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Topic: Swiffer 'Elderly Couple' series (NOW with VIDEO!)
Posted By: PaWolf
Subject: Swiffer 'Elderly Couple' series (NOW with VIDEO!)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2013 at 9:47pm
OuchI hate the thought that as we progress into the sunset of our days, something as simple as a swiffer sweeper or wet mop will excite us.
I *do* know that MissyDWolf loves this commercial series (we've seen two different) and hopes the 'Swiffer Fairy' will leave a nice box at the front of The Den. I don't - she'd have me constantly showing her "How they work".
I also told her that if anything gets left at our front door, I probably did something to bring there and we probably don't want it.
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7tDm/swiffer-sweeper-elderly-couple" rel="nofollow - http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7tDm/swiffer-sweeper-elderly-couple
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Posted By: bwestfall
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 2:52am
Saw this one just a while ago. This one bugged me because these 70ish people had been living in what looks to be a fairly clean home and now they need a Swiffer to be super clean! Yeah right, I think they have done just fine to get to their age without the damn Swiffer thing!

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Posted By: KrissyBean
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 12:49pm
I think that the couple in this commercial is so cute :) BUT the commercial itself is so annoying. Bwest, I agree - their house looks fine. I highly doubt that the Swiffer thing is going to make that much of a difference. Hey, at least they haven't been subjected to Lysol's "Healthing" campaign. Dead

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 1:25pm
 
I like these commercials.  The couple seems real.  Kinda glad they're portrayed realistically, rather than as some seniors who go parasailing, hiking Mt. Everest, tending to their winery and out dancing to hip-hop music to show how modern, hip and successful they are.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 7:33pm
I really just don't understand the demographic. My mind wants to say "old folks" but I don't actually think that's the case. I think it's probably for the generation before old folks. Like this will remind them of their elderly parents' struggle to clean and encourage them to buy "simple" swiffer products for them instead. Let alone the fact that most old people aren't going to change even if something will make their lives easier.

Still hate it though. I don't care how old you are, being unaware there are other solutions besides a rope mop and bucket is not possible.


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Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 8:18pm
The commercial is fine and the product is ok too.
But there comes a time when you have to use cleaners/polish and rub or scrub.
 
Animals in the house, smoking, burning wood. 3M has a new furnace filter with charcoal to help eliminate odors that I want to try.


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 9:33pm
Originally posted by lkl005 lkl005 wrote:

 
Animals in the house, smoking, burning wood. 3M has a new furnace filter with charcoal to help eliminate odors that I want to try.
 
I actually like the smell of burnt wood in a house---as long as it's wood that was meant to be burned...that is, like from a wood-burning stove, which is what I assume you meant, rather than from a house that's been on fire.
 
I smoke and let others smoke in my house.  I also have 3 cats.  But I have my windows open almost all of the time, so the place doesn't smell.  Even in winter, I open my windows for part of the day.  I hate stuffy air.
 
 


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 9:38pm
 
Hez, sometimes the old people's way is the best.
 
I bought a Swiffer years ago, tried it a few times...and didn't like it.  I expected it to pick up dried splatters easily.  It did not.  Plus, with the bits of cat food and all the bits of leaves the animals and I bring in, I still had to sweep before I "Swiffed".
 
It's out in my garage right now, if anyone wants it.
 
 


Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 9:42pm
I like the Swiffer. The spray one, that is.

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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 11:13pm
Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:

I really just don't understand the demographic. My mind wants to say "old folks" but I don't actually think that's the case. I think it's probably for the generation before old folks. Like this will remind them of their elderly parents' struggle to clean and encourage them to buy "simple" swiffer products for them instead. Let alone the fact that most old people aren't going to change even if something will make their lives easier.

Still hate it though. I don't care how old you are, being unaware there are other solutions besides a rope mop and bucket is not possible.
LOLI ACTUALLY started to write about this very matter!
My beloved moter, in her mid-80's, has a number of Swiffer items. *I* think she likes them for their nifty, sharp colors, not because sh ever uses them. But she DOES have multple colors! Kind of like fake flowers - they nevr die and they ARE colorful.


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Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 2:47pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
Hez, sometimes the old people's way is the best.
 
I bought a Swiffer years ago, tried it a few times...and didn't like it.  I expected it to pick up dried splatters easily.  It did not.  Plus, with the bits of cat food and all the bits of leaves the animals and I bring in, I still had to sweep before I "Swiffed".
 
It's out in my garage right now, if anyone wants it.
 
 


In this case I think there's a better solution for them than a rope mop and a bucket, but swiffer certainly isn't it. I've never gotten a good clean from a swiffer. I got a steam mop for Christmas one year, it even functions as a vacuum. Just as easy for Ethel to push around and no need to buy refills. Just invest 99 bucks or so and let her go to town.


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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 4:03pm
 
I'd rather clean toilets than clean my white ceramic-tile kitchen floor---and I have an 8' x 11' Persian rug covering much of it!  First I vacuum the tiled area.  Then I sweep the stuff the vacuum blew around.  Then I pour water on the splatters to soften 'em up.  Then I wet-mop it.  Then I have to wipe it dry with a towel to get rid of the streaks.  Then I have to vacuum the rug.
 
For awhile, I was using my leaf blower to blow all the loose bits of cat food and leaves out the door.
 
I've decided that it's only important that the floor look clean.  It doesn't have to actually be clean.  It's not as if I'm eating off of the floor.  So, I rarely use any kind of soap on the floor anymore.  Just water.
 
I remember being pissed at all the streaks the Swiffer left behind.  I'll bet that people who like the Swiffer do not have semi-glossy white kitchen floors.
 
 


Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 4:12pm
My mom's kitchen & dining room are both ceramic flooring, which totals up to roughly 300 sq feet or so.  Once or twice a year she'll bleach clean the grout to whiten it, which is something I would never have the patience to do. 

I've got linoleum flooring, and almost never even bother mopping.  I'll just spot clean as needed with a little 409 and rag.  I do keep them swept regularly though.


Posted By: CaptainErnie
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 4:46pm
Between the old fossils and the crappy music, I thought I was watching a promo for that series on TVLand where they stick old folks in with a bunch of teens.


Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 6:20pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Originally posted by lkl005 lkl005 wrote:

 
Animals in the house, smoking, burning wood. 3M has a new furnace filter with charcoal to help eliminate odors that I want to try.
 
I actually like the smell of burnt wood in a house---as long as it's wood that was meant to be burned...that is, like from a wood-burning stove, which is what I assume you meant, rather than from a house that's been on fire.
 
I smoke and let others smoke in my house.  I also have 3 cats.  But I have my windows open almost all of the time, so the place doesn't smell.  Even in winter, I open my windows for part of the day.  I hate stuffy air.
 
 
Not much wood burning going on with temps going over 90 and high humidity.
We won't have the windows open till about saturday when a front comes through.
Anything over 76 or so in the house and I can't sleep.


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 8:56pm
 
^  One day last week, it was 104 degrees in my upstairs.  By bedtime, it had gone down to 95.  I really don't like A/C that much, and try to avoid putting it on.  I mainly put it on if I have people coming over.  Last year, I used it more because I had my old and frail cat Sneakers, and wanted to keep him comfortable.
 
I have 5 overhead fans in my house.  They're a Godsend.
 
 


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 9:07pm
Well these are a refreshing change to the mop/broom falling in love with an inanimate object. Those were getting old.

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Posted By: Tiz
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 11:01pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


For awhile, I was using my leaf blower to blow all the loose bits of cat food and leaves out the door.
 
Confused
Gas or electric?


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2013 at 12:29am
Originally posted by Tiz Tiz wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


For awhile, I was using my leaf blower to blow all the loose bits of cat food and leaves out the door.
 
Confused
Gas or electric?
 
Electric.  Toro.
 
 


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2013 at 12:33am
Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

Well these are a refreshing change to the mop/broom falling in love with an inanimate object. Those were getting old.
 
I got the broom-rake love affair.  But the sponge mop-bowling ball relationship just seemed wrong.
 
 


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2013 at 4:43pm
I hated cleaning my hardwood because of the same issues. Turns out I just had a sh*tty vacuum. Once I got a Shark navigator where you can turn off the brush roll, and with suction "just so" so it doesn't blow dog hair and debris away from the vacuum, it's made vacuuming hard wood an actual possibility. The tile kitchen floor does really well with the steam/vac mop. Seriously, I'd recommend getting one, it's perfect for tile. Think mine is a Bissel.


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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2013 at 6:45pm
 
I actually have a Bissel steam/vac thing, Hez.  But it's for carpets, not floors.  It does a pretty good job on my white carpet, but there's no way to disengage the brush.
 
But you're right.  If I could turn the brush-roller thing on my vacuum off, vacuuming the tiled floor would be easier.  With the roller spinning, it just blows everything around, even on the "hard floor" setting.
 
 


Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2013 at 6:49pm
I have a Bissell bagless vacuum which I got last December, and the thing does a great job on the carpet.  It can go on the floor too but I usually just go with a broom for that.


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 1:10am
Any snarky lil'bastard who drops off a Swiffer Gift Box on OUR stoop is in for a visit they don't want.
I still think the flaming bag o'crap ring-and-run is better - I can STILL sort of run and I STILL think it is awfully funny watching someone stomp it out...
Kids these days! The sweet lil'spermmistakes think it is funny and helpful dropping off a box of cleaning supplies. Is our place THAT dirty? Do they even begin to believe we wouldn't suspect who did it and thus retaliate?
Fools.
Sweet fools.
Simple fools.
But, yea, after we eat your first-born, we'll clean up.
So....o.k., yea, sure fine. THANKS for the Swiffer kit!


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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 2:00am
 
Pa, when your kids drop off cleaning supplies for you, it might actually be time to clean.  LOL
 
I've been told my house is clean enough "for a guy".  At first, I was slightly insulted, because when I know people are coming over, I do my best.  Then I realized that so little is expected from me in the way of housekeeping, that any effort is good enough.
 
I think people notice a few main things:
 
Unvacuumed carpet
Dishes in the sink
Piss stains on the rim of the toilet
 
These are the things I always make sure are taken care of before people visit.
 
 


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 5:14pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
Pa, when your kids drop off cleaning supplies for you, it might actually be time to clean.  LOL
 
I've been told my house is clean enough "for a guy".  At first, I was slightly insulted, because when I know people are coming over, I do my best.  Then I realized that so little is expected from me in the way of housekeeping, that any effort is good enough.
 
I think people notice a few main things:
 
Unvacuumed carpet
Dishes in the sink
Piss stains on the rim of the toilet
 
These are the things I always make sure are taken care of before people visit.
 
 
LOL
THAT made me think of a 'MissyDWolf-ism'; she gets upset when the toilet rim appears to be suffering from 'sh*ttlePox'; the dingleberry-spray that sometimes occurs towards the back of the rim. No, it isn't the same as a 'near-miss', it almost looks like 'lightly-spotted rust'
I always blame it on her, or guests we will never have over again.
Just takes some wet toilet paper to clean off...or, as MissyDGermaphobe prefers, scented Clorox wipes.
Oh yea...I don't think Swiffer has a product fr that.


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Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 9:21pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
Pa, when your kids drop off cleaning supplies for you, it might actually be time to clean.  LOL
 
I've been told my house is clean enough "for a guy".  At first, I was slightly insulted, because when I know people are coming over, I do my best.  Then I realized that so little is expected from me in the way of housekeeping, that any effort is good enough.
 
I think people notice a few main things:
 
Unvacuumed carpet
Dishes in the sink
Piss stains on the rim of the toilet
 
These are the things I always make sure are taken care of before people visit.
 


How's your shower? My husband can't keep anything clean to save his life. I stopped taking stand up showers several months ago and just wash my hair in the tub, it's easier when you're this "with child". I decided to look in the shower stall after several months, figuring my husband showers twice a day, he probably kept it semi clean. Wrong. It was literally covered with black mold. He wasn't home so I went ballistic on him over text. It was just nasty, I couldn't fathom trying to get clean surrounded by mold. Seems like a man thing, I don't know of too many women who would bathe or shower in a dirty tub or stall.


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Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 9:32pm
I'll say that while I don't exactly clean the bathroom perfectly, I would definitely take action if I saw even the tiniest speck of mould.

Then again, I think I only count as half man....

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Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 9:42pm
My tub/shower gets a spraying of bath & shower cleaner with bleach (be it 409, Tilex, or whatever) + a scrub down once a month.


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2013 at 11:49pm
^^^Ya scrub with a Swiffer product?

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:15am
Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:



How's your shower? My husband can't keep anything clean to save his life. I stopped taking stand up showers several months ago and just wash my hair in the tub, it's easier when you're this "with child". I decided to look in the shower stall after several months, figuring my husband showers twice a day, he probably kept it semi clean. Wrong. It was literally covered with black mold. He wasn't home so I went ballistic on him over text. It was just nasty, I couldn't fathom trying to get clean surrounded by mold. Seems like a man thing, I don't know of too many women who would bathe or shower in a dirty tub or stall.
 
Hez, is your shower stall floor textured---like some sort of grainy-surfaced vinyl---with the black concentrated in the middle?  If so, forget it.  Nothing will clean that.  I've tried everything, short of gasoline.  Nothing works.  Everyone in my 'hood and elsewhere who has this particular type of shower stall has the same problem.
 
I dunno---maybe it's something that would have to have been scrubbed and bleached every day.
 
 
 
 


Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:25am
Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:




How's your shower? My husband can't keep anything clean to save his life. I stopped taking stand up showers several months ago and just wash my hair in the tub, it's easier when you're this "with child". I decided to look in the shower stall after several months, figuring my husband showers twice a day, he probably kept it semi clean. Wrong. It was literally covered with black mold. He wasn't home so I went ballistic on him over text. It was just nasty, I couldn't fathom trying to get clean surrounded by mold. Seems like a man thing, I don't know of too many women who would bathe or shower in a dirty tub or stall.

I have to battle black mold in the shower and toilet. In my little town the water and sewer bill is $83 per month for the worst quality water I have ever had. I use a zero water filter for anything I want to drink. I have another house in the Capital city. Water and sewer bill is $56 per month for excellent water!

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Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:29am
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:




How's your shower? My husband can't keep anything clean to save his life. I stopped taking stand up showers several months ago and just wash my hair in the tub, it's easier when you're this "with child". I decided to look in the shower stall after several months, figuring my husband showers twice a day, he probably kept it semi clean. Wrong. It was literally covered with black mold. He wasn't home so I went ballistic on him over text. It was just nasty, I couldn't fathom trying to get clean surrounded by mold. Seems like a man thing, I don't know of too many women who would bathe or shower in a dirty tub or stall.

 

Hez, is your shower stall floor textured---like some sort of grainy-surfaced vinyl---with the black concentrated in the middle?  If so, forget it.  Nothing will clean that.  I've tried everything, short of gasoline.  Nothing works.  Everyone in my 'hood and elsewhere who has this particular type of shower stall has the same problem.

 

I dunno---maybe it's something that would have to have been scrubbed and bleached every day.

 

 

 

 


Clean Shower works pretty good but can be overpowered by the black mold!

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:32am
 
Sarge, I've used pure bleach in conjunction with Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and steel wool, and nothing's worked.  I guess I could try Clean Shower, but if it doesn't work, I'll be expecting reimbursement from you.  Wink
 
 


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:36am
 
Now that I think of it, if the black stuff is mold, maybe these sorts of floors require that you wipe them dry following every shower.  It's not a matter of dirt, it's a matter of dampness---probably permeating the vinyl (or resin, or whatever it is) as it sits there in the grainy texture.
 
 


Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 12:43am
oops! I posted the right thing in the wrong place

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 1:03am
Originally posted by sgtrock21 sgtrock21 wrote:

In my little town the water and sewer bill is $83 per month for the worst quality water I have ever had. I use a zero water filter for anything I want to drink. I have another house in the Capital city. Water and sewer bill is $56 per month for excellent water!
 
My bill is usually $59 every two months.  In the summer, it increases to about $80 due to watering the grass and plants.  Of course, living alone keeps my water usage low.
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Tiz
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 1:09am
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
Now that I think of it, if the black stuff is mold, maybe these sorts of floors require that you wipe them dry following every shower.  It's not a matter of dirt, it's a matter of dampness---probably permeating the vinyl (or resin, or whatever it is) as it sits there in the grainy texture.
 
 

If MoldEx doesn't clean it, it's not mold. Being how it's in the middle(where people stand) the resin might be worn and what you're seeing is the black primer underneath.
The showers are just cheap, builder's grade stuff. 
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/MOLDEX-Mold-Mildew-Stain-Remover-4WGE7?cm_sp=IO-_-IDP-_-RR_VTV70300505&cm_vc=IDPRRZ1" rel="nofollow - http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/MOLDEX-Mold-Mildew-Stain-Remover-4WGE7?cm_sp=IO-_-IDP-_-RR_VTV70300505&cm_vc=IDPRRZ1




Posted By: Hootman
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 1:28am
I live in a city that was named the Best Water in the World a couple of years ago.  This year it was number 5 in the US. 

It does taste good and my water bill is about $20.00/month.


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 1:54am
Originally posted by Tiz Tiz wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
Now that I think of it, if the black stuff is mold, maybe these sorts of floors require that you wipe them dry following every shower.  It's not a matter of dirt, it's a matter of dampness---probably permeating the vinyl (or resin, or whatever it is) as it sits there in the grainy texture.
 
 

If MoldEx doesn't clean it, it's not mold. Being how it's in the middle(where people stand) the resin might be worn and what you're seeing is the black primer underneath.
The showers are just cheap, builder's grade stuff. 
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/MOLDEX-Mold-Mildew-Stain-Remover-4WGE7?cm_sp=IO-_-IDP-_-RR_VTV70300505&cm_vc=IDPRRZ1" rel="nofollow - http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/MOLDEX-Mold-Mildew-Stain-Remover-4WGE7?cm_sp=IO-_-IDP-_-RR_VTV70300505&cm_vc=IDPRRZ1


 
Excellent!  I'll go with that.  Totally absolves me of any fault/responsibility.  The only thing that can be done is to remodel the bathroom...and no one expects a guy to care about bathroom "updates"---unless the ol' hen's been a-naggin' and a-cacklin' about it, of course.
 
 


Posted By: dizrythmia
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 6:35am
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Last year, I used it more because I had my old and frail cat Sneakers, and wanted to keep him comfortable.
awww, how sweet.

hez, i have the same kind of shower surface you do and i find it so hard to keep it clean. it's also partially because of my crappy eyesight that i can never tell if what i'm seeing is a ring of soap scum or just a shadow. i wish i had a white tub so i could tell for sure. but as for cleaning, i usually just improvise with whatever's in the house. last time, i used soft scrub and a brillo pad as i couldn't find any sponges (other than the ones for dishes and counters).

since it came up, i used to have a mould issue in my bathroom (both had it, actually), but it seemed to get fixed when they got repainted. i forget exactly what they did, but i remember they scraped the mould away and spackled over it to smooth it out. this was a few years ago, so i'd imagine i'd be seeing some now if it were an issue again.


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 2:27pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:



How's your shower? My husband can't keep anything clean to save his life. I stopped taking stand up showers several months ago and just wash my hair in the tub, it's easier when you're this "with child". I decided to look in the shower stall after several months, figuring my husband showers twice a day, he probably kept it semi clean. Wrong. It was literally covered with black mold. He wasn't home so I went ballistic on him over text. It was just nasty, I couldn't fathom trying to get clean surrounded by mold. Seems like a man thing, I don't know of too many women who would bathe or shower in a dirty tub or stall.
 
Hez, is your shower stall floor textured---like some sort of grainy-surfaced vinyl---with the black concentrated in the middle?  If so, forget it.  Nothing will clean that.  I've tried everything, short of gasoline.  Nothing works.  Everyone in my 'hood and elsewhere who has this particular type of shower stall has the same problem.
 
I dunno---maybe it's something that would have to have been scrubbed and bleached every day.
 
 


Our shower stall is all tile. My husband didn't do a very good job building it, because it will leak a little onto the floor outside it, water rolls along the grout line and into the bathroom door jamb nearby, which is now starting to rot away and drip into the basement....because he doesn't wipe up after a shower. Not to mention the actual floor of the shower, while mostly curved properly to drain, still has a few rough spots where water collects and you kind of have to kick it to the drain. When it's clean it looks great, but ugh, it's just awful and impossible to get in all the nooks and crannies. Before we sell the place in the next few years he wants to rip the entire shower out and put in one of those prefab smooth shower stalls. Not as pretty, but whatever.

We have that clear "after shower" stuff you're supposed to spray on the walls when you're done taking a shower. It literally does nothing to combat the mold growth. I cleaned the shower 2, maybe 3 weeks ago. I guarantee there's mold in it again if I look.




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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 2:40pm
 
If you can get the tile clean before you sell it, stick with the tile.  It seems to me like the cost of replacing it with a prefab shower might not be mitigated by a corresponding increase in value.  People will like the tile more than prefab.
 
 


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2013 at 6:24pm
ShockedThey're both 90...got six (6) kids and been married 44 years.
6 kids.
Got married when they were both 46 years old.
Something just tells me she didn't wait until they were 46 to start dropping them - I'm pretty sure they 'lived in sin'.
And if that fat-ass could drop a box on the porch and run, she should be caught and forced to clean the entire house, I say. She could be there a few days.
 
...but WAIT! There's MORE!
 
What about the CANADIAN version?LOL
Really! How many people actually move into a house sight-unseen an not of their choosing? Yup - just up-lift and disrupt the entire family life. Crap - that would make ME speak French.
 
There are Chinese and Japanese versions of this commercial, too. 
 


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Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2013 at 7:27pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 
If you can get the tile clean before you sell it, stick with the tile.  It seems to me like the cost of replacing it with a prefab shower might not be mitigated by a corresponding increase in value.  People will like the tile more than prefab.
 
 


I figured that, but because of the mysterious leak I think we kind of have to rip it up anyway. The rest of the bathroom including the tub has nice looking tile so I think that will be enough to save it. With the neighborhood our house is in we'd be lucky to even see 6 figures for it. The type of person to buy our house will just be happy that the bathroom isn't from the 70s.


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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2013 at 8:31pm
 
^  My bathroom growing up was pink and black tile.  When I was really little, it also featured wallpaper that was black with these big, beautiful tropical fish all over them.  Real '50s.  I loved it, and hated whenever my folks updated it over the years.
 
My main bathroom in my house now features off-white walls and off-white and light blue tiles.  Tasteful and inoffensive.  I'd love to have my folks' old bathroom with that tropical fish wallpaper.
 
 


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2013 at 11:46pm
^^^I think the downfall of wondefully bizarre colored tile bathrooms came in the late '60s/early '70s, when it became 'cool' to have wood, or wood panel bathroom walls. Of course, this was before anyone thought a lot about this little stuff called 'black mold'.
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Posted By: bwestfall
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 3:06am
Just saw this commercial again and I noticed that the old man is a foot taller than the lady and he is fussing at her to get down off the step ladder cause she might get hurt (he's probably worried she won't be able to fix dinner). He could clean on top of that damn cupboard without standing on anything but I guess he can't do any cleaning--he's a man. They wouldn't need the Swiffer if he would help out!

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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 3:15am
Originally posted by bwestfall bwestfall wrote:

Just saw this commercial again and I noticed that the old man is a foot taller than the lady and he is fussing at her to get down off the step ladder cause she might get hurt (he's probably worried she won't be able to fix dinner). He could clean on top of that damn cupboard without standing on anything but I guess he can't do any cleaning--he's a man. They wouldn't need the Swiffer if he would help out!
ConfusedWell, THAT is simply 'brilliant', but sorry BW - are you making a point or missing something not all so uncommon.
 


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Posted By: bwestfall
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 3:20am
Well, everyone was making such a big deal about how cute they are, and how it's great that Swiffer could help them. The ad really is showing how they might not need to spend the money for Swiffer if the big guy helped out more, and that yes, the old man doesn't even need to be there, the ad is still aimed at her. He's asleep in the chair and she is still climbing up the footstool!

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 5:38am
 
 
Originally posted by bwestfall bwestfall wrote:

Well, everyone was making such a big deal about how cute they are, and how it's great that Swiffer could help them. The ad really is showing how they might not need to spend the money for Swiffer if the big guy helped out more, and that yes, the old man doesn't even need to be there, the ad is still aimed at her. He's asleep in the chair and she is still climbing up the footstool!
 
 
He probably quit wondering years ago why the hell she cleans the top of the cupboard to begin with.  At this point, he just lets her do it.
 
 


Posted By: DKS
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 6:25am
I just want to know what's up with that "Some kind of mopping device". Who the hell calls it a "mopping device"? Even if you didn't know what a Swiffer was, would you actually refer to it as "some kind of mopping device"?

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Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 4:01pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

 

Sarge, I've used pure bleach in conjunction with Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and steel wool, and nothing's worked.  I guess I could try Clean Shower, but if it doesn't work, I'll be expecting reimbursement from you.  Wink

 

 


Thor I would gladly reimburse if the dollar store had not discontinued their version. It worked just as well as the $5 brand name.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 5:09pm
 
^  Dollar Tree stuff is almost always as good as the brand names.  It's been years since I spent $5 on any "real" brand of cleaning supplies.
 
 


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2013 at 7:28pm
How come in the mopping one the fridge has something that says "Lee's Kitchen" and "Pearl's Kitchen". She's Lee and he's Morty. Who the f**k is Pearl?

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Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2013 at 8:37pm
^Her twin lesbian handi-capped sister who sells penis-shaped pastries at her women-only empowerment bakery.
 
They share a kitchen, because Pearl lives in a studio apartment with her girlfriend Karl, and castrated de-clawed male cats named dumbass 1-5.


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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2013 at 9:10pm
 
Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:

How come in the mopping one the fridge has something that says "Lee's Kitchen" and "Pearl's Kitchen". She's Lee and he's Morty. Who the f**k is Pearl?
 
 
 
According to Swiffer, Pearl is Lee's dead sister.
 
 


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2013 at 4:54pm
Really? Did they like put that up on the website or something? How odd.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2013 at 7:39pm
 
^  Yep.  It's on their Facebook page.  Marcella asked, and Swiffer answered.  They described her as "late", but I don't think they meant late for the commercial shoot.
 
https://www.facebook.com/swiffer/posts/10151767692213431" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/swiffer/posts/10151767692213431
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Hootman
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2013 at 8:15pm
Actually, most communities have an elderly services program that is based on your income.  They cover everything from light cleaning to nursing care and everything in between.  Mrs. Morty does not need to be cleaning at 90.

However, Morty looks like he could afford someone to come in and clean on his dime.

Swiffer needs to show a young couple with little kids that have no time to clean, not old people who are more likely to continue to use the same cleaning techniques they've used for over 40 years.


Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2013 at 8:30pm
^ It does seem a little odd she would use that big string mop to clean what appears to be nice laminate floor. I like to clean, Morty needs to buy her a bucket and a ringer.
I do like how he is trying cop a feel as she gets up on the furniture.


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2013 at 9:44pm
Originally posted by lkl005 lkl005 wrote:

^ It does seem a little odd she would use that big string mop to clean what appears to be nice laminate floor. I like to clean, Morty needs to buy her a bucket and a ringer.
I do like how he is trying cop a feel as she gets up on the furniture.
 
I've tried every technique---Swiffers, sponge mops, spaghetti mops, brooms, vacuums, etc.  For awhile, I was even using my leaf blower.  I'd blow the stuff right out the back door onto the patio.  The only reason I stopped is that I eventually got more furniture and a few area rugs in my kitchen, so all the stuff I was trying to blow out the door was getting trapped behind and under things.
 
Anyway, I now sweep, then vacuum, then use the spaghetti (or string) mop, then vacuum it again.  It's the worst job in the house.  I'd even rather handwash my mother's underwear.
 
 


Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2013 at 3:27pm
Originally posted by lkl005 lkl005 wrote:

^ It does seem a little odd she would use that big string mop to clean what appears to be nice laminate floor. I like to clean, Morty needs to buy her a bucket and a ringer.
I do like how he is trying cop a feel as she gets up on the furniture.


The entire mopping sequence irks me. The dingy rope mop (seriously no one outside of food service uses rope mops to clean) and the BLACK DIRT on the pad at the end. Like that's f**king gross and I doubt that was just sitting on what appeared to be a perfectly clean floor. She must have scooted it under the fridge or something.


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Posted By: DemonicMelodies
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2013 at 6:33pm
HOLY CRAP! A swiffer gift basket! I have a reason to live again!

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Posted By: jon1
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2013 at 4:10am
When are these horrible ads going to go away? When does it stop? I'm so tired of these altakakas and their stupid mops, and the way they talk over each other. Revolting. 


Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2013 at 4:15am
Originally posted by DKS DKS wrote:

I just want to know what's up with that "Some kind of mopping device". Who the hell calls it a "mopping device"? Even if you didn't know what a Swiffer was, would you actually refer to it as "some kind of mopping device"?
My mother once used the term "Gardening apparatus" twenty times while telling me about a story she heard on the news.
 
"Stop saying gardening apparatus! It makes it sound dirty, like he's using a dildo on his turnips or something."


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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2013 at 3:16pm
Originally posted by DemonicMelodies DemonicMelodies wrote:

HOLY CRAP! A swiffer gift basket! I have a reason to live again!
Nope.
Means you have a reason to clean again.
Get to work.
 


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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2013 at 3:27pm
Originally posted by Hootman Hootman wrote:

Actually, most communities have an elderly services program that is based on your income.  They cover everything from light cleaning to nursing care and everything in between.  Mrs. Morty does not need to be cleaning at 90.

However, Morty looks like he could afford someone to come in and clean on his dime.

Swiffer needs to show a young couple with little kids that have no time to clean, not old people who are more likely to continue to use the same cleaning techniques they've used for over 40 years.
ConfusedJust can't see it, Hooty.
"young couple with kids".
Probably not married, one of the parents is not the real parent, the other is an illegal alien, both on welfare and Obamacare with no clean underwear, and thus not motivated to work and Jesus doesn't love them anyway. Life sucks and Swiffer doesn't - no use for the products and they can't afford them anyway.
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Posted By: Redbeard
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2013 at 10:43pm
I like the commercials. The product isn't what it's cracked up to be, not surprising, considering that it's shown on ME-TV.


Posted By: zippyjet
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2013 at 10:59pm
The commercil is wierd. A stereotypical New York Jewish couple. They are one joke away from being Seinfeldian. Morty, don't ya listen darlink? I'd love to spoof this commercial with this cherubic old couple at the airport thinking they are going from LGA to Palm Beach, Florida but instead get on the wrong plane and Rod Serling in the background saying: Mr. and Mrs. Swiffer thinking they are taking a trip to Palm Beach but instead are using a Swiffer sweeping them into, THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

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