One of the dumb things I say often, as I get exasperated by trying to keep up with cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc., all the while having 2 kids destroy everything I’ve accomplished the instant I turn my back for two seconds, is, “I NEED AN ALICE!!!!” You know, Alice, from the Brady Bunch. Somebody to live here, do our cooking and cleaning, grocery buying, the driving the kids where they need to go, and all that. Really!! Who doesn’t need an Alice??
Well, friends, I found my Alice. And she has made my life SO much easier, and I’m totally, completely in love with her. This is Alice:
Yes, Alice is a floor-washing ROBOT!! How great is that? Having hardwood floors throughout our house is wonderful, but they get so dusty that they need to be mopped once a week, at least, or dust bunny tumbleweeds take over, and that is dis-gus-TING!! (Makes you wonder what’s down in your carpet that you CAN’T see…) And the mopping took me, literally, days to complete each week. Mondays, I clean the upstairs, and used to spend at least two hours mopping the upstairs alone, which KILLED my back. It would make my Monday chores take ALL DAY Monday, in between, of course, changing diapers, making lunch, etc. So this past Monday, I made the beds and picked up clutter for about 30 minutes, then let Alice do her thing, and I was DONE for the day, which frees me up for other things, like quality time with my children, for example.
She’s really becoming a valued member of the family. We all really do call her Alice, and I catch myself saying things like, “Hold on a second, I have to go get Alice out from under the bed.” Or, “Alice really did a good job, didn’t she??” Or, “That Alice is a cleaning fool! Look at her go!” KB, of course, pretends that Alice is a floor-cleaning dog who sniffs around looking for crumbs to eat, and “woof woofs” at Alice when she rolls by.
I LOVE that you don’t have to use the pricey Scooba brand cleaner in it either; you can use white vinegar, which is great because you know how I love green cleaning products and I especially love not having to buy pricey cleaning products! Of course it smells horrible WHILE its cleaning but evaporates quickly, leaving no smell at all, and vinegar is even great for removing odors from the air, like the lingering smell of the catfish that BF fried the other night.
Watch this video, and you’ll be sold. Yes, it is sort of a major purchase, but freeing up hours upon hours of my life to have time for what’s really important, well, you just can’t put a price on that. She doesn’t buy our groceries or drive the kids around, but I’ll never have to mop again, and that WORKS FOR ME! 🙂
My husband and I purchased our Scooba last Thanksgiving, and I LOVE it!! How do you make your vinegar cleaning solution? I’m clueless. =) I also have a suggestion for other readers who are interested in purchasing a Scooba. Checkout http://www.woot.com for special deals. That’s where we bought our scooba for $100. It was well worth it! Thanks!
I put in two ounces of white vinegar, and fill the rest of the tank with water!
That is so funny! Who knew we’d post on the same topic on the same day! Too funny. Well I hope readers sit up and take notice! Then sit down and relax and let "Alice" do the rest! Ha!
Yeah but can this Alice get you a discount from Sam the Butcher?<BR/>(Said in a bitterly jealous tone.)
Nah, but then there’s none of that ongoing romance drama with Sam the Butcher, either…..
I, too, had a Scooba to love. Sadly, it found a patch of dried liquid hand soap on the floor in the kid’s bathroom, and died. A new battery and reprogram didn’t even work. The moral is: be careful about not putting in the wrong kinds of cleaners, and watch out for those foreign soapy spots. BTW, the Roomba is just as loveable, and mine survived 2 years with children trying to ride on it.
Girl I swear we were meant to be friends. I am a GREEN freak. I use the lovely Get Clean system by shaklee.and have also been making my own vinegar and water cleaners for the last 2 years. It is so funny reading your stuff bc I am the same way. Do yall try to eat organic? It is pricey but all those hormones and pesticides ugg don’t get me started. 🙂 I hope you have a good one.
I’ve had my eye one of these for a while now. I would love to be able to push a button and walk away and come back to clean hardwoods. How does it do around the base-moulding? Does it get into corners? <BR/>Thanks for the review!
It doesn’t clean so well in the corners, since its round it can’t really get all the way into a corner; although its pretty good about getting very close to the baseboards. But I figure I’d have to clean those corners myself anyway, so it doesn’t add that much to my workload. <BR/>I love the way it really scrubs hard if a spot is extra-dirty. One of my kids spilled a little juice on the floor