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Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 4:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I live in the past. I had to look up HE to know it meant High Energy. I plan to get a HE machine in 20 years.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 4:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
LOL Doc. We bought ours because we were moving and needed a new pair anyway. They do save a LOT of water which was a concern of mine in the beginning.... how can they clean as well when they use a fraction of the water? But they do and since the drum is so large I can do double loads as well... even so i am still doing about 12 loads a week {sigh}. I don't recommend teenage girls if you are trying to keep your laundry bill down. :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 5:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I use Oxy on colors, it does keep the colors bright and whites whiter, helps take out stains without any prespotting. Its not strong like bleach.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 6:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
there is no bleach in OxyClean (or OxiClean). Oxy Clean’s main ingredients include sodium percarbonate, soda ash, detergents and water.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I wash everything in cold unless it is something gross.

Re: teen girls, I have 2 of them plus a preteen. They have been doing their own laundry for years and don't do laundry all that often since they have to do it themselves! If they have to wear dirty clothes because they put off their laundry for too long...natural consequences! (I was bad as a teen girl, sometimes I would wash just one or two things. Very bad. My mom never knew. I wasn't trying to be sneaky, I just didn't think about the resources.)

All my laundry gets just as clean using cold water. I do have HE and use liquid detergent. We have saved on energy by not using hot water.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I need help with the female reproductive system.

Ok, not really, but sort of, lol. Caleb's science class is covering the reproductive systems this week. Yesterday was male, today female. I have to pull him out of school before that class for a drs appt (dermatologist.) I have no problem at all covering the information with him, however, I'd like to discuss it with him in the same manner as his teacher would...using, er, technical? terms and such. Normally, I'd read through the chapter in his book with him and then discuss it, but they turned their books in last week and the teacher doesn't have any handouts to give him (he's doing it all on overhead projector and a film.)

So, I don't really need help with the female reproductive system, but I do need help finding information (preferrably online, won't have time for a bookstore or library run today) on the female reproductive system at a 7th grade level that I can go over and then discuss with him. My problem? I'm not quite sure how to google exactly what I'm looking for! Any ideas?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Try this:
http://www.4parents.gov/


Then here is an actual lesson plan
LINK

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thank you!

They're covering this as strict science material not a sex/puberty talk so it's a bit different for me to go over it with him. Before it was in simpler terms, "You're at the age where boys/girls bodies start to change, get hair in places you didn't use to have it, breast develop, etc." Now it's, "The pituitary gland is in the brain and the size of a pea and controls all the changes, etc." They'll be covering the unit until next week so hopefully if I miss something, it'll be something they'll go over in class later. So far they've done STD's on Monday and the male reproductive system yesterday. They'd done puberty and hygiene earlier in the year.

Ktbb
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08-10-2003

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 3:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
I used to wash all our clothes in cold water with Tide coldwater formula. My drain plug got plugged with the excess soap scum. Now I try to switch it up and have a few loads of warm and cold.

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
New Question and yes it's an odd one.

Lately I've been getting phone calls that begin with an automated voice saying something like "There is a call for you" followed by a real guy asking me if so-and-so is there. The voice reminds me of when you use to get calls from operators who inform you that someone is trying to call you collect and then ask "Do you accept this call?" only on this one, they don't ask anything. I keep trying to think of situations where automated calls would start like this and it occurred to me that they could be calling from a prison perhaps? Anyone else hear of calls like this?

Thanks in advance.

Oh ~ And I ONLY wash in COLD no matter what!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
OH yes, I have gotten those. The funny thing is, these days if you take the phone number from the caller ID including the area code and dashes and type it into Google search, it will lead you to plenty of websites where people have already done the research and found out where they are coming from. Odds are if someone is bothering you from a certain number, they have already bothered many other people who have already reported it, researched it, and are discussing it on the net.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I've had one of those calls, but it was a long time ago (18mos?) and I've forgotten the details. From what I remember they were some sort of collection agency asking for someone (else), and when I told them they had the wrong number they went away for a bit then started calling again. I think the second time I told them it was the wrong number it stuck, and they didn't call again. I don't know if the number came up on caller id, and I can't remember if I looked it up, but from the professional way they handled the call and the specifics they gave to me (rather than asking info from me) I think they were legit.

I'd say there's no harm in answering the call as long as they're not going through an operator... at the best they'll take you off the list and not call again, at worst they'd call as often as they would if you didn't answer. As long as you don't give them private info of course!

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 10:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
I get bill collector calls all the time. (And no, not for me!)

There is a person in my apt complex with the same last name and so they try my number too. And then, since they have my number in the computer, any name close to mine gets me a phone call.

The computer call is often a chat line thing....

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 11:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Naja...that's interesting to know. I'm going to try it with a number I've gotten a call from in three different houses. The phone rings and when I pick up, a recorded voice says, "Sorry. Wrong number." Then the phone disconnects. It's been the same recording at all three numbers. It's one of those kind of recordings that sounds like it's not really a recording, but having heard it several times, I realize it is.
I only have caller ID on one of those numbers, though, so I hope I can figure out which number it was.

Has anyone else gotten that call?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Quite a few of our neighbors are flying the American flag today. Anybody know what that is about? I sure cannot figure it out.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Maybe they're a month early.



lol

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
And June 14th is flag day, eh? hmm

Is there a local armed service member coming home from the war??

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Thanks everyone for your imput!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I thought of both of those. Only other thing I could think of is 20th anniversary of Tienamen Square, and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that folks in this town would commemorate that, but it is a bit far-fetched that it would be that many.

Well, at least I am not the only one puzzled by this mystery.

Txkaykay
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07-27-2006

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Txkaykay a private message Print Post    
War - my grandson just had the same in science class called "Worth the Wait" After a couple of days he said to me: "You weren't abstinent (sp?) were you Nanny?" Always have been truthful with my boys about having oldest at 16, but when your grandkids say it to you you really realize how young it is.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, we've been joking with the kids that there's a new law that says they can't get married and have sex til after they finish college, have a good paying job, and own their own house and Caleb always pops off with, "well you weren't married when I was born! I keep telling him, "I said it was a new law!"

I know the teacher has a discussion planned on making healthy choices (including birth control, abstinance, and I'm drawing a blank dangit) for the last day of the unit. Caleb said yesterday he was wondering why they start teaching them all this stuff just as boys and girls are really starting to get really interested in each other. Didn't take much to figure out what he was really wanting to know is why they are talking about sex to a room full of kids with raging hormones, lol. I told him first of all this wasn't a sudden, spur of the moment conversation...we've been talking birds n bees, puberty, etc since he was five and asked where babies come from, it's been an on again off again conversation in school for him now for three years. And then how important we feel it is the kids can have open and honest discussions about this kind of stuff with us and other trusted adults so that when the time comes to make some of these decisions they have all the information they need to make an informed, wise choice.

The upside to your grandsons question and Caleb's comment about teaching sex ed to hormone twitchy kids...they feel comfortable enough to ask! Which to me shows they'll keep asking and talking and thinking and when the time comes they'll have the information they need to make wise choices.

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Maybe one person put out the flag for whatever reason and others followed suit without really knowing the occasion? Kind of like when house has a freshly mowed lawn, all the others have to quickly follow suit whether they were going to mow that day or not? :-)

War, you are an awesome parent :-)

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
The US Constitution went into effect on June 4th 1789. That's the most relevant I could find on this page:
http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/june_4.html

I think someone made a mistake and the rest followed!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Well, or they got up early and read their daily newspaper, which I just finished reading now, and there us a little blurb in there that on this day in history in WWII the battle of Midway began, and the U.S. defeated Japan three days later. Maybe that is it. I have an e-mail in to a neighbor who has a flag up.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I bet I know what happened. When the board was running slow, there was a hiccup of sorts, and all us TVCHers were transported forward one month (anybody happen to notice a Lost-type flash of light??). Even though we all think its June 4th, its really July 4th in the rest of the world.

Or.....since we are all figments of Juju's imagination, and Juju is the one who noticed the flags first, Juju forgot to flip her calendar the other day, and in her mind its June 4th when its really July 4th.

Mystery solved!