<p>I was even able to find this funny…</p>
<p>New person who cleans our house, I guess she didn’t read the label too carefully… she cleaned alllll the wood floors (and wood stairs!) in our house with</p>
<p>orange oil FURNITURE POLISH eeeek! </p>
<p>DD slipped in the hallway, but she’s okay. I’ve rewashed the floors and stairs three times now with white vinegar, we’re just about back to normal…</p>
<p>Yikes! What a mess!</p>
<p>I always walk around the house in socks (as should anyone named “sushi” !!) I learned long ago that lemon Pledge should NEVER be used on floors!!</p>
<p>(I’m glad you can laugh but it is really not that funny. Very dangerous!)</p>
<p>My mother paste waxed all of the floors in our house weekly when I was a kid, all hardwood. Daddy used to laugh and say he could tell when it was wax day because he wouldn’t stop until he hit the back wall when he came in from work. Mom was a clean machine in those days. She even waxed the bed slats. I did spend more than a few evenings in the emergency room getting my upper lipped stitched from sock feet on waxed floors.</p>
<p>I once cleaned the floors with orange oil polish. Gorgeous clean floors—and a splitting headache from the fumes. Open those windows!</p>
<p>I must be the last person in the world who waxes floors. I love a good freshly waxed floor and even own a buffer. But we’re a barefoot house, not a sock house, so it’s not too slippery.</p>
<p>Oh lord, I did that once. When I was very young (that’s my excuse, anyway)I cleaned oak risers on my new staircase with pledge to make them look nice. H slid all the way down. He was OK, but I’ve heard about it ever since and will certainly hear about it till my deathbed.</p>
<p>Something similar just happened to me. Had a mini dining disaster when I spilled some turkey gravy all over the kitchen floor. Even after cleaning it two or three times it was still extremely slippery. Afterwards, I heard that in situations like that you need to use something that will specifically cut the grease, ie. liquid Ajax dishwashing liquid or ammonia or sprinkle baking powder. I’ll bet vinegar would have worked also.</p>