It's sh** like this, England

All I wanted to do was clean the floors.

Ohboi! Flor kleen! Yai, Happee!

Getting to the big store is a two bus trip journey, so if I make the effort to get to the Tesco Extra, my expectation is that I should have no real problems with any of my purchases afterward. I needed a floor mop that would use my Tesco brand wet cloths for floors. Don't want them to go to waste.

I bought a brand new, Tesco-brand, Swiffer-style floor mop. It cost me £4.00. It replaced an equivalent bn,T-b, S-s fm that was here when we moved in but was in disrepair (read: broke-as-sh**).

In the beginning, I used that first floor mop like it was my own personal addiction prior to a 12-step. I didn't use it, it used me. And then, I decided to break the habit of using broke-as-sh** tools. I asked for help and received it in the form of a dry floor mop with fluffy blue tentacles that would snag up those dust bunnies and send them to the underbed in the sky. Trip to Tesco #1.

That particular purchase did not even attempt to uphold my standard of cleanliness. How can one be akin to a domestic goddess when one's floors aren't clean?  Sadly, banisher of fuzzy rodent-like grey matter warped in storage...bent all out of shape and thus, became another broke-as-sh** tool

And so commenceth the beginning of this week:
I acquire the bn, T-b, S-s floor mop. I go back to bus stop and get on bus. I get on wrong bus. Bus drives me all around the county and drops me off in a town I don't live in and have only been through once. I walk to another bus stop 60 yards around the corner and wait for a new bus. I get on new bus. It takes me to Tesco. Luckily, the bus is going back to my bus station, so I can stay on this bus. Trip #2, no problems, I get home. The off-brand swiffer goes next to it's new home, the cupboard under the stairs. I use it the next day to sweep and mop. It broke.

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Okay. Hmm

I call Tesco. I find out I can return the broke-as-sh** floor mop provided I have my receipt. PERFECT!

And you know what? They took it back! Thanks Tesco! Trip #3 is awesome!!!!1!

And then I got on the wrong bus again.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK

TL;DR - I have broken cleaning supplies, I get new one that breaks, I take wrong buses trying to get home. I end up with no good cleaning supplies.

Bright side: floor's clean

Check this out: amazon sells Swiffer Wet Jet© Starter Kit for £71.  That's like, $100, easy.

Oh, and my washing machine's broken.