Not being fit for much else over the weekend, I spent much of my time shopping. Saturday featured the important job of stocking up on Tim Tams. Cost Plus World Market is still stocking them (they are marketed as “Arnott’s” here), and much to my delight they had the double coat and caramel versions as well as the originals. I also bought a new, very large and very soft bath towel, which is something every girl should have.
As Kevin noted, Sunday was spent raiding the closing down sale at Tower Records. I now have an even bigger pile of CDs I need to listen to. (Note to Ariel: have got Southern Rock Opera). The trip to Valley Fair was more in the way of exercise than shopping (lots of walking being good for you). However, we did confirm the rumor that a branch of Lush is opening up there any day now (the signs say “in October”, though that may be a little optimistic now). The sooner the better, because I’m out of Flying Fox shower gel.
One thing we have been looking at is iRobot’s Scooba. This is a version of the Roomba for cleaning linoleum floors. We don’t actually have that much floor area to cover, but while neither Kevin nor I are averse to running the vacuum around occasionally, we both hate scrubbing kitchen and bathroom floors. The Scooba might be just what we need. And anyway, we really ought to own a robot by now. Does anyone have one? User feedback would be appreciated before I shell out $300.
Somewhat belated reply: yes, I have one and it’s wonderful. I have a tile floor in the kitchen (very much not my idea), I’m a messy cook, and the room is a rather odd shape, so I was skeptical, but the little robot does a very fine job, even of the grout. Being round, it can’t get the last inch of 90 degree angled corners, but I can’t say that bothers me. Limitation in the bathroom is, of course, that it can’t get behind the toilet. With those exceptions, it gets the floors cleaner than they’ve ever been in my house. (I do not clean recreationally.) My husband, bless him, doesn’t mind cleaning toilets, but he hates floors as much as I do. He considers the Scooba worth the price. Now all we need is a window-washing robot . . .
Thank you! Most helpful.
Now I just have to hope we don’t end up spending all of our money at IKEA.
Ah! I have the Scooba because I dug in my heels against an IKEA trip that my husband wanted. Impossible to resist all the wonderful, inexpensive ways of getting the books on shelves (or the Poang chair–must have Poang chair!). Best of luck.