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HAWAI‘I’S FAVORITE MEDIA SURVEY By Kelli Shiroma Braiotta If you could be any fictional character,
Mr. Clean
who would it be and why?
You may not believe this, but I take an active role in keeping our house clean. I do feel I share an equal part of this responsibility, and I’m pretty sure my wife will vouch for me on this. Only as long as doing the laundry doesn’t count.
Growing up, since my dad was hardcore Army, we each had specific cleaning chores we had to perform every day before we could even breathe. Of course, he would inspect our work to make sure we didn’t “Beetle Bailey” the tasks.
DANI VALDEZ
Honolulu, Content Creator
“Sherlock Holmes. I love riddles, finding clues
and solving puzzles, and Sherlock Holmes is always looking for clues that are related to crime. Being
a detective sounds so interesting.”
LANDEN TSUDA
Kalihi, Content Creator
“I would definitely pick Harry Potter because I could teleport or clean with a swish and flick.”
MAE WAITE
Honolulu, Painter and Illustrator
“I would want to be Garfield so I could be lazy and eat lasagna every day.”
CAMERON COLE
‘Ewa Beach, Front Desk Agent
“Kirby from Nintendo so I can inhale all the food I can eat with no repercussions.”
Our mom pretty much set the bar for the level of cleaning. She also instilled in me many of the methods and products that I continue to use to this very day. Even though there are probably hundreds of products available in the modern world for cleaning that are environmentally friendly or prod- uct safe, I still use her arsenal of cleaning products.
Clorox, Comet and Windex will basically clean anything that comes your way, including an oil tanker leak or nuclear power plant meltdown. If I throw in my Portuguese mother- in-law’s weapon, Lysol, I could probably sanitize a landfill.
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A MINDFUL MOMENT
Alice Inoue
Remember A How To Play
s children, most of us hated chores and looked forward to playtime — whether by ourselves or with friends. Responsibility
was something that was taught. Fun was some- thing that we were naturally drawn to. Pandemic restrictions took many of us further away from the “playtime” we used to spend with others. If you haven’t started thinking about reconnecting to that inner part of you that has the capacity to have fun — similar to the way you were as a child — now is the time.
We all need to heal in one way or another, and playing promotes healing. Give yourself permis- sion to release your spirit.
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My mom also insisted on specific household products, which I can only imagine she used because of successful ad campaigns. We used Charmin toilet paper, Bounty paper towels, Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, saran wrap, Dawn dishwashing liquid, Pledge furniture polish and Brillo scour- ing pads. My dad contributed the use of Kiwi shoe polish and Brasso metal polish because, of course, Army.
This is not to say I haven’t tried to modernize our cleaning tools. For instance, I can confidently say that by far the best thing I have ever bought for the upkeep of our home has been a Dyson vacuum cleaner. It truly sucks and I mean that in a good way. I have always been able to suck up a loose thread on the carpet in one pass. (Unlike with past vacuums where I had to run over it a thousand times but ultimately have to pick it up with my fingers and then manually feed it into the vacuum.)
On the other end of the modern cleaning tools spectrum is the Swiffer wet mop. I have never been successful at using it, for I can’t get the wet pad to stay on the mop head. It takes me 10 minutes to secure it on the mop, leaving my hands wet with the cleaning solution on the pad. After the first push on the floor, the pad comes off and I’ll attempt to secure it on the mop head. Again, the pad comes off. Profusely swearing, I’ll place the pad on the floor and push it around with my foot. That’s when my wife walks onto the scene making me look like the laziest man in America. “Ron, really? If you don’t want to mop the floor, just leave it for me!”
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