Sunday, September 04, 2005

How I Outsmarted Swiffer

So I was mopping my floor with my Swiffer Wet Jet, when the damn device ran out of the Swiffer Fluid contained in the beautiful purple bottle. Of course I didn't have a replacement, but I reckoned I would unscrew the cap and fill it up with a lovely Simple Green solutions. Unfortunately purple and green do not mix, because the swiffer fluid container does not unscrew.

Swiffer now exemplifies everything that is wrong with America. There is a perfectly good container, that could be inserted into the Swiffer over and over. Swiffer could sell a concentrated mixture that could be poured into this wonderful "reusable" container. But no, we Swifferee's are forced to constantly throw away the purple bottle and buy a new purple bottle courtesy of 3$.

Well I, using American ingenuity mixed with a little country girl common sense have solved this environmentally destructive gimmack of the Swiffer Corporation. I took my all purpose steak knife and gouged a hole into the bottom of my purple bottle and filled the damn thing with a Simple Green solution. I WIN!! Ha ha Swiffer. I will never again be forced to buy your Fluid.

Now if I can only figure out how to attach my worn out rewashable towels to where the pads go I will be the Queen of the floor mopping conservationists!!
Aha, Duct Tape.

2 Comments:

Blogger Sparklite said...

lol! Well done! :) If I ever get a swiffer wet jet i'll remember that trick :) Thanks for that tip!

-sL

4:15 PM  
Blogger Mise en Place said...

Genius I tell you!! Use Angela's velcro creation and you are well on your way to putting Swiffer out of business....LOL!

Good job.

1:56 PM  

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