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A couple of weeks ago I ordered one of those H20 steam mops that came with a free hand held mini steamer. Monday morning my nifty new steam mop and hand held steamer arrived. After putting the mop together, I filled the water reservoir, plugged it in, and while I waited for the light to turn green, gave the floor a quick sweep with my Bissell featherweight vacuum. I knew the moment I started mopping the floor with my latest greatest homemaking gadget, I had done the right thing ordering said gadget. I was just as happy with how well the hand held steamer worked. By the time I finished giving the mop and hand held steamer a good test run, the kitchen and both bathrooms were positively gleaming, and I was totally hooked on my newest groovy gadgets.

Tuesday morning found me steam mopping the floor in Larry’s “Man Room”, then steaming the outside of the freezer and his little beer fridge with the hand held cleaner. Larry was not very impressed with the mop, but as he watched me using the hand held steamer, he started getting ideas about what he could use it for. I tightened the grip I had on my groovy little steamer and said, “This in MY steamer gadget. If you want one for out in the shop, go buy your own.”

Larry thought about that a moment as I continued steaming the outside of the freezer and said, “But that was my money you bought that thing with.”

I moved over to his little beer fridge, and as I began steaming it replied, “No, that was our money I bought this gadget with.”

Larry pondered that for a moment then said, “Well if it was our money, then that makes that thing in your hand our gadget.”

I turned and gave him “The Look”, then replied, “No. Possession is 9 tenths of the law. And since I unpacked said gadget, not to mention put the mop together by myself, read all the instructions, and the gadget is now in my little hand, it makes it my gadget. And if you try taking my gadget out to your shop, I will steam you with it.”

I spent the next few days steam cleaning walls, window blinds, curtains, silk flower arrangements, nick knacks, lampshades, and everything else in the house that could be safely steam cleaned. After all that, do I think the H20 mop and hand held cleaner are well worth the $133 we paid for them? Hell yes! The little hand held steamer alone is worth its weight in gold. Had I known how handy those little gadgets are for cleaning, I would have bought a hand held steamer a long time ago.

Since the hand held steamer and H20 mop only use tap water and a little electricity to clean with, they are an environmentally friendly method of tackling even the toughest cleaning jobs. Now all I have to do is figure out what I’m going to do with all those bottles of chemical cleaners I have under the kitchen sink. Maybe I’ll box those up and take them out to Larry’s shop….