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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:23 pm
Julie, I'm on my way.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 5:35 am
*Friday's Mission* Is it Friday already? Where did the week go? NT, I saw your photos in that "other" thread. LOL! It's going to be so easy to fly when you have a kitchen that you love. Speaking of kitchens, mine is getting a facelift at some point, too. *Kitchen design* is all over the map...handles, no handles, matchy-matchy, no matchy-matchy. It's all about what you love and can afford. Lucky me, I like great-grandma's kitchen. I give my whole-hearted support to anyone (Grace and NT : >) who can tolerate the upheaval long enough to get the room of their dreams. I am already quaking just thinking about THE MESS. Where's Dipo this week? Happy date night!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:20 am
This was my little project for the morning. All jewelry is hung on the inside of the linen closet door, which is in the hallway. Even though this door is going to be history in a few more months, the thought of looking at that mess another day made me ill. (Odd that it didn't affect me this way yesterday morning. ;>)
Before
After ETA: Yes, I did toss a whole lot of that old stuff away. So far, I don't feel one bit bad about it either!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:48 am
Looking mucho neat, Vee. Where is it all gonna go once that door "is history"? Come to think of it, my jewelry case could probably use some culling of costume stuff. But then again, I think I'll let sleeping dogs lie, for now.LOL Speaking of the "other thread", people mentioned the top of kitchen cabinets and keeping those clean. About twice a year, we would tackle ours and it was a job, Ick! Recently dh put double sided tape around the edge and we laid thick brown paper (actually cut up paper shopping bags) and on the stove side thick plastic. Dh also brought home one of those electrically chargable, bendable dusters with a telescopic handle. Now I run that things over the top of the cabinets and the things up there every week. NOthing to it, and I am hoping that this way we can extend the stretches between the "big cleans". Maybe not on the stove side. Grease tends to spread more over there than the other side. But with the plastic it should be a lot easier to wipe down. On the other side, we have a creeping plant. After about 6 months, we hauled it down, thinking it would probably need a major shower. To our great surprise, our efforts could have easily waited longer. The dust up there was minimal, and that was *before* the looooooooong duster. P.S. Dh bought that duster at Canuck Tire for just under 10 bucks. I bet Target or Walmart in the States would have something like that as well.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:56 am
What a great idea for hanging your necklaces! Jewelry boxes with hanging capacity are never tall enough for long chains or beads. What kind of hanger is that? Over the door? Where did you put your bulletin board and the pins? It's 'Everything You Do Is Great' Day! Again, don't most people clean up the baseboards when they wash the floor? <running before someone throws something at me>
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:57 am
Very nice job Vee!! I'm still working on my bedroom closet. Getting rid of old clothes, donating the ones that are still good. It's a bigger project than I thought it would be.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:01 am
<don't most people clean up the baseboards when they wash the floor?> Yep, Gracie they generally do, unless of the male persuasion.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:20 am
LOL Gracie, I was thinking the same thing.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:32 am
Fortunately, my ceilings are so low that my cupboard goes to the top or else I'd be looking for one of those telescoping dusters, Lum. Very good idea, btw. The addition will have a very high ceiling so that will be nice and I will have to have some sort of telescoping duster. I have a lambswool one right now for the stairway. (Remind me to tell you my spider story someday!) Grace, that is just a cheap over the door thingy. My jewelry used to get so snagged in the jewelry box that I gave up on it long ago. I like this method so well, Lum, that I am hoping that I'll be able to use it in the linen closet's new home whenever we tackle that project. One mess at a time, though, eh? Nicole, you are doing a great job weeding through your closet. You'll be so happy once it's accomplished. Baby steps, baby steps. Oh good, I was going to say that I clean baseboards when the floors are washed, but didn't want to sound like a whatever Grace, Lum, and Wargod sound like. ROFL!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:38 am
LOL, Vee!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 6:19 pm
Did she just call us a bad name?
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 7:05 pm
Certainly not! 
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 6:34 am
Yep, Gracie, but she wraps it so nicely.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:03 am
                             Hope you all enjoy the weekend and have the Luck O' The Irish! Love ya, Grace
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 11:33 am
Top of kitchen cabinets are a pain, lol. Not for dust and stuff, but we use them to store food that we don't need right away since we do a lot of Costco shopping. I also hide Darren's lunch foods I don't want the kids to find. The cabinet next to the fridge though is further down than the other ones (enough room on top to stick a box of cereal standing straight up) and it's the one we use to put the kids lunch food stuff (box of cheese and crackers, etc.) That one is always a mess since the kids can get to it. I finally cleaned out from under my desk and it was as bad as I feared, lol. I have a shelf on the bottom that sits about a 1/4 inch off the floor so stuff is always getting shoved under there. Next is Darren's desk and then the kids. I'm trying to do major cleaning and laundry today. My youngest niece came over yesterday and will be with us til Monday, her sister won't be here til tomorrow cuz she's out "camping" with another cousin. Not much fun for the kids today cuz they're working too, lol, but it gives us the chance to play more tomorrow when all four kids are here and they're earning a little money. My nephews will be here starting Monday for three weeks (during the morning and afternoon anyways) and the kids home for spring break so I won't have much chance to really do much other than cleaning up after them, lol. I really want to spend the later afternoon and early evenings after the boys go home cleaning up the back yard. Need to sweep, rake, trim stuff, and most fun for me, getting rid of outside toys that the kids have outgrown. I think this summer I'd like to set up their big waterslide on the back patio instead of in the front yard like last year. That way I can send the little ones out and not have to sit out there with them!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Why the heck does one not so big project turn into a big deal, huh huh??? Me and the kids went out and started to clean up the backyard. They found their toys they've either outgrown that need to be passed down to younger cousins or stuff that was broken and needs to go to the trash and set it on the side of the house in two piles. I sweep up the patio and I'm looking around thinking how perfect the waterslide will be out there for the kids. Last summer I had a picture of it posted, but I think it's gone now...it's one of those big ones you plug in and it inflates, unplug and it deflates and you roll it up and put it away (very easy and quick to do.) It's made out of the same stuff bouncy houses are, so you kinda got to be careful with pokey stuff. As I'm looking around, I notice one tree that's planted near the patio is going to have to have the branches trimed back so it doesn't hit the slide. This is going to be a huge project! And I haven't even started raking up the grass part of the yard yet, lol! What the heck have I gotten myself into????
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 6:23 am
This is going to be a huge project! Baby steps might come in handy here for you, after all, Wargod. ;> Do you have to do all of the yard work in one fell swoop or would it be easier to manage in shorter bursts over several days? I was just looking back over the archived posts and found the pics of my own yard from last year. Spring cleanup is always a daunting task and I could not have done it all at once. This year, spring is on hold so it may be a good long while before I even have to think about it. There're still three feet of snow and five and six feet in drifts and plowed piles. Yuck. Grace, thanks for the St. Paddy's Day wishes! Happy Sunday to everyone.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 7:58 am
After reading War's post, I am tired again. Back to bed.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 8:42 am
I was directed here by Vee. I putting my townhouse on the market and have a ton to do in one week. This is the to-do list given to me by the realtor: 1- get my carpet shampooed 2- clean my yard 3- clean my two junk rooms 4- paint one ceiling 5- get two closet doors rehung and my dishwasher fixed 6- declutter and arrange things in groups of three I think I am going to start by putting everything out on my front lawn that can go to Amvets and scheduling a pickup. Sound good?
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 8:58 am
Welcome, Hermi! That sounds like a lot for one week. But it's doable using our baby steps method, which means that you don't tackle more than you can accomplish in an hour. In other words, don't tear the house apart to do each task. One suggestion that I heard recently regarding decorations is to pack all family photos. You want folks to be able to imagine this space as their own and it's difficult to do that with personal photos about. Feel free to come back for further and ongoing instructions and do let us know how you are doing. What's first on your agenda for example?
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:05 am
First on my agenda is curling up in the corner and whimpering. Is that wrong? I'm going to tackle the two junk rooms first. Good idea about the family pictures.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:09 am
Seriously, I am a bad pack rat and I have a ton of things to give to charity. Like I said, we have a Vet organization who will up donations from your home. My first plan is to get everything out of the house that I don't want to bring with me to the new place-- old clothes, furniture, books, kitchenware...
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:12 am
LOL, Vee, we are doing baby steps, somewhat. Since I really wanted to set the water slide up this morning for the kids the tree had to be done yesterday. Me and the kids worked out there for about half an hour, then we had to take a break because it was too hot. That's how we spent our day, work, break, work, break. Yesterday evening, Darren went out with the chainsaw and got started on the tree. The kids hauled the branches out to the wood pile and then me and the baby swept the patio off again. We wanted to set the slide up last night to see which way it'd fit best out there. We have to avoid a telephone line (and the slide is just tall enough that it'd hit it if not placed right,) the patio overhang, and the edge of the patio so the kids don't land in the yard and track dirt onto it. Anyways, we got it all folded out and turned on the air pump and it started to inflate. I told Darren something was wrong, it usually inflates in just a couple minutes and it was taking too long! It never did get as full as it should have so we knew we had a leak in it. Took it down and decided to mess with it today since it was getting too dark, but as we were rolling it up, we found the holes in the bottom of it. Looks like mice! I went to get patches last night and couldn't find any, but I can get them from the company that made the slide, but it'll take a few weeks. We're going to temporarily use duct tape. Funny thing is when my sis called, she went, "OOPS! I didn't warn you about that?" She said end of last summer, she had the same problem with the mice...wish she'd told me, we'd have bought a bin to store the slide in. Since it has its own sealed bag, I wasn't worried about it getting messed up during the winter. Anyways, all we got done was cleaning up the patio, trimming the tree, and sorting the toys. Caleb wants to earn $50 for a new computer game and last night was looking around the grass part of the backyard and asked what needed done. Told him raking and the bushes need to be trimmed and he offered to do it this week for some extra cash. I don't really want to do that job and Darren won't have a chance til next weekend...and Caleb's old enough to do it right, so next week after intercession he'll have a job, lol. Other than that I really didn't get much done yesterday! I did get the desks, and under the desks, done and a couple loads of laundry. Caleb cleaned up his bedroom. So later this morning, I'm putting him to cleaning the kitchen (with instructions on doing the floor and wiping counters!) and the girls are going to do the living room...Dakota can vacuum, youngest niece can dust while I take care of the rest of the house. It's not all that much work so we should have it done in an hour or so.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:46 am
Hermi, you can spend ten minutes in the corner whimpering. After that you can work on the junk rooms. Do you have neighborhood kids you can pay to do the yard work? Or a service? Same with the carpet cleaning....can you call the professionals to come do that for you? If you can knock a couple things off you're list it won't be so overwhelming. I agree with Vee about baby steps. You're on a tight schedule so if you do what you can accomplish in a short time it won't be that bad. If you're tearing apart the whole room to do smaller tasks, it's just depressing, lol!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:54 am
I'm still in the corner whimpering. Actually, I'm on the couch with my laptop in my lap and a cat curled up beside and cup of coffee on my left. It's so comfy!!! But... I swear... I am getting up....... NOW!
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