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Rissa
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03-19-2006

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
If it was just me than I would look sheepish and back away from the thread but either our posts or the original got moved.

Or is TVCH just trying to &$@# with us!??
INDEED!! RFLOLO

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-30-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
whistling


just kidding!

Mummy35332
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09-09-2005

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 2:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mummy35332 a private message Print Post    
Tried to post at CBS about the View episode, registered, still couldn't find where to post.

Help anyone?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 2:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Mummy, "The View" is an ABC show.

http://theview.abc.go.com/forums/message-boards

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
I think I recall seeing a thread on e-readers... but now I can't find it... can anyone point me to the thread??

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Bonbon, here it is:

How Are You Reading It?

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Thanks so much. I tell you, this place is the best to get reviews and help me choose an e-reader for my DS.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Costacat, I love my new V-Tech phone! DH has been on the phone with his cousin for the past 30 minutes and I am surfing along just fine with no disconnects :-) And the router and phone base are only about 4 feet from each other. What I like second best is how they have made programming these things so much easier. I was able to teach DH how to add a number to the phone book and how to dial from the phone book in a matter of minutes. He never was able to grasp how to do it from the old phone...LOL I can't wait to test out all the features tomorrow.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I have the VTech Dect 6.0 too.. have had it for some time now.. have three handsets.. previously I had an older model two handset, but with this I have one in the kitchen by the answering machine, one here by my chair (living room where I have my desktop and tv/DVR) and the third upstairs next to my bed (where I have my laptop and the other tv and DVR.) It has never interfered with my wireless and I love the speakerphones..

Glad yours is working so well!!

And If I'd seen the four handset, I'm sure I'd have bought that too, but three serves my purposes. I used to have to get up from my chair work my way around the monitor, across the living room and around the island to the phone in the kitchen, almost always with a small black cat running interference. Now I just grab the nearby handset. Much better.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 4:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
The exact model I got comes with up to 5 handsets. I can't even imagine needing that many! The reason this v-tech phone was brought to my attention is because they were demonstrating the 5 handset package on home shopping channel. I think it was $99, but Amazon has it right now for $88 free shipping.

They sell the additional handsets on Amazon for $15. I think I'd probably only get one if one of these broke.

You know what else I noticed I like? The phone book entries are accessible on all the handsets. With my old phone, you had to enter the phone numbers on each handset individually. What a wonderful feature.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 4:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I bought the four handset version cuz that's what Costco had. Wasn't sure I wanted four handsets, but the fourth one that is on my breakfast counter has actually come in handy when I'm in the kitchen cooking. The two that get the most use are the one in my office (always on conference calls during the work week) and the one in my living room.

Glad you're liking the phone Naja. I figured you would! :-)

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 4:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
P.S. I quit using the phonebooks in phones a long time ago. I've got a great memory, and as long as I manually enter a number, it'll stick in memory. I found that using a phonebook, I'd never remember someone's number, and couldn't call them from another phone (for example, when I worked in an office). So the phonebook and answering machine aren't being used on my phones. But the speaker phone? DAILY!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
GOOGLE HELP PLEASE: This morning I clicked on an article that was about "annoying" habits of employees. I remember annoying was in the title, it listed stuff like not a team player, talking on the phone loud, using personal cell phones, not working when others were buried.

Anyway, I wanted to print it out and I have been back to all my normal websites in the morning, yahoo and comcast, and even tried google and I can't find it.

Did anyone else see this article this morning?

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Ok, I remembered another thing it referenced was being late to your own meeting and being unprepared for your meeting.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
is this it, Dipo? http://workinprogress.blogs.time.com/2007/08/09/top_10_annoying_workplace_habi/

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
OMG, that is it! Thank you so much, I tried all kinds of searches and just couldn't find it.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 4:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Disgusting question.

I didn't notice it earlier when I was home and cleaning up today, but after running some trash to the trash can I came back in and realized there was the biggest stink in the house. I know exactly what it is, it's a dead mouse.

Darren came home and we tracked the smell, somewhere by the laundry room, corner of the den, or kitchen. We moved everything...washer and dryer, bookshelf, stove and checked the cabinets in that area of the kitchen and didn't find it and we're thinking it's somewhere in the walls or ceiling.

I've got the windows open and the back door. I sprayed half a can of lysol and a bottle of febreeze and it's barely masking the smell. I know as soon as I close the windows and the door it will get bad again.

We don't really want to tear into the walls, is there anyway to mask this smell until it isn't stinking anymore?? It's so bad right now we're going out to dinner cuz I can't stand the idea of eating with this smell in the house.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I had a mouse die in my car once, it was disgusting for months.

This information page (which links to products - not sure if they're only available there or are also at home depot) is recommended on a few sites:

http://www.bugspray.com/catalog/products/page200.html#first

They say the product shouldn't just mask the smell but absorb it, and they give a few options.

Meanwhile if the smell's in the laundry room, is there anyway to block the door edges, like with a draught excluder, so the bad air doesn't get into the main house so much?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thank you Kitt. I will check the hardware store tomorrow and see if I can find an odor neutralizer. Short of drilling holes in the wall, I don't think we can get inside the walls unfortunately.

Also unfortunately, there is no way to block the laundry room. It's not really a room, just the back part of the den with a half-wall built around it and it opens up into both the kitchen and den. We're positive it's coming from somewhere in that area but that's as close as we could pinpoint it.

We had a mouse die in the house about 8-9 years ago (that's how we know what this smell is) but neither of us can remember what we did about it then. I remember it was so bad the first day (middle of summer, we'd both been at work all day with the house closed up) that we just ran in, opened all the doors and windows and left til bedtime. I don't remember how long it was bad, but it wasn't too long.

I couldn't believe it when I walked back in the house and realized I hadn't noticed it before then. The lysol helped cover it up, but it's given me the worst headache.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Won't help this time, but get a cat!!!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
War, why would it die in the walls or ceiling, did you put poison out? I wonder if it could be up inside the back of the washer or dryer, like maybe it crawled into the back of the dryer to get warm and you murdered it when you dried clothes (ha ha, just trying to cheer ya up)

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
War, now I'm thinking maybe my mouse in the washing machine wasn't so bad!

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
A common place for mice and chipmunks to get warm (and then end up steamed/baked) is the dryer vent (they manage to get in from outdoors). Try disconnecting that and banging out the lint and whatever else might be in there...

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 7:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, it's the fun of where we live. We live right across the street from a wash thingie (in case of floods, funny these days) and couple times a year the city gets out there and bulldozes all the bushes and what not have grown. Every time they do it, we end up with mice, not one or two but many. Don't even have to see the city out there, just watch the neighbors carry traps or bags out to their trashcans.

The original owners of the house installed a drop ceiling so there is about a foot between the drop ceiling and the original ceiling, plus some areas in the walls (no insulation throughout the house.) I'd told Darren the other day to put out traps cuz I'd heard at least one in the ceiling or wall, wasn't quite sure where. Darren put out traps in easy to reach places and some poison in more difficult places like behind the oven and fridge (we have to be careful with the dogs, includes a couple times daily walk through the house to make sure there are no surprises the dogs can get.) On the plus side, I haven't heard the mouse or mice in the ceiling/wall. Negative side, I haven't heard the mouse or mice in the ceiling/wall and now we have the smell.

After our first dead mouse smell, one of the neighbors recommended a poison that dehydrates them so they don't stink after they've died. We've used that since then, but when I realized we had a dead mouse, I figured Darren had picked up the wrong stuff this time. Sure enough, he had and he took that out and bought the right stuff this evening.

I will check the lint trap though, didn't do that when we moved the dryer!

Julie, a cat would be helpful but I like breathing better. I'm highly allergic. Harvey could care less about mice, but PJ has shown the desire to go after them which is why we don't use much poison anymore, makes me nervous she might catch one that's eaten it.

Sia
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03-10-2002

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
War. we had what we were sure was a dead mouse in the wall between our bedroom and what was my son's nursery about 13 years ago. The smell was so pervasive that it permeated one of his stuffed animals on the built-in shelves in the wall. Nothing would kill that awful stink, so I threw the toy away. Ironically, the stuffed animal was a MOUSE!! It's a hard odor to get rid of; I want to know more about the dessicating poison. I've never heard of that, but it sounds excellent for ridding the house of small pests without creating the new problem of stinking, decaying little corpses!