I was cleaning my tub yesterday and realized that the only reason why I was cleaning it was because I had a really cute hippo cleaning sponge.
See. It’s adorable. The other side is pink and scrubby, but a bit dirty, so I’m not taking a picture of it. That led to a quest to find more adorable cleaning supplies – not things like bath scrubs or whatever – actual cleaning stuff for cleaning actual dirty things.
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1. $48 – Merdolino Toilet Brush from Alessi. Because I want adorable things in my toilet bowl.
2. $10 – Sandwich Sponge from MOMA(their Destination Seoul line).
3. $20 – mini vacumn friends from fred flare. I haven’t had much luck with handheld vacumn cleaners, and I’m not sure how well these work, but they are pretty cute.
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4. $5 – kitchen sponges from Ice Cream Drops Shop. I actually just called them “kitchen sponges” because the actual item’s title was “Kawaii Kitchen Smiley face Sponge-Stew pot Mug”. For efficiency’s sake – they’re kitchen sponges.
5. Just so you don’t think that the Japanese have a corner on the adorable kitchen sponge market, Loofah-Art makes some cute loofah kitchen(and bath) sponges. They’re even biodegradable and all that.
6. $3.50 – more cute kitchen sponges at From Japan With Love. The one pictured is the “Cute Japanese Sponge-Ringo-Cute Apple”. There is also a banana, and an omelette and…
I wonder if Japanese sponge manufacturers sit around trying to outdo each other with cute. Oh! He brought on the Hippo Sponge! Hmmm…it must be time to test the OMELETTE 3000!
7. $11.99 – Leaf Clean Up set, available at Target.
8. $24.95 – I’m sure that if children were threatened with being dipped into a toilet bowl, they would probably be very honest. Hence, the Pinocchio Toilet Brush. That little hat is so cute.
9. $29.99 – Flower Power Broom, available at Target. I think that if you used this broom, woodland creatures would come by and help you clean. But only if you were a pretty, pretty princess.
Unfortunately, I could not find my awesome cleaning sponge anywhere(it was from a japanese market). Oh, hippo sponge.