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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:34 am
Gt2: I should be online whenever you get home, regardless of what my BL says, so email me. I'm taking a morning nap right now since I had three hysterical feline in my home. Bopper totally set up a "do not exit" roadblock: draft blocker, afghan, cat bed, rocking chair tipped over, and Crys' box pushed up against that. He then hopped into the cat bed and started yowling whenever I came near. Potshot arrived safely in NYC--he was thrilled by my map of the A terminal since has was able to quickly determine where the gate was (usually a difficult process). Once he called (I put it on speaker), the troublesome threesome settled down to nap, and I think I will too. I'll check in later!

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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 11:30 am
Ok, so fess up, what parts of the journal do you guys actually use? The daily and weekly lists as well as the phone list are about all I use regularly.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 11:32 am
The phone lists and when things were last worked on i.e., the furnace, the car, etc. The furnace repairmen was very impressed! 
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 11:54 am
Vee, I didn't see the answers before the posts were lost. I'm glad to know there was at least one...do you remember what it (they were?) Lkunkel, thanks for talking about the junk mail a third time. I too, live in fear of id. theft. I am probably risking it with sending it back. I do have mixed feelings about dumping this problem in the lap of the usps, however, they have a lot more power to do something about it than I do. I only shred it if I've opened a credit card app. by mistake. I really hate taking my time and electricity and wear and tear on my shredder for this reason. It really steams me! The rest of the junk mail I just toss in the recycle bag under my kit. sink and take it out when full. (We don't have to separate any recycling items except green waste.) I am astounded that you had so much shredded! 545 ibs. + ! Amazing! Where did you keep it all before you took it to get shredded? I wonder what they do with all that mail I keep sending back.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:32 pm
About returning junk mail, Happy? I think that Lk said that if it isn't first class mail the Post Office would not return it anyway. Am I remembering that correctly, Laurie? (Laurie may be a whirling dervish right now so I don't know if we'll get through. ) Pardon me! Now that I have reread your post, I'm not sure that I have answered the question at all!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 9:41 pm
I kept it on the patio in bankers boxes that had "Shredding" written on them. At one point I had them reinforced with regular cardboard and made them into extra seating, hassocks, and side tables. I learned about magazine subscriptions when some people ordered "gift subs" for themselves from ME. Wasn't that just SOOOOO nice of me? Grr. Vee, yes, you are correct. That's what I said. The best laid plans of mice and women went astray today. Nina needed a driver across town, and given everything that she does for me, I was NOT about to say "No." So, I did a lot of my errands (scheduled for Tuesday) and some of the paperwork (scheduled for Tuesday) and sucked it up. Tomorrow is another day, and I can still get everything accomplished before Bill comes home.

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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 8:14 am
Yay, Lk! Don't ya just hate it when your well laid plans go up in smoke? Flexibility is the only answer or screaming at the top of your lungs. Glad you didn't lose a whole day, but could still get some of your Tuesday plans taken care of. I am sitting here procrastinating. Gotta get going on ds's b'day dinner, but no energy to even look for first gear. Aaaaaack! Somebody give me the boot!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 9:32 am
Wow! Junk mail turned into extra seating! I hope you didn't give away too many mag. subscriptions! I do shred those!
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:05 am
how to get off direct mail (aka junk mail) lists http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist Mail Preference Service Direct Marketing Association PO Box 643 Carmel, NY 10512 good for 5 years. will have to resend if you move. there is an online form - but for some unknown reason online is $5 while mail in is free (go figure)
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:08 am
Wowie! Thanks for the link, Puppy! I am going there directly!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:15 am
Vee, just as a reminder if you sign up for magazine, you will get junk mail from the company affiliated with that company. If you request coupons as I did from Proctor & Gamble, you will receive junk mail from ALL of their companies as you have "established a prior working relationship with them." Or at least so I was told.

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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:16 am
Canada is included in this link, yipee Thanks for posting the link Puppylov
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:18 am
Ohhh, sneaky, eh? I presume that is also true of any credit card company one deals with, etc?
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:58 am
Vee, yup. Anytime you give anyone your addy - you risk them putting you on their 'mailing list'
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 1:57 pm
Okay: FlyLady's Rule #2 about getting dressed all the way to lace up shoes will never again be followed in this house. Period. Because, you see, we have three cats. Three very bored cats. Three very bored cats who untied Mommy's shoelaces. Three very bored cats who untied Mommy's shoelaces while she was on the step ladder. Three very bored cats who untied Mommy's shoelaces while she was on the step ladder and then managed, while playing with said shoe lace, to get it caught in the hinge of said step ladder. Fortunately, when Mommy fell off the ladder as she was stepping down, she only twisted her knee and ankle and banged her head on the wall. This after I brought them home fresh cat grass and catnip. See if they get any more treats from me! I am right now icing down half of my body parts while I play with the net. I ordered a FL T-shirt because I wanted the I'M FLYING purple bracelet (Ordering a FL T-shirt in February gets you a free bracelet). I figure it will look interesting with my bright green one supporting medical marijuana (COMPASSION on one side and FREEDOM on the other), my olive green one for SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and whatever color is decided for the LEAVE GAMES ALONE bracelet. I never have seen the LIVE STRONG one in a place I could purchase it. I wonder what other groups have them...I would not mind a pink on for breast cancer or red for AIDS. I wonder what blue could be.....
ETA Good Grief. From Fashion UK site: "In 2004, Lance Armstrong's 'LiveStrong' yellow charity wristbands set a new trend in charity fundraising. Since then, various charities have created their own versions: Oxfam has produced Make Poverty History white canvas bands with black clasps, available online (£1 each, 100 for £10), via mobiles (£1.50 plus cost of your text) and in Oxfam shops. Do you know someone affected by cancer? The blue rubber Fear Nothing bracelet (with a proportion of the proceeds going to The Cancer Society) can be pre-ordered now with stock expected at the end of February (£2.99 from IWantItCheaper.com) and pink Breast Cancer Foundation bracelets proclaiming 'Share Beauty Spread Hope' are available from amazon.com ($10). Even Nike is getting in on the act, issuing its own anti-racist versions, with Arsenal's Thierry Henry and Man United's Rio Ferdinand temporarily ceasing hostilities to support it."
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 2:25 pm
Well, I have to say that it would be virtually impossible to know what one is increasing awareness of, given the colors and their various associations, according to Chris Franchetti, BellaOnline's Fashion Jewelry Editor. Click here for the list.

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 4:32 pm
Those naughty kitties! This is one sabotage after the next. What's going on with the extra kitty litter from Petsmart? Did you ever get it figured out?
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 4:44 pm
Nope, not entirely. I know the name of the person who sent it, but I don't think I know the person. I have no idea why she sent it, but I do more than appreciate it. BTW, I learned my lesson...I won't wander out of this folder other than to visit my folder again.

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 4:54 pm
Oh! It turned out to be a gift? How wonderful! My dear, you have every right to go anywhere you wish on this board just the same as anyone else! So there!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 5:26 pm
Vee: I'll refrain from replying to that here in public. But I will just stay right here for now. I have DH's hat hanger hung. I also bought a stupid cap washer. My plan is to wash a cap with every cold load of clothes I do (usually 3x week). I'm thinking I'll hang them all up on the hooks now, and then, after the hat is washed (and line dries), I'll put it in a gallon bag and rehang it. Does that make sense? He wanted to leave them all on the floor, doorknobs, shelves, hooks, etc, until they were washed. I didn't like that idea.

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 6:16 am
Sounds like a man for ya. A cap and a jacket on every available "hook." My dad likes to decorate the tops of all my mother's press-back chairs. It gets pretty awful looking and he isn't pleased when I relocate them to their proper home because he can't see them so well anymore. Today I am taking care of hauling two households of trash off and all the recycling. I think that will be all that I do in any true FlyLady capacity. Oh, I have finally had positive feedback on the three feather dusters I gave as Christmas gifts. Some of you may remember that I was concerned that it wouldn't go over so well and that concern turned out to be correct. Except! Now all three recipients say that they love their feather dusters and don't know what they would do without them. Yay! I am vindicated, FlyLady, too! Happy flying everyone!
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 10:21 am
yikes LK (meannnnnnnn kitties) - oh and I don't do to the shoes either. I was raised taking shoes OFF when I came in the house (which is related to my mom being the 6th of 9 kids and when you only get 2 pair of shoes/year like they did - you take shoes off). Mom's house is clean and I wear shoes all day at work. So around here - dressed to the socks will have to do. on the colored bracelet front - you can add white bracelet with dark blue, green, and yellow stripes to the list. That is weight watchers great american weigh in (for the American Cancer Society) to the list. It reads "Make A Difference." I got mine Monday night at my weight watchers meeting. It is my only bracelet but I'm thinking I might be adding more to the list. Around my neck of the woods - blue (at least on kids at church) is from KU (aka the university of kansas) and says Jayhawks on it. And a couple of the kids in my Sunday School Class have a black one from the high school that says 'cards' on it (short for cardinals - the mascot). So ya never know with the bracelets. But I do want a purple fly lady one I dropped off 3 paper sacks of too big clothes at goodwill last night from a fling boogie on Wednesday. I've got more clothes to weed through. Making self purge them. Weight watcher reccommendation - get RID of your fat clothes when you lose weight so you can't get fat again and put them back on! I have established zones at work for my cubicle. zone 1 - filing cabinets and area right outside my cubicle - which is a disaster only partly of my making but it is currently driving me insane. We have files in our cabinets that were moved down here from Maine like 2 years ago and we have NO idea what they are, if they are relevant. We have files in boxes - some sitting right outside my cube that need to be waded through. So I've got my work cut out for me. BUT = if I sepnd that mere 15 minutes/day at the office on a zone (doing 1 zone/day) maybe over time that disaster zone with the files will get taken care of (and mayble I'll rub off on my boss who is a piler of monumental proportions) zone 2 the left side of my cube: guest chair, wall, overhead, 1 file drawer, area under the desk, 2 small drawers, desk top (including the dreaded inbox). zone 3 middle section: desk top, keyboard tray (this is where I have my cupter at - I have ergo issues at the computer HAS to be someplace on the desk where I can sit straight on and not do funky things with wrist or neck), underdesk area. Lots of small clutter accumulates here as I have pencil cups and such there. zone 4 is the right side of the work station: work surface, under desk area, overhead, 4 filing drawers. zone 5 is a 'closet' type thing that is at the end of the right side work station. I store my coat, sweater, briefcase, lunch bag, purse and such in there. There is also I side with selves so it tends to accumulate stuff (which is hidden so I forget about it) I'm thinking my home zones (I live in a mobile home - ergo a big rectangle) are going to be: zone 1 - kitchen, pantry (tiny), entry way floor (which is an extenion of kitchen floor) and laundry room. Laundry room is a dumping zone at the moment. zone 2 - living room, coat closet (technically in the entry way but stuff from living room gets dumped there) zone 3 - spare bedroom (giant dump zone that has been out of control since I moved in - and scarily is now a kitten playground), hallway and bathroom. zone 4 - my bedroom - home to scads of clothes that don't fit. But this room is under much better control since I did most of my work this week in there. zone 5 - front porch, shed (dangerous dump zone - I've got stuff there my mother hauled out of my aunts house when she moved that is left from when my sister and I were kids. stuff that needs sorted through so I can determine what is mine and what is my sister's - who lives in Atlanta (because guess what I'm sending here when this project is DONE), car (not only do am I living in CHAOS - but it extends to my car (Can't Take Anyone Anywhere), and other outdoor areas. (I enjoy gardening in warm weather so aside from the shed and car - the rest of it isn't too bad). okay must stop rambling or I'll be late for yoga
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 11:35 am
Vee: Congratulations! Vindication can be a beautiful thing. My plan today is to continue sorting and tossing my stuff, while putting Bill's "keeper" stuff away, and leaving stuff in his office to deal with. I'm still sorting through clothes--both too big and too small. I've decided I'm not holding onto what doesn't fit me. As we get the money, I'm going to build a basic 14 day wardrobe in the Soft Autumn Color Palette that makes me look good. I have decided that Navy is going to be my primary base color and either a Warm Gray or a Khaki for the other base color. If anyone is interested, I'll go over the items that are considered a basic wardrobe--along with my additions. Experts say we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time, so my goal: to eliminate the 80% of the clothes I don't wear and keep the 20% I do. Out of curiosity, how many upper foundation garments do most of you wear in 2 weeks? I have 6, but I'm not sure if it's too many, or not enough.

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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 12:00 pm
Puppy, I must have been typing while you were. Sorry I missed your post. I broke up the apartment in a similar way. I have reorganized some of the Zones. Once I can actually do the Zones as designed, I'll never have to do this spring cleaning thing again. Granted, I don't have a car, but I have learned enough to make sure that when I do, it'll be kept in great shape and last several more years than what they are rumored to by my friends. I cannot wait!

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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 12:27 pm
Puppy, thanks for the info about junk mail. I will definitely sign up. I lurk in here mostly and you are all such an inspiration to me! (the tv show Clean Sweep is too.) I have the motivation and I do very slowly make progress. I just wish I had more time. I am doing the best I can though and that's all anyone can do. Lkunkel...sorry about your kitties bruising you up. I have two cats. They are so old, they don't play any longer, but I wear clogs almost exclusively. They don't slip or fall off. I cannot seem to work until I have my shoes on! Anyway, I'm also working toward never having to do spring cleaning again. Once this clutter is gone, it should maintain itself for the most part. I do always have a clean sink!
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