A woman has found a simple hack to easily mop floors (stock photo) (Image: Getty)
A woman has shown a clever way to mop floors, keeping them as you mop and without slipping.
No one wants to be bare feet when mopping floors so people often wear socks, slippers or maybe flip flops that they usually wear around the house. Although socks and slippers are easy to put on, you could slip wearing them on a wet floor and your everyday flip flops could make the floor dirty again while mopping.
user Erica Felder has found an alternative. She fully wraps white bathroom towels around her feet and ties the towels at the top with a hair bobble.
Erica demonstrated how she does this in a video after learning this from someone else on the social media platform. After securing the towels on her feet, she begins mopping the floor easily and even uses her feet to rub off any marks with the towels.
Also, as bathroom towels are bigger and thicker than socks you are less likely to feel the wetness from the mopped floor. Once you have finished mopping, you can take the towels off your feet and put them straight in the washing machine to get them clean again.
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Erica captioned her video “I swear I learn something new every day here.” It has garnered an impressive 3.7 million views, 378,200 likes and nearly 1,700 comments. Many people who commented had the same funny idea.
One user said: “Thought you were gonna start skating around your house.” This is the top comment on Erica’s post with 82,000 likes.
Another user added: “I genuinely thought you were about to feet mop.” A third chimed in: “Why did I think this was going to be you mopping with the feet towels?”
A fourth humorously asked: “Where is the moonwalk that you set me up for but didn’t deliver?” Another person commented: “I instantly thought you were going to mop the floor with your feet and I was just about to do the same hahaha.”
Other users shared that they were fans of Erica’s technique. One said: “I love our generation.”
Further users added: “This is… amazing” and “this is so smart I’m gonna start doing this.” Some people mentioned you can buy “mop shoes/slippers”.
A person who has bought this item shared: “I got these microfiber slippers for mopping on Amazon and I swear it’s the BEST thing EVER and you wash them after you’re done.”
A second added: “You can buy micro fibre mop slippers…might save some time.” Amazon has a variety of these micro fibre slippers specifically deaigned for mopping and cleaning ranging from £5.59 to £15.