I was super excited buying myself a new bucket and mop as the old one I through away in a rage after sweating 2 hours of my time cleaning the filthy maid’s room, scrubbing yellow walls to be white again and cleaning dirt from cupboards which were not cleaned for years. A cleaner came from the renting company and finished cleaning the room off and when I asked him to clean the remaining yellow wall, he told me to pain it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was livid.

So I bought myself a nice new red mop and a red and yellow bucket, with a divider in the middle for a change. I though that would be an awesome addition to my cleaning tools. How wrong was I! How on earth do I use a bucket with a divider in the middle if the water is in one section and you drained it in the other? There is no water to use later on. The internet doesn’t know how to do it either, so every time I clean the floor it is with great frustration. I never liked mops anyway, until I came to England in 1997, I always used a cloth working on my knees as all mops do is distribute the dirt and hair around!

As we are living in the city, construction going on infront of our windows, there is a 5 cm gap between the French door of the balcony into the living area, the floor is constantly dirty and dusty, requiring some sort of cleaning on a daily basis (dry mop or a wet mop). You can polish every day and there will still be dust again. So when my son tells me, that what I do all day whilst he is at school is chilling and using computer or phone, you can imagine how mad I feel knowing, that it is far from the truth!

It is the norm here to have a maid for cleaning, ironing and cooking, but I have not explored that option yet. However it would be nice to have someone to clean the dust every day and cook as a curry twice a week for a £25/weekly working 4 hours daily.