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Lysol Disinfecting Wipes 200.00 American Express Gift Card Giveaway

December 15, 2010 by Momstart 1,016 Comments

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Having a new puppy and accidents all over my hard wood floor, I am using Lysol Disinfecting wipes left and right. I’m also using them every day to clean out Abby’s crate. She’s just a puppy and can’t seem to go longer than 30 minutes without making a mess in her crate. So I trust Lysol to get rid of all those nasty germs that I do not want my kids around.

It’s also cold and flu season and with Zoe in preschool she’s bringing home every germ under the sun. Health is a big priority for me in my house, because with all my traveling, I seem to be the one always getting sick. Zoe brings it home and I get sick. The neighbors come over and I get sick. So I’m taking to sanitizing things a lot more often. I guess, I’m finally taking my grandmother’s advice and doing it at least once a week. I should have listened to her sooner. To make it even easier for moms like me to help stop the spread of germs this cold & flu season, LYSOL is offering Buy 1 Get 1 Free packs of LYSOL Disinfecting Wipes and LYSOL Dual Action Disinfecting Wipes at major retailers nationwide through January 2011. You can even give one to your child’s teacher to help keep classrooms germ free!

Lysol disinfecting wipes are for use in your home and locations around your community, such as schools, LYSOL Disinfecting Wipes kill 99.9% of germs to help keep your family healthy during cold & flu season so you can do more with your kids. LYSOL Dual Action Disinfecting Wipes have a scrubbing side that cleans tough messes like soap scum and grease. Use LYSOL  Wipes to kill viruses and bacteria like Influenza A, H1N1 and E. coli on commonly touched hard surfaces. Don’t forget to check out the Lysol the community and new Facebook pages.

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1 of 2 100.00 American Express Gift Cards

To Enter for one:

Share your favorite cleaning tips leave each tip in a new comment

To Enter for the other gift card:

I need someone to go out to Walmart, Target, anywhere that Lysol is sold and take a photo of the Lysol Display! Then tweet your photo @momstart, or post it on your blog and leave a link in the comments. It’s 100.00 for a photo! Easy peasy! You can win both cards too if you do both entries!

** One of the gift cards will only be awarded to someone that did this entry method *****

Extra Entries available after you do at least one of the above.

Tweet your favorite cleaning tip, and #LysolCleaningTips

ex: My favorite Cleaning tip is get the kids to fold and put away the laundry #LysolCleaningTips http://bit.ly/ifIKnK

(but whatever you do is fine)

And Tweet: Share your Favorite Cleaning Tip to Win up to 200.00 #Giveaway #LysolCleaningTips http://bit.ly/ifIKnK

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Filed Under: giveaway Tagged With: American Express Giveaway, cleaning cloths, Cleaning supplies, disinfecting wipes, giveaway, lysol, Lysol On-line community

My New Time Saver: Mint Automatic Robotic Hard Surface Floor Cleaner

October 29, 2010 by Momstart 18 Comments

imageThe Mint Robot

The Mint Automatic Floor cleaner is guided by NorthStar Navigation. Mint comes with an indoor GPS unit that you place on a counter in the center of your cleaning area. The Cube projects a signal that Mint uses to find itself and it starts cleaning. It builds a map of the room and obstacles that it needs to go around. Mint can clean up to 1000 square feet in a large open space and weaves in and out of doorways cleaning other rooms. I’ve watched it clean our large open area and then into the bathroom and avoid the carpet. When it is in mop mode it will only clean 250 square feet so that you can change the mop pad or rinse if off and add it again. When Mint is finished cleaning the room it returns to the point it starts at so it is easy for you to find.

The sweeping mode uses dry cleaning cloths and it comes with three reusable ones. Mint is compatible with Swiffer pads (not the Swiffer wet jet, those pads are too small). In sweep mode it moves in an S pattern along your floor. In mop mode it moves in a Y direction to help dissolve the dirt. Mint works with reusable microfiber or disposable cloths cleaning cloths in both modes.

imageThe Cloths come in two varieties. You will receive two that are white and work best for sweeping. Then you will also receive one gray one that works best for mopping. It is more textured than the white ones; both types are microfiber and work very well at picking up dust, dirt, hair and other things in the floor. image

 

About the Video Review/Vlog:

imageI realize that I still need a bit more practice in making video logs. I stumble over words and my vocabulary abilities diminish to almost none existent. Basically, I took the video to illustrate how the Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner operates. There are buttons on the top, one of the button is an on/off switch. When you push the on button the Mint machine makes a happy little sound and comes to life. Then you choose between a sweeping button or a mopping button and they are easy to tell apart. The sweeping motion makes long strides and then turns a 90 degree turn if the furniture allows for it. Then it goes forward just enough to make sure it is covering all of the floor. Then it turns back the direction it came from and continues doing across the floor. I didn’t think that it would recognize carpet and stay off of it, but it actually has only gotten trapped on the carpet once. It also got trapped under our couch once. The line imagebetween our carpet and hardwood floor is just a switch in surfaces. We have no divider of any sorts. So the Mint robot seems to be fairly intelligent. The weight of the robot is enough to pick up more dirt than I usually pick up with my stick sweeper. I was saddened about how dirty my floor actually was. First time I used Mint to sweep it picked up so much dirt and debris that I had to change the cloth half way through so that it could clean up more.

The mopping is the actual type of cleaning that I captured on video. The button for mopping looks like a tear drop. I pushed it and watched it mop up my floor. One thing I was not able to articulate properly in the video is how the Mint moves while mopping. Instead of long strides, it take short strides in a Y shape, going left and right in that Y shape making sure that is cleaning. Then it goes forward a bit and continues doing the Y shape.

 

imageI was concerned that certain areas in the area would not become clean. I figured it wouldn’t be smart enough to feel it’s way along all of the nooks and crannies that we have. I was wrong. Mint Cleaner finds it’s way around the objects and in and out of different rooms with ease. I would have to say it only misses places that it can not fit in. Certain corners in under the kitchen cabinets and around the toilet in the bathroom. It doesn’t scrub stock on spots but I’m really happy with it. It saves me time during the day and my floor is cleaner now. I charge it overnight.

The only negative would be that the charge isn’t strong enough to sweep and mop the entire downstairs. So I sweep one day and mop the next unless I remember to mop in the afternoon after sweeping that morning.

Filed Under: personal, review Tagged With: Automatic Floor Cleaner, cleaning cloths, Cleaning supplies, hard surface floor cleaner, Mint, Mint Robot, Robotic Floor Cleaner

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