POCATELLO, Idaho — Don Aslett may be more than a half-century into his fight against dirt and clutter, but he still can’t take a stroll without bending to pick up litter from the sidewalk.
As a child, he can remember cringing at the site of spilled coffee grounds and finding it strange that other boys didn’t like to clean their rooms. Even now at the age of 76, his battle against grit and grime has yet to relent.
Those who may not understand his devotion, he reasons, have likely never felt the satisfaction of making a toilet bowl shine.
“I’ll tell you, clean is a hard sell,” said Aslett, who founded a janitorial business with branches in most states and Canada. And now, he has a six-story Museum of Clean, recently opened to the public in Pocatello. Among the exhibits: a horse-drawn vacuum dating to 1902; a collection of several hundred pre-electric vacuum cleaners; a Civil War-era operating table; a 1,600-year-old bronze pick that was used to clean teeth; and an antique Amish foot bath.
