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Cathlene
Member
07-28-2007
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 4:37 pm
Ok...ready for another question? I've been in this apt for almost 5 yrs & 2 yrs ago we got new owners ( Lyon Mgmt Grp ). I cannot find anywhere in the Georgia Apt law that says what is considered normal wear & tear especially when it comes to the light beige rug that was not new when I moved in. I never had a walk thru & there was tile,cracked window,worn bathroom damage that old owners knew about but I was given a reduced rent because of it & it was never fixed. There is also ceiling damage from the upstairs unit when their water heater burst. This new owner is really bad & lot's of people are having problems with them because they can't find original records. Can anyone tell me what I can expect & what is considered wear & tear after nearly 5 yrs? also, my cat ruined 2 blinds that I was going to replace but I put down a deposit which I assume they will keep & it's probably cheaper for them to replace the blinds than for me to. The apt in from the 80's so nothing is in good shape anyway & they will probably re-model it. Any advise would be appreciated please. I want to do the right thing. Thanks all!!!
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Bakerygirl
Member
11-03-2002
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 7:41 pm
I got this joke yesterday and thought it would work well here with the subject you all were on with the waxing. It's pretty long, but funny! CAUTION: Be prepared to laugh out loud All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The epilady,scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax. My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet." So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off! . No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. ! (YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ("Cold wax,"yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works! OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire. With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the one strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *hoo-hoo* and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (Yes, it was a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace myself....RRRRIIIPPP!!!! I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!....OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. OH NO! What have I done???!!! Another deep breath and RRIIP! P!! Everything is swirly and spotted. I think I may pass out...must stay conscious...Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe...OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX??? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I am touching ! wax. WHAT?! I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake...remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down. My LIFE FLASHES BEFORE ME!!!!!! I hear the slamming of a cell door. *hoo-hoo*? Sealed shut! Butt?? Sealed shut! I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!" What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off,right??? WRONG!!!!!!! I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub...in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax. So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter - "So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!" There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or hoo-ha?" She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the ! side of the box. YE AH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event. My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace....the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, I but I really don't care. "IT WORKS!! It works!!" I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair....THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!! So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point. Next week I'm going to try hair color......
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 8:21 pm
Ok... any faith Hermi gave me about it being a good idea is now gone. Completely, utterly, gone. Where's my lady bic?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 8:29 pm
I'm beginning to see a huge benefit to being so fat that bikinis and waxing aren't even an issue. 
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 8:38 pm
Oh, my! First, I want to point out Cathlene's question up there (which I just turned a bold blue color so folks can see it through the tears of laughter about the rest of this stuff). I don't have an answer for her, but maybe someone else does. Second, the waxing stories crack me up. I have long failed to understand the allure to removing all of one's public hair so that you look like a pre-puberty adolescent. I guess because I was a teen in the "hippy dippy flower children" time frame when everyone let every hair they ever had on their body grow with abandon. I really, really don't understand guys shaving and people in general (other than professional swimmers or other athlete types) shaving their arms the way Danielle does in the BB house. Boggles my mind. In my 20s, guys WANTED chest hair. Now they want to be clean as a baby's bottom. Go figure. Me? I'm just battling to keep from looking like the bearded lady in a sideshow! LOL That's quite enough hair removal woes for me. I am not about to "go there" with hair removal products of any kind -- especially after reading some of this! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 8:52 pm
I tried to wax once. My legs, or rather, one small spot on one leg. Guess I'm a big ole baby cuz it hurt! After the first tug, I was ready to leave it on and let the wax wear off on it's own. Ain't no way in hell I'm gonna wax my legs ever again let alone that tender area!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 9:40 pm
Max, I am not seeing Cathlene's post in bold blue. Cathlene, you have not been with us long, it seems. As an oldtimer, let me give you some advice, and I do not know the answer to your question. With the current hot topic in this thread, you may not get an answer to your question. Ask it again when the thread cools off, or maybe see if it fits another thread for right now. Or start your own thread on your topic. Maybe: Need Advice on Renting or Renter Needs Advice, something like that.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 9:49 pm
I've never had any desire to wax anything much less down there. I think a nice trim is much more attractive than totally naked. I'm not 8 years old after all. LOL
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 4:20 am
Cathlene, I saw your question. I have no idea what GA considers normal wear and tear. I would think that after living on the carpet, that wasn't new to begin with would fall under normal wear and tear. Are you planning on moving in the near future? Is that why you are asking? If you are I would just suggest to clean, clean, clean. I wouldn't replace, repair or paint, the owners are required to that when a tenant moves. With the exception of maybe the blinds you know your kitties damaged. Check prices you might be surprise how cheap you can get them. Of course you run the risk of them sticking out like a sore thumb since the others are old. So another suggestion is if you don't replace them take them down and neatly roll them up and leave them under the window. No way should the replacement cost of two blinds take up all of your deposit. Don't forget to clean the oven and fridge if it stays. Get a small bucket of spackle and fill in any nail holes. Wash all the windows on the inside and outside too if you are on the ground floor. Clean the inside of all drawers, closets and cabinets, wipe down the outsides. You can decide if it is worth it to you to have the carpets cleaned or rent a machine and do it yourself. Chances are they are going to replace it anyway. Any damage in the apartment will not look as bad if the rest of the apartment looks clean enough to eat off any surface.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 4:24 am
Karen don't not try it. At least the first time, and remember that is the worst one. It does get better. If you can handle the first time you are good to go. If you find out after the first time there is no way, no how you will ever go through that again, everything will grow back. Personally I think you will be more then happy to toss that Lady Bic.
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Abbynormal
Member
09-08-2007
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 5:18 am
Ok this whole waxing thing has cracked me up. I have a friend who tried the DIY thing and called me in tears. She ended up with a landing strip except it was opposite, she looked like she had two pigtails down there! She just could not finish. I had no idea they waxed the butthole. I do not see the point, at least for me cause anyone comes near that and I sound like a dolphin. Ehn-ehn, ehn-ehn. Ain't happening!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 5:23 am
For me the hair keeps getting caught in the elastic on my panties and it pulls and that hurts lol. And the idea of shapes intrigues me. It will intrigue my man too 
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:01 am
Mocha, you must wear thongs or you don't need to shave you need hedge clippers! LOL I could never wear thongs. Would drive me crazy and I"m too close to being there.
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Dannysgirl
Member
08-09-2007
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:02 am
Bakerygirl..........soooo loved the waxing story. As I mentioned, I just bought a home kit and I totally visioned myself as the woman in the story with the exception of not having a phone in my bathroom! I agree with Twinkie and the others - I don't want to be completely "bald" but I don't want to look like Cousin It from the Addams Family either!! 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:09 am
No thongs for me lol.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:49 am
I nice trim is so much easier than shaving and no long hairs to get caught in elastic. I use my hubby's electric clippers. LOL
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 7:42 am
Oops! I meant A nice trim.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 8:31 am
This thread is cracking me up! I love that story, Bakerygirl! I have had the brazilian thing done a couple times. I was told it would get easier the more I did it....it didn't and I swear the pain was worth than child birth. It makes me cringe just thinking about it. There were areas that didn't hurt as bad as some, but it would take a heavy hand to get me back in there again.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:14 am
abbynormal, your "ehn-ehn, ehn-ehn" has me dying with laughter. now i can't get that "sound" out of my head. has anyone ever plucked the hairs? for ingrown hairs, i remember reading about a product at drugstore.com that got good reviews.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:14 am
OMG, Abbynormal. You owe me $200 to replace the monitor I just spat coffee all over. I use his clippers too, Twinkie, at least for the first clear-cut pass, LOL. I had no idea what I was starting when I asked my question yesterday. Thank you EVERYONE for being so candid! Seems to be a pretty even split between 'totally worth it' and 'OMG I'm blind from the pain'. Perhaps I'll approach Donners with a "I'll do it if you do..." proposition. ...As for the men shaving / waxing. I love me some good chest hair, and I'd freak if Don ever shaved it. He's got a nice handful to grab onto, I love that. But down there... I figure it's a give and take. He uses a razor for the stray bits down there. I think a lot of men might have more luck getting, uh, more of what they want, if they kept themselves trimmed up a bit.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:39 am
Don't knock completely hairless in the nether regions between you and your SO until you've tried it.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 10:09 am
I have an appointment for the 22nd 
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 2:13 pm
oh my, i just googled for info on natural remedies to prevent ingrown hairs. well, i ended up finding/watching a video. i'm not going to post a link. also, some nudity involved. but, if anyone wants to see a video: pubic hair fashion show....just google. unbelievable! (i wouldn't watch it at work since the models are partially nude)
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Abbynormal
Member
09-08-2007
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 3:02 pm
Hey Abby! Long time no see! You know the thing that bothers me the most is that as you get older somehow your bikini line ends mid thigh! Or is it just me?
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:40 pm
once i me move my boobs out of the way, i'll check. i'll let you know later.
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