When The Outside Comes Inside

Winter might be fine if you never had to go outside. Sure, the view from the window isn’t as nice. Stale snow or gray dead ground. No leaves on the trees. But luckily, you don’t have to look at it for long, because it gets dark at, like, 4:30! Which, okay, is not great.

But still, the real issue of winter is bundling up and braving the elements to go anywhere, whether it’s out for a fancy dinner or to the convenience store for a bag of chips and a some ice melt.

And worst of all: every time you come back inside, you bring a little bit of the outside with you.

That’s right, friends; we’ve arrived at peak track-shit-into-the-house season. Even the most fastidious among us–the most authoritarian enforcers of the shoes-off-at-the-door policy, the most intense mat stampers, the people who actually use those foot-brush things–even they will manage to drag in a little bit of winter’s nastiness and spread it across their pristine tile floor.

So, if you want to keep a clean house in the winter, it takes one of two things:

1. You either need to work really hard; we’re talking multiple vacuuming, sweeping, and mopping sessions a week, just to maintain a level of basic presentability;

OR…

2. You buy one of these things.

It’ll vacuum AND mop. And, according to the marketing copy, it’ll do so smartly (thanks to something called TrueDetect, a laser-based 3D technology that helps it avoid obstacles) and powerfully (with 2600Pa suction, which is a number we read and are now repeating with no knowledge about what it means).

Does it live up to this promise? Sure seems to based on its overall rating of 4.1 out of 5 on Amazon, where it costs about $350. You know, more than $150 more than our price today.

So get one, and combat track-shit-in-season with minimal effort!