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Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Actually, he was complaining about the smell of the paste wax I used on the floors...don't think the Scunci will help with that. :-) And frankly, I don't give a fact or crap about his complaints. If he doesn't like it, he can get off his ass and do a little cleaning once in a while.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
LOL...nope, the Scunci can't do a thing about the wax. Sorry that your housemate is not such a big help. It certainly makes life easier when everyone chips in.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
What's a Scunci??

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Are you being cheeky, Nic? LOL! I'll take a picture of me in action with my Scunci and then you'll know!

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Cheeky, me never. Really ... I don't know. Maybe I should read back in the posts to find out.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
You don't have to go back too far...that's the good news. C

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Ooohh ... and you can clean your floors with it?? Is it steam or water?? Just curious.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
ohhhhhhhhh nic! it's wonderful. would you like a home demonstration? I could bring mine to you, or you could come see mine in action!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
steam...take landi up on that offer! I would love to have a photo of the two of you Scunciing. LOL!

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Oh Vee ... that is so funny!! LOL!! Thanks for the offer Landi.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Ok, I need a kick in the pants. I have got to clean Kota's room tomorrow and I'm scared, lol. I took a peek under her bed the other day and almost had a fit. Looking into her closet damn near pushed me over the edge. I pulled the boxes out of the garage and have them sitting waiting to go in the morning. I'm seperating for pass down (what she's outgrown and is still in good condition, toys, clothes and books will go to my younger nieces and nephews,) donate, and trash. I've got to say, I soooooo don't want to do this!

After my cleaning spree this weekend, and then again today with the kids gone, I don't have much else housework to do. I also did grocery shopping and bill paying today. The only other thing I have to do tomorrow is take her to the salon for a hair cut (usually my friend would do it here instead of us going to the shop but I was late letting her know this time.) So most of tomorrow can be devoted to her room, I'm also planning on rearranging her furniture and cleaning her walls, but dang I just know I'm going to try to postpone doing it!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
As FlyLady would say, "Baby steps." That first 15 minutes is the worst. Just set the timer for 15 and head in...see how much you get accomplished and decide at the end of the 15 if you need a break or if you're going to continue. That way, you have an "out" if you need it. Ahhh, I remember little girls' rooms. Such a delight!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Well, I certainly baby stepped it today, lol! I made it through her toy box, thought I'd been doing so well, making great project then stood back and looked at it and almost fell over, lol. Couldn't tell I'd done a thing and by then I'd been working close to an hour and a half. Sad thing was it was only about 8:30 in the morning and I was done.

My nephews are coming over tomorrow so I'm thinking while the kids are occupied I'll get more done then. I figure since I'm decluttering more than anything I'm not in any great rush to have it done in a day or two, or even three. As long as I finish it within the next week I'll be happy.

Dakota's a scary girl, lol. She's not much of a cleaner. Caleb likes things neat and organized, a place for everything, everything in its place, dakota's the complete opposite. She's just as likely to throw dirty clothes under her bed as in the basket and it doesn't bother her one bit. When it comes to her personal space, she's a slob, lol.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, March 31, 2006 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Did you survive that bedroom organizing, Wargod? Hope that Dakota was pleased with it all. I bet she could get excited about helping out a bit with her own space if she knew that she didn't have to spend more than 15 minutes cleaning it up. I bet that she could "beat the clock" every day.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Barely, lol. We were racing this morning to finish it up before her friend and my nieces came over. They were great too cuz after playing for several hours they stopped and started cleaning up before they left.

Oh, she could beat the clock...if she wasn't so freaking stubborn, lol. Dakota cleans when she wants to, and when she doesn't nothing at all with budge her. When she wants to clean, she does a great job, it's just getting her to the point she actually wants to, lol.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Incentives...little prizes or a promise of something good...don't work for Dakota? If not, being Dakota's mommy must be very challenging indeed. Best wishes! LOL

(ETA: Just rereading that and I remember that I didn't always use positive reinforcement so well. My standard line was this: If I have to pick it up, you won't ever see it again. And I wasn't kidding. My poor dear children. It's a wonder that they still talk to me. <grin>)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL nope, nothing works except her wanting to clean. She's stubborn. Cleaning their bedrooms is one of the chores they get allowance for and Dakota more often than not will do without allowance. She really doesn't care either. The funny part is that the chores they have no choice on, she does just fine, but give her the option to do it or not and leave allowance based on that, she'll do what she wants every single time. Now sometimes that means she wants to clean, other times not.

Caleb's the complete opposite. He does his chores no problem (and usually as soon as he gets up in the morning or done with homework so he has the rest of the day to do what he wants.) He loves his money and just a small reminder he won't get it if he doesn't pick up his room is enough to get him moving on those occassions he doesn't feel like doing it.

She's been a challenge since day one and I wouldn't change it anymore than I'd change Caleb's easygoing ways but sometimes I can't help but sit back and grit my teeth and groan when I see her minds made up and theres no changing it.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, April 03, 2006 - 12:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Oh happy day!!! I took a car full of E-waste to a free drop out. An old desktop computer with a 19" monitor, two old printers, 2 old VCR's and all the miscelleanious stuff for the desktop, speakers, keyboards, woofer-thingie. It feels like a huge weight has lifted. I kept hanging onto it thinking I could give it to someone who could use it, but finally asked the computer guys if it was tooo old. It Was. Also gave away the dresser that had been sitting in my living room for at least two months since Salvation Army wouldn't take it!!!

It has been a wonderful weekend.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, April 03, 2006 - 5:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Congratulations, Dipo! Getting all of that stuff out of your house is going to be great for your spirit. So what do you have planned next now that you have some extra room and all? More boogying or rearranging?

After last night's weather report (we're expecting a snow storm tomorrow), I began to panic about how premature my cleaning the lawn was. All those piles of dirt were in the street waiting to be hauled off and all I could think about was how they would all land right back on the lawn with any snow plowing. Didn't sleep too well for fretting. Anyway, I awoke to the most lovely sound...

C
Town Crew hauling away the mess

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 03, 2006 - 5:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Ahh Vee ... but look at those blue skies! I'm so jealous! It's raining here again. Pretty soon I'll post the picture of our Town Crew unclogging the drains and cleaning up the mess from the flooding. Ugh!!

Happy Monday!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I posted this in Yesitsme's folder this morning, but I think it really belongs here:

For the past year mom has been living with us and so I turned the den into her room. But now that she's living at the nursing home, mom is actually being rather nice and agreeable about us eventually turning her room back into the den. She was pretty bummed about it yesterday, though, and I am feeling a bit guilty about it.

It's been highly inconvenient having the den furniture all over the place, the bedroom has an easy chair and the tv, between our bed and the window, and my sunroom/solarium looks like a garagesale gone bad, piled high with boxes of stuff that had been in the den, and we also have a sofabed in storage as well. She took it hard yesterday, but a few minutes ago she said she's okay with it. I told her that the whole apt was her place not just the room. And that she can choose to either crash with me in my bed, and dh can crash on the couch when she comes or she can choose the sofabed. Its just that the den was converted TEMPORARILY to her room while she lived her, but now that she has her own place, its time to get our place back to normal.

The Den has always been Vin's sanctuary. And an extra room for entertaining. Plus we are planning to FINALLY get another computer, and that means another desk which will go in the den (and no more fights over using the computer!!!)

I can't wait to have my place back to normal. Its been very demoralizing to have my solarium look like a junkyard, and its right off the living/dining room and can be seen clearly to all and sundry. Its not like I can hide the stuff. I've got a few pix I took this morning...

Our solarium:





Depressing and disgusting isn't it? Sigh. I admit we do use it as a storage room with the shelving units, etc. But it wasn't supposed to explode with boxes etc, but our locker downstairs is full.

Anyways I feel a bit guilty, but mom says she understands that at least HALF of the stuff in the solarium is from the den... and I want it back there, asap. I plan to wait til after the holidays, and then, I'm hoping to get things back to normal.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Skootzie, and others, I'd love suggestions... half the stuff that's there, the book shelves, and other shelves, and the cleaning stuff, belong in the solarium. But I had dreams when I bought this place of it being a cosy nook. Sigh. We just do not have enough closet space at all in this place. Ergo, the 'clutter' in the solarium. And dh is a major packrat. (I can part with stuff, but I resent being the only one to periodically cull through my stuff.)

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Wow, MameB! That is such a beautiful room to be using for storage space. Have you considered doing a lot of boogying? Are there things there that are not used and you wouldn't mind getting rid of? This is what FlyLady would suggest: Do just 15 minutes a day...yes, just 15. Tackle it in baby steps and be ruthless about getting rid of things that you don't love, don't need, and don't want. I would include your mom's things in that because there is no way that she is going to need all that stuff either. Out of sight...out of mind. Good luck! No, it's not disgusting! It's just not serving your purposes.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Would Vin be willing to help you boogy stuff if he knew that it would be a 15 minute a day commitment period? I tell you what, it won't take long before excitement will build and you'll be on a roll.

Is there any way to create more shelving in other areas...laundry room, etc., to take up the slack that will be needed when it can't be stored out there?

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Vee ... what does "boogy stuff" mean?? BTW, I love learning your tips!