[FIXED] Outdoor puddle wont disappear

It can't be mopped outside unless you are apparently a neat freak. 

the only way around it that I found at this time is the "save house to library, bulldoze lot, and replace home" method. 

However be warned that collectibles and painting skill crafted paintings will be lost (and not sure about gardening food in fridge) but plants in garden may be, I do not recall now -- if you are not careful. Put all items of value in personal or home inventory. 

Garden plants can go in to home inventory one at a time (not while in planter boxes). I posted my experiences on this on the original bugs thread in the forum but don't have the links saved.

I've had this problem too since I first installed the game.  Without mods, with mods.  It   is really unrealistic.   No gardener is going to spread water all over the yard while watering and if they do spill a little it would quickly soak in without leaving a trace.    Indoors they would be even more careful than outside.

The worst part of this is that when visitors come to the front door  (near where I did have my garden plants though have now moved them)  they constantly complain about the mess.  That too is very unrealistic.  I certainly would not be so rude as to act like that at someone else's home and if someone did it at my house I would ask them to leave. And tell them off.

Anyway thanks to those who posted workarounds.