In college, I had a roommate who loved swiffers and basically introduced me to them. Since then I have LOVED them, but am too cheap (hate to admit this) to keep buying those stupid pads/ cleaning liquid. I mean...how brilliant is a swiffer? And how brilliant is the company for sucking you in to keep buying their disposable pads and cleaning solution? Well today they aren't brilliant enough!
IF you've been browsing pinterest for a while, you've probably seen other blogs showing DIY swiffer pads. After all of my researching, I could only find websites that showed pads that required sewing. Don't get me wrong, I love, love, love sewing, but I'd rather sew something cute that I can wear or something fun for my son as opposed to boring, old swiffer pads that will soon be dirty! Plus these pads included buying velcro and sewing it on to the pad....I find this to be a BIG waste of velcro.
So I came up with my own solution. Here it is:
What you need:
A swiffer wetjet
micro fiber cloths
homemade cleaning solution/ your favorite floor cleaner
If you have a dry swiffer, you know that they have these little holes on top for you to push the pads into and it holds them in place. Well on a swiffer wetjet they took these convenient little holes out and replaced them with a strip of velcro. This makes using your own pads very difficult (or so they thought). Since I did not want to do any sewing or waste any velcro, I went on a search for some type of fabric to stick to my wetjet. Microfiber cloths are perfect! I went to Walmart and they had these great microfiber dishcloths for $2 and microfiber hand towels for $3. So I snagged a couple and decided to make my own pads
Step 1:
Lay out your microfibers
Step 2: Put your swiffer on top and cut cloths to size
Step 4: Start swiffering!
I use the cloths and toss them in the washer. I plan on reusing them until they start falling apart/ gross. From 2 dish cloths and 1 hand towel, I ended up with about 12 swiffer pads and these will probably last me for a long time!
If you have a dry swiffer, just cut your cloths to that size and tuck them in the little holes. You can then use your own cleaning solution and spray it directly on the floor.
I love these for quick clean-ups or maintaining the cleanliness of my floor. With a pre-toddler always running around, my floors get dirty fast and need to be cleaned often! It's nice to know I not wasting money on constantly buying new swiffer pads.
Here is a great video on how to get the cap off the swiffer wetjet solution bottle so you can use it over and over!
