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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 2:38 pm
Coolness on the gifs. Time to start collecting them in one area. Ours have been placed all right so far. The one is a little faded from when I forgot and left it in the sink...
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Sherrie
Member
11-23-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 4:03 pm
LK: I am wondering if you heard from Flylady because I read your email about your DH as one of the daily stories she shares. LOL What a shock that was just now!!! Purple: I am so glad you came back and said you meant cereal. I will be honest and admit that I spent to much time thinking about soup for breakfast and trying to figure out how you came to enjoy it. Soup makes me feel warm and cozy so I wondered how you ever got your day started. Spinner: I think we all will forever remember your DH and the wait....at least I know I will! I still think of how sweet the two of you are together!! I did not get a clingie from Flylady when I ordered my dusters (unless I did not notice and tossed it out....). How did you all end up with multiple ones? Hi Lum!!! Just thought I would say Hi!
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 4:10 pm
I bought a wool duster about six months ago that is fantastic. It gets into every nook and cranny and is easy to shake out.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 5:03 pm
Sherrie, how nice that you remember the two of us! <G> He is a dear man; never a complaint about how often he needs to add something to my computers. Among other things that are dear about him . . . I'd bet, Sherrie, that you did toss the clingie when you threw out the duster bag. If yours came the way mind did, it was just a padded brown bag with the duster inside--and when I looked in the bag to see if there was an invoice or anything, there was this thing sort of stuck to the side of the bag. From what everyone had said about the flylady clingie, I sort of thought it would be more like a decal (in thickness and transparency) not like a refrigerator magnet, but it was about as thick as those magnets--not metal of course, the plastic kind that go on appliances. I want to get a flylady strainer and with any luck another clingie will come with that. Or I could order a couple--I think they were a couple of bucks. As much help as the Flylady's info has been to me, I feel like I ought to order a couple of things. I just can't get over what a difference it has made. At least to me! We have old friends who have joined our church even though they don't live all that close and when there's a meeting of some sort that one or both of them need to attend they don't go home first (it's not between where they work and the church--they live on further) but eat dinner with us and then go over to the nearby church. I can guarantee you that despite my dear hubbie's blind eyes to the state of this house, we could have never allowed even old friends to stop by on so little notice (sometimes very, very little notice) to eat with us! Nowadays, I just add a few more things to the crockpot and there's always time to make something nice for dessert--I'm not frantically trying to vacuum, dust, pick up magazines, throw out dead flowers in dusty vases, etc. It's so much nicer here!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 5:49 pm
Sherrie: WHA? I didn't read it!!! I almost missed the cling that was in the dusters. Had I NOT been looking for it, I would have missed it. I ordered the office in the bag and the control journal, and noted that there wasn't a cling, so when I wrote Fran/Tom, s/he sent me two to make up for it. Spinner: I totally agree. Someone I introduced to Flylady has decided that I am becoming a "Stepford Wife." That's just so...wrong.
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 7:41 pm
I ordered the set that had two dusters and the timer. They came in a long skinny box. I didn't find the timer so I held the box upside down and shook it. Out came the time and the cling. I didn't even know what the cling was! I tried out a duster on the mantle. Usually that's a job because I have to clear it, dust everything on it (which is a pain because there are two dolls and several kachinas and their hair and feathers get nasty) then oil and polish the wood. It was time to do it again but I figured I'd try using one of my new dusters. It really did work, even got the dust out of the dolls' hair and the kachinas' feathers. So I can put off that oil and polish job until the wood needs it. I have to say that those 15 minute chunks help get the job done. I did 3 in my office today and the improvement is evident. Maybe 20 or 30 more and the job will be done . . . Do you really think those houses in Clean Sweep are as bad as they look? The bedrooms have so much stuff on the beds that no one could sleep on them. I can't imagine that so many people live in so much squalor. Knowing what we know about "reality" TV, I don't doubt that the houses are junked up to look worse than they were. Did anyone see that family on Dr. Phil yesterday (I think it was yesterday)? The woman was a shopaholic and her house AND her mother's house AND more than one storage unit are PACKED with junk. Her 80+ year old mother is throwing a paper route to help pay off the debt. And it wasn't even nice stuff! 
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Sherrie
Member
11-23-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 8:13 pm
Spinner - that is wonderful that you can have guests at the last minute...it sure makes life more fun that way. And I adore the love that soaks through when you write about your DH...I always picture the two of you in a big house spending tons of time together doing your own thing on your individual computers across the room from each other. And your timer going off...in my mind what you don't see is him glancing up wondering what you are cooking, or washing or whatever....LOL LK: You are a celebrity now with the Flylady subscribers! You know she often sends the same ones out and since this is a new item she just may repeat your story - keep your eye open!! Purple - I saw that story on Dr. Phil and could not believe it!! It was just to silly to be true. I try to tell everyone how wonderful those dusters are. You do not need to move things and hand dust the way you have in the past! I got mine in a box too - I ordered the two dusters and timer and might have tossed it. I was looking for it but easily could have missed it. So glad to say hi to everyone and to hear about the success. Such a simple system that really works and improves the quality of some of our lives.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 8:17 pm
I suspect the house on Clean Sweep are "enhanced" to look bad. I wish the show didn't do that horrible thing of a) not teaching the homeowners to handle their own clutter and placement; b) make the yard sale a contest for who gets to keep their prized possession. I would no more dream of telling DH he HAS to get rid of something because I hate it than the man in the moon. That. Is. Just. Wrong. I did see Dr. Phil. I saw some of myself in the woman. It was very scary. If you didn't see it, you can get the gist of it here.
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:07 pm
I do have some of that shopping affliction, but it's not not quite the same. I don't feel the need to buy everything, but if I have something I feel the need to have all the parts or accessories that go with it, even if I probably will never use them. But if can see that down the road it's going to get too expensive or out of hand I just won't even start. Like the Harry Potter Legos. I won't buy a set for the grandkids because I know I won't be satisfied until I buy all of them. When I was doing counted cross stitch I had every DMC color wound on the little cardboard thingies stored in numerical order in two boxes. Same with fabric paint. I have evey color. I think it's just part of my OCD. But at least I'm able to not get started with something. Usually. I'm having a really hard time not buying all the fabric on the planet . . . and every Cow Parade cow. . .

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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:12 pm
Sherrie: Is it possible for you to forward the Flymail to me? I'd really like to see it.
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Sherrie
Member
11-23-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:48 pm
I will look to see if it is still in my mailbox! Um...Purple...I bet going to your house would be so much fun!!! I would love to see some of your collections. I have never heard of Cow Parade collection but it looks like so much fun... LK I am off to look.....
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 10:23 pm
Thanks, Sherrie. I went back through the emails I received since I mailed it in, and it wasn't there. If you can't find it, it's no biggy. I like cows on parade. I have decided that I will basically work all night tomorrow, so I can make some major headway on the apartment. That way, I can have some proof that I do love DH and care about his mental well-being. Meanwhile, I'm trying to determine if a letter I wrote is coherent without being accusatory.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 11:01 pm
Ah, you guys are so supportive! Sherrie, your picture is pretty accurate--we do have computer centers across from each other in our media room, but truth is, I hate working at a desk so I usually work upstairs in my craft workroom, sprawled out on my daybed in there. We each have i-sight cameras on our computers that are hooked to our IMs so we talk back and forth and show each other things. Our airport (wi-fi) makes the whole house and yard one big hot spot--we don't need to be connected to the phone line anywhere. The one flylady thing I don't do is the timer thing. My sense of time is really good, from my years of being a microbiologist where many routine tasks are timed and when you do them again and again you develop a good sense of how much time has gone by, even when you're busy. I'm within a minute or two of 15 minutes when I do tasks--I believe in the 15-minute thing. I just don't need the timer. But DH wouldn't notice if a timer did go off--the microwave, or the oven goes off and he doesn't notice. LK, I agree, surely those Clean Sweep rooms have been cluttered up? Could anyone really live like that? I agree with you that they probably can't, although all of us can take some pleasure in the fact that we don't often get THAT bad! And I too hate that yard sale contest thing. Do you remember the time a valuable musical instrument was "swept away" to the trash or charity or whatever? That kind of thing shouldn't be a pawn in this little game! Watching these shows, does keep clutter-clearing at the top of my consciousness, so I appreciate that for me they're helpful. I like Mission Organization, too. And, LK, anyone calling you a Stepford Wife is indeed so wrong! If Sherrie can't find the flymail--I figured everybody got them so you would have seen it--I'll look in my mail too. I don't keep them, but I don't need to empty my mail trash very often--I have it set to empty once every quarter, so I can probably find it.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 11:47 pm
I love Mission Organization. After seeing that musical instrument swept away, I wrote a letter to Clean Sweep and stopped watching the program. Usually, I do get all of the Flymail--or at least so I thought. The reason she called me a Stepford wife was because I did the waxing step of the sink cleaning. She is beginning to be Flywashed, but she decided that now that she is vacuuming at 9:30PM, she is in danger of becoming a Stepfording. That I am waxing the sink, doing the Saving Dinner/Menu mailer, and other things, she has decided that I have already been Stepfordized. I don't think she realized how much she hurt my feelings.
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:39 am
LK, don't you think that name-callers are feeling guilty about some deficiency in themselves so they need to belittle others in order to elevate themselves? Sherrie, my Cow Parade collection began quite innocently. My sister sent me an Elvis cow for Christmas one year. Then she sent me the beehive one as thanks for something I can't even remember that I did as a favor for her. DH noticed that they carried Cow Parade at the BX and things haven't been the same since. For Christmas a couple of years ago he gave me the Wizard of Oz set. I can't display them somewhere out of the way or under glass because I touch them and hold them every day. I love them. So they're lined up on the entertainment center, neat, tidy and dust-free, but not necessarily an attractive addition to the living room. The porcelain ones are lined up on a low bookcase. How the whole cow thing even got started is a different story for another time . . . The thing about the yard sales on Clean Sweep that REALLY bugs me, besides the valuable or sentimental things that they sweep away to charity, is how little money they take in. They should be realizing thousands, not hundreds. I think they keep the sale open for only a couple of hours. We had a yard sale before DD's wedding and we took in enough to pay off the caterer. Now I want the stuff out of here too fast to be able to put it aside for a yard sale. If neither of the kids wants it, Goodwill gets it. I don't get the Flylady's email newsletter. Should I subscribe?
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 7:32 am
It has been a lot of fun for me to read all these great posts on adventures in domesticity. I grew up in a home where I was always embarrassed to have anyone pop in because the house was usually in a state of chaos. My mother's comment always was, "They're here to visit us, not the house." Because of this, I became the neatnik of the family. I literally cannot think if my home is not neat and tidy. This, however, is complicated by the fact that I moved from an eleven-room ark of a place to my current small home towing all my stuff with me. After ten years, my sister joined me bringing all her stuff from a big old ark of a house, too. We had to build a two-story garage to contain all of it. I am really not certain why we feel compelled to keep it, but we tell ourselves that maybe the kids will want it. For example, I have a round oak pedestal table that I will probably never use again and which none of the kids want, but I can't bring myself to part with it. I think I know what it represents…still I'd like to be able to lighten the load. In my mother's defense, she seems to have more time to do the things she enjoys like quilting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, reading (well, I have time for that). Her point would be that a clean home is the sign of a dull person. Since I am feeling a tad dull these days, I'm tempted to believe it. Would this Flylady program work for someone like me? Did any of you have a similar problem? Happy cleaning!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 8:21 am
I delete a lot of the email--like the reminders--but I love the testimonials and her other writings. It is extremely possible she is trying to make herself feel better. I discovered on Friday that she has been discussing me with a lot of people--on the guise that she is in fear for my immortal soul. Since this person is a religious person, I am really upset, and haven't yet determined how I want to handle it. I have written a letter to one of the parties involved...I'm just trying to decide if it's clear. I've decided that it fits into FlyLady, as I may have to do a "person fling." Vee, I think FlyLady would be a good thing for you to try, especially since June should be another Super Fling Boogie. Why not check out FlyLady's site and go from there? We'll support you any way that we can!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 10:40 am
Okay, I am officially signed up and I understand that I will be receiving many e-mails. I'm not sure this is a good thing... My sink is soaking. Since I do not have stainless steel sinks, I am wondering if anyone knows anything about old-fashioned farm-style porcelain sinks, which I have and that I love. It usually cleans up well, but if I am not careful, it gets rust stains from the cans we must recycle. I hope to give it a darn good shine here momentarily. "Super Fling Boogie" eh? I guess I'll be learning a new language. Gotta go scrub that sink
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 11:27 am
Generally, the cleaning instructions are the same, minus the steel wool scrubbing. From my household notebook, you might want to try this: Porcelain Sink Stain Remover1 teaspoon liquid dishwashing detergent 1/2 cup liquid chlorine bleach 1/2 cup white vinegar Close drain and run several inches of warm water into sink. Add above ingredients. Let stand in sink overnight. Rinse out sink with hot water. For now, work on your sink, and start your routines. Don't let the email bog you down. After all, that's what the delete button is for. We're here for you.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 1:09 pm
The sink looks great…I always thought I did an excellent job, but the buffing and shining with car wax is amazing. I hope that I don't get too "Don't you screw up the sink" about it. I will follow your advice and not get bogged down in the e-mails. Also, what's this about being dressed to the shoes? That will be the biggest change for me as I never wear shoes in the house…lace-up shoes no less. Thanks for the method for cleaning a porcelain sink, Lk. I will try that the next time I have to really clean it again. (I am wondering when that will be.)
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Sherrie
Member
11-23-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 5:11 pm
Lk: Could not find the testimonial from Flylady in my old mailbox or recently deleted. Sorry, but it looks like Spinner might be able to help! Purple: I am going to wait patiently for the story about you starting to collect Cows. Vee: Welcome!!! I love the Flylady system and use or delete her daily reminders as needed!
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 5:45 pm
LK and Sherrie, I'm looking through my trashed Flylady mail (I searched on "Nevada" first, thinking that would reduce the volume of posts to look through) and didn't find it and didn't find it when I searched on "Testimonials" but I haven't thrown out anything for this quarter so I have everything from the first of April. So it has to be there! Sherrie, do you remember about when you saw it? And, if I remember correctly, it's the story about LK's DH seeing the flylady clingie and knowing something more is expected of him? With a few more clues I'll find it!
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Sherrie
Member
11-23-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 6:00 pm
Spinner - I would say within the last three weeks but LK should be able to narrow that down with when she wrote it. It had a catchy title and was about the DH now having to do dishes cuz Flylady was looking up at him from the sink. I remember it caught my eye cuz I thought that perhaps it was something that might help my sister to get her DH to do his midnight dishes. It is about her new sink strainers. I think LK will be a lot more help!!!
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Autumn
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 6:49 pm
Ok, I checked the ones that I still have and I can't find it either.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 8:02 pm
Sherrie, I remember LK's story just as you do, and I've looked through everything in my trash--all of the emails from anythng Fly-related--by searching on "sink" and I'm still not finding it. Flylady must have used it in some other way that's not popping up. I'll keep looking, but right now, I'm at a zero. Thanks, Autumn, for looking too.
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