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mommy sponge
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so the sponge itself is kind of like a
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Scrub Daddy on one side where it's that
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rougher more abrasive side the scrub
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mommy side is a really soft really soft
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gentle kind of sponge and so what they
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do is they say you kind of get your
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sponge a little bit damp you wipe it
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into the power paste you scrub down on
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the rough side and then when you're
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rinsing you wipe down with the soft side
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it catches any of that excess product
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and leaves everything sparkling clean I
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think it does a phenomenal job on hard
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water and mineral deposits it also does
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a great job on like oven doors and you
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know glass cooktops and things like that
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but for me the the main thing that I use
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it for is to get rid of all those hard
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water stains it's phenomenal so the next
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thing that I switched out and this was
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actually something that I did a while
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ago I stopped using paper towels and
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like the Clorox wipes and things like
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that and switch those out for a
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color-coded microfiber cloth system now
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I got mine from Amazon they're
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inexpensive I got the three color pack
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so let's say I use the gray ones only in
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the bathroom the green ones only in the
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kitchen and the pink ones are around the
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house for like all over dusting
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um what the what's really nice about
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using the microfiber cloths instead of
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using paper towels is not only does it
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save you a lot of money because you
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could just throw these in the wash and
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use them over and over and over again
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but you just get more distance with the
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cloth so you are really supposed to just
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fold it up
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and let's say you're using one square
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right so you're going to use this side
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and then when that gets soiled you use
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this side then you can flip it pancake
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it over now you've got two more clean
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surfaces and so on and so forth right
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you get it you can easily fold and
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unfold it to get another clean surface
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to use whereas before I would be pulling
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paper towels and pulling paper towels
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and pulling an extra wipe and it's just
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it saves time it saves money and it
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saves waste okay let's talk about floors
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this was a cleaning chore that was
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taking me hours to complete so anytime I
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wanted to wash my floors now I have a
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lot of dark hardwood and a lot of tile
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and anytime I clean my floors I would
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have to either sweep or vacuum then go
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in with my mop once the floors were like
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wet and washed then I would go through
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and use like a floor towel to go through
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and dry all of the high traffic area is
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because no matter how many times I would
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tell my kids it's wet don't run it's wet
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don't run they would still run and
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someone would still fall and so it was a
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step that I just had to do to make sure
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the kids were safe and it's something
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that would take me so long to do when I
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say it took me hours just to complete
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the downstairs it was it was just an
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overwhelming task and so it didn't get
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done instead I would just tackle the the
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hot zones right the kitchen the
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entryways like a high traffic hallway
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that would be about it everything else I
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just could not keep up with on a regular
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basis until I swapped it out for a wet
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dry vac now I'm using the Bissell
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crosswave MAX cordless this thing is
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absolutely awesome it does all of the
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steps in one it will suck up the larger
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debris cereal rice things like that it
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will wash the floor with the solution
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and it will vacuum it dry I I cannot say
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enough good things about this it is an
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investment I did put it off for three
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years I struggled with these floors for
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three years until I was like this is not
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working I need a better tool and that's
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what kicked off all of this I got the
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crosswave it completely changed the game
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for me so if you are struggling with
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lots of floor that needs to be washed
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and needs to be kept up with you should
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definitely look into a wet dry vac the
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cordless option is well worth the
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investment it just makes it effortless
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to Glide from room to room I absolutely
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love it okay the next thing that I
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change in my floor cleaning routine is
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my broom now I have dark hardwood in the
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bedroom every night I sweep the floor
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there's no way around it the kids run in
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and out there they eat snacks in there
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they do all sorts of things there are
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crumbs on the floor I do not like
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stepping in it I do not want it in my
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bed every single night I sweep the floor
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now I do you have a robot vacuum but the
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fact of the matter is even though it's
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effortless it takes way more time to let
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that run and at the end of the night
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when I'm dog tired I just want a clean
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place to lay my head and so I would take
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the five minutes and sweep with my
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regular old bristle broom one day I
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could not find my broom the kids were
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playing with it they left it outside
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someplace and I couldn't find it and so
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I used the microfiber duster I bent it
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to a 90 degree angle and I said let me
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see if I can do a quick Sweep with this
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really quickly and you know it worked so
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well I could not believe it like my mind
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was blown how fast I was able to clean
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up this floor and that's when I realized
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that instead of a broom and dustpan I
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really needed a dust mop this is the mop
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that I have it has this kind of nice
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knotted
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um microfiber material everything sticks
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to it it's nice it swivels it extends
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it's fantastic and when I say I can
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clean the bedroom floor in 30 seconds or
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less I mean it it's it's great and the
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last cleaning tool that I added to my
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Arsenal is the Bissell Little Green Pro
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heat it's people talk about it all the
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time I just I just didn't think it could
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be that awesome but frankly it just is
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it's easier to have an all-in-one tool
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just like the wet dry vac we're saying
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I've got my scrub brush I've got my
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solution my cleaning solution and I've
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got that vacuum option to get up all of
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the excess water and it's just one step
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with one tool it's so much faster I find
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it to be really great in the carpet I
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also of course use it on my upholstery
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it works phenomenally well and it's
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fairly inexpensive so I it's well worth
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the investment if you find yourself
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having to do that type of cleaning often
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so that is it for the list of cleaning
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tools that I've swapped out in my
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cleaning routine that have saved me a
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ton of time and a ton of effort so if
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you find yourself like me where no
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matter what you do no matter what order
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you do it in or what day you do it on
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you just can't get it all done consider
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the tools that you're using for the job
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it will really make all of the
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difference if you're trying to get a
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good clean done in your home quickly and
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completely the tools really do make a
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difference that's it for this video I
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hope you found it helpful everything
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that I talked about in this video will
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be linked down in the description box
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below I thank you so much for watching
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decor.com I write all about home
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looking thank you so much again and I
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will see you in the next video bye
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