Now to clean up the glitter contamination

[gmerkt]

With the holidays nearly over, it's time to clean up the glitter contamination. Earlier this year I put new hard floors in two rooms that were previously carpeted. Areas where holidays are celebrated. Carpet hides glitter. Glitter on hard floors glints this way and that, depending upon how the light hits it. Kind of a nuisance to clean up. I don't think it's ever gone 100%. It comes from different in-home sources. Some comes on greeting cards. Some wrapping paper has it in the design. Some Christmas ornaments are decorated with it.

Around here, I'm the glitter remediation man. My wife thinks sweeping is good enough. It isn't. And an upright vacuum isn't much use to get it up. So I use one of my canister vacuum cleaners with a decent floor attachment to get it up as best I can. I have about a dozen different vacuum cleaners, not counting shop vacs, so should be set on that count.

Some women wear make-up that contains glitter. A couple of years ago, I was given some fruit preserves that contain glitter. My grand children come over with glitter on them.

I've read that glitter is becoming an environmental concern, "micro plastic" they call it. It's tiny and gets into everything including organisms in nature.

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[Kruel J]

Most strip clubs have ditched it. Tough to hide that "business meeting" with glitter all over everything.

 

[Member 34319]

Completely off topic, but your glitter problem made me think of this video.

Back in high school we glitter bombed a friend AC ducts. I guarantee there is a Honda Civic rolling around out there still, full of glitter. He must of vacuumed it 20 times, stuff just doesn't come out.

 

[edzz]

But its shiny...

Why my wife has to spread glitter for the holidays. And it never is truly gone.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

So there I was...
Giving a talk on the fur trade and firearms of that era...
I was explaining how everything on my person was original to the era or new made , but historically correct.

As I was demonstrating how to load and fire a flintlock , an original working one of mine circa 1800...
I reach into my shooting bag and pull out :
A powder charger....which was hand made by me...
Some linen patches.... New but period correct to the era of the rifle , circa 1800...
A hand cast .58 caliber round ball....
And .....Purple and Silver glitter....
I am fairly certain that Kt Carson and Jim Bridger never had that problem...
Andy

 

[Koda]

I kinda dig the idea of my hardwood floors glittering in the corners. Kinda detracts from the fact I don't clean them enough.

Sometimes "bling" is a good thing.