Disclaimer-For those of you who have carpeted kitchens and dining rooms, this post may not make sense to you. Carpeted kitchens and dining rooms make no sense to me.
There are rules to sweeping. Rules to live by, I think. I wait until most food type things harden and then sweep it up. Playdoh waits for me, as does birthday cake and most crumbs. Some things will not wait. I could wait forever for Silly Putty. You can't sweep cheese or scrambled eggs. Ketchup, honey and mustard are toughies. You can't sweep condiments. Soups, spaghetti, and yogurt need more than a broom, people. I know what you're thinking. I do. You have 3 words for the Stream family. Get a dog.
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It's amazing how "clean" our floors stay since Matilda has been around. A miracle really.
I second the motion. A doggie cleaner-upper is a wonderful thing.
A bonus is that when you are cooking and you drop something on the floor, you rarely have to bend over and get it.
You know the Teletubbies... our Zaknu tidied up for us all the time, before he died last March. We'll be getting a replacement model after summer vacation.
Carla, don't like dogs?
KR
Love em. Am not ready for one. :O
My brother has a dog that needs a home.
That you have denied your kids a Rhodesian Ridgeback Hound for this long has been a mystery for me; food rarely even bounces once at our house...
ps If you wait long enough, scabbed eggs.. oops, wrong post, I mean SCRAMBLED eggs, dry and get crispy.
KR
Dogs work great... unless you happen to drop spicy Indian food, a bunch of chocolate, or anything not considered humanly edible - and it reappears on your floor in a less appealing form. In that case, you can try your luck with a broom... but I don't recommend it!
All Doggie parents,
So instead of food on your floors you have dried doggie saliva? And that's better...?
I guess it depends on what the food you dropped was; Lutefisk might smell better, filtered through a dog...
Karla with a K,
Yeah, the wait time for scrambled eggs can be a tad long. :)
Try sticky rice, that's yucky. Has to dry.
I think I'll stick with crumbs on my floor, I know if I step in a wet spot, it belongs to a child and not a canine. Hmm, that makes me feel better how?
We call our pooch the "bio-vac".
Hi mollyfa,
Man, I am feeling outnumbered here.
We also have a Canine Hoover. It almost makes chasing him through 4 inches of snow wearing only slippers, worth it ;)
But I agree with the "let it dry" theory. Especially with rice!!
Here in the Trenches, rice and angel hair pasta are the worst to clean up!
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