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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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My brother has a self cleaning one. It doesn't just vacuum, it also has builtin water and cleaning solution to mop the floors. It goes into a base station and gets it's dirty water cleaned out and is rinsed out as well as charged.
He had it for a couple of weeks and showed it to me. I asked how often do you need to clean the base station. Like replace the water, add new cleaning solution, clean it out etc. He said he didn't know and hadn't done that once.
So we checked the manual, yeah you were supposed to replace the water and cleaning solution daily and clean the inside of the tank. You also should manually clean the robot at least once every three days, preferably every day. So who knows what was growing inside that machine, getting spread out across the floors every day.
I think I'll stick to manually cleaning for at least the foreseeable future.
Mine has two containers. The one is for the dirty water that does not go to the vacuum again.
I have one like that. It’s brilliant. It has a vacuum in the base station so it sucks out the water/rubbish in the actual vacuum. I love it. Makes cleaning so much easier
I use cleaning time as excuse to drink and listen to podcasts