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Post by bjd on Dec 23, 2013 16:45:42 GMT
Kerouac, you mean those television commercials show real life? I'll be damned! I thought they were just pretending because they are always smiling so much as they whisk the dirt away with no effort.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 22:12:43 GMT
Wow, I should have unexpected houseguests more often. You would not believe how much cleaning can be done when someone requests overnight asylum and is arriving in less than two hours.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 23, 2013 23:12:39 GMT
Wonder which cupboards/closets/shelves you're hoping they won't look into.
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Post by htmb on Dec 23, 2013 23:15:54 GMT
Yes. That's a good things to have happen occasionally, but will you be able to find everything you stuffed into drawers, closets and under the beds later? ;D
I used to play a game with my mind when my older three children were little (in diapers). I'd plan to clean and tell myself a "dignitary-type person" would be dropping by in two hours. Then I would triage and get the most noticeable stuff cleaned first.
By the time the fourth child came along, I was working/back in school, and the others were pre-teens I had given up this nonsense.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 14:07:46 GMT
Now that my husband's cat Grazie is blind, for the first time in 13 or so years, I don't have to dread the carnage of various creatures, rodents, birds etc. awaiting us upon our return home. It was almost as if he was saying, "maybe if I bring in a couple more things, they will get back soon."
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Post by htmb on Dec 31, 2013 19:25:14 GMT
The tree is gone, 2/3 of the decorations have been packed up and, best of all, the pantry and frig have been cleaned out and all the trash is now in the dumpster. I'm looking forward to getting everything back in order before I have to return to work because I know I'll have limited housework time at that point. It will be nice to have a house that no longer fits in this thread!
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Post by tod2 on Feb 7, 2014 12:32:00 GMT
I'm working on my 2014 spring cleaning effort.....slowly...very slowly. I've done the study but not attacked the chest of drawers or my bookcase lately. My house is cleaned every day because I am extremely lucky to have a housekeeper/maid and gardener. If I had to do it I don't think we would live in any but two rooms - the kitchen and the bedroom If I put too many magazines or other items on my dining table or sideboard my maid tells me off and makes me tidy up - atta girl! My big weakness is stuffing things into cupboards and drawers to make everything look shipshape - just like the video clip!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2014 16:11:42 GMT
Me too! Then you need some important piece of paper, forget that you crammed it along with a bunch of other stuff into some obscure corner, & have a panicky meltdown. After that, you're too emotionally exhausted to do any cleaning.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 16:32:27 GMT
I have two sets of house company due to arrive next month and am having to conquer some areas that have gone neglected. Gratefully, neither set of people are OCD clean freaks, and, my bathrooms and kitchen, eating areas are almost always very clean. I was kind of dreading that another set was coming, one of them a major OCD clean freak who wouldn't have lasted one day, let alone one night in our house, she is that particular. Gratefully, they are staying at a Guest House so one less stressor....PHEW!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT
My place was messier than I would have liked when I had to have to locksmith open my door a few weeks ago. I'm one of those people who will not actually clean house if a plumber or the meter reader is coming, but I will at least pick up stray clothing or discarded newspapers. However, a locksmith is one of the rare people for whom you can't prepare ahead of time (along with police and firemen, I suppose). I was just happy that my computer screen was displaying Any Port in a Storm when we entered the apartment and not a page of porn or something.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 10, 2017 22:50:47 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2017 23:53:18 GMT
That would be so much better if it showed the people who went with each house. I didn't get very far in because of my impatience with clicking instead of scrolling, but deeply admired the first one with the antlers. This is a nice picture of me:
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2017 13:30:20 GMT
It is just as I imagined you, Bixa, maybe a little blood still on your spear and your antlers screwed in evenly...Have you been a...er...buxom lass all your adult life? there is surgery nowadays, I am told.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 11, 2017 14:14:57 GMT
Nice rack!
(You can take that either way, Bixa!)
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Post by bjd on Mar 12, 2017 10:18:53 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 12, 2017 12:44:35 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 12, 2017 16:16:54 GMT
Ha ha ~ yes! I read that article a few days ago & have been laughing about "keep child alive" ever since.
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 25, 2017 17:59:53 GMT
I have a cleaner now so my house is cleaner than it's ever been!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 26, 2017 18:53:57 GMT
me too....(altho I must admit that I do clean the inside of the microwave quite often)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 0:56:50 GMT
I, uh, this morning saw "something" with hair and the like hopping on my stairs.
The "something" was a tree frog, gratefully still very much alive brought inside by my cat.
The hair etc. was from the shedding of my dog's winter coat that was clinging to the slimy skin of the frog.
I picked him up and promptly threw him in the rain barrel.
What, I'm getting to is that I need to do more house cleaning and less gardening soon,soon….
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 25, 2020 11:37:17 GMT
I have started cleaning my upstairs room. If you hear of my demise soon, it will not be due to coronavirus but because of the ingestion of hidden filth in all of the inaccessible areas. The areas have become accessible because I am also moving the furniture around. In any case, I cannot go out today due to dust coughing, which would almost certainly be misinterpreted by the masked hordes.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2020 15:54:23 GMT
Around these parts aggressive cleaning of garages, attics, and sheds is complicated by the fact that deer mice (not house mice) carry Hantavirus, a respiratory disease that can kill you. It is spread by stirring up their urine and feces in their nesting places. Masks are in short supply, so that’s my excuse...
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