The new #SwifferDad videos hit the (cleaning) spot #ad

This is a sponsored post and we were compensated for it.  All thoughts and stories, regardless of how messy are true and our own. It’s a cliché to say that dads don’t clean. In some cases the spouse is much cleaner than them and that is 100% the case in our family. My wife is clean.  People don’t marry a guy to change them to the clean side.  However, sometimes I do feel like I need to ask my wife trick questions just to confirm that she’s not part of a deep undercover project being done by P & G.  SwifferDads  launched recently and showcases three real dads, in their natural habitat.

Prior to being a dad I was a slob. Truth be told, I’m still a work in progress and my future self will flash back to my current self and chastise me for housekeeping and questionable fashion. This weekend I’m going to stop wearing that Limp Biscuit 1998 tour tee shirt, I promise.

I once cleaned the house with a leaf blower, marveled at the wonders of a lint roller and had only one bowl in my kitchen. When my girlfriend, much later to-be wife saw the one bowl (but I had four plates!), she said, “but what if you have company over and you’re eating soup?” “I don’t eat soup”, I said.

Back then the dogs, cats and I were living happily in a small house with my futon on the floor. But, I still had a swifter. The biggest mess back then was animal hair and there was a lot of it.  If I didn’t keep a handle on it then things got ugly real quick (See: the time I cleaned the house with a leaf blower)

Now that I’m a stay at home dad the messes are more numerous and diverse. We still have some animal hair from the one and happy golden retriever, but the majority of the messes come from the two small humans. They spill, drop craisins on the floor and step on them, track dirt inside and more.

We were sent a Swiffer WetJet to have it assist with the floors. For the record it really is a wet jet. After you put in two AA batteries and insert the cleaning liquid all it takes is the push of a button and out squirts cleaning solution.

For the ground-in gunk on the kitchen floor we just tilted up the WetJet a bit and used the brush on the end to help things out. The cleaning sticks onto the end of stick with a Velcro-like thing. It’s quick, simple and much easier than dragging out the floor cleaning device that you need to plug in.

The #SwifterDad campaign is real. I know because one of the dads profiled is a friend of mine and I met another one of them. See dad.  See dad clean.

The videos are hosted by Anthony Anderson and show the dads cleaning, playing and just doing what they do.  It’s a slice of honest dad living that has rocketed itself to a tie for my favorite Swifter spot with the angry, old man complaining about throw pillows and lasers for cats to play with.

Swiffer also provided us with a second box to provide to another dad.  We gave it to a friend of ours whose wife is about to have their second child.  They’ll be entering a whole new world of messes in the near future.