Help! I'm in housewife heck!

Short of getting on your hands and knees with a wet cloth, I dont know what to tell you. Maybe you can go and buy a dust mop until your vaccum is fixed or just go and buy another broom.

Hmm-mmm I guess you could borrow a broom from somebody if the dirty floor is making you crazy. I sometimes use a dustbuster to clean floors. Do you have anythingn like that? We seem to have lots of cleaning implements around here. You would think we would have a cleaner house!! We have 2 brooms, mop, lysol hot cleaner, dust buster,steam vac,shop vac, regular vac, various scrubbers dust pan of course and a handheld carpet cleaner.

If it's anything that needs urgent cleaning, I'd use a wet cloth and wipe with my hands. If not, I'd leave it till husband does what he promised which in my husband's case might take quite a while:P

Grrrr... I'd go crazy- I suggest you go to the nearest store and pick up a new broom. I can't think of anything to take it's place besides a vacuum. My vacuum has been throwing things out the back side of it for months- It drives me crazy- It picks up the stuff then throws some back out! I sweep my floor daily and I'd be going crazy without being able to.

Hmm- what a pickle. Well I normally mop with a cloth on hands and knees anyways, but you can't do that without being able to sweep, unless you don't mind the crumbs and dust you'll pick up. I'd say just run to the store and pick up a cheapo broom so you can at least sweep, you could also sweep the carpet until your vacuum is fixed.

Ever thought about getting a new broom? I mean is this really a big deal? How hard can this be? This may sound crazy but how do you vacuum up a clothes pin. Do you not pick up "big" items before starting? Or even better how do you break a broom? This is really funny.....

Hmmm..... hire someone with their own cleaning supplies to come in and do it until all o yours are fixed!!! I'd loe to be in your position because I don't have the money o hire someone, so I'd have the perfect excuse to just leae it alone. haha I I had the money to hire someone, I'd have a excuse since my supplies would be roken. LOL See the advanages in everything!

I hope your husband fixes the vaccum cleaner soon. I hope things get better for you.

well, what is wrong with the broom? Did the handle break? Tape it back together with some serious duct tape, for the time being, that happened to mine, too, and my vacuum stopped working too, so I understand how you feel, if that isnt the case then, you could always do it the old fashioned way, and get the dirt up with a damp towel. Or why dont you ask to borrow your neighbors broom for a couple of minutes. =)

I say that you take a break and spend more time here to make some extra money to help buy a new vacuum. I would try to do it by hand as I hate for the floor to be dirty. However, it would be nice to have a break from housework so I would try to get by until it is fixed.

beautyqueen well my suggestion is to do what your husband suggested leave it alone til his day off and he will'fix it. anyone complains tell them you gave the maid a day off' but she will be back tomorrow lol oneor two days of dirt on the floor wont kill anyone lol.

Do you have ANYTHING? Like a dustbuster? A shop vac in the garage? A swiffer? A neighbor with one of the above? LOL! If it was a matter of just the mopping, I'd use a sponge or a rag if I couldn't mop. I guess it depends on how much floor we're talking about. In a pinch, get a kitchen towel damp and then use your feet to shove it around, after this it'll be easier to use a rag or something once you get the crumbs and the worst of it up. I picked this up from my best friend, she mops her floor that way all the time. I'm more of the sweep and then mop type, but I've been lazy and didn't do either one today.

What were you doing to that broom? Flying to low, or what? LMAO I guess you won't get to clean anything since all your stuff is broken. Suppose you'll have to spend more time here and less time cleaning

Hi beautyqueen, With your name like that you shouldn't be cleaning at all he he. Get a damp clothe and down your knees and wipe and wet sponge to clean your carpet, I have to do that sometimes. Don't work too hard, put your feet up soon. Good luck. Tamara

Hey! Stick a slightly damped washcloth on the end of the broken broom handle and use it like a swiffer.

If it were me, I'd take the end of the broom and and make myself small and sweep. then I'd take a rag and a bucket of hot sudsy water and make myself even smaller and scrub the floor. If I vaccumed a clothes pin, I'd take the vacuum apart and get the darn clothespin out of the hose by shaking it and beating it on the ground...unlodged things caught in vaccums many times. Take something and drop it thru the hose to push out whats there if all else fails. Beauty...you can do this.

Well I can not think of anything to tell you to use,maybe ask your neighbor to borrow her broom until you can get another onemy neighbor is my mom so that would work for me.You have a great night and good luck on getting your floor cleaned.

In the olden days. people didn't have brooms or mops, I think. I think that people used to clean their floors by going on their hands and knees and using a cloth, wipe up the messes. So if my broom was broken and I had no other way of cleaning my kitchen floor, I would be on my hands and knees and clean it. It doesn't take all that long and isn't all that hard to do, so that is what I would do. I have done it in the past.

Well you could always just ignore until your hubby gets round to fixing or get down on hands and knees and do with a dustpan and brush. My mop broke funnily enough last week so all I done was change handles with the broom swept and changed back and then mopped. I have now bought a new one. Ellie :D

If I were in your shoes, i'd retire back to bed with a good book, happy in the knowledge that I have the perfect excuse for not doing the housework