Make a reusable mop pad for your Swiffer. (Here’s a knit version.) Has anyone tried using a microfiber towel? Would that work, too?
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Eunice said,
July 11, 2007 at 7:22 am
i love swifter because it picks up the annoying dog hairs that the broom never quite seems to catch, but i hate all the trash it’s generating. i have a microfiber towel and it seems to pick up hair pretty well; i haven’t washed it yet so i’m not sure if it will actually come off.
one other thing i discovered accidentally is that my socks (100% cotton) will also pick up hair very well. i might save my old socks for that purpose until they wear down to mere threads.
the other thing i’ve done is to get the furminator. :) i know it sounds scary, but it does a very good job of getting ever-shedding undercoat hair and making the dog/cat a happier pet. i generally do this outside so i don’t have to vacuum or swifterize and the hair can compost/be used by birds for their nests.
Leslie said,
July 11, 2007 at 9:28 am
I’ve been using this mop system (by Don Aslett) from QVC for several years. Like a Swiffer, but washable mop heads! They work very well.
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx?app=detail¶ms=item^M103928,RecTypeInd^EPIPHANY,navlist^M103928*V19770*V17514*,cp^detail,tmp^related,cpprod^M103938,cm_scid^dtlr&walk=&cmtags=
Leslie said,
July 11, 2007 at 9:31 am
Sorry…here’s the complete link:
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx?app=detail¶ms=item^M103928,RecTypeInd^EPIPHANY,navlist^M103928*V19770*V17514*,cp^detail,tmp^related,cpprod^M103938,cm_scid^dtlr&walk=&cmtags=
Szarka said,
July 11, 2007 at 10:00 am
A damp terrycloth hand towel, folded and rubberbanded on to the Swiffer head, works very nicely, and has the advantages of being completely washable, bleachable, linedryable, and a multitasker. It might also be free, depending on your past military history/hotel ethics.
Dustywheat said,
July 11, 2007 at 10:45 am
Microfiber towel works well as the “wet swiffer”. It absorbs well. Just don’t wash it with a fabric softener or you’ll lose the wonderful absorption effect. I’m not exactly sure what the fabric softener does to the microfibers, but it does turn it into a regular towel.
Cathy said,
July 11, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Yup for our office floors I have used a microfiber cloth and also the terry dishcloths from Costco. Ya just stuff it in the little holes and move it to a new spot on the towel as needed.
Heidi said,
July 11, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I have the football-shaped Swiffer and I made several covers for its head out of some waffle weave cotton (the kind ’spa robes’ are made from, not the knitted long-john type fabric). It was trial and error, though, because the ‘waffles’ shrink when dry and stretch out a lot when wet. The first one I made slid right off of the mop–all is good now, and I find I want to make more cleaning cloths out of this stuff!