I can't get my act together and I don't know why

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited May 2008

    Yes, happy messy, sloppy campers! :D  Welcome back!  Sorry you were buried in WORK of all things!  laundry would have been less dreary :(

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  • sam408
    sam408 Member Posts: 1,099
    edited May 2008

    G - glad you're OK, sorry you're buried in work. I remember those days and they suck (oops, think that belongs on another thread).

    I'm finally able to drag a broom around my kitchen to sweep up the dog hair my family walks through without noticing. I can't bend down to get it in the dust pan, but I can at least get it into a pile that guilts them into getting it up. That's the extent of my cleaning.

    I'm now considering "accidently" spilling something on the floor so they would be forced to mop it. . .think it would work?

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  • kes
    kes Member Posts: 559
    edited May 2008

    Shirley,  You crack me up.  Now, for me your DD will always be known as the "DD with the thing around her neck". Have her read all the posts and she can feel good that she brought us crazy women hours of intrigue and laughter. She was helping us out with our MOODS!!!(PMS etc.) So by telling her story she was doing a good thing for us.(And we also didn't have to clean because we were to busy wondering what the "thing" around the neck was).

    Sheila,  I think that you should spill something really big on the floor so that they have to wash the whole floor. And if that works then spill a TON of popcorn on the carpet so that they have to vacuum.Then you will get the vacuuming done and the kitchen floor washed and not have lifted a finger!!!Sound like a plan? I'll have to think of a plan for the bathrooms though. That might take a while.

    Kerry

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Sheila, buy a Roomba (sp).  I'm too lazy to go back and look it up.  Have the family pull the dog hair out of the brushes.  Tell them you did your job.  You charged the Roomba so it could vaccum.  I wonder why my cats would do with one of those...

    Kerry, Sheila's buying a Roomba.  I don't believe they've invented a robotic mop.

    Hell, just hire a cleaning woman!

    Shirley

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  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 836
    edited May 2008
    Hey Kerry and Sheila - I can help with the bathroom mess.  Tongue out(TMI?!)  If you want to know why though, you'll have to go read my post in the bitchy, moany, groany thread.  I can't write it again. 
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Cristine, this won't clean your bathroom, but it'll clean something else.

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  • sam408
    sam408 Member Posts: 1,099
    edited May 2008

    Cris - Now you've got my curiosity up, I've got to check out the other thread.

    Shirley - That looks like a lot more fun than a Roomba!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Shirley.......love that commode........where can I place an order for them??? LOL Would save me a lot of work!

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  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 836
    edited May 2008

    Oh, no, you di'int, Shirley!!  LMAO!! (veeeerrryy gently)

    I had to pop back over here to see what Sheila was talking about - now I'm dizzy 'cuz I keep going back and forth from thread to thread! Surprised

    Heeeyy - I just read it again and I think I like that sweeping motion...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Cristine, I hope you feel better soon.

    Harley, I've very proud of you, my lil chickadee! :)

    I'm bouncing back and forth between threads now, but I always do that!

    Miss S

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  • Hanna60978
    Hanna60978 Member Posts: 815
    edited September 2012

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  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 1,595
    edited May 2008

    Hanna, I think those nicely ironed shirts that are too small for your kids would be a blessing to someone else.  All is not lost!  I know my local children's hospital has a thrift store that is very appreciative of donations like that. 

    As for that tent shirt, BURN IT!  Ban it from the face of the earth!  The only blessing it can bring is its absence after you obliterate it. 

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  • Hanna60978
    Hanna60978 Member Posts: 815
    edited May 2008

    Althea, I want you to know I have put the stack of nicely ironed too-small shirts in a box to take to this ministry up the road.  I like this place because they don't charge anyone for the clothes like they do at the Goodwill stores so I think the shirts will all have happy new homes!  Along with them, I might as well give away the Luau shirt but what do I say when my mom asks if I've worn it recently?         

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited May 2008

    Hanna - Tell her the dog ate it, it caught on fire in a tragic cooking incident, it was eaten by the dryer, you used it for a rag to clean up cat puke......ditch the shirt :)

    Deb C

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  • sccruiser
    sccruiser Member Posts: 1,119
    edited May 2008

    Could you just tell her it didn't suit your style? Or that you lost it? Or followed one of the principles--and gave someone the shirt off your back, and it just happened to be on the one day you were wearing it? LOL

    I'm with Deb--just ditch it.

    My MIL used to give my dh a very expensive shirt that was 100% cotton every year on his birthday. So he would wear it, and I would wash it, and away it went in the "to be ironed" laundry bag. Unfortunately the shirts were so hard to iron they had to be dampened, stored in the frig, and starched when ironed. Not at the top of my list of to-dos. One day she asked me why she never saw dh in any of the shirts she gave him. I pulled the bag out of the closet and said I just didn't have the time or energy to iron them (worked full-time & attended college). She took them and ironed them all for him. Told me I could just give them to her and she would do them for him. No problem for me at all if you get my drift! LOL  After about 6 months, she found a dry cleaner near by, and had them laundered. Did that and paid for them till the day she died.

    She did learn a lesson too--started buying him permanent press, short sleeved shirts instead.

    Now when we buy clothes, if they need an iron, they go back on the rack. i take the iron out when I'm working on a quilt, and I put a towel on the counter and iron on that--gave the ironing board away years ago. Was trying to clear some clutter!! 

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  • Hanna60978
    Hanna60978 Member Posts: 815
    edited May 2008

    OK team!   You're right.  The shirt just needs to get outta sight.  I don't want to look at that fabric anymore.  But I need to be careful. After all this time I think she can read my mind.  It's a challenge just to tell this woman the truth!  

    She would have made a great cop. 

    Ha, I even saw on TV where in some town in the US they have this brigade of "Granny Cops" that go to jails and these Granny's can reduce hardened criminals to squirming in their seats - promising they'll behave and won't ever do wrong again!  The show says the men who'd been lectured by the Grannies do much better on the outside once they're released. 

    Anyway, my Mom could be one of those Granny's.  She'll know by her "powers" that I did something with the shirt. If I give it away, the very next day she's gonna ask me about it. 

    I could go on but I will spare you all.   This is the wrong thread!!! But my house is full of mother clutter and I don't know why!!!  Undecided

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited May 2008

    Your Mom sounds like a hoot...but I guess it is easy for ME to say. 

    Years ago my MIL bought me a dish for a bridal shower gift.  It looked like a white woven basket with a duck sitting on top of it.  Here is the best part....The duck had a ladle sticking out it's butt!  I kid you not....and ugly casserole dish with a duck for a lid and a ladle sticking out it's butt!!!

    I kept of for years trying to find a use for it.  I finally sold it in a garage sale...only to have her ask about it!  I gave some vague..."It's in the cupboard" answer.

    I now have 3 different gifts I have gotten from her, a hot cocoa pot, a set of candlesticks, and some other kitchen thing....I forget.  I have them all sitting in boxes in the garage!  I need to have another garage sale.

    None of them are near as funny as that duck though.....

    I bet all of us would have cleaner houses if we didn't get weird gifts!

    Deb C

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  • Hanna60978
    Hanna60978 Member Posts: 815
    edited May 2008

    Oh Deb!  I am not kidding here I have tears rolling down my face!!  OMG a casserole duck with a ladle sticking out it's butt OMG!!!!!  

    See, if it was me...I'd be over-thinking this gift.   With me, if MY MIL gave me a duck with a ladle sticking out it's butt, I'd be like what's she was trying to tell me here?  That my cooking sucked?  That my casseroles tasted like they came out of a duck butt?!   

    Better for me not to over analyze gifts and hide my surprise! (this is why I like sunglasses...Cool)  

      

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  • Hanna60978
    Hanna60978 Member Posts: 815
    edited May 2008

    OK..only meant to say it once! Tongue out

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    That's it, Deb.  It's the mother's faults.  I'm a perfect mom.  I don't give junk.  Of course I suppose my girls wouldn't tell me if I did.  HOWEVER, I try to buy what they ask for.  Why?  Cuz I HATE getting junk!

    I'm even at the point of us not exchanging nice cards.  My girls gave me beautiful Mom's Day cards.  I hate to throw them away.  But, who else cares about them but me?  I've even gotten to the point that I throw magazines away.

    Now I've gotta clean my house.  My dh is cleaning the kitchen! Smile

    Hanna, be truthful with your mom.  Tell her you gave it to charity.  That you didn't like it.  Then, she won't buy you anything else!  Trust me!  If my kids don't want something I'd rather they return it...like the nice, nice almost pro waffle maker we bought my dd.  She said she didn't need it.  So, it went back and we gave her the money to buy whatever instead.  Hanna, bite the bullet...tell her and hope the bullet doesn't aim for your heart!

    Shirley

    I've got to get my act together and get off of here.

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited May 2008

    Oh, I have another funny "dish" story for ya. 

    A girlfriend of mine spent almost a week helping clean out her grandmother's house after grandma passed away.  She came home with all kinds of treasures: kitchen do-dads, a quilt, old letters....lots of cool things. 

    She had me over for dinner a few weeks later and was telling me about the beautiful white enamel dish she had from her grandma's house...it had little blue flowers around the rim and it was just perfect to serve soup.  I bust out laughing when she proudly carried her curried pumpkin soup to the table in a children's chamber pot!

    She, on the other hand, didn't see the humor in the situation!

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited May 2008

    OMGOSH!  Deb, that's just hysterical! Laughing I bet she felt like a danged fool! Embarassed Too funny!  A story for sharing many times over hey?  Or are you kind enough to keep it in the family? 

    That's the best story I've heard in a long time!  Thanks for the chuckles!

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited May 2008

    I've told my kids that I want gifts that I can eat, wear or smell, nothing else!  No doo-dads.

    Have a friend whose daughters keep giving her "stuff" and she has no use for it and it's still in boxes but she won't get rid of it for fear of hurting their feelings.

    My kids are like your Shirley, we keep all receipts at Christmas in a folder and it's in the office.  If you didn't like what you got, you go thru the folder and get the bill and return it and keep the money.  No harm, no foul.

    Of course, i cannot do that with dh's gifts.  but he is listening that I want nothing else that has to be dusted. 

    We make lists for each other about what we'd like to have.  Some are silly, like my dd wanting a tiara from Neman Marcus catalog.  LOL

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  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 836
    edited May 2008

    Just wanted ya'll to know I'm o.k. and didn't need Shirley's toilet-thingy. 

    Miss S - you have the cutest Avatars!

    And Hanna - I'm with everybody else - ditch the shirt!! 

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited May 2008

    HannaB:  I'd suggest turning the cabbage shirt into a dust rag, but since you're a regular on this thread...in spite of your temporary cleaning spurt....I guess the shirt would still go unused.   back to the drawing board.

    Everybody:  I'm still working too much and haven't had time to catch up on everybody's posts.  Hopefully, next week I can be around more. 

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited May 2008

    Well, just be kind to yourself this weekend then Gsg! BTW...do you work weekends too? :(  Hope not! Then again, it's supposed to rain all weekend here! ;(  Guess I should be out mowing that 2 acreas of weeds I have.  Forgot to get the weed and feed out this year. Actually, I didn't forget, was just too lazy to do it, so I didn't tell dh to pick some up :(

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Deb, that is TOOOO funny!

    Well, Dotti, I'm glad to know we're not the only one's who can return gifts we're not "fond" of.

    Patrice, are the the President's assistant?  Is that your REAL job?  He's causing a lot of ruckus on the campaign trail...Obama Drama! LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008

    Cristine, I'm so glad your "buttocks" feels better.

    Wishiwere, what ARE YOU doing by doing the weeding and cutting the grass/weeds?  You're gonna get some of us in trouble!

    Shirley

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited May 2008

    :D  Sorry Shirley.  I've always (except for after surgery's) done the mowing.  It's 2 acreas, so we have a rider, Thank heavens!  The weeding.  Dh can't tell a weed from his shoe!  He does build the items I sketch to be done out there, and has rototill the veggie garden this year, so that's nice, b/c my arm is still not full ROM and not at all strong enough yet to much with :(  One day!

    For me being out there working is therapy.  Much cheaper than talking to a therapist! :D  And I can pull a weed, where the therapist might charge me I push and pull her/him around, you know?  So I'm safer in my yard at this point! :O

    Besides if I do NOT do, who will?  He's never around with his job till dark and gone before daylight!  He's beat by the time he does get home, IF he does :(  One day there too, we'll get things back to normal!  Have to work when the work is there!

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited May 2008

    OK...I need a maid, or a slave....or maybe a WIFE...LOL  since most days I seem to be the maid!  Actually, that isn't true.  My family is usually really good at cleaning.  We have just been so busy that our house is now not just a mess, it is a PIG sty!  The biggest problem is that I don't see any change in sight.  We are going to be swamped with extra things to do for the next 2 weeks at least.  Ihave no idea when I will clean.  If everyone would just quit wanting food and clean clothing I might be OK.....

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