Floor: 1, Humans: 0

Well I have to admit that the floor in our house is KICKING OUR ASSES!!! I'm SO tired I can barely type... but the defeat was resounding and I have to broadcast it, so... Well, we really wanted to do stained concrete floors in our new house. Well, 1975 house... the carpet was hideous, old, stained, and disgusting, and there were 3 layers of tile in the kitchen/dining and bathrooms. We yanked it all out, and ever since we have been scraping, sanding, scraping, sanding, to no avail. The carpet glue and the mastic from the tile is NOT coming up! We even rented a drum sander today, hoping it would sand right off. Ack! We were wrong! The machine barely made a dent! Sigh!! $80 wasted... dreams of stained concrete floors, dashed... the only floor that is free of goo is the gameroom, so we are going to stain that one... but the others, there's no way the stain would penetrate. So, friends, what do we do? We don't have enough money to put in wood floors right now (which was our ultimate goal anyway, the stained concrete was just going to be for the meantime). We don't want to put down tile or vinyl. Definitely no carpet. So, maybe paint the floor? That's all I can think of... and might be able to do a cool technique to make it look mottled like a stained concrete floor would have. Guess I'll be searching the web for a while. If any of you out there are ever tempted to do what we tried, let me just warn you - DON'T! Imagine the project in your mind... then imagine it 10 times worse. Just DON'T do it!