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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 10, 2020 16:34:49 GMT
I've never seen Fantasia all the way through...just snippets.
Bixa good grief I wouldn't be able to cope with that. I would have to kill him. I cant bear to use a lav that's been used EW! We have the 'economy flush' on our toilet but I flush every time...dont care if it's the middle of the night...not gonna leave it. I wish that we had 2 bathrooms...but this house is too small to fit another bog in unfortunately.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 10, 2020 17:11:39 GMT
I get lots of exercise mounting the stairs to use the upstairs bathroom off the master bedroom, which we flush only as needed. The downstairs powder room toilet is not used to keep it pristine for “company” (which we rarely have, but it presents a poor impression if the host scuttles off to flush the toilet when company arrives).
Re: falls. I think it takes an “incident” like cheery stepping off her chair, or me bumping on my back and elbows down the full flight of wet deck stairs, to wake us up to the fact that we are no longer invinceable or unbreakable.
Now I ALWAYS use the handrail, even if I have to make multiple trips to carry things in stages. (I also think of my poor sister who hit her head in a “minor fall” on a short set of stairs, and didn’t survive even 12 hours.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2020 17:24:20 GMT
Oh ouch pain, oh dear ow ow ow, Cheery! So sorry that happened and I greatly identify, as it's exactly the same kind of avoidable accident I specialize in. If it hasn't stopped hurting, I recommend lounging on the sofa so you can keep your heel elevated on the sofa back or arm. You need possession of the tv remote control & for someone to bring you your cups of coffee, etc. for this recuperation program to work.
Not the same in the extent of damage, but very high on the stupidity scale: last night I poked the point of the knife I was using to slice a mango directly into the top pad on middle finger.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 10, 2020 19:26:02 GMT
That sounds painful Cheery, I hope it is in an area on your heel that will heal quickly.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 10, 2020 20:31:43 GMT
Thank you chaps, you are very kind. It's just a little thing but I am a drama Queen and a big baby. Questa I'm going to get one of those little step ladder things...just the height of a chair but safe and non slip...I'm writing a birthday list for my beloved Ouch Bixa...your poor finger! Hope it heals nicely.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2020 20:42:46 GMT
I have become a complete hand rail sissy, too, Kimby.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 10, 2020 20:59:16 GMT
In our group it is mandatory to use every handrail. As often, i brought safety habit home.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2020 21:11:36 GMT
I'm going to get one of those little step ladder things. I have one similar to this. It's a wonderful thing to have because that top thingy allows you to steady yourself going up and also to brace your knees against if you're on the top step. It folds flat, so easy to store out of the way. There is a kind with three steps that I wouldn't mind having.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 10, 2020 21:21:31 GMT
I have one very similar to bixa's and it has saved me from many possible injuries. I do want to get a three-step one as I'm considerably shorter than bixa and can't quite reach my top kitchen shelves.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2020 21:31:41 GMT
And I have the same step ladder, but I don't think I use it even once a year. Of course, since I am moderately tall, I have less reason to do so.
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Post by questa on Aug 11, 2020 0:52:01 GMT
I have an aluminium, wide tread, 3 steps and a rail which is great to hold onto. Takes the nervousness of being above my normal altitude away and after a minute or so, I feel normal altitude and can move freely doing 2 handed jobs. Of course I know I must keep my weight inside the rectangle of the legs of the ladder and maintain the 3 points of contact rule.
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Post by mossie on Aug 11, 2020 6:53:16 GMT
I am a big sissy and do it the easy way.----Get someone else to do it.
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Post by bjd on Aug 11, 2020 7:04:38 GMT
I am a big sissy and do it the easy way.----Get someone else to do it. Isn't that difficult when you live alone? I'm still at the standing on a kitchen chair period, although our chairs are fancy and not especially stable. I have often considered getting a little stepladder but then have to find somewhere to put it so it will be handy when I need it, which is not very often.
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Post by questa on Aug 11, 2020 7:32:05 GMT
Make sure it is aluminium... I got rid of a steel ladder...it was too heavy to move it around. The newer one is a piece of cake to carry and manoeuvre around furniture etc.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 11, 2020 8:04:45 GMT
We have a fold away aluminium step ladder exactly like Bixas picture but it is used to reach the top part of the windows when doing a clean.
As for getting into a cupboard out of reach - oh no. I don't keep anything that I may vaguely need any higher than the stretch of my arm. Lessons were learned when I saw the amount of "gunk" my mother stored away "Just in case"…..I begged her for years to sort through it as none of us would have the time to peruse every item and would probably throw out something valuable or a family heirloom. Well it happened to all come to a guest bedroom for storage in my house when my mother went into a nursing home for two years. I shut the room for years not having the energy or inclination to tackle all those boxes but last year we decided to add the room to our BnB availability and in one day cleared it out. My two housemaids got the bulk of the clothing and kitchenware and the personal documents were stuck in a box in my study….until I found room in a chest of drawers. This Covid thing has given me ample time to de-clutter and oh I feel so wonderful! I can see things I never noticed before and I love my "Japanese minimalistic "look!
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Post by Kimby on Aug 12, 2020 14:23:14 GMT
I have become a complete hand rail sissy, too, Kimby. I barely avoided a catastrophic fall yesterday, in a place with no handrails. We were hiking a mountain trail and all of a sudden my feet didn’t work right and I plunged headfirst toward a pile of rocks. My hands were in my pockets because the morning was chilly and I had trouble yanking them out in time. At the last second my feet started working again and I was able to pinwheel my arms enough to keep from crashing to the ground. Whew! So what happened to cause this near-mishap? Because of a sore spot on my ankle on our last hike, I’d laced my boots differently, leaving the top hook unlaced. That meant the already long bootlaces had even bigger than usual loops when tied in a bow. As I strode forward, the right bootlace got hooked on the left boot’s top hook, causing it to feel like my feet were suddenly nailed to the ground, and my momentum carried me foreword. Luckily the tangle came apart just in time for me to recover, though I still don’t know how I kept from falling as it seemed I was closer to horizontal than vertical when I pulled out of the fall. Feeling lucky. My Dad used to say his spectacular near-falls were averted by great reflexes gained from a lifetime as a skier. Maybe that’s true of me as well. Or maybe we’re both just spectacularly clumsy...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 12, 2020 15:16:32 GMT
Good save, Kimby -- that could have been spectacularly bad! I have often considered getting a little stepladder but then have to find somewhere to put it so it will be handy when I need it, which is not very often. Bjd, they are little and light and fold so flat that it's easy to stick them in a space between the fridge and the wall, for instance, or inside a closet. Mine is good for things like cleaning above the kitchen cabinets or getting into the cupboards above the closet, but it's a godsend outside when pruning, as my big ladder is so much of a hassle to move around my little patio.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 12, 2020 15:19:58 GMT
People actually clean above the kitchen cabinets? I thought that was just a free space to allow greasy filth to live its life.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 12, 2020 15:25:48 GMT
Kerouac, by "clean", I meant take up the paper that's up there and replace it with new paper.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 12, 2020 15:37:39 GMT
That is a spectacularly good solution to a bad kitchen problem, bixa.
Fortunately we have no over the cabinets space. Our house and the Sanibel place both have soffits over the cabinets, and for the lake cottage we ordered cabinets that go to the ceiling with a nice piece of crown molding hiding any gap. Bonus: extra storage space.
But both our family cottages in Wisconsin have cabinets with dust traps above. Being vacation homes, we’re on vacation from cleaning up there....
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Post by mossie on Aug 13, 2020 7:16:47 GMT
'What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.'
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 13, 2020 7:37:44 GMT
As my eyesight deteriorates I find that I care less about the dust tbh....
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Post by questa on Aug 13, 2020 13:47:36 GMT
Remember Quentin Crisp? He used to say that after 4 years the dust doesn't get any worse.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2020 14:53:23 GMT
The exact quote ---> “There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 13, 2020 15:08:28 GMT
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.” Quentin Crisp.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 14, 2020 11:50:12 GMT
On some TV program I heard a woman remark "My it could do with a good clean", as she gazed at a statue in a large church. As she said it I remember the exact feeling I got (and still do to a certain extent) when I looked at the statues and canopies over the priests lectern covered in years of dust. I came to the realisation after many visits over the years that it's part of "the look" and wouldn't be the same all shiny and clean(and revealing the true colour of the paint). Like old wine cellars with their -coated in dust -bottles of wine.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2020 12:24:30 GMT
When I see a movie that takes place in medieval times, I get the opposite feeling about a lot of the buildings and accessories because they look so old -- sort of how they look now for some reason (hmmmm? I wonder why.). On the other hand, movies that take place in ancient Greece or Rome generally have gleaming new buildings since they had to completely build the sets. And therefore they are more authentic in their own strange way.
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Post by questa on Aug 15, 2020 0:23:58 GMT
And therefore they are more authentic in their own strange way. Made from polystyrene and cardboard?? Sometimes in old churches etc you can see where the cleaning team have left off and there are wiping marks and bits of statues that got missed etc. Makes my fingers twitch as I look around to see if they have left a cloth nearby...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2020 3:51:02 GMT
So last night I had a petty personal trauma that turned into a petty personal triumph. I had a nice new tube of a toothpaste new to me. So my big thrill last night before going to bed was to break out the new stuff and see how it compared to the old brand. Yaay. I tore open the box & dropped it into the wastepaper basket, then screwed the top off the tube. There I stood, toothbrush at the ready, but this is what confronted me: What the living blankety-blank?! I picked at it with my fingernail the way one does at the little silver seal that in my experience is on all new tubes of toothpaste. Nothing. I tried unscrewing it, then briefly put it in my mouth with a view to using my teeth as pliers before coming to my senses. Then I fetched the box out of the wastepaper basket, thinking there might be instructions. The box was not only covered in writing too tiny for a flea to read, it was in Portuguese, as it turned out this frustrating item came from Brazil. (why?) At this point I figured I'd better keep the box, the better to return the obviously defective tube to Amazon. I screwed the top back on and the penny dropped: All's well that ends well, but I still can't figure out if this is a brilliant security innovation or complete overkill.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2020 4:57:04 GMT
Actually that is a pretty common system in Europe, but I've never seen it on toothpaste. I see it on tubes of food items.
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