Last week, we had three different families over for dinner on three different days.
‘Twas a crazy time.
Besides the normal mommying, laundrying, and dishes-ing, I had to make three spectacularly impressive meals big enough to feed two families.
And if all that wasn’t time-consuming enough, I had other, more lofty goals of cleaning the whole apartment from top to bottom.
I dusted. I vacuumed. I swept. I vacuumed. I straightened. I vacuumed. I decluttered. I vacuumed (both children are eating in the carpeted dining room, can you tell?).
The only thing that didn’t get done on my list o’ things to clean was the bathroom.
Eek.
I threw the shower curtain shut. That took care of the rusty shower walls. I stepped back, but realized the room still looked dirty. What was it?
Then I zeroed in on the culprit. The floor mat. Fruity blue toothpaste decorated the trim. The usually fluffy threads were tangled and matted. But I didn’t have time to clean it.
But wait a minute… if I recall correctly, we had mistakenly received TWO of those floor mats from our wedding registry.
It took no time at all to find it in our microscopic linen closet.
I shook it out and laid it flat.
What a difference!
So there you have it. How To Clean A Bathroom In Sixty Seconds Flat.
- Shut the shower curtain.
- ALWAYS have an extra, clean floor mat handy.
(It even fooled my husband – I should do this more often!)
Pure genius! 🙂 LOL
Great idea!!
Smart cookie. Now, did you remember to pick up and put away the floor mat in case you need this trick again?
Actually, Beckie, my floor mats are machine washable! So I threw the dirty one in the wash the next day and then stored IT in the microscopic linen closet in case I need this trick again (and I will).
I love it!
we use towels as floor mats, there’s always an extra one to throw down and look clean! but to make it look even cleaner, I just leave the “floor mat” off the floor. For some reason my bathroom always looks cleaner that way.
I normally have to pick up the 1,000 hairs that have fallen off my head before my bathroom can be “clean”.
I use this technique…and if I really want to impress, I’ll use a piece of damp potty paper to clean the toothpaste blobs out of the sink… 🙂
HA! My mother does this! Whenever company is coming over she just vacuums the area rug in front of the entry way. I swear it works! Thanks for the great tip.
Great technique! I keep a spare bath rug around, too. I wash them periodically, but the take sooooo long to dry, so keeping a spare is the only practical way to go.
That’s genius! Thanks for the tip.
This is why I shop at IKEA. I purchased about 3-4 of the same rug and move them around the house according to how dirty they are. The extra one gets thrown in the wash.
Next time I’ll get two rugs. Great idea. Cheating works for me when company’s coming.
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