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Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ah, but, Teach, what about the dreaded 'returns'?

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marsyafan, I totally agree with Goddessatlaw. It will get way worse before it ever gets better. Get rid of him now.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Why am I such a dork?

I have been backed up on laundry. Seems like just when I'm ready to head downstairs to put a load in the washer, something happens, I put it off, and forget about it till its too late for the day. Then the cycle continues for the next several days.

So, I FINALLY get downstairs with a load, put it in the washer and start getting ready for bed. I don't generally like leaving a load in the washer overnight, for the same reason of happenings I just described, cause then the load may sit there for two days, it gets yucky, and I have to rewash.

So, I think, "but if I can just get the first load started, I'm way ahead of the game for tomorrow. And I can get up and put that in the dryer and start a second load and really be further along than if I try to start it all when I get up."

So, I put the load in last night. Finally had a moment to go down and start load #2 today (already waiting downstairs), with loads 3&4 even sorted and sitting in the wings too (huge accomplishment, really). I set down the #3/4 loads I just brought down, drag #2 over to the washer, and turn around to face the washer so I can put load #1 in the dryer.....

The washer is sitting there, lid open. Load #1 is half washed (it stopped at the spin cycle cause the lid was open). Which means the stuff has been sitting in dirty nasty water overnight. Now I'm sure I'll have to rewash it (once it completes its cycle now that I've closed the lid).

I've very often walked away from the dryer after loading it, forgetting to turn on the dryer. But I've never wandered away from the washer without closing the lid!

stupid stupid stupid!

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who, I'm sorry but I just had to laugh. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've forgotten to close the lid on the washer. Usually it's when I'm going to check and see if there's one more pair of jeans to fill the load, then I get sidetracked and forget all about it. As for not starting the dryer ............. let's just say I could win a gold medal in the Laundry Olympics for that one.

It's really not stupidity, it's just that we've got so many things going on at once we tend to get distracted. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry Who, I'm LOL -- I have a front load washer -- darn thing won't even turn on if the door is open; hope the laundry gets better! (is that a logical sentence - -laundry ? good? NAAAAHHHHH) Anyway -- I'd call it good w/ everything sorted and ask the DH to do the laundry! :-)

Ophilia'sG -- the returns have already started! I got my nephew a game. My brother got him the same one. That was one reason I was actually at the mall (that - and our jazz band was playing). So, I return the game, go to a totally different store, find a different game, buy it, come home, and within 2 hours my brother calls. We chit chat, make holiday plans, and I ask if the the game I got was the right one. The name was right, but the game I got was a Gamecube and the nephew has PLAYSTATION!!! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!! (to quote Charlie Brown) Now I have to go back AGAIN, return the game AGAIN, and get another game AGAIN! Suppose this kid would be satisfied with a deck of cards??? Can never have too many of those, can ya'????

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It appears that I may have let myself get carried away today. I do appreciate the support and I apologize.

I can dig the "need to think before you post" ideal. Sometimes I let myself get carried way.

It's one of those things and I shouldn't have gotten so carried away.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WhoMum, that has happened to me too. Try not to take it personally. Washing machines are notoriously mean.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nick,there was nothing wrong with your initial post. You feel the way you feel. The way you lashed out at people who felt it was not a big deal was at issue.
It was a big deal to you. Would you take a Pizza Hut pizza into McDonald's? No,but it is the same thing.
The waitress was rude. You should have asked for the manager.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WhoMum, would this be worse?

<Wonders why on earth I am teasing WhoMum so close to Christmas?>



Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hindsight is 20/20 they say...I just sometimes need 20/20 before I jump the gun.

Look...I didn't mean any disrespect...Ok...maybe at the time I did. But in retrospect...all I can do is hang my head and know that I was wrong to vent on people here.

I know I was wrong. I still don't know how I let it get so out of hand. Actually, I do. I've been so stressed lately, little things just set me off.

I'm really a nice guy...and I am ashamed of my actions earlier. I just went nuts for no reason.

::big sigh::

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 11:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's ok,the holidays do that to us,lol. Forget about it and move on. You don't even wanna hear
my whine about Quiznos last week.

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maybe we do?

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 11:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NIck, that's why I like food courts.. where you can bring food from various restaurants (and from home if you are discreet) and eat together..

The waitress was very rude and I would definitely boycott them..


Who.. well my washer will keep running with the top open.. not sure if that is so good, but my usual trick is the close the dryer door and forget to push the button to restart it.. sigh..

Teach, I share your hatred of malls..

Ont good thing about QVC is it is really easy to return stuff

I avoid malls.

Mary, sounds like that guy isn't good for you, hubby or your business.. and besides, surely there is some really competent, nice person who could use a job?? Someone who would respect the rules and follow them, do his/her job... then when you went out of your way for that person it would be because you wanted to reward them..



Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 1:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I do that all the time with the dryer, Sea. And it usually causes me to stay up way to late. My dryer is slow to dry, no matter how small the load, it almost always takes two times through the cycle to dry all the way. Can't tell you how many times I load it up, close the door and walk away, then sit and wait an hour for it to stop. Go back to reset it and find I never did it in the first place.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 1:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Wargod. My dryer was like that too (took two cycles to get the load dry). Then on one load, I'd put the load through 3 times, and the clothes were still very damp.

Fearing my heating element was going out or something, I went looking at trouble shooting type stuff, and found a place that suggested a clogged up vent hose. Checked it out and sure enough that bugger was clogged up big time. We even had to buy a new hose cause the old one was caked with damp and tacky lint. And the vent at the house/outside end was almost a solid wall of lint. Sis had to come over and do most of the work cause I couldn't reach some of the vent tubes leading up from the basement to the outside of the house.

Now the dryer dries in one try! When I manage to finally get a load in it that is.

Glad I gave everyone a good laugh. Of course, its nice to know I'm not alone! And I was so "proud" of myself for accomplishing several tasks in last nights trip to the basement. I got a load of laundry started, replaced the furnace filter, found my pocket knife (that sis used to cut apart the vent tubing when she was working on the dryer), and dug out the little table top Christmas tree to bring upstairs and have at least a little bit of cheer in the room. Serves me right for getting all "proud" of my accomplishments!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 1:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As far as I'm concerned, getting anything done with laundry is something to be proud of, lol. Above all others it is the one household chore I absolutely hate. I never seem to get caught up, it never ends, and some of the things I pull out of the pockets of the kids clothes is just frightening.

I need to get Darren to look at the dryer. But, I tend to do laundry late at night, or in the morning when he's either in bed or at work, and it's something I don't think to mention when he's home. He knows it's a pain and it takes twice to get stuff dry, but I don't think he realizes how bad it is.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 6:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
whoami...I am very glad that you checked the dryer vent...there are many dryer fires because of plugged up vents. Everyone reading this, please check their dryer vent for any plug ups.

P.S. Who... I have the washing machine on the main floor and I still forget to put the lid down :-)

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, Mine is on the ground floor (no basements anyway, but it could have been in the garage).. still forget.

Very true about dryer lint being highly flammable. When I was in rape crisis work, one of our volunteers lost everything.. she and her mom had a condo and there was a horrible fire. Her mom was severely burned, too. I just remember gathering stuff for her to help them get on their feet again but it was so traumatic.

My vent set up is ancient and apparently wends its way up inside a wall and across the condo between the first and second floors (rumor says there are seven turns in it) and then outside.. I paid to have someone try to unclog it but he was unable even with high pressure hoses and trying from each end.. and it certainly doesn't vent.. so I run my vent through the front door screen.. safer.

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
At the risk of sounding like a scrooge I have a gripe. I got a Christmas card yesterday, addressed only to me, not the family, no return address and only first names written inside the card. Who is it? I didn't send them a card. How do I know these people? LOL, could it have been a mistake on their part?



Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SS, bet it was from somebody here! No, wait, you had the dh with you when you went to Mystic, and he was a big hit if I recall. Well, was it from me???



Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL! JuJu, it's from Tom and Nancy!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
secret, it could be from me. i had holly helping me with the christmas cards. i did the addressing on the outside of the cards. holly did the address labels and the inside writing. please, if you could, scan it, and show it, so i can determine. if so, please excuse a child for trying to help.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol,paging Tom and Nancy...paging Tom and Nancy....

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have some friends who are Tom and Nancy, brother and sister, but I don't think they send out cards together. My uncle's name is Tom, but he's dead, so I don't think he sent it to you either.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My feral cat is Tom...he can't write, and my only Nancy is dead. I'm out of the loop on this one.