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Since I had lots of workpeople walking in and out of my apartement recently I knew just my vacuum cleaner wouldn't cut it. I would need something tougher to deal with the dirt that can't be sucked up.
Hence, I went out and bought a mop...
And a bucket for the mop.
It cost me over US$35, but it was definitely worth it. The mop itself has a rectangular plastic holder on the business end (which is jointed so it can bend freely in any direction whilst allowing control at the same time). The rag isn't actually a rag per se; it's a dense mat of microfibres with rows of tougher synthetic bristles inbetween. Very effective. The mat thingy snaps onto the plastic holder with buttons (neato solution but I don't know how durable it is after it's been popped on and off a bunch of times; I'll have to see for myself), and it can be washed at 60C in a regular washing machine too. The shaft of the mop has a telescope action, so it gets a lot longer when fully erect. (Well this IS a gay site after all! I'm talking about shafts n stuff so what do you expect, hahaha!)
The bucket is designed specifically for the mop. It is narrow enough to easily fit into my sink for filling with hot water (very convenient!), and there's an indentation on the underside to be uaed as a handhold along with a notch sort of at the opposite end to easily empty it out. It is graded too in half-litre levels. It can take ten liters (that's about 3 gallons, give or take some for the metrically challenged people here.  ), but the recommended level when actually using it is half that. You see, there's this plastic cage that sits in it, which is used to squeeze the mat dry, and if the bucket's filled too high the cage is submerged in water.
The plastic holder splits in two when a latch is pressed, making it fold up so the mat hangs downwards in a U-shape. You dip the mat in the water in the bucket (preferably after adding a detergent), then the mat and the holder goes down into this narrow cage and then you push for a few seconds. Very easy. The latch will close by itself when you get the mat and holder flopped out all flat on the floor, then you just mop away until the thing's dirty and needs a bath in the bucket again.
Using this thing is a breeze and actually FUN!
My adoptive father asked me in a kind of disdainful voice if I didn't want to get down on my knees, since I already have a rag and a bucket. No, of course not! Why do you think I never mopped the floor of my apartement for the seven plus years I've lived here huh? He's actually done that for me a bunch of times. They've shown up and cleaned for me, doing the windows and such, and then we go out for dinner together. Well, now I got a great mop. I'll clean my floors on my own from now on! I've already used it twice!
Of course, I can't mop my floors if they're full of hair and gunk and grit and such, so first I ran them over with my vacuum cleaner. I did all this cleaning after finishing my dumbbell exercises, so I was all hot and sweaty, and then I exercised a little more by cleaning, and then I had a NICE long shower, after which followed dinner (fish fingers and fries all made in the oven), and now I'm enjoying a nice pot of HOT Rooibos tea.
If you can get this tea, TRY IT. It's awesome, and it's really healthy. It's got anti-oxidants and minerals and natural sweeteners and all sorts of other nice stuff in it, and it tastes great. Especially the flavor I got, which is bits of orange peel and mint too I'm willing to wager coz it has a nice light minty taste to it. Not so much it tastes toothpaste, just a hint that makes it all fresh. It's awesome, and the color is a deep RED.
Actually, Rooibos isn't a real tea in the sense it doesn't come from tea bushes. It's actually a herb that grows in South Africa, discovered by native tribes and then "discovered" again by white men. LOL... We pasty-skinned people always "discover" things, like Columbus "discovering" America, Cook "discovering" Australia, etc... 
Oh well. I'm letting my mind wander. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you about my mop. I'm glad I bought my mop, I like it.
I did some real, useful stuff today. I could have done more perhaps, but at least I did something. Didn't just waste the whole day like I do so often.
I like my new bathroom too. It's so nice and fresh. With my mop, I can keep it that way! ;-D
Take care everyone... Luv ya.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Lenny, I am so jealous of you who live in Europe... you have cool ways of measuring, writing, and you always get really neat stuff to make life easier way before we do in the US.
Thanks so much for sharing... Personally, I love to hear how others live in another part of this planet....
As a matter of fact, I am going to visit the UK next summer... just to see how others live....
Thanks again !!!!
BamBam
Celebrate your life... embrace your love... Become intimate with your place in forever !!!
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Sweet sounds like you are on a roll. Want to clean my room and vacuum it too???I'll pay you in candy corn
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Oh Lenny,
Thank you for sharing your mop with us. Not to metion the lovely tea.
Much love to you,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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that's awesome, lenny! i want a fancy mop like that. i cheat sorta, and i use the swiffer mom, with the little trigger-sprayer thing. that's the only way i cheat-clean though, and that's because i just HAD to see those things, and how they work. i am a bit of a neat freak.
what kind of exercising do you do? i was curious about that. i use a running machine (with and without inclines) and i also do pilates (winsor) on the days in between. i prefer pilates, hands down, but i need aerobic too, so there you go. running it is. blah!
i have to make myself finish my story like, tonight and tomorrow because i start classes monday and i fear they will eat up lots of time. our terms are 10 weeks instead of the usual 15 week semesters, so the workload is tougher, and the classes are tougher, too. well, except the creative writing class i just had to take, to bid my english major farewell.
BUT! i'm going to read a certain someone's newest chapter on timmy's site, first. hehe! 
take care lenny... hugs for you, and :-*
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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It's sooo cool watching you feathering your nest (so to speak) and enjoying it so much! I know just how that feels, as Man and I have been busy setting up our new city apartment since late July.
It's not quite done, still some pictures to hang, some carpets and lamps and such to buy when we find the right ones. But the terraces both are decked out in great trees and plants and pots, and the furniture (all new except the nicer things I had shipped over from Hong Kong) is in place (well, still trying out some new arrangements for the chairs and such, but you know what I mean). We've figured out what goes in which drawer and cupboard, and bought the most amazing (and expensive) bed imported from the US.
But I have to admit, as much as you're enjoying the new high tech mop and such, I still much prefer paying the cleaning lady US$50 per month to do all the cleaning AND the laundry! (You remember her...she's the one with the cute son who fixes stuff in the apartment!)
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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