It is SuperBowl Sunday! There are going to be a lot of living rooms filled with football fans enjoying the big game. There is going to be some emotional highs and lows through out the game. Drinks and food is going to get spilled. Afterwards there will be some cleaning that need to be done. Depending on wild the party gets will depend on how much cleaning will need to be done.

In preparation for the after party clean up, I did a quick survey as to what we have in the way of cleaning supplies. I found four bottles of different cleaners under the bathroom sink. Two bottles of two different other cleaners placed under the kitchen sink. A jug of liquid laundry detergent along with gallon bottle of bleach, and a box of fabric softener next to the washing machine.

At this point my brain started calculating the cost of all these fancy cleaners. Each bottle of cleaner costs between $3 to $5. The laundry detergent costs seven something. I don’t remember what the bleach, and fabric softener cost. That means we have over $50 worth of cleaner sitting around waiting to be used for a specific clean job.

There are many different types of vacuum cleaners. A simple Google search for vacuum cleaner will range from built in centralized, to heavy industrial, to light weight small. Depending upon the type of material you want to pick up there is more than likely a vacuum cleaner for that.

In this post I want to just cover the common household vacuum cleaner. Well, if you were to look at all the different kinds of household vacuum cleaners, you might not say there is one common type. This is because over the last 20 years (like most everything else) vacuum cleaners have been go through an evolution. Vacuum cleaners over the past 100 years all have the same goal. That is pick up dirt.

Did you know that the more you wash clothes the faster they wear out? Did you know by using the wrong cycle on the washing machine for a particular type of clothes you’re are throwing away money? The same goes for putting to much laundry detergent in the washing machine.

Years ago, I worked for an appliance store. Most of my days were spent going from home to home fixing washing machines and other appliances. One of my first training classes was on how to wash clothes. Those two short hours of class has stuck with me until this day.

The basics like not washing color fabrics with whites is something everybody knows. Washing similar fabric with appropriate cycle of the washing machine is not practiced very often. I have noticed most people choose their laundry detergent according price or smell that is left on the clothes.

One of the given expectations from life, beside death and taxes is cleaning. When I was growing up I fought it tooth and nail, but it didn’t stop me from having to cleaning the bathroom.

You know those sponge scrub pads. They are great for cleaning. It does not matter if it is wiping finger prints off the light switch or scrubbing a dirty pan from cooking French Toast. A scrub pad with sponge on the back works great.

A walk down the cleaning section of my local grocery store, found pretty scrub pads for $1.78 ea. There was packages of 3 from a brand name for only 1.98. So if I bought the 3 pack it would be only 66 per sponge/scrub pad. That is a $1.12 difference per pad.

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Winco Foods offered me about 6 different options for cleaning sponges with scrub pads attached to them. Most all of them were sold as individuals. I found only one offering where Icould buy more than one sponge, that was from  Scotch-Brite. It cost 1.98 for a pack of 3.

Albertson on the other hand, had on their shelves the same Scotch-Brite 3 pack for $2.99. Yes, they had others, but they want more money. The money I did not want to spend.

Now if I wanted to buy online from Amazon.com I would have to pay $3.89 for the 3 pack. I could get an 18 pack for $21.50. That would break it down to $1.20 per scrub/sponge.

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