April 19, 2007 | Bathroom, Cleaning tips
What’s your worst cleanup task? For me, one of the worst (and most frequent with 2 toddlers at home) is pasta. Mac & cheese, specifically. C’mon, with two little kids, it’s a staple in my house. And the 3-yr old is fine - she tries hard to get it all in her mouth, but there is the occasional spill. It’s the 1-yr old that makes me crazy. If I’ve just mopped my floors, I pretty much have a guarantee that Little Man will dump the entire contents of his plate onto the floor. I think he can sense that the floor is cleaner than usual, and wants to contribute to ’solving’ the problem. How sweet of him. Somehow, the time since the floor has been mopped is indirectly proportional to the amount of food he throws.
So, when it’s mac & cheese or spaghetti, it’s pretty frustrating. Not only is the food wasted, but when I try to clean it up it gets smushed to the tile. Now, I’m afraid to admit the following, but I do so in an effort to help someone out there who’s struggling with this issue. Pasta is easier to clean up the next day. After it dries. That’s right, I’m proposing that you let food sit on your floor overnight. It hardens and just pops off! Easy as pie! Of course, this only works if it’s been spilled in a low-traffic area. If it’s high traffic the opposite happens. Little feet mush the pasta into the tile, their socks, and then track it onto the carpet, couch, and every other surface their feet grace. Much bigger problem.
Now, I hope no one’s been offended with my proposal to let it sit and harden. But when your every day consists of picking up after 2 toddlers, you just have to let some things go. Am I right?
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