I bought a $30 item from Kmart - and it's my favourite cleaning find of 2025

Daily Mail​

13-05-2025

A humble household chore item has been declared the 'cleaning find of 2025' – and it can be purchased for just $30.
A recent video shared to the Kmart Australia social media accounts demonstrated the 3-in-1 Mop and Bucket Set, with fans quickly pouring into the comments section to confirm it's 'the best mop I've ever used'.
While a mop hardly sounds like a groundbreaking cleaning tool, the mass budget retailer's latest offering stands apart thanks to some clever upgrades to the mop bucket itself.
The biggest difference is the mop's unique three-chamber separation bucket.
As explained in the voice over, this chamber system removes a common gripe people have while mopping.
'One of the reasons why I didn't enjoy mopping in the past was it felt like I was just moving around dirty water on the floors,' they confirmed.
The correlating caption on the video post confirmed that the unique bucket chamber 'keeps clean and dirty water separate – so every swipe actually helps clean'.
Demonstrating the three-chamber system in action, the video starts by showing how to fill the far-right chamber with fresh water and detergent.
The video then proceeds along to the middle chamber, which has a tap-like dial on top of the bucket, which allows clean sudsy water to filter in from the first chamber.
On top of the middle chamber is a slim opening for the mop head to be neatly inserted and dipped into the clean water.
Next, as you wring the mop by lifting it up and out of the bucket, any watery remnants from the mop pad filter into the adjacent third 'dirty water' compartment.
'When you lift this up, it rings the dirty water out on this side,' explains the video voice over.
The video also explained that in the event the third 'dirty water' compartment needed to be emptied, there was also a convenient 'nozzle' cap on the side that can be released to allow dirty water to drain out of the side of the bucket.
One of the other features highlighted in the video was its ability to be compactly stored, which is especially useful for those in smaller homes where storage space is at a premium.
All the mop's components can be disassembled and neatly packed into the bucket itself – which also helps prevent losing any parts.
The microfibre mop heads are additionally detachable and machine washable.
In the event that the mop heads become completely worn out, Kmart also stock a 2-pack of Mop Set Refills for $4.
Kmart shoppers took to the comments section to declare their excitement over the simple yet 'gamechanger' upgrade to the basic mop and bucket.
'I absolutely love this mop - I threw out my expensive one for this!' said one happy convert adding, that their 'floors have never been so clean'.
'I bought one today and I absolutely love it,' said another.
'The best mop I've ever used!' chimed in a third.
'This is game changer. I love it! Cheap and working great,' added another happy customer.
Other online Kmart fans noted the additional cleaning 'hack' of using this mop as a wall cleaning device.
'The best wall washer,' said one fan.
'I do home cleaning and this is, a life saver, for wall, ceilings and floors, win-win,' confirmed another.
'[W]alls + grubby kids + this mop = clean walls,' read part of a third comment.
The new 3-in-1 Mop Bucket is just the latest Kmart cleaning tool that's upped the mundane task of house chores.
The budget retailer also recently released the Anko Robotic Vacuum, which promptly sold out online and is extremely difficult to find in stores.
The $169 Kmart item has been heralded as a great value entry-level robotic vacuum that works well on light messes and is ideal for small households.
This robo vac is also marketed as a 3-in-1 device, which can simultaneously 'sweep, vacuum and mop', thanks to the addition of a water tank attachment and mop head.