Calling all bloggers - I need help! It's time to clean my baseboards again and I'm seriously dreading this chore. I mean who honestly enjoys hours spent on your knees and bum wiping down baseboards?
I have always used a bucket of warm water with a hint of Pine Sol and a handy dandy spounge to do the trick. But the chore is pretty manual and I'm wondering if there are any tricks or fabulous products I'm unaware of.
So this week instead of telling you what it is that I have learned, I'm asking for your help. Anyone know of a way to make this excruciating chore a little less painful?
So this week instead of telling you what it is that I have learned, I'm asking for your help. Anyone know of a way to make this excruciating chore a little less painful?
Hope you have a great Tuesday!
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I've always done it like you do, so if you get any good tips, pass them on:)
Hi found you from Katie's! Love your little blog super cute! Oh how I dislike cleaning baseboards! Funny cartoon BTW....I've always done it like you do....soooo if you get any good tips be sure to post about them....
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Ummm... I've never washed our base boards, yet our home is only about a year old! How often do you wash yours?? :-)
I have been using Flylady and they sell this little scrubber on a stick - it is great for baseboards.
http://flylady.com/pages/FlyShop_rubba_scrubba.asp
you still have to get down - but it takes some of the elbow grease out of the chore!
I forgot to add something - when you sweep you can run your broom over the baseboards and that keeps them from getting so "dirty" that way when it's baseboard day - it's quick and simple
I sweep mine to keep them from building up so bad, but then when its time to clean, I get down with a sponge just like you do :(
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I also sweep our baseboards every time I sweep (we have no carpet on our main floor so we sweep often!) and get down on my hands and knee's about once a month with a sponge.. Cleaning the baseboards is one of my dreaded chores!
My mom has carpet in their living and family rooms and she takes the vacuum to the baseboards each time she vacuum's which seems to help as well. I really don't think there is a way around the sponge though.
Hmmmm... that the only way that I know how to do it! I need to do mine too and I really don't want to!
hmmmm...like kelly, i'm quite guilty of not being a baseboard cleaner.
maybe in minnesota its not necessary. i guess i have never noticed ours being dirty/dusty and i'm quite the neat freak ;)
here's my tip: get a maid. KIDDING. kinda :)
i have no. idea. bc i've never washed mine! does that make me a dirty person, eek! i may have to steal your ways of doing it in the past, good luck chickadee!
Wow, I feel like a very bad housewife. We pretty much clean the baseboards when we move out - how sad is that? They don't seem to get too dirty, I don't know why.
Vodka. Take 2 oz, mix with lemonade and drink. Then put on some loud music and dance while you clean. Get some squats in, make it a fun tipsy sorta work out! ;)
I agree! I hate cleaning baseboards! I clean mine the same as you...please share if you find out any great tips!
I hate cleaning baseboards! My mom gave me a great tip buy a cheap sponge mop and cut it down to the length of your baseboard, then you can just mop them instead of having to bent down!
Hope it helps!
I vaccuum our basebords whenever I have to vaccuum a room. It helps to keep them cleaner!
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