The Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner
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When you have a house with 3 inside dogs, sometimes it takes an army to keep the house clean! Even though there is only one one dog that sheds, there is one dog, who wishes to remain anonymous, that likes to collect leaves and sprinkle them all over my house. So needless to say, it’s a never ending battle to keep it clean, and I need all the help I can get.
I was so thrilled when the people at iRobot reached out to me again, asking if I’d like to try The Mint + Floor Cleaner. It was perfect timing because I had recently spent some time with Carolyn Forte, Director of the Home Appliances and Cleaning Products Department at Good Housekeeping, and she raved about The Mint cleaner when we discussed robotic floor cleaning devices. So the Mint was on my radar and I was dying to give it a go.
Let me tell you guys………Carolyn wasn’t kidding. The Mint is a DREAM! Not only is she whisper quiet but she’s efficient and does an amazing job! Mint Plus is not a vacuum, it operates quietly so you – and your pets – won’t be disturbed while it cleans.
You may know, I have a few other automatic floor cleaners, but I have to say, The Mint+ is my favorite! I first tested the Mint on my kitchen tile, using the dry sweep mode. The microfiber cloth was super easy to attach to the cleaning pad and with the push of a button the Mint started its business. (I love that I can use the microfiber cloth or I can use disposable Swiffer pads). I left it alone while I ate a cupcake did other housework. I kept checking on it, because I couldn’t hear it, I thought it was stuck and had turned off. I finally left it alone and when I checked on it a little later, the Mint was done. Being that the mint is not a vacuum, I wondered how well it would do……. Well, the proof was in the microfiber cloth, it was filthy! It was a little shocking to see how filthy my floor was!
I then dampened the mopping cloth and used the Pro-Clean Reservoir Pad and had the Mint mop the same floor. Again, I was surprised by how dirty the cloth was when it was finished!
The big shock came, when I ran it in our family room, with laminate floors. The Mint is small and goes under all the furniture, so it catches all the lose dog hair and dust bunnies. I love that I don’t have to move the furniture any more to clean under it.
You can click here to see the Mint in action at my house. It’s a 6 second video clip I made and shared on Vine recently. Are you familiar with Vine? It’s basically a free smart phone app like Instagram, but in video. If you have a Twitter account, it will take just a few minutes to get on Vine.
What does The Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner Do?
It keeps dust and pet hair under control for you. Designed exclusively for hard surface floors, Mint Plus sweeps and mops using dry and pre-moistened cleaning cloths.
Guided by the enhanced NorthStar® Navigation System 2.0, Mint Plus cleans methodically by moving back and forth across open areas in straight lines, working around furniture and rugs, and cleaning along baseboards. Mint Plus’s compact design gets into tight spaces, under furniture and into other areas that are hard to reach with traditional mops and sweepers.
Some of my favorite features of the Mint Plus Floor Cleaner
- Sweeps and Mops: In Sweep mode, Mint Plus uses dry cleaning cloths to pick up dust, dirt and hair, keeping your floors barefoot-friendly every day. In Mop mode, Mint Plus uses wet (or pre-moistened) cloths and a special mopping action to pick up the deeper dirt and grime
- Whisper Quiet: you can work , carry on phone conversations or even sleep while the Mint cleans.
- Fast charging: charges in 4 hour, or turbo charge in 2 hours with the charging cradle
- Easy to use: Simply attach a cleaning cloth, set Mint Plus down and press either the Sweep or Mop button
- Able to clean larger or multiple rooms in a single cleaning cycle, covering up to 350 square feet mopping and 1,000 square feet sweeping (2,000 with an additional NorthStar® Navigation Cube).
- Cleans where vacuums can’t: Because of its small size (only 9.6 x 8.5 x 3.1 inches), Mint Plus can get under sofas, beds, tables, and work in tight corners where large vacuums can’t.
The Mint Plus Automatic Floor Cleaner includes the Mint Plus Cleaner, NorthStar Navigation Cube with 2 C batteries, charger, 3 pack of cleaning cloths (2 dry sweeping cloths and 1 wet mopping cloth), and a Manufacturer’s 1-year limited warranty. Mint works with both disposable cleaning cloths and re-usable microfiber cloths for dry sweeping and wet mopping floors.
If you have pets and hard floors…………YOU NEED THE MINT PLUS! I use it every day, and wake up to clean floors! With a busy life, this is a MUST HAVE! I love that my floors are always clean!
Where to buy the Mint
You can find the Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner at popular retailers near you including Kohl’s, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and even on Amazon. msrp $299.00
Learn more about the Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner at www.irobot.com.
UPDATE: GIVEAWAY has ENDED
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No purchase necessary. Open to US residents only . Must be over 18. Giveaway begins on Feb 13, 2013 will end on Feb 20, 2013 at 11:59 CST. Winner will receive one Mint Plus Automatic Floor Cleaner. Product will be shipped by iRobot Corporation. Prize value approximately $299. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. One winner with a valid entry will be selected at random. Winner will be notified by email by Feb 25, 2013 and will have 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be selected. TidyMom, and iRobot Corporation are not responsible for lost or undelivered emails. Winner will be posted on this blog post by March 30, 2013. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. By entering this giveaway, you have agreed to these rules. Giveaway sponsored iRobot Corporation (mintcleaner.com). This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or Pinterest. We hereby release Facebook and Pinterest of any liability. If you have any additional questions – feel free to [contact us](https://tidymom.net/contact-me/)!
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What an awesome giveaway! With a new baby and a dog, our floors are begging for something like this!
This would allow me to get more done around the house by saving time!
I would love to win the Mint because with 3 boys and 3 dogs, I can never seem to keep the floor cleaned!
We have a dog, a toddler and a new baby on the way… maybe, just maybe the Mint Cleaner is the solution I’ve been dreaming of to keep our floors clean!!
I would love this floor cleaner as I have 3 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog, and 1 husband. 🙂 We are also putting our house on the market in the next month and this would really help me to stay on top of keeping the house show-ready every day. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’d love to win this so while I’m working the house is being cleaned!
I would loveee to win the Mint because of my three small doggies and my 4 year old that are constantly making messes. Plus I heard it’s frowned upon to attach dusting rags to my son’s feet and make him slide across the floor…
With an entire house full of wood laminate and tile (we have exactly one room and one closet that still have carpeting), the Mint would be a dream come true for us! With 2 cats and a 2-year-old, we are constantly cleaning our floors! Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
Oh, this cleaner would be a dream to have!! Two little boys, two dogs and a cat, and all of the floors of our 3-story house to keep clean! I can just picture it zooming around the first floor…..
My friends and family call me the vacuuming machine… I LOVE a clean floor, so I’m always vacuuming! This looks amazing!
I have three large inside dogs one of which is a chow mix. My floors are never clean even after swiffering, mopping, and vaccuming. I would love to win this!
I have 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 kids and ZERO time, lol. I need this!
Sounds like the best thing ever! Would love to win one.
oooh we’re buying a new house (refinishing all of the old wood floors) AND having a new baby in a couple of months – this would really help me to keep the house clean wile taking care of the baby!! 🙂
I would love love love to win the Mint to clean my floors! I do daycare and have 9 kids plus their parents coming in and out of my house on a daily basis. I have a hard time keeping up with all the mess that enters my home. The mint would make my life so much easier!
I have a Golden Retriever who loves to leave deposits of hair everywhere. but we love her anyway!day I dustmop everyday – with homeschooling – this would be a great timesaver!
I have a beagle, and I’m not sure why she’s not bald because she sheds like crazy! This would be a great help!
I’d love to win it because with two cats and three kids with long hair in the house I NEED it!
I have chronic Lyme disease and it would be a great help to have a handy cleaner like this!
I would love to have a Mint, I work, it seems all the time, have two little dogs, that shed way more than they should:) I never seem to have the clean floors that I want.
I would love to win for my Son! He is a bachelor and a clean freak! He lives in dusty Arizona and I would love to win the Mint and gift it to my Son!
Thanks for this giveaway!
I would like an all in one printer because we have six kids and take oodles of pictures – I would like to win the Mint because of all the kids and we also have three indoor dogs – two shedders and one who rolls in dirt 🙂 thanks!
Between our 2 cats and a mix of hardwood and tile, our floors are in desperate need of a good, consistent cleaning. Mint would help so much!
Really help me get ahead of the one household chore I hate !!!!
With a cat, dog and a toddler, I could really use this!
I would LOVE to win the Mint to clean my floors because I have a young dog who LOVES to run through the house at full speed leaving dirt and hair everywhere. I know he will eventually grow out of this stage, but right now I could use some help cleaning! I am sure he would love the entertainment as well! 🙂
Wow, this would be a wonderful gift for my mother! She’s been in the hospital since last week (she slipped and fell on a patch of ice and broke her hip and leg!). I’ve been trying to help out my dad around their home, but this nifty tool would be a great way to keep their main area floors clean until she fully recovers.
lots of kids, dogs, single mom working ft no help would love for someone else to clean floor so i can play with kids
I have been DYING to get my hands on one of these!!!!
This would be so helpful for this busy household that includes a dog! My floors would look great and my back would thank you!!
I have a roomba and would love something that mops!!
One of these would be fabulous in my house. My lab sheds like nobody’s business. It gets in all the food, the washing machine washes the dog hair INTO my clothes, sheesh! If you count the cat hair and all the dirt and leaves my schnauzer brings in, sweeping twice a day doesn’t keep it up. It would be nice to have this little machine to help keep up with them!
I would love to win because it would free up more time for my kids. I have all hardwoods and four kids and two dogs. These floors are always seeing hair and dust bunnies.
I cannot tell you how much I dislike cleaning the floors…even though I love having clean floors! This looks like a dream! And with my messy kids, I can use all the help I can get. So yeah, I’d love it to help me keep all the mud and food off the floor! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
We have a wonderful corgi with a beautiful coat, but most of it ends up on our floor. This product would be a wonderful way to keep up with her!
With 4 kids and pets, this would be a dream come true!!!
I would love to win this for my fiancee so she can do more instead of taking so long to clean!
I have a lot of hardwood floors and vinyl and tile floors. This would be so great to have.
I would love to wint the Mint to clean my floors because I have two kids and I have an above the knee amputation and have difficulty on doing chores.
I have 5 kids and a little TINY dog named Hook. He is an energetic little weeny dog, but he sure does leave a lot of hair on the hard woods and ceramic tiles. I sweep DAILY and mop weekly. It’s a LOT to do in a large house and would LOVE to have something like this to help ME.
Our small family spends most of our time downstairs in a tiled basement as our living room while we stay with the in-laws, it is so hard to keep clean as everything upstairs gets tracked downstairs plus having a very active toddler. This cleaner would be a lifesaver and we’d love it to help with the daily need to clean our floor!
Wow. Awesome giveaway. I was confused though because it said to tell you why I would love to own to own the new Envy printer! It would be awesome to have my own printer at home to use. I currently use my hubby’s 😉 I would also love this mint. My floors are always dirty with 4 small kids home. This would be fabulous.
This would help me with all the cat hair floating around!
wow…I totally need this like a lot of people. I’ve got the zoo at my house…animal hair EVERYWHERE!
100 lb Dog, 20 lb baby. I feel like that’s all I need to say. 🙂
I would love this to clean up the puppy paw prints and dirt my new puppy brings in the house – especially living in the Midwest, we will be going through the great meltdown very soon and the puppy tracks will consist of a lot of mud!
I need this sooooo badly to keep me under control. Don’t like to clean, and this would be soooo helpful!
With 3 kids and a dog this would be help me keep up with the floors!
I would love to win this to save myself so much time. I’ve got two kids who track in all kinds of dirt from our desert yard.
We are planning an addition, replacing our carpet with hardwood/laminate floors. I will definitely need this when that time comes. Plus, I won’t feel so guilty about the dog coming in! 🙂