I can't find a decent floor mop and I have about 800 square feet of vinyl flooring in my home.
I have a white kitchen floor and here is where it started. There is a large expanse of white flooring in the diningroom. I mopped this last week and when it dried, the entire surface was coated with dried brown water marks. I would have gotten a new mop head, but they are $10 and require a special trip to a special store. They last for two moppings and they are dead, one of many reasons I don't do my floors regularly (and the main reason is sheer laziness).
I decided to go mop hunting. Those nifty Swiffer things? At $2 a mop head, just how many will it take to do 800 square feet? Can I afford it? Seems cheaper to get another mop head for $10, considering and I can see the brown rivers it would leave.
How about a felty strip mop? A string mop? A self-wringer? A small one or a really big one? Does Wally's usually carry replacement heads? Do I buy them now, when I am not so sure I like the mop or later when they are out of the mops and the extra heads? I meet some really anal woman who tells me she uses and tosses a new mop head every week because, well, she has two little kids and her wood floors MUST be mopped everyday (you wanna make a bet? Your DH can do them sometimes, but she goes on to tell me he insists she keep the house spotless). I can't believe there is still a woman alive who will still cater to a man. Where is her head? On the end of a mop handle being pushed around by someone who can't aim, hence the need to keep the bathrooms spotless.
I end up at Big Lots. I find the ONLY Rubbermaid mop of its kind left in the store and about 40 replacement pads for it. I buy three extras because they are machine washable, have a microfiber surface and they velcro onto the mop handle. They also don't leave a trail of dirty water and the silly thing is a self-wringer. I am out $11 for this set up.
If only all of life's issues, great and small, could be effectively mopped up for $11.