Saturday, October 31, 2009

I am NOT a good Belgian-Mopping


Imagine this image is me, doing something I HATE. The task itself I don't, but the manner in which I must do it. I am used to mopping with some form of a mop that you dip in a bucket or even the very Laodiean way of a Wetjet Swiffer. But either way, I could stay standing up. Is it the same here? NOoooooooooooooo. The way that everyone I know here (except the aunt from Holland) does it, does it with a bucket of water and a cloth. Not any cloth, but THIS (sad that it was so easy to find a picture on the internet) yellow/orange cloth.


You take the silly yellow/orange cloth and put it in your bucket of water and then wring it out and use this crazy device (pictured below) to smear it around.
After smearing it, I only know what I do (or am required to do @ work). I rinse it in my 2nd bucket that has only water, then with the crazy device 'scrub' the water that I just put on the floor and wipe it up, then do an extremely wrung-out cloth again over the part I just did to take the streaks away.
I think every time I mop, I get frustrated...maybe the floors are cleaner than in America or at least my 'old' house, but it really is a pain and my hands are too dry from always being in the water. Next week I want to start wearing gloves. Oh, and did I mention my back hurts from bending down all the time.
Enough venting about dweilen...


5 comments:

  1. Ugh that sounds awful. Mopping is not one of my favorite jobs to begin with and I have a traditional mop. Can't imagine doing it this way! Surely your Mom can send you a Swiffer Wetjet for Christmas? :D

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  2. Sounds like a real pain!!! Maybe you need to import a swiffer. :-)

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  3. Maybe after mopping for a length of time at your job, you'll start enjoying the Belgian way of mopping, and start mopping like this at your house! ;)

    Don't work too hard! :)

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