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Archive through July 15, 2005

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Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would think it would be good... when Tim's dad died, they sent appreciation cards to everyone who contributed to his memorial. You get so many cards and stuff you can't really achnowledge all of them, but a quick note saying thank you for your help/thoughts/support/etc- I don't see how that could ever be bad.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I received a thank you note for flowers I sent to a funeral and I was grateful as it was the only way I knew that the flowers actually arrived (I couldn't make the funeral due to distance)

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It is good etiquette. It is not good etiquette to not thank people...

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes. I wrote notes to everyone who brought food, flowers, donated to our charity.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is a dumb question. How do I get animated emoticons and how do I get them to work?

Jmm
Moderator

08-16-2002

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Escapee, First you need to go to a site like Smilies and save some to your hard drive. Then you post them like regular pictures. If you need help with the posting instructions, just give a holler.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
always, always, always send out thank you cards. in a funeral situation, you send out cards to people who send flowers, contribute to a charity in the name of the deceased, bring food to the wake/memorial, host the after funeral stuff in their home, babysitter who watches the kids, that kind of thing.

i have found that it is always good to feel appreciated. so i always send thank you cards. if i am invited over to a special event/dinner at a friend's, i send a thank you card. i'm not talking pot luck, or a quickie bbq, but something that is a "dinner party".

hope that helps.


Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks guys! We thought you did, but weren't really sure.

When my step dad passed I sent thank you cards to the hospital staff who had been so helpful not only with him but the whole family and to the fire department who responded to the emergency call because they truly had gone over and beyond the call of duty. Not only reviving him, but afterwards they went back and cleaned up the mess they left, I was never quite sure if it was because we knew most of the fire department or because that was always something they did. As for people who sent flowers and food, I really don't remember if mom did thank you cards or not.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have found, when it doubt, write a note. It never is the wrong thing to do.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maybe someone more enlightened than me can come up with a plan.

I washed my Mom's pillow to her wheelchair last night, in preparation for tomorrow's excursions.

The damn thing popped a hole open in the wash, and fiber fill is now all over the place (the label says 100% polyester fiber fill). I gathered what I could of it up, stuffed it back into its proper spot, sewed the hole back up, and hung the pillow out to dry overnight, figuring the little bits of fiber fill could be removed with the old "sticky tape on the hand" trick (its pretty much covering the pillow right now).

Well, its dry now, and that damn fiber fill STILL won't come off easily. Its like its become magnetically fused with the pillow (the label says the pillow is 50% cotton, 50% polyester). I've tried tape you used on shipping boxes, and even the ultra sticky duct tape. Some is coming off, but there's still little white residue specks all over the nice navy blue pillow.

Tried a damp wash cloth, and it just skids right over it.

Is there some trick I don't know about?

I hate to try washing it again. First of all, I'm leary now of it popping open again. Second, it needs to be dry by tomorrow morning, and I'm not supposed to tumble dry it (the label says to line dry it). Oh, and its thundering outside right now, and threatening rain, and the only real good place to line dry it is outside.

Geeze, only I could come up with a huge complicated production over such a simple silly task as washing something.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How expensive are these pillows? If not too expensive, then I would buy a new one and bring it to the cleaners in the future.

What about using a pillow case? Or even wrap a blanket or towel around it?

What about a lint brush?

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The pillow was 30 bucks last year (HERE is what it looks like). And after all the grief, frustration, and almost fist fighting I had to do with Fed Ex last year to get it to me....ugh. The thought of buying a new one makes me sick. Not to mention there's no way to get one by tomorrow.

Hmmmmm, don't even know where a lint brush might be hiding out in the house. I think I have a teeny tiny "travel" type one in my car. I'll have to go check...

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That looks comfy! I want one!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Boy what bad color choices. White would get so filthy so fast and navy would be terrible foranyone with pets cuz the hairs show up so much on navy. I think they should have included a tan or at least ecru on the choices. Doesn't look like a pillow case would work well either... Maybe just toss a big towel or a small blanket over the thing???

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 2:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I vote for using a pillow case Whomum.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A pillow case would be ok, if I could find one shaped like the pillow.

Just tried the lint brush. First few strokes kind of broke up the fiber fill and spread it around the pillow more. After about 20 strokes in a one inch area, going in every direction (kinda hard, considering I had to hold the brush upside down in some instances, so I didn't put the stuff back on the pillow), I kinda almost got most of the stuff off that one spot.

A towel thrown over it might work. But the way Mom squirms and squiggles and leans in the chair, that towel would be all wadded up in no time.

Sigh. Maybe I should just hold my breath and hope and try washing it again, though I'm not really sure at this point it would take the fiber fill off.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What if you pin the towel onto the pillow (like in the back) You could get some diaper pins...

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
or try some super sturdy velcro?

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmmm...not a bad idea. But...(I'm full of buts, aren't I?). Don't have any diaper pins, and not sure if time allows for us to stop and get any (we leave for our excursion early tomorrow). And by the shape of the thing, I'd need more than one towel, and I don't know that we have any big enough. Not to mention this crud is on both sides of the pillow!

Anyone have an idea of why it would say not to tumble dry? Is the 100% polyester combustable maybe or something? The dryer is where most of the lint type stuff comes off for us.

Hey, I just remembered I had an item or two in with the pillow (and they are covered with the stuff too). Maybe I'll re-wash them first and see if it takes it off.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, now I looked at the pillow and see the problem with a pillow case.

This way out there but what about putting it in the dryer for a few minutes. I know it says to line dry it but.......................?

That is how I get cat hair off of some items. The cat hair goes right to the lint filter. Just wondering if same would happen for your pillow.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<it is in the genes, Whomum!>

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What about your vacuum? Or run up really fast to Kmart for a pack of diaper pins and a beach towel (which s/b large enough and s/b on clearance now too!!)

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you CANNOT put the pillow in the dryer! polystyrene (the polyester fiberfill) melts with heat! what you need is a clothes shaver! you could get that at walmart or use a razor.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Kmarts on the other side of town. I purposely did all my running around yesterday so I wouldn't have to do so today, and I could spend the day getting things ready for tomorrow. Vacuum might work, but Bomba would have a fit if I brought it out. But I might have to.

I have the other stuff in the washer now, and will also dry them. They aren't of the same material as the pillow, but it should give me an idea on how the fiber fill will behave.

Might have to go with the "toss it in the dryer for a few minutes" thing. At least the rain threat seems to be going away a bit. I might be able to re-wash it and hang it out again.

I noticed the tag says to wash it on "delicate cycle." I think I had it on my normal every day cycle (I don't wear much of a variety of clothes, so I don't really ever wash except for on the one main cycle). Could be why it popped the seam. Could be too, I should have just put it in by itself. But with the way the pillow is shaped, it wasn't really fitting into the machine in a balanced way. That's why I put the other towels in, was to balance out the washer.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, July 15, 2005 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ah, thanks Landi, on the info of the dryer! Hmmm, I think I have an old razor around here somewhere. Naturally, I don't have a clothes shaver, and again there's that darned time issue of going out somewhere to get something!