Fluff Busters (Swiffer Cleaning System)

Member Name: emma13

Product:	Swiffer Cleaning System
Date:	27/09/00 (493 review reads)
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Advantages: It does what it says on the tin

Disadvantages: THAT advert

I had rather assumed that wooden floors would be easier to keep clean than carpets, but since moving in to a flat with stripped flooring throughout I’ve changed my mind.

The problem seems to be that dirt shows up more than it did on my grubby old carpets in my previous flat. Fluff collects in the corners at an alarming rate, and hoovering just seems to spread it around the place.

Enter the ‘Swiffer’. It’s an angular mop-type construction with a swivelly head, to which you attach disposable dusters. You’ve probably seen that irritating advert on t.v. Why do cleaning products always have SUCH annoying jingles? I digress. The duster uses an electro-static charge (apparently) to collect all the dust, fluff and groo, and because it swivels it’s easy to use under furniture.

Obviously you can use the duster on its own for shelves etc. Once you’ve ‘swiffered’ you can just throw the duster away. The ‘Swiffer’ itself comes with a pack of dusters, and then you need to buy them separately. I’m sure over a long period of time it could end up being quite expensive, (and the disposable aspect is not entirely environmentally sound) but it certainly does what it says on the tin.

I’m sure there’s a clever reason why it works better than conventional sweeping or even vacuuming, but physics was never my strongest point at school. Suffice it to say that works really, really well, and scares my cats a lot less than the noisy old Dyson.

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