The Museum of Clean

We left the mountains and drove to Pocatello so that we could spend a few days with our friends Jeff and Tina with whom we became friends on our Baja Trip in 2015. We also needed to do laundry and grocery shop. They were staying in the Portneuf Recreational Complex, formerly the county fairgrounds, so thats were we camped also. Most of this morning was spent catching up with Jeff and Tina. It was a very pleasant morning with the clouds keeping the heat down until almost noon. 

The one place John wanted to visit in Pocatello was The Museum of Clean. When John was working he did business with the founder, Don Aslett. We asked at the front desk if Mr. Aslett was still living and the volunteer said that he most certainly was and at age 82 he wast still doing tours through the museum. About that time he completed a tour and John introduced himself to Don. It took a bit but he did remember Zephyr and John. He then showed us around some and gave John three of the 29 books he has written about how to clean and organize. He took the time to autograph them too.

It is a really neat museum, geared towards kids, with a hands-on kind of atmosphere. Don want kids to know that cleaning is not just women’s work!! If you stop to think about it, there are dozens of ways to clean, not just with a broom, mop or brush and not just floors. We saw antique washing machines, floor scrubbers, vacuum cleaners, toilets, bathtubs, and a dentist’s office. Army soldiers put water in their helmets to clean their face, fish keep the oceans clean, window washers, chimney sweeps, and cleaning products. Someone had been very busy taking old cleaning item parts and making them into sculptures of dinosaurs and robots. We enjoyed this very much.