Last week was crazy.  I felt completely justified serving my family convenience foods and pretending not to notice the growing piles of clutter.

But this week it’s back to “normal.”

Whatever that means three weeks before Christmas.

Or whatever that means in the other 49 weeks of the year.

I focused on getting the kitchen clean today, and honestly, it feels really good.  And . . .  even though I can’t possibly imagine our crazy-huge amount of laundry all getting done today . . .  just the fact that I’m working on it is satisfying.

So now for some irony.

Let me share a little back-story first.

Remember when I shared how excited I was about finding a way to get around my can’t-mop-the-bathroom-because-I’m-a-germaphobe excuse?  In that post, I talked about how much I loved my Libman Wonder Mop with the removable/washable mophead.  I said that purely because I do love it.

Well, through a series of events probably related to that post, I was asked by Libman to be a brand ambassador.

Ummm, yeah!

I’ve wanted to do something like that, but honestly had had no opportunities.  I was quite excited that my first opportunity was with a company whose products fit my blog perfectly, and especially that they were a company I already loved, so I could talk about them without any fear of being fake.

So, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, in the mail, I got two big packages full of Libman products.

Libman cleaning products.

I opened them eagerly.  I took a few pictures (with my camera that I obviously had forgotten to put back on Auto Focus), and then started into a crazy week of working on a show and ignoring my house completely.

Sadly, after a week of owning the newest and greatest cleaning tools . . . my house was in worse shape than before they arrived.

Because I hadn’t used them.

Unfortunately, during this deslobification process, I’ve had to accept that no cleaning tool is going to clean my house.  I have to clean it.

But today, I took them to their new homes, and even used a few.   And the ones I used, I really liked.  I’ll be sharing my honest opinions over time.  As I learned with my Wondermop, the only way to really know if a cleaning tool is any different from others is by . . . actually using it.

Consistently.

Bizarre, I know.

Anyway, later this week I’ll be hosting my first ever giveaway.  It will be for a Freedom Spray Mop, which I’ll be trying out on my wood floors, hopefully, tomorrow.  That will be a true test, since I haven’t mopped those floors in . . . ummmm . . . a really long time.

Check back for my giveaway, and there is also a Libman Money Mop Up Sweepstakes going on with lots of great prizes. Note:  this giveaway has ended.

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