I'm a beginner but dedicated decluttering/ cleaning devotee. I want to know how other people deal with bathmats, and by extension, the bathroom floor.
Our bathmat stays on the floor of the bathroom because the floor is so unfriendly, cold, and slippery for baby feet. After 2 of us shower, or after my son's bath, of course it's a damp bathmat. When I pick it up to drape over the side of the tub to help it dry, it sheds lint, dust, dirt from being walked on during the day. Lately, I shake it out into the tub and rinse the tub with the showerhead. But something in me feels it's not right to be washing dirt down the drain, and yet I don't know how to deal with the bathroom floor otherwise.
I'm doing a flylady bathroom approach, swishing the toilet daily, swiping the surfaces daily, and to this I've added a few minutes on my knees using a rag to pick up the dirt off the bathroom floor corners. This needs to be done more or less daily so there's no visible buildup on the light colored floor. But now my swish and swipe routine is in danger of getting too involved...
I don't mean to obsess at all, but I'd love to know your better systems for the bathroom.
Thanks!
Our bathmat stays on the floor of the bathroom because the floor is so unfriendly, cold, and slippery for baby feet. After 2 of us shower, or after my son's bath, of course it's a damp bathmat. When I pick it up to drape over the side of the tub to help it dry, it sheds lint, dust, dirt from being walked on during the day. Lately, I shake it out into the tub and rinse the tub with the showerhead. But something in me feels it's not right to be washing dirt down the drain, and yet I don't know how to deal with the bathroom floor otherwise.
I'm doing a flylady bathroom approach, swishing the toilet daily, swiping the surfaces daily, and to this I've added a few minutes on my knees using a rag to pick up the dirt off the bathroom floor corners. This needs to be done more or less daily so there's no visible buildup on the light colored floor. But now my swish and swipe routine is in danger of getting too involved...
I don't mean to obsess at all, but I'd love to know your better systems for the bathroom.
Thanks!
Now we use towels that have been used for several days to a week and are ready to be washed. I have a special hook in the bathroom even for drying out the towels so they can be reused a few times for the floor. Works MUCH better than the rug that I would have to wash once a week. I mop the floor once or twice a week (when I empty the cat box in there) and use the towel to wipe up the floor in between because the kids get it wet going in and out of the claw foot tub. Then I just toss into the laundry chute. It's much easier and cleaner than using a bath mat/rug.
The only time our bath mat gets wet is when I step out of the running shower to grab something (like a new bar of soap).
Now that it is cleaned every 3-4 days, I would love a solution to the icky bathmat. I have been just shaking it out onto the floor and then sweeping and mopping up the crumbs/sand/dirt that fall out. I have no freaking idea how that much debris gets in there. We don't eat upstairs, we take shoes off when we come in the house, how on earth is that much being tracked upstairs to the bathroom????? The cat doesn't even have sand in his litterbox! It literally looks like a pile of sand when I shake it out, and when it gets damp, it is stinky. I wash the dang thing about once a month, and we only shower here abour twice a week if that (sometimes shower at the gym, mostly just avoid hot water because of dry skin). I just can't figure it out, but I hate that thing. Thanks for the ideas!
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