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Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
I totally agree Jan. I can just see me packing up for a week and not having time to buy the things needed for a trip that long and getting off work would be the trick of the day!!

Hippyt
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09-10-2001

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hippyt a private message Print Post    
Well,that episode made me weep like a baby! That was so sweet!

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
It was!! I cried right with along all the rest of them.

Gemma120in2002
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07-05-2003

Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gemma120in2002 a private message Print Post    
I went and found the application for the show. Here's the URL. http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/application3.pdf

They make the statement that they have to be able to leave at a moment's notice for 7 days. Their work phone is also on the application.

Surfgirl
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10-11-2003

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Surfgirl a private message Print Post    
I love this show.. I think what they are doing for the familys is awesome.. While watching tonights show.. during commercials..I was flipping to Trading Spaces Home free.
I love trading spaces.. but to see the two familys whining on Trading Spaces.. while getting a chance to get there morgage payed off.. and then to see what Ty was doing for the family on Extreme make over.. no comparison.. Extreme wins.
I admit every episode I bawl like a baby!!

I would love to live in any one of the houses they have done.. and its not just about what they are doing to the house.. its what its doing for the familys.. alot of them have so much stress going on in there lives.. to get a break from it and to have a bunch of strangers giving it there all, just for you,for a whole week..that to me is the point of the show. The boys in the episode that got to see there Dad come home from Iraq said it best .."We love the house ..but the best part is seeing our Dad.

As for the crew bickering and fighting.. under the conditions they are working under.. 7 days to redo.. sometimes .. rebuild a house.. knowing this family is counting on you..I know I would be the biggist Bi@th of all to work with!!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
They are repeating the Leann Rhimes episode this week (I think on Wednesday night). I didn't see this one so I'm looking forward to it.

Mssilhouette
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07-11-2001

Friday, March 26, 2004 - 1:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mssilhouette a private message Print Post    
As for the "unexpected vistor" maybe it's just that yes the family knows at some point during the week the camera crew will be coming. But obviously they probably don't tell them exactly what day or time.

Maybe they get 48 hrs notice or something.

Demeter
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08-05-2001

Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Demeter a private message Print Post    
This show makes me cry every week. It seems like they always manage to top the last one. Tonight is incredible so far! Most of the time I don't cry until the end...not so tonight. Tears already.

Ty has done an amazing job putting this program together. I didn't know how he would do after Trading Spaces...but he has outdone himself.

Madelane
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08-20-2001

Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Madelane a private message Print Post    
All I know is my puffy red eyes better clear up before my job interview tomorrow.

Boy do they scare off design team members and contractors on this show. But it's worth it. Not to nit-pick, but I wonder if Alice will miss the beautiful stone work around her old fireplace.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
I never watch this show, but I remembered Sweet Alice from when the flood happened--and KABC promoted her appearance, too--and I just loved the show tonight. I cried so much when she saw her house and, especially, when the little girl asked if she could get a Barbie like that for Xmas and her mother said "It's yours already." Too much.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
This episode was so touching. Not only do they make Sweet Alice's home so lovely but they help the neighborhood that is so dear to her. I cried like a baby especially when she was overcome in her kitchen. It is so nice to see a show when someone so deserving gets something done for them.

Max
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08-12-2000

Monday, March 29, 2004 - 12:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
WOW! This was the best one yet.

Ty and the entire team must feel so wonderful in doing this stuff. I love how Ty has taken his 15 minutes from the Trading Spaces experience and been able to use it for such good. :-)

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 29, 2004 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
When I was watching last week, I thought, just what we need, a show that helps upper middle class people get nicer homes! Then I watched this week. THis is more like it!!!!

The part that got me was Alice's amazement that they would come to Watts.

It was a great show. I hope they do more of these. I'd much rather see the deserving poor get nice places.

Kimmykm
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08-26-2003

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kimmykm a private message Print Post    
I loved the show last night! Does anyone else watch this?

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I saw a full episode for the first time the other night -- the "Sweet Alice" episode -- and while I've seen A MILLION of these kind of shows (trust me), none moved me that way that episode did. It was lovely. I wish I knew how the neighborhood and Alice are doing today...

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, April 19, 2004 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I liked last night's episode where they redid the Tuscon house...that family was so grateful and that poor older man just lit up when he saw his huge room.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
they are going to start an extreme make-over in livermore tomorrow. there are 8 kids who live together from a 'blended' family. the oldest is maybe 23 and the youngest is 12. get this--both mother and father died at the ages of 43, last summer, 2 weeks apart, and both of heart attacks! all the kids live together and are raising the youngest children. the 12-year-old is the child of both deceased parents, while the other 7 kids are either 'his' or 'her' children.
should be a good one!! i'll find the link a friend from livermore sent me.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~2095702,00.html
this should be it

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Wasn't that the tv show Party of Five?

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Great article Tabby! I always wondered how the family could be "surprised" since they had to arrange time off work to go away. Now I see it. They are in a group of finalists and don't know if they make the final cut to be the one.

And this family seems so deserving.(and much like Party of 5 as Tex so astutely points out :-)) I will watch it for sure.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
They are having a problem with some of the people who were giving the furniture backing out so they are having a fund-raising thing tonight. They need the house to be finished on Monday. They have had stores in Livermore offer to donate furniture but the designers want a specific kind of furniture so hopefully, they get what they need to finish on Monday.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 8:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I can not watch this show without bawling like a baby at the end!

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I just watched too Mamie. It truly was a tear jerker.

Any sign of our Pacey?????

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Not yet Rosie

Gemma120in2002
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07-05-2003

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gemma120in2002 a private message Print Post    
Did I miss the Thursday night makeover? Was that this past week or is it next week?