I have renewed my gig as a Swiffer Ambassador for another year!
It wasn’t a difficult decision since I love Swiffer, y’all love Swiffer, and they are a very fun company to work with.
As part of the deal, I traveled to New York with this year’s other Swiffer fanatics and attended Cleaning School.
Not really, but we did learn about what’s going on in the world of cleaning technology and advancement at Swiffer.
A few things that stuck in my memory that will interest you as fellow cleaning nerds:
(Note: you can totally be a cleaning nerd without personally having a perfectly clean home. Obviously . . . )
Some study they referenced showed that expectations/desires for a clean home have changed over the past several years. Now, the majority of people want their home to be an 8 on a scale of 1-10, with ten being absolutely perfect.
This makes so much sense to me. People are busy. I want a clean home, but am fine with a clean enough home. I just want to get it done, be healthy and comfortable, and move on to other things we have going on as a family of five. Swiffer can get your home to a 10, but their commitment to making cleaning quicker and easier and honestly . . . a little more fun fits well with this shifting in the typical person’s cleaning goals.
Swiffer is always listening to their customers. I was so impressed hearing all about the science behind Swiffer products when I attended the “immersion program” in 2015, so it was fascinating to hear about all they’ve been working on over the past year. Some things I can’t reveal yet (top secret stuff, y’know), but what got us excited was their improvements to the Swiffer WetJet. The common complaint people had about this product was that it left streak marks on wood floors.
It all comes down to AGM, which stands for Absorbing Gelling Material, which is science proprietary to Swiffer. (Proprietary = no one else can use the material they developed.)
Basically, it’s the stuff inside the Wet Jet pads that absorbs liquid and holds it in. So they improved the AGM and added a special purple strip thingy so it locks in the liquid (therefore drying the floor) much more quickly, and that helps eliminate the streaking.
They are not advertising this as “new” because that would involve packaging changes, etc. and their goal was to get it out to the consumer as quickly as possible. Look for the pads with the purple Absorb and Lock Strip.
I learned a lot more, but the trip wasn’t all presentations and pencils.
Swiffer is a FUN brand to work with, and they embrace the fun. We watched their history of hilarious commercials that I totally remember seeing over the years. And then we went and had some fun.
Fun, like learning a dance routine from two former Rockettes. We spent an hour to learn a one-minute routine, but it was so so fun.
I’m the one in the middle.
We also got to decorate cakes at Carlo’s Bakery, in the same kitchen where many cooking competition shows are held.
The only catch was that we had to clean up our own mess with the Swiffer stuff. My family was quite disappointed that I chose to donate my cake to a nearby shelter instead of bringing it home. Bringing it home on the plane didn’t sound the least bit fun to me.
I didn’t get to even taste any since it had chocolate in it and I’m allergic. (Yes. Really.)
I’m excited again to host a giveaway for another Swiffer green box! Just leave a comment on this post (click on the title of the post to get here if you’re reading via email), and tell me what kind of floors you have in your home. One comment will be chosen (I’ll use random.org to choose a number), and that person will have 48 hours from the time I send them an email to respond with their mailing address. Continental U.S. only. (Sorry!) The giveaway entries will close on October 24, 2016 at 9 p.m. Central time.
Included: Swiffer Sweeper Small Box Starter Kit, Wet refills, Dry refills, Swiffer Duster, Duster refills
Approximately $50 value.
Disclosure: I am a paid ambassador for Swiffer! Fascination with cleaning science is all mine.
I have just old school vinyl flooring. I hate it because it’s white but it doesn’t look white because it traps in everything and it’s such a pain to get clean and keep clean
I have carpet and ceramic tile and vinyl flooring.
I have all kinds of flooring in our house! It’s an old house!
Tile and stained concrete!
I have tween boys and a toddler …needless to say it get very messy around here. And the little finds all the things that she shouldn’t! keeping my floors clean feels like an exercise in futility and mopping the ugly linoleum kitchen floor almost never happens because of the time commitment.
My kitchen floor is linoleum with several holes from the chairs ripping into it when people slide the chairs. It also has dirt and dog hair that I have to clean up daily because my 4 dogs are like my 3 boys and figure mom will clean it up. I don’t mind cleaning it, I just need something amazing to help clean it up easily. ?
Laminate that looks like real wood!
My dining room has wood floors. My kitchen and bathrooms have vinyl floors. The rest is carpet
I have Tile, Wood, and Carpet flooring–and three large dogs who seem to have made it their mission in life to see just how much fur they can eject.
We have cream tile in our kitchen, laundry, and bathrooms. There’s a bit of wood in the foyer, so I’m excited about the wet jet upgrade! I will have to give them another chance!
We have tile and wood floors. We are in the process of adding another dog (and their hair) to our family.
We have hardwood in all but the bathrooms & laundry room there its laminate that looks like tile.
I could soooo use all the different stuff you want to send me!?
I could soooo use all the different stuff you want to send me!? I have linoleum and wood floors, with 3 boys who think dirt is fun- so why clean it!? I, on the other hand, would like to be able to keep my floors in a manner that doesn’t make me feel like I’m walking on the beach when I get up in the morning!
We have linoleum and tile; our vacation cabin has wood floors.
We have tile floors. I would love to try out Swiffer again. I look forward to seeing their improvements and how they hold up for my floors. Thanks Dana!
I have laminate, tile, and wood. This makes for an interesting time with cleaning products.
I just took advantage of the Mrs. Myers deal thru Grove over the weekend 🙂 But since I didn’t order any floor cleaning supplies, this would be a nice treat for my wood-look laminate flooring!!
We have wood floors and laminate in the bathrooms. What a wonderful giveaway– one that I could truly use!! Thank you so much– Dana!
We have wood and laminate! What a wonderful giveaway– one I can really use!
Thank you for the opportunity Dana!
Hardwood and tile!
I have wood laminate floors in my living room and hallway and old school linoleum floors in my kitchen and bathroom.
We are in the process of remodeling right now. Our current floor situation is carpet, linoleum, laminated wood and newly installed plywood floors in a few rooms. We would love to win!
We have wood, travertine tile, regular tile and carpet flooring in our house. It is crazy trying to use different products for each type of flooring. I have not tried any of the swiffer products. I would love to give them a try!! Thanks
mostly hardwood
I have dingy hardwood and linoleum in all but 1 room. Thats also a dingy carpet.
Carpet and linoleum! Thank you for hosting this giveaway.
I have ceramic tile
I have hardwood and laminate. I stopped using the swifter wet because of the streaks! Guess we’ll see if the new one works better.
I have wood and tile floors!
We have tile downstairs, hardwood in entryway, and carpet upstairs. Just moved this summer so still learning on how to clean it (had laminate & carpet before).
I have carpet, vinyl and tile. I love Swiffer products!
Yay for swiffer!! Used these products a lot in my teen years when working for a house cleaning company. The dusters make dusting blinds SO much easier!!
I have an ugly vinyl floor. The color and texture of it really show the dirt. It’s extremely difficult to keep clean-looking.
The green box!!! I’d probably pass out if I got one.
We have wood floors, laminate flooring, concrete and carpet. Oh, and tile in the bathrooms.
I have linoleum and carpet flooring. PS- I love you podcasts! Thank you!
I enjoy your site. We have laminate, ceramic tile, and a little carpet.
Carpet, some linoleum and I think fake wood… I’ve never figured out if they are real wood or not
Carpet, laminate and vinyl.
I have laminate, vinyl, tile, and carpet. I would love to see how swiffer compares to the bona system I am currently using to clean my laminate floors.
We have vinyl, wood, and carpet in the bedrooms. I would love to try the stiffer. I think my kiddos would find it more fun than sweeping and mopping.
Wood floors on main level, laminate wood on lower level, carpet upstairs, cheapo tIle of some sort in laundry room, and nicer tile in both bathrooms. So a bit of this and that!
I’ve got terrible vinyl, and some laminate that we’re replacing it with- slowly!
I have pergo laminate in my whole house and i have never swiffed…. sweffered? Anyhow, i haven’t tried their products and i would love to. I have a 3yo and a 12mo. I bet they would love the duster!
I have wood floors, ceramic tiles, and vinyl tiles. Old houses do lead to variety. 🙂
I have a weird cork-like floor in my kitchen, linoleum in my bathrooms and carpet everywhere else. But mostly, I have dirty floors. 🙂
I have mostly wood (full of termite tracks, ugh), with ceramic tile in the kitchen and bathroom (a lot of cracks and broken tiles in the bathroom.) Sigh.
I have 3 children which means I have dirty floors! Especially now that the rainy season is in full swing.
I have wood and linoleum
I have a wood-like laminate on the main level, and carpet and vinyl upstairs.
tile and wood laminate
I would love to win this! Working on reclaiming my home and this will help!
I would love this! I have wood floors throughout the main part of my home, but I also have tile in the bathrooms and kitchen, and wood laminate in my den.
Hey Dana! That looks like so much fun! I have hard floors throughout so I love my swiffer products!
we have laminate, tile, and carpet.
We have hard wood floors and tile in the restroom.
Laminate that looks like hard wood, and tile.
I’ve got tile, carpet and laminate.
I have carpet, wood, and tile in my house! Would love to win!!
My floor is linoleum (I think – it was there when we moved in) – and carpet, but don’t think I can Swiffer that ;).
My floors are hardwood, linoleum, and linoleum tiles. Not really my choice on the linoleum but renting will do that. The hardwood is very pretty and very old.
We have tile floors.
I love swiffer products too! I have a mixture of wood, linoleum and carpeting in my home. The swiffer is great to use on the wood floors although I have only tried the dry cloths. Interesting info on the wet ones. I’ll have to try them out.
all fake wood and vinyl…no carpet here wtih kids and dogs 🙂
I have wood floors and a wonderful but messy old dog who, though I walk him frequently, doesn’t always make it out the door.
Seriously, I don’t know why I’ve been holding out on trying Swiffer. I tried the Johnson mop YEARS ago but that’s it. We have one room of carpet. 2 bathrooms with tile. Laundry room with vinyl. The rest are either parquet (wood) or regular hardwoods. Looks like you had a great time. Excited for my preorder book to come!
I have linoleum and hard wood (that needs to be refinished).
I have mostly wood floors with ceramic tile in the kitchen and bathroom.
Love your blog and podcasts. Thanks for all you do. Being a slob can be a lonely thing. Listening to you really helps motivate me to get cleaning and work on habits.
God bless
Linda
I have laminate and linoleum as well as vinyl and some really old tile in my kitchen. Love your blog and podcasts!
Thank you
Linda
Bamboo on the main floor–and let me tell you, it shows EVERYTHING. Carpet everywhere else.
I have wood and carpet
I have old vinyl and old hardwoods. I need an easier way to keep them clean. Help me swiffer!
I need a Swiffer green box! They do make cleaning a lot easier!
I have laminate floor in almost every room and horrible peel and stick vinyl tile in the kitchen. We love swiffer each kid has their own duster and sweeper since they would fight over mine.
I have wood-look ceramic tile through-out the house. I would love a Swiffer green box to get me motivated to clean my house!
I have vinyl (aged and worn) and carpet. The vinyl is the kind that has the little dents as part of the design that get dirt trapped in them and is very difficult to get looking clean again. Suggestions, Swiffer Lady?
Ellen, check your email!
I bought and am moving into the house that I grew up in and I had wood laminate floors put in the entire first floor. Oh. My. Gosh. It takes SO long to clean all that wood! A Swiffer would be a VERY useful item. I’ll also have many more surfaces that will require dusting than when I lived in a townhouse. Once again, a Swiffer duster would be a helpful tool.
We have dark hardwood floors, not easy to clean!
I have carpet and linoleum in my rental home. I would love a suffer box? Thanks Dana for all the encouragement you give in your podcasts. I listen to them when I am really not motivated to clean.
This summer we installed linoleum flooring that looks like wood in 3/4 of our house, and so far I love the ease of cleaning them! We have two dogs that shed and slobber, so I have fur balls that roam across our floor often, and puddles by their food dishes. I am all about making cleaning easier! Thanks for holding this giveaway!
We are moving next week (squeal with excitement) and the floor downstairs is laminate and hardwood. Upstairs is carpet except in the bathrooms.
The bedrooms have carpet, but the rest is vinyl. The vinyl floors are in bad shape. They need. Help.
I have engineered wood flooring and carpet. Oh, and a tiny bit of vinyl flooring in the bathrooms.
Our house has a variety of floor types. Wood, laminate, vinyl & carpet. Love swifter products & your encouragement to actually use them!?
I have a mix of linoleum, carpet and tile floors in my house!!
I have vinyl floors in the eat-in kitchen, laundry room and bathrooms. I would love to win a swiffer gift package!!
We have mostly laminate flooring in our home. And a german shepherd, so there is always dog hair floating around. It makes me crazy, but the swiffer is awesome for trapping it and helping keep it under control.
Hi,
We have carpet, linoleum, tile and hardwood. Geez. Lots to swiffer!
I have wood floors, (horribly, horribly, dirty wood floors)! And I love my swiffer duster, but I also have a cat. It’s the Wetjet still toxic to animals?
We have wood,vinyl,carpet,3cats and a lab/boxer mix in the house.Also 2 teenage boys and a 52 yr old teenager.My birthday is the 26th so this would be a fantastic birthday present. I loved the picture of you kicking up your heels!
I have would throughout most of my house, with tile in a few rooms. We foster dogs, so dog hair is an ongoing issue for us. Got my fingers crossed!
Hey Nony!!! I have several different kinds of flooring in my home, including hard wood, tiles and carpets. Thanks for the information and the giveaway!
I have linoleum in the kitchen and bathroom and carpet in the living and bedrooms. The house is a rental, built in about 1991.
We have about 95% hard wood floors – the rest is tile and carpeting. Biggest mess makers of the floors is the 5 dogs and living in the dusty countryside.
We just finished installing new flooring in the whole house. LVT in the kitchen and bathrooms (love those floors!) and wood-look laminate in the rest of the house. Our five kitties like to shed and barf on all the floors, so Swiffer would make life so much better for all of us!
We built our log home in 1977-1990. (still not completely finished. lol)
Raised 4 children in the home, have multiple dogs, and are tired of trying to keep all 3 levels clean. We have tile, linoleum, huge industrial rugs, wood laminate, and where the worn-out carpet was removed, we have bare chipboard.
The floor that gives us the most trouble is the kitchen. We have old wood laminate and it seems no matter how many times I mop, it still feels as if I’m just pushing around a thin layer of mud. I would love to open the doors and use a water hose to swoosh it completely clean!
The Wet-Jet seems like a good option. A must-try!
I loved reading the replies above. Affirmation of the fact that a lot of people live in real homes, not just showplaces! Yay for the real American housekeeper,
We have wood, tile, vinyl, and carpet!
We have tiles and carpet, varies from room to room.
I have self adhesive stick down tile floors throughout my house. I really want to win.
I have laminate, hardwood, vinyl floors throughout my house. This would be an awesome thing to win.
Kitchen = ancient yucky gold/yellow lenoleum
Bath = tile
BR/office = original wood floor (son pulled it up when in high school and I LOVE IT)
LR, Hall, 2 BRs = old, ugly green/beige but am going to pull up and return to original wood floor
Besides their GREAT products, Swiffer has the CUTEST commercials on tv !
Vinyl on laundry area and kitchen floor, tiled bathroom floors, and the rest is soon-to-be-replaced carpet.
I have vinyl and carpet! I love the ease of swifter products!
Tile/hardwoods/carpet
Wood laminate! ?
And I never know what to clean them with because I’m afraid I’ll ruin them or they’ll become dull looking.
Swiffer rocks! I always swiff. Can’t wait to swiff better. Hey, girl you look good. You are a lot of fun! I want a bff like you.
We have vinyl floors in our house and they show everything because we also have a donation and two toddlers.
We have laminate, carpet and linoleum! Love your podcast and blog!
I have hardwood, tile and vinyl in my house. Thanks for the giveaway, I love Swiffer!
I have wood and linoleum floors.
I have wood floors mainly, tile and carpet also!!
I have hardwood, tile and carpet floors in my home. And I have pets…so yes, a Swiffer is a must!
I have dark hardwood (and a blonde dog! YIKES!), tile and carpet. Every day, EVERY day, I have to sweep/swiffer to collect a puppy’s worth of dog hair.? I have had my swiffer fooooorever and a new one would be nice.
I have ceramic tile floors with grout
Hardwood downstairs and carpet upstairs- a touch of ceramic tile and horrid vinyl in the bathrooms 🙂
Cat hair with a layer of laminate underneath.
I have vinyl stick on tile floors – that look like wood… Swiffer is the best at keeping it clean
Carpet and ceramic tile!
I would love to try Swiffer in my home! It is already on my shopping list because I have a new dog that really sheds. I have carpet, tile, and vinyl flooring. Thanks for the chance.
We have hardwood floors and Pergo everywhere. I hope I win! 😉
I have 3 dogs and 2 teenagers. Flooring wise, there is carpet, vinyl and painted wood. I would love a swiffer set to keep up with the fur.
We have vinyl & carpet flooring. Would love to try the new Swiffer items!,
I’m elderly and it’s harder to do cleaning now. I’d love to try the light weight cleaning items and also experience the thoroughness of them on my white tile floors! Thanks.
My floors are a mix of tile and wood in the main areas of the house – carpets in the bedrooms. Hoping to make those wood soon!
I have almost 100 year old hardwood (never have been exactly sure how to clean them properly!)and carpet in most of the house, and vinyl in the kitchen.
Thanks!
Cheapo laminate that is chipping all over the place 🙁
We have our entire first floor in vinyl due to a 16 yr old dog with Cushings Disease….no control over his bladder. I use Swiffer every day….at least once a day lol
Laminate in most of the house…. tile in the bathroom…
Love the swiffer wet jet for my elderly dog… who sometimes just can’t wait for the next outing. 🙂
We have an old house with all the original wood floors except the kitchen & bathroom, which have vinyl.
I have tile and linoleum.
I have carpet and ceramic tile and vinyl flooring.
I have hard wood, carpet, and ceramic tiles
I have hard wood, vinyl and ceramic tile. Between my son and our dogs the floors need swept constantly. Thanks for the opportunity!
150 y/o wood floors with 110 y/o wood in the kitchen reclaimed from a local schoolhouse. I have experienced streaking with Swiffer and would love to try their new product!
Faux wood, carpet, and wood floors.
Hard wood and tile her.
We’re rocking a mixture of 80’s laminate, cheap box store DIY laminate planks and so called “designer” laminate that we recently had installed in our laundry room. Laminate for days over here! 🙂
We have laminate wood flooring, vinyl, and carpet. Love Swiffer on my wood and vinyl!
I have tile and carpet in my house–one day I hope to have hardwood also. Thank you for the giveaway!
We have hardwood floors and our steamer just went up, while oir house is on the market. My floors are probably screaming for some swiffering.
Carpet and linoleum. 🙂
I just found your website and subscribed to your newsletter. I am a slob and really need to reform. I would love to win the Green box! I have Linoleum floors in 40% of our home and carpet the other 60%. My whole home seems to be a dust magnet. I always feel like I am fighting dust bunnies and never catch them, in spite of my vacuum cleaner. I have been perplexed as to how to clean walls, floors, blinds. I think comprehensive Swiffer products may be the answer! I would love to win the green box to make a difference!
I have tile and laminate, and neither are fun to clean. But they’re still better than carpet!
I have wood and vinyl floors.
I have old vinyl that always looks dirty. I could really use some Swiffer help!
Wood laminate and vinyl tile.
We’re building our home and it’s going to have laminate floors. I’m going to have to learn how to clean them. Our current home has carpet almost everywhere.
I have carpet, laminate tile, and hardwood.
Hello I love your blog and I follow you on Pinterest! My husband bought me a wet jet and it’s cool but am I supposed to go back and forth like a vacuum? Or in a straight line like a lawn mower? Sorry for the silly question…