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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:33 pm
Every day gets a little easier. Biting food is still tough, but I'm beginning to get chewing down. Talking is still occasionally awkward, but since today is officially the 7th day, I think I'm doing well. Sink Reflections won't teach her how to clean, per se, but it will teach her how to structure her time and the set up a cleaning schedule. Saving Dinner will at least give her experience in menu planning and easy meals to cook. I haven't tried Fruit2O. I'll definitely look into it. I'm trying to cut down on my soda consumption.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 9:27 am
I really want to stick the air conditioner in the window, but it is just too heavy to lift. When the weather gets warm, I am no good at cleaning or anything else. I know all you Southern and Western folks feel terribly sorry for me! (I've lived in Oklahoma and Arizona so I do realize how silly it sounds to say that it is too warm today in Maine.) Also, since I have been purchasing cosmetics and that seems self-serving, I am seriously considering purchasing the feather dusters from FlyLady. I have a feather duster from Wal*Mart and I have always liked it well enough, but my sis thinks that it stirs up the dust and she proceeded to "prove" it by dusting in the sunlight. She has forbidden me to dust with it...of course, I do anyway and my house is not terribly dusty. I also have the Swiffer dusters, but the replacements are expensive. Do any of you have the "official" equipment and what do you think of it? Glad that you are feeling better, Lk. Learning to talk again must be frustrating...are there certain sounds that are more of a challenge with new teeth?
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 7:24 pm
I love my Ostrich Feather Duster. I've gotten rid of a lot of the pop cleaner supplies. It's more that the teeth will move if I talk quite a bit--like in class.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 9:10 pm
Vee, I have all of the dusting equipment that you have <G>--dust is a major problem for me because we have so much electronic equipment. These pieces attract dust like magnets and the furniture near them needs daily dusting. I must say that on the metal surfaces of some of our electronic equipment (the cases are often metal)--like the TIVO, switch boxes, etc.--nothing really seems to get everything all the time. Not even my Flylady duster. Definitely not the Walmart one, but that one is fine for over doors, ceiling corners, etc. I do best on the electronic casings to use a slightly damp cloth. My Fly duster probably would be all I'd need if the case surfaces were flat polished metal but they're not--they're sort of textured. I use my Flylady duster on the computer equipment (plastic-like surfaces) and it's very effective, and the screens all come dust-free with the Flylady. The big feathers in it allow me to just flick it near the screens--I don't have to scrub them as I used to with the Swiffer cloths. I use the Swiffer sets for high spots and under low furniture because the unit bends around to accommodate those places. The Flylady is my best all-round duster though and it's definitely a huge cut above the ostrich duster from the WalMart. I let the g'kids dust with the WalMart ones I have and the dust isn't swirled around in the air, even in their hands, but I don't let dust build up because it really shows on many of our wood and metal surfaces.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 5:53 am
That information is very helpful, Spinner and Lk. I really think it's time to get the better products because it is no fun to work with inferior tools. I can justify it as a time and efficiency issue can't I? Without any children's rooms to think about, I have been pulling out appliances...stove and refrigerator...to clean behind and under them. It's amazing how disgusting that can be. Today, I'm doing the shower curtains, etc., as suggested yesterday. Lk, I have to smile thinking about you talking in class because sometimes on my best day I could hardly get my words out straight without having your challenge. I'm sure that it will get better. I just hope that you are healing very well and quicky. How are those classes coming anyway? Are they fun to teach? Say, how are those bookshelves coming? Were you able to assemble them okay? Do they look great? Are you posting after pictures? Happy a flipping, flying Thursday, folks. Saying hello to Purple and Lumbele and Landi and Catfat and everyone.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 5:54 am
Wow, that's vivid and not what I expected...sorry!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:16 am
Vee, I have ostrich feather dusters, too, albeit not the "official flylady" ones, and love them. They do really well on electronics on a daily basis. Whoever came up with the idea of making TVs and monitors, stereos etc. in black ought to be horsewhipped. We don't have little ones in the house anymore, yet every once in a while you can see paw prints on the furniture. That's why I endust once a month. Otherwise I'd just whirl that duster around. Generally, you get what you paid for. Better quality tools are more efficient and will last a lot longer. The initial cost smarts sometimes, but well worth it in the long run. Looks like the bathroom will be finished by tomorrow at the latest, depends if it needs a second coat. What a pain! We painted the majority of the house in that amount of time. It's a small room with lots of stuff to paint around (sink, toilette, tub, etc) and not enough room to swing a dead cat. Heavens, I just reread this post and it is making me sound very aggressive toward animals today - horses and cats.LOL
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:30 am
i've been taking baby steps. my daughter has found her room! it took 3 bags of giveaways - 25 pounds! 4 bags of throw aways - 30 pounds! and all of the put aways. we are currently working on the hallway, then on to my closet. then i will have places to put things that i find from other rooms! i can't wait to get to the "cleaning" part. my husband said i could hire someone to do the first big one!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:41 am
Vee: I haven't made it back to HD to get the remaining supplies. As soon as I get the supplies--and get things put away, I'll definitely post pictures. I'm hoping to blitz tomorrow--I still have cars to do, tho, so it may not happen. I really want to work on this house.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:42 am
YAY, Landi and DD!!!!!!! How does DD feel now that she has a room instead of a big storage closet? You'll be surprised that when you have "decluttered", the cleaning part becomes a lot easier. But don't tell DH. It isn't every day a wife gets that kinda offer.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 11:52 am
Lumbele, souinds like that bathroom is coming along. I stopped work on mine for another project--the sofas we'd had an eye on for sometime for the LR came on sale so we have been working on that room with such great results--it's now a room I love to sit in and it used to be a room to avoid. Lucked out in finding that the Ikea guys who delivered the sofas knew somebody who could use the old ones and sure enough, next morning, they showed up with a truck and hauled off the old stuff. The paint in the room was ok, but new drapes were an essential--old ones literally in shreds and I spent a lot of time figuring out what was affordable and classy--while dealing with my dear, dear husband who thought we should just duplicate what we had from before even though (to me) it was looking increasing like my grandmother's house. <G> But it's lovely now, very functional, very minimal (I pitched even more stuff) and both of us are very happy with it. I still want to get the bathroom painted; think I'll start next week. While I was waiting for DH to help me with the drapes I did get the upstairs hall cupboards thoroughly decluttered, in 15-minute increments, so if he could do drape-hanging I wouldn't be far from quitting to go help. LK, glad you're doing better!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 12:04 pm
::sigh:: I just found out WHY the lower plate is hurting so much on the front left. It is resting on the knots of stitches. In fact, as far as I can tell, ALL of the sore points are where the plates hit the surgical knots. So, I guess I have to wait for the stitches to dissolve before my mouth stops hurting.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:49 pm
Let us hope for a speedy dissolution--of the stitches, of course!
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:32 pm
LK, get some Ambesol. Rub it on your gums or, better yet, spread it on the plate when it's causing pain. You'll want to have some on hand anyway, because there will always be irritations that come up. When we got a new sofa, we put the two loveseats it replaced out by the curb the night before trash day and, sure enough, they were gone in the morning! We did that with a malfunctioning TV once, too.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:05 pm
Purple: I have orajel. DH isn't sure this is a good idea, and wants to ask the dentist tomorrow. I keep seeing couches, chairs and more out at the apartment dumpsters. I'm hoping that when we do the recliners, I can bribe the delivery guys to remove the couch. (I figure $50 and me answering the door with my walker should do it.)
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:16 pm
Lkunkel, You should check with where you get your recliners, we have a furniture store here in town that will take the old furniture if it isn't just falling apart. They have a storage space in their warehouse for things like that, and when people lose their things in a fire, or just fall on hard times they can go and choose what they need.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:32 pm
Purple, at our house we call this "putting stuff out on the curb" by the term our son called it that he learned at college--"lend-lease" (strange, it has nothing to do with either!) but it works wonderfully. We lend-lease lots of stuff; usually add a "free" sign to it and it's gone quickly. Occasionally we see who gets it and I've always been pleased; a really nice stereo cabinet which we outgrew went to a nice young guy who was the painter at a house up the street. We happened to be outside when he backed his truck back down the street as he passed the FREE sign and helped him load it; clearly, to him, this was a great find. The next day when we saw him he asked about how to wire in the speakers and my hubby went to the garage, found some cables that he'd need and gave them to the painter-guy, with instructions. I wish I'd seen who found the 25 new--still in their wrappers--VHS tapes of movies that my hubby had never opened since he bought DVDs of them before he got around to the tapes. Somebody was surely pleased to find that! But the sofas were just too much to put on the curb. It was an old "play pen" type from the 70s--6 sofa sections with 2 cushions each and 3 ottomons; it totally filled the truck the guys from the florist arrived in and some of the cushions had to go in the cab with them. I'm pleased when we can pass on some stuff that's still really good--I know some of the people who have gotten items from our curb would have found them too expensive even at the Goodwill--which often isn't as cheap as one might think. Jmm, I like the furniture store idea that's happening in your community; our church tries to do this but sometimes we don't happen to have what people need that particular day, and storage space is a problem for us. You've given me an idea though; perhaps we can work with a store that could spare some storage room.
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:21 pm
Ambesol is better. Trust me, I'm a veteran. It's fine with my dentist. He just doesn't like it when I use Ambesol to put off coming in. I have a slightly different set up, I think, in that what I have are over-dentures. I have copings underneath. It can take a while until the denture is shaped and polished to perfection and during that time you need something. I just had a re-line on my lower and it's too tight and since I already have an appointment for next Wednesday I don't want to run in now. (More $$) You'll probably need a re-line in 6 months when your gums have shrunk back. After that it's every 2 years or so with new dentures every 5 or 6 years. We put our recycleables out on Monday. There's a guy who drives around and fills up his trunk with the cans. I wouldn't really mind, but the recycling has to pay for itself or the county will stop doing it.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:41 pm
Re recycleables: Purple, we've noticed this too--somebody takes the cans overnight. I used to just toss them--didn't seem worth the deposit but now that almost every container that comes into the house has a deposit on it I've started collecting them in a box in the garage and adding the trip to the recycling center to my Monday Routine. It's been worth more money than I thought; I'm getting $5 bucks and change back most weeks. But I bet the "can-stealer"--whoever it was-- misses our contribution! The really annoying thing is when we throw out a lot of stuff for trash day--and since the Flylady and I went into business together <G> there's been a lot, although nothing like the previously discussed Grand Garage Shoveling. But there's nothing of value going out there in those bags; if there was value to anybody I'd be Goodwill-ing or Lend-Leasing it. The annoying part is that somebody comes by in the middle of the night sometimes and tears the trash bags open, looking for stuff inside, and they leave the mess. Shreddies from the paper shredder are nasty to have to gather up again! We've "caught" people doing it occasionally and when we've asked them to not leave stuff out of the bags they've been pretty cooperative but we don't catch most and the trashman comes mighty early. Early or not, I've started getting up even earlier to get the bags out in the morning--nobody sits out on the curb and tears bags open in our neighborhood in the daytime. Anybody else have this problem? What do you do about it? LK, I hope you find something that will ease your mouth until the healing sets in.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 18, 2004 - 5:35 am
Sighing wistfully...would love to have trash pick-up, but it isn't going to happen in my town. We haul our own and we pay for a dump sticker on each vehicle that we want to use for that purpose. It always bugs me to death to pay for the darned sticker to haul my own stuff away. If we have anything large...an old appliance or something...we also have to pay additional money to leave it there. At the dump we have a "trade" station where people can place anything they deem as still valuable for anyone else to have for free. That's nice, but, gosh, who wants to hang around at the dump poring over stuff? I really like the idea about having a store with extra storage place hold onto useful furniture for fire victims, etc. We have a large food warehouse that serves the entire state that works on that idea. Hmmm... Spinner, had to laugh at your comment about "grandmother's house." That's the look that I am always after. Maybe you could send me those old curtains you're talking about! Lk, hope those old stitches melt away fast. Take care everyone!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, June 18, 2004 - 6:40 am
Two years ago I stayed with my elderly mother for 3 months. While there I cleaned out her attic. OY!!! In the late afternoon before big trash pickup day, 3 men hauled stuff to the curb for about 2 hours. Within 30 mins the small cul-de-sac was crawling with "restore" and antique hounds from as far away as France (within 1/2-1 hours drive). By 11 pm I was out there in my jammies trying to put some kind of order back into the scattered piles left behind. That's how long it took for people to quit rummaging though Mum's stuff. Here it is the Diabetes and Cystic Fibrosis Associations that come around twice a year to relieve us of our clutter. The city picks up once a year, but has size and weight restrictions, and forgoes dump fees once a year for a week for stuff you haul to their dump. Not an easy thing with a sedan, so we end up paying someone to do it. When you buy new furniture most of our stores will dispose of the old stuff for you, but I like Jmm's community's idea much more. Lk, hope things will look up for you very soon. Any pain above the neck always seems much worse than anywhere else, doesn't it? Hopefully this too shall pass and the faster the better.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 6:31 am
Lumbele, I still remember my mother and grandmother cleaning out my great-grandmother's home in Moncton, NB. I was only six years old, but watching the trash guys rummaging through the trash left quite an impression on me. Wish I had some of that stuff that was left on the curb away back then...one was my grandmother's old wicker baby buggy! It is a very breezy day here...like September...good thing that I love fall weather because we've got it in spades today. Good day to get some yard work done. Thanks to another thread on favorite web sites, I have found some great tips for dealing with garden pests... http://www.concentric.net/~conure/home.shtml. Lk, I bought several lavender plants yesterday to cope with mosquitoes. I'm setting them in today. Back to the eaves for the remainder of the morning since it is cool enough to do so. I am also 54 or 108 boogying old cosmetics and lotions today. Have a terrific Sunday, my dear Fly friends.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 8:19 am
Vee, there were a few things in that attic that we might have restored if we lived over there. But the shipping would be considerably more than the value, so....<sigh> Speaking of lavender... my mother planted a bunch between her rose bushes. Can't remember why, but for some reason that's good for the roses. Just thought I'd mention it, in case you have roses, too. BTW should anyone run across a household, minor health or garden problem let me know. DH bought one of those "use what you already have in the house" (name brands) books with oodles of tips. We might find a solution in there. You'd be surprised what pantyhose can all be used for.LOL See y'all flying by next week.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 10:22 am
Okay, I'll bite, does it have anything in there for boric acid?
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 1:29 pm
I'll bite too. What does it say for blisters from new shoes on your feet? 
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