Woody Cavenaugh

As you may recall, I am a big fan of the Roomba. Roomba filled a hole in our married but still somehow bachlor lifestyle. Roomba makes us pick up our stuff, then it vaccuums our floors. Roomba is family. But there was still a hole in our lives. Sara would occasionally use a swiffer wet to try to get the kitchen floor clean. By occasionally, I mean time measured in full moons. I'm not knocking her, I've never touched the swiffer at all except to move it out of my way. The same can be said for the vaccuum cleaner in the days before Roomba. Yesterday thanks to woot.com, our Scooba arrived in the mail. What roomba does for dust, dirt, cat hair, and other particles, Scooba does for our kitchen floor with the power of mopping!

So how does it work? It brought tears to my eyes. While Roomba made our lives such that we didn't have to worry about tracking mud outside when we got out of the shower, Scooba makes it possible to reintroduce the 5 second rule to foods dropped in the kitchen. Those cheese puffs won't get away that easily anymore! Thank you Scooba!

Scooba uses a particular "Scooba Fluid" made by Clorox, it contains no bleach and is designed especially for this amazing plastic pal. It takes only a small ammount of scooba fluid and Target sells the Scooba and its fluid should you run out today to get one. The device itself is ever so slightly taller than roomba, and when you see it in action most of what you are looking at is its tanks. One for clean water, one for dirty water.

The Scooba will check the room out, mop, squeegie, and dry itself off before shutting down. Thanks to the miracles of modern technology the Scooba is even smarter than the Roomba and is even more user friendly to use. The Roomba will tell you what's wrong with a series of beeps, the Scooba will tell you with text and friendly lights.

Scooba will clean our kitchen and hall in about 45 minutes. All we have to do is empty the tank, clean the easy to clean parts, drop the battery in the charger and wait for the floor to dry before we serve food on it. I LOVE SCOOBA.

But don't take my word for it. Read the Woot! blog on it or better yet, listen to the podcast. "I'm in your kitchen and I'm cleanin yer floorz"