This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Clorox.
We love our house. Since we have moved in we have made improvements and adjustments to the home to make it really ours. We love all of it. Well, almost all of it. You see, when you have small children who are recently potty trained, there is one area of the house that will always be icky.
The Toilet Gap. That awful, unnecessary span of floor between the back of the base of the toilet and the wall. It is hands-down the ickiest place in any home that is occupied by small boys. No matter how many Cheerios you try to have them sink or target decals you add to the inside of the bowl, there are going to be… misfires. And those misfires generally end up, you guessed it, in the Toilet Gap.
In my experience there are 17 distinct stages of dealing with the Cursed Toilet Gap:
1. Notice a distinctive “boy smell” in the bathroom.
2. Mentally count back the days, erm, weeks since you last gave the bathroom a thorough bleaching.
3. Mentally calculate how to wedge “Maid Service” into your monthly budget.
4. Curse your monthly budget and the cost of maid service.
5. Curse that horrible toilet gap between the base of the toilet and the wall.
6. Consider inventing basketball hoop-style toilet backboard specifically for households with small boys.
7. Determine how to spend first million earned from genius invention (answer = on maid service).
8. Snap out of daydream and get to work.
9. Locate opera-length rubber cleaning gloves, Clorox wipes, bleach spray, paper towels, and gas mask.
10. Curse the toilet gap again.
11. Consider benefits of outhouses: A) No cleaning B) Eco-responsible, sustainable-type living C) No cleaning
12. On hands and knees, stick your face into an area of your home that was never meant for your face.
13. Scrub and gag and scrub and disinfect. Try not to breathe.
14. Dispose of wipes, towels, gloves, and whatever clothing you were wearing into a proper Hazmat disposal unit.
15. Step back and enjoy your sparkling clean, disinfected bathroo….
16. Hear your son knocking on the door because he needs to use the bathroom.
17. Curse the toilet gap again.
A mom’s life is full of moments like these — true, spontaneous and imperfect. Some of these moments are even downright icky, but Clorox is here to help you laugh through the mess. Second City Communications will be turning tweets into #ickies video skits throughout the awards show. You can help pick the winners by voting for your favorites and win big as they give out $2,500 in prizes. The Clorox Ick Awards Twitter Event will be held on April 9 from 6-10 p.m. ET Don’t forget to visit Clorox’s website and sign up for Clorox’s email newsletter to learn more.
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Thanks, Jessica
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