Do I really need a telescopic mop?

Seriously.  If I buy a product with "Telescopic" in the title, I'll be using it to start up my own little science lab in the basement.  I've watched enough CSI that I could probably figure out how to collect and analyze my own evidence.  I've got baggies and Q-tips. 

I just read what I wrote and it sounds kind of creepy.  I can't bring myself to delete it even though it wasn't going anywhere good.  I'll leave it there and call it an icebreaker.  Like that clip from the Office (located at MLM is Latin for Pyramid Scheme), that was funny.  I like that show.  Unfortunately, they didn't have a clip about a mop and that is what I was planning to write about.  Before you run away at the prospect of reading a blog about a mop, hear me out.

Before I ever owned any Norwex (or even cared to check it out), I heard people raving about their mop. 
"Oh, I just LOVE my mop!"
Really?  What's the big deal? 

Well, I got a mop in my start up kit and decided I might as well get the rubber brush that you can use with it.  Let's go.  We have laminate flooring on the main floor of our house, so I thought I would sweep first to see what the broom leaves behind. 

Put on the Dry Pad and start going.  Figure 8 pattern helps trap dirt in the pad, so they say.  I'm thinking to myself, "Yeah, this is kinda like a Swiffer.  Not bad."  Then I turn it over to see what I've picked up, and I can see my girl's long blonde hair, dust, little clippings from that haircut I did 3 days ago, and crumbs.  That's what my broom missed (and I did a thorough sweep).  So maybe this is where you would normally rip off the pad and put on a clean one for the next time, but this one isn't disposable.  I used the rubber brush to brush off the junk into the garbage, and it was super clean again!  Better still, I had flashbacks to when I would rub my runners on carpet and shock people with the static charge it created.  My mop is actually statically charged, and clean without washing.  Not at all like a Swiffer!  I'm not buying refills, I'm creating less garbage, it's good all around.

Wet Pad time!  Color coded for those of us who are a bit scatter-brained.  Wet it with tap water, wring it out.  So, I'm pushing around the wet pad and I'm not very happy.  The friction is actually making it hard to push the stupid mop around in the suggested figure 8.  If nothing else, at least a good workout, right?  Later when I read the product manual and it actually says in there that the wet mop will have high friction when you start using it because it's microfiber is grabbing the chemical residue left behind by other floor cleaners.  They even recommend doing a plain old back and forth scrub to get some of that crap off before implementing the graceful figure 8 pattern.  A few days later, I did the dry/wet process again and it was much faster the second time around.  Practice made made me a faster floor cleaner, and for the wet pad, there was almost no friction this time around.  HUGE difference! 

I really like my mop now, I think we'll be together for a long time!  I was really surprised that buildup from other cleaners made such a big difference on the floor, but it's gone now.  Because of the antibacterial Wet Pad, we feel good about eating food off the floor.  I'm not kidding, with a 2 and 3 year old, what food doesn't touch the floor at some point?  No chemicals, no bacteria, no refills.  The more I think about my mop, the more I like it.  Okay, so does this make me one of those crazy people?  Maybe.