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"I can have piles of clutter around my house, but I like my floors to be clean. Washing the floor is one of those tasks that&amp;#039;s just not fun, though. It&amp;#039;s wet and sloppy, and the sense of accomplishment you get from seeing a pristine floor can be destroyed in an instant by a muddy dog or a husband with black-soled shoes.  I have a mop that I really like\u2013Libman&amp;#039;s Wonder Mop, www.libman.com\u2013but I&amp;#039;m always game to try something new. So I was intrigued when someone sent me a pair of Mop Flops, www.mopflops.com. They were invented by a housewife who felt there had to be a better way to clean floors. She hated all the bending and stretching required to do a good floor washing so she made a pair of terrycloth boots that have a sponge attached to the bottom. You spritz cleaner on the bottom of the boot and use your feet to scrub the floor. The theory is that you can do something else while cleaning the floor because you aren&amp;#039;t holding a mop.  How did they work? I have to preface this product rating by mentioning that I&amp;#039;ve never been very coordinated on my feet. When I dance, I have to count &amp;quot;one, two, one, two, three&amp;quot; to keep in step. I took tap dancing lessons and was relegated to the back row because I couldn&amp;#039;t quite keep up with the rest of the group. I went left when they went right. I&amp;#039;ve broken my leg twice because I trip over potholes and curbs. So, it was with some trepidation that I donned the booties. Would I slip and slide my way to another accident?  First of all, there&amp;#039;s no worry about sliding because your body weight keeps the boots grounded on the floor, and the sponges aren&amp;#039;t slippery. The Mop Flops seemed to be OK for cleaning small areas, but of course, you can just bend down and wipe any small spot away with a sponge or paper towel. I found the Flops kind of unwieldy and couldn&amp;#039;t quite get the foot scrubbing action down enough to properly clean some spots off. Maybe if I were Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire, this would be a good option, but I&amp;#039;m sure neither of them washed their floors anyway.  So the Mop Flops aren&amp;#039;t for me, but I want to leave with one final thought: I really admire someone who takes her unique solution to problem and runs with it. I can just see this inventor wiping something off the floor with her feet and a towel and a light bulb going off in her head that said, &amp;quot;Why not shoes that clean?&amp;quot; She fulfilled her dream and that&amp;#039;s something we all should do once in our lives. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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