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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 2:00 pm
I don't throw away pictures. Most of my friends who have children are very close to me, so they get put in a frame and displayed. Otherwise they go in a box.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 9:46 pm
What about photos of kids that are not flattering? There is a person who I swear sets her child up to simply not look good---outfit too big, hair not brushed---and then gushes all over them. I don't know if we are all being tested for unconditional love or what! And this is a cute kid!
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 8:41 pm
If you found out that unexpected company would be calling early the next day, would you stay up late to clean the house?
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 5:32 am
Yes, I would keep the unflattering pictures. Oh, I would have to clean the house, but I wouldn't stay up really late.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 7:48 am
Yes, even the unflattering ones, especially the unflattering ones! LOL Yes, I would clean some, but not really late.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 7:55 am
Yes, I would have to clean. But I wouldn't stay up too late. I'd just do the bare essentials ... put things away, vacumn, dust a little, make sure I have clean dishes. Those kind of things.
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Resortgirl
Member
09-23-2000
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 8:07 am
It depends who the unexpected company is! If it were friends that I feel comfortable with I'd do an hour of tidying... if it were my anal retentive family members... I couldn't get it clean enough if I spent 3 days on it! 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 11:00 am
Depends on the kids. A couple of really close friends send me pics a couple of times a year. The blonde twin boys are adorable, so their latest pic is always on my fridge door. A friend in Houston also sends pix of her kids, and their latest is on my fridge, too. I have a photo "flip file" at work; all other pics go in there. Of course, if my really BEST friend in Reno would get off her duff and send me pix, including those of her new grandbaby, I'd be real happy! WRT to cleaning the house... heck no! First of all, my housekeeper keeps it clean and I do minor touchups (like vacuuming up cat fur) 'tween times. So I may run the portable vacuum cleaner, and that would be it. (In fact, this just happened over the NY holiday. Friends from Australia came over; although I knew we were getting together I didn't expect 'em to come over for a bit.) You know what? I really don't think MOST people notice! I mean, if have a relatively neat and/or clean house. Of course, if you have piles of dirty laundry and dishes all over, that may be a whole 'nother story! <wink>
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 8:24 pm
Costacat, My house was not spotless and there were a couple of dishes in the sink but I believe they did not notice or care! I would love a housekeeper to help be keep up with my two cats, three year old and non-helpful husband!!! 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 10:18 am
See, Dee? Most folks really don't notice or care if it's a bit of dust or a dish or two. Really, I just think it makes things look more lived in and real. I always suspect when I walk into a completely and totally spotless everything in its place house. And wonder... did that person stay up late to clean up? For me? <wink>
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 3:10 pm
To the poster who was considering scanning all the pics onto pc and getting rid of the originals....DONT DO IT!! you will be heartbroken if the pc harddrive crashed or the CD you copied them onto warps(or whatever) I had some super important documents which I had both on Harddrive and Disc. Sure enough Harddrive completely crashed and the disc fell and warped. So I lost EVERYTHING! If that pc / cd was full of my life's pictures I would have had a breakdown I think (LOL) Pictures are so precious. I like to handle the albums...just flicking thru on a pc isnt the same, to me.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 4:11 pm
Sunshyne4u, I should have mentioned that we burn everything to disc and that I highly recommend that everything saved on a harddrive (that you care about) should be backed up. All of our digital photos (and there are thousands) have been burned to disc. I hope your computer problems have passed!
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:47 pm
I am 42 years old. Most of the women in my life close to my age. There is a friend in our circle who likes to start drama. She mostly is a great person and fun to be around. However, she is very jealous of the friendship circle and if any of the women do anything that she is not included in, she can get ugly. What's up with that? Are we not all too old for such games? I don't even know how to handle this.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 6:47 am
I am not sure we really out grow our insecurities as much as learn to over come them. She seems terribly insecure.
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