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post #21 of 37
9/17/07 at 12:56pm
I have no room in my life for washing windows and I am not ashamed to admit it

Recently, we started replacing the old windows and storms with new, tilt-in windows. My husband washes them once in a while and I do admit it looks nice but not nice enough for me to take the time to do it myself.
post #22 of 37
9/17/07 at 1:51pm
Can I just : to everyone's post?
post #23 of 37
9/17/07 at 3:03pm
I just bought new tupperware.

Because that was easier than facing the almost-sentient leftovers in the old ones. :
post #24 of 37
9/17/07 at 3:42pm
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Originally Posted by Red Sonja View Post
I just bought new tupperware.

Because that was easier than facing the almost-sentient leftovers in the old ones. :


I've done that!
post #25 of 37
9/18/07 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by kijip View Post
My filing "pile", which started in a basket is now a huge box in the garage and I just keep adding to it. I used to be really on top of that stuff. Now...not so much.
It sounds like you already filed it.
post #26 of 37
9/18/07 at 4:23pm
Everything that is out of place i our house gets set in our room to be out of place there.

I'm not sure we'll ever see the tops of our dressers again.
post #27 of 37
9/19/07 at 10:17am
I empty mine and DH's hampers empty by tossing them in the washer whenever I've got a full load.. but the bottom of my closet is covered with dirty clothes. It's always that way. Every few months I'll try to wash ALL of the clothes in one day, but in a couple of weeks it's covered again.


This isn't exactly housekeeping, but yard-keeping...
There's a weed in my backyard that's turned into a bush. It's scary.
post #28 of 37
9/19/07 at 4:22pm

Grody!

Our banister is painted white and it was so gross, with what I thought was cracks in the paint, that I decided to re-paint it. As a part of my paint prep, I cleaned it first and imagine my surprise that the "cracks" were actually DIRT!!!! :
post #29 of 37
9/19/07 at 8:15pm
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Originally Posted by Caneel View Post
I have no room in my life for washing windows and I am not ashamed to admit it


Well, you know what they say about a clean house being a sign of a wasted life.
post #30 of 37
9/20/07 at 8:09pm
Well, we're military, so we move every 2-3 years, so things don't have decades to get grimy, but....

When I get busy and forget to do laundry and DH is running out of underwear, I have very occasionally "rescued" a pair from the dirty laundry, run deoderant over the naughty parts of the boxers, let them "air out" on the balcony, and then folded them and put them in the drawer.

: I'm pretty sure that isn't up to Army regulations

I always do laundry as soon as possible after that.
post #31 of 37
9/20/07 at 10:25pm
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When I get busy and forget to do laundry and DH is running out of underwear, I have very occasionally "rescued" a pair from the dirty laundry, run deoderant over the naughty parts of the boxers, let them "air out" on the balcony, and then folded them and put them in the drawer.
OK that raises the bar on "Things that make you go hhhmmm"...
post #32 of 37
9/21/07 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by katheek77 View Post
When I get busy and forget to do laundry and DH is running out of underwear, I have very occasionally "rescued" a pair from the dirty laundry, run deoderant over the naughty parts of the boxers, let them "air out" on the balcony, and then folded them and put them in the drawer.
I love this! So, I think that my (biggest : ) confession has to be that I "forget" to do the laundry until I run out of underwear...
post #33 of 37
9/21/07 at 10:04am
In my defense, this is a man who spent 72 days straight in Iraq w/o a shower, so, day old underwear isn't going to cause him to break out in hives...
post #34 of 37
9/21/07 at 12:14pm
I moved 3 mos. ago and have never washed the whole bathroom floor-- I just wipe the dirty looking parts with a rag after I scrub the fixtures.
I also have 2 boxes that I don't know when I'll unpack.

However, I'm doing MUCH better than I did in the 2.5 yrs. I lived at my old house-- I've mopped the kitchen floor every week or so here and I didn't do it ONCE at my old house. Same with window washing.
post #35 of 37
9/21/07 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by onemoremom View Post
I keep the ceiling fans going all the time so I don't have to see the build up of dirt that will fall off the edges when the blades stop moving
Me too!
post #36 of 37
9/21/07 at 9:27pm
Besides all the clean laundry piles, I have spray on the mirrors in my bathroom from where I brush my teeth. I keep meaning to clean it, but I usually get around to it about once a week. Well, at least I have proof that I brush my teeth....
post #37 of 37
9/21/07 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by madskye View Post
That is so funny! I live in a house where the kitchen floor is, I think, Travertine? Some kind of rugged gray stone. I didn't wash it for almost 2 years--it looked great. Then, when I was preg and nesting, I broke out the mop and realized that the kitchen floor is actually TAN, not GRAY!!

It looks good either way, honestly.
LOL! Our current floors are gray and I have to remind myself to wash them regularly. It's amazing how dirty the water is when I DO wash.
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