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« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2001, 10:39:05 am » |
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Ellen:
I'm with you, girlfriend! I have a magnet that reads: "Please pray for me. My husband collects trains!"
Came home from work one day to a dark object in the toaster oven. Upon closer examination I realized it was a model steam locomotive in there! As my jaw dropped, DH looked at me with a wide-eyed smile that belonged on an eight-year-old and said, "I'm baking the paint!"
OK, my toaster oven is now an HO scale paint shed... I GIVE UP!
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« Reply #31 on: August 03, 2001, 11:04:27 am » |
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Didface:
Oh Lord! And I thought mine was bad. I would have kicked his butt for that. Do husbands ever grow up?
Ellen (Please God, don't let my DH collect anything) in TX
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radaro
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« Reply #32 on: August 03, 2001, 02:48:40 pm » |
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My husband is on vacation this month (he's a teacher) so he is supposed to do the housework today. Just got a voice mail from him that everything but the vacuuming is done. Wonder what the house looks like?
Still waiting for Snow White!
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« Reply #34 on: August 03, 2001, 05:02:27 pm » |
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Swiffer?! Good Lord woman, I own them all, Swiffer Wet, Swiffer Dry, and Swiffer hand mitten, I just dont have time to USE them... and by the way money ceases to be an incentive for housework around the age of ten, just so you know. Well actually around the age of ten they begin to negotiate, and say things like... A dollar?! you're kidding right?
Now about these baseboards,,, you really ARE supposed to dust those things?! I musta missed that episode of Martha Stewart. And the house rule on ceiling fans is,,, when little hangy things develop, it's time to clean them, same with window blinds.
And while we're on the subject, The dearest friends I have in the world, who I never get to see anymore, spend a weekend day from time to time moving their refrigerator and stove out to clean behind them and under them. Now don't get me wrong I love these people more than I can ever tell you, but have to consider suspect, togetherness that involves the movement of heavy appliances. now I ask you, is this slightly warped? do other people do this? I thought the stove and the refrigerator were protected zones, "don't move that honey you'll upset the environmental habitat." I mean do I really WANT to be responsible for the destruction of the entire portion of an ecosystem that swiffer can't reach?!
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« Reply #35 on: August 03, 2001, 08:16:48 pm » |
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To my Chucktown:
The best way to clean the fan when the hangy thing begins to grow is to reverse the direction, and then get outta the way!
From one who knows...
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« Reply #36 on: August 04, 2001, 03:47:55 am » |
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:dies laughing: Yeah, it's sad but I know that wink!
:rollin
but what about this refrigerator moving thing,, is this well,,,,abberant?
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« Reply #37 on: August 04, 2001, 09:06:48 am » |
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I have never moved a refrigerator ... just the other day I discovered the top part of my stove comes off - eeeeeeeeeww! The lady we bought our house from said she cleaned ... guess what, she lied! So now I'm thinkin' these things oughtta be checked out ... I'll let you know what He-Man Scott says ...
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« Reply #38 on: August 04, 2001, 09:39:53 am » |
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Ohhhhhhhh, winkie: stand back when you move the fridge for the first time and the stove, for that matter. It truly is a whole 'nother world down there. A world that makes you very happy that it only needs to be visited about twice a year. A little more often for the faint of heart.
NC - the offer to come steam vac is open to you anytime!
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« Reply #39 on: August 04, 2001, 10:16:56 am » |
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Once a year for the appliances, or you get really nasty smells from dropped food and - gulp! - mice!
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« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2001, 12:43:19 am » |
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Now I don't feel so bad. My mother will move the fridge out every six months. I inherited mine from my grandfather and it makes this God awful noise when the fan starts up, but it works. But when is seem to stop being as cold as it should I mentioned it to my mom. She asked if I had ever vacuumed the vent on the front. I was speechless since it had never crossed my mind to ever do that. As far moving the stove, I settle for just taking the drawer out from the bottom and sweeping once in a while.
I checked out the FlyLady site. Is this lady kidding? If I went around my house and found 27 things to throw out everyday I wouldn't own any knick knacks or books and my kids wouldn't have any of there stuff left. I think I'll just settle for making it a habit to put something away or throw out the junk mail, kiddie scribbles and note taking papers that seem to grow on my tables each time I make a trip to the kitchen for snacks. If I can get my kids to do that too, the house might stay clean. {I can dream, right??? }
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« Reply #41 on: August 04, 2001, 01:05:27 pm » |
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That's one thing I don't do - is move the stove & fridge to clean (probably because hubby would absolutely refuse to move them for me!). But I do admit to lifting the stove top & cleaning under there fairly frequently (ok, I admit it - I did it this morning -- okay, okay, I also cleaned the oven ::sigh:: the things you guys drag out of me. . . ) But I never thought about taking that bottom drawer out, or vacuuming the fridge vent. . . hmmm
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« Reply #42 on: August 04, 2001, 09:24:07 pm » |
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nc - Now that I've spent the day with my new Hoover Farrington, you *should* be drooling, baby! That sucker has brushes that whirl and twirl and beat out a jungle rhythm to get the crud out of the carpet; heck, it even has a SURGE button. That's right! Need more clean? SURGE, baby, SURGE: Hoover Inferno! (Yes, I really do dance with the steam vac. It's no fun, though, unless you get the left arm going like Debra Winger's in Urban Cowboy, though, too!) Hubby and I almost coughed up a hairball, though, when we dumped the first bucket of dirty carpet water down the toilet. We feel like human beings again, and we owe it all to Mr. Farrington. "Hoovie" has performed nothing less than a miracle to our very abused carpets today. We are once again the proud owners of off-WHITE basement carpet, not 50-foods-stained berber!
Bethalize - Yes, 27 things at a crack: throw them away, but it's not every day. It's like once a week. I think I found about 2700 things to toss on my first attempt, though. (Does my garbage dude love me?! You know it.) Add to that about 25 trips to the thrift store (2700 things to give away, dontcha know), and you'll understand why there is a job for the SuperFLY out there! The packrats are out there. Trust me; some of us can find 27 things to throw away - - no sweat at all.
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« Reply #43 on: August 04, 2001, 09:33:53 pm » |
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Yup, GE that would be me. I've been cleaning cause of an upcoming event at my house this week and let me tell you, we did the back of the refrigerator thing today, inside the kitchen closet thing, those nasty doors with the many levels and pull out had to do each one today individually, man I hate those style of doors. Clean the microwave inside and out today, and I know we threw more than 27 items out today on one table, so that should make flylady happy today. I still have some clothes to go thru and donate, but that will be another day.
Just getting one thing at a time here and we'll get there. Oh and did I mention I had lots of help from DH today for most of the day. Kitchen looks livable again. Hard to believe those kitchen floors can get SO dirty in a week too. Between the two of us we mopped 4 times and that water was nasty when we were done.
Not done cleaning yet here...still working like a busy beaver.
100 Mile and Hour Fluff and Stuff comin up this week.
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bethalize
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« Reply #44 on: August 05, 2001, 07:30:46 am » |
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I can totally go with the decluttering - but I do it every six months or so.
When I get a blitz everything has to be kept because we use it, kept because we might use it or kept because of sentimental reasons. Anything else can go.
I find that stuff moves down the ladder, and eventually I decide that if I haven't used it in two years, I never will. Call it a half-life.
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