One Woman's Search for Everything Across the Aisles of Costco.

Beautiful sunny clear day, the first we've had in a week or two.
So what do I do?

Starting at 6:00 a.m., I dressed with all the care of a warrior heading off to battle. Stretched out and pilled Hind Tights (from TE), tank top that shows my bulging biceps and triceps to their full advantage, cozy but stained Alps fleece, red bandana.

Made coffee, petted the dog, and got out my brand new Bi...
...ssell.

(you thought I was gonna say "bike", didn't you!)

I started by beginning the thorough vacuuming and edge-tooling required before steam cleaning, then realized it was not even 7:00 a.m. and all the other people in my building would probably rather not be yowled awake by my machinery. Ooops. Sorry, y'all.

So I cleaned the kitchen instead, scrubbed the gooey fluid trap in the fridge, washed windows, q-tipped the faucet and taps, scrubbed the floor, etc. Much quieter. Much more conducive to neighborly harmony.

At a reasonable hour I flung open all the windows and began Cleaning The Carpet. The Bissell Little Green Proheat with TurboBrush (tm) is a cute and perky wee thing that has a cleaner head about the size of my palm and can clean about the equivalent area of two sheets of newspaper per tank of surfactant and water. (I use Simple Green in my Little Green Proheat.)

The folks who designed the TurboBrush knew their audience. It's clear smoked plastic. You can see the little brush spinning. You can see the spray nozzle shwooshing fountains of heated solution. And best of all, you can see the disgusting dirty water slurping back up the TurboBrush and see INTO the clear plastic dirty water tank, watching it accumulate.

Satisfying!

And only $80.

What a way to celebrate the new year, both 5771 and the school year!
I'm taking a break to eat lunch, but then I'm gonna make another tank of solution and beautify another patch of my floor. Who knew my carpet was silky gray, not beige?

Bissell: http://www.bissell.com/little-green-...-deep-cleaner/
Simple Green, which I get in gallon jugs: http://www.simplegreen.com/products_...se_cleaner.php