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[Jane]

Oops, EVERDENE. That makes it even closer to that Emma character.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "9 hours til December. In Australia. I seem to be keen for a new read."

haha. Don't you just!

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "Bryn wrote: "No but not the sort to houseclean, either. Until I have to!"

I share this outlook on cleaning."

Same here; I do the bare minimum!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

And when I know someone is coming around, I am like a whirling 'cleaning' dervish. :)
That;'s why I like people to ring if they are going to visit. My place is not geared for drop ins.

[Alicja]

Bryn wrote: "No but not the sort to houseclean, either. Until I have to!"

Me too! I hate cleaning. Thankfully my partner is a lot better and gives in and ends up doing some of my chores for me.

[Bryn]

I've lived with partners who want to spend Saturday cleaning the house.
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[Alicja]

Bryn wrote: "I've lived with partners who want to spend Saturday cleaning the house.
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I see that as a good thing. If they are crazy enough to actually like it, who am I to deny them their pleasure?

[Bryn]

If they don't rope me in, absolutely.

[Portia]

Laundry. I love to do laundry. Been known to wash clothes before they get dirty.

Got a whole day until December here. Maybe I'll just do laundry. ;-)

[[deleted user]]

OK. My laundry is going to Portia...You volunteered right?:)

[Portia]

I did, Derek. Jeans or u-trow? Ironing costs Xtra.

[[deleted user]]

Just jeans & T-shirts for me. Easy gig. No ironing required.

[Portia]

Too bad shipping is involved. Oh, hello DHL Lady. Yes, I am accepting delivery of this dirty laundry from some guy I just met online. Whoo hoo!!

[Allison]

Bryn wrote: "I've lived with partners who want to spend Saturday cleaning the house.
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That sounds like an awesome Saturday. Growing up, my mom worked Saturdays and my dad was a clean freak so that's what we did every Saturday...cartoons first, then clean top to bottom while blaring music & dancing around. My favorite day of the week and t had nothing to do with not having school! Tradition survives til this day. Well, minus the cartoons :)

[Portia]

What did you dance to ?

[Allison]

He only listens to the oldies station. The Temptations, the Supremes, Elvis....whatever else is on the oldies station lol. His favorite is Roy Orbison so we played a lot of his tapes. Oh, pretty woman is my jam!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

What is wrong with you people and your weird Saturday cleaning.
:]

[Allison]

What is wrong with you people and your NOT cleaning on Saturdays?!?! ;)

[Kris43]

He he fun tradition, useful too. Did my dusting&vacuuming today. No tradition, just needed to be done.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Allie wrote: "What is wrong with you people and your NOT cleaning on Saturdays?!?! ;)"

Nothing. :) (hee hee)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Kris43 wrote: "He he fun tradition, useful too. Did my dusting&vacuuming today. No tradition, just needed to be done."


This is why I don't have cleaning days. (Oh the pressure of having a cleaning day..*shudder*..I don't like pressure).

I do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
ie..I pack the dishwasher every day and wipe down the kitchen bench afterwards. Everything else, carpets kitchen floor, laundry, bathroom/toilet..I do those when they look like they need doing. :)

[Alicja]

I do it also when it needs to get done but my clean freaky partner usually gets it done before it gets to the point where I feel like it needs to be done. Her threshold is so much lower but she does bribe me into cleaning sometimes.

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "Kris43 wrote: "He he fun tradition, useful too. Did my dusting&vacuuming today. No tradition, just needed to be done."


This is why I don't have cleaning days. (Oh the pressure of having a cleanin..."

Same here, minus dishwasher: we're empty-nesters so once the dishwasher broke we never bothered to get it fixed.

[Portia]

Allie wrote: "He only listens to the oldies station. The Temptations, the Supremes, Elvis....whatever else is on the oldies station lol. His favorite is Roy Orbison so we played a lot of his tapes. Oh, pretty wo..."

"Sugar pie, honey bun,
You know that I clean for yoooo,
Can't help myself ... "

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Portia wrote: ""Sugar pie, honey bun,
You know that I clean for yoooo,
Can't help myself ... "

omg. *shakes head* ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Alicja wrote: "I do it also when it needs to get done but my clean freaky partner usually gets it done before it gets to the point where I feel like it needs to be done. Her threshold is so much lower but she doe..."

You're lucky you have a partner that is a clean freak, my hubby hates cleaning as much as I do. We both clean out of necessity and never out of joy.

We have a deal in our house. I do the kitchen, he does the laundry. I actually hate laundry more than cleaning the kitchen and packing the dishwasher. he hates doing the kitchen more than he hates laundry.
So he washes the clothes in this house. (Although he refuses to put the clothes away so some loads stay in the clean basket until we get through them, while the rest I put in the cupboard).

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "Alicja wrote: "I do it also when it needs to get done but my clean freaky partner usually gets it done before it gets to the point where I feel like it needs to be done. Her threshold is so much lo..."

I do most of it which is the bare minimum, to use your expression 'never out of joy' My husband will change lightbulbs and will do his own ironing, which is fine by me. I hate ironing and am no good at it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ironing. argh. The tedium of such a chore! Drives me around the bend.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is a pity that as a species we decided we looked better ironed. We would get so much more out of our life if we didn't have to be crease free. All those lost hours.

[Darcy]

The only thing I've ever used my iron for is to adhere some laminate strips onto the edge of a shelf. The ironing board is something I stick in a corner and keep moving - have no idea why. I haven't ironed anything since 1991.

I loathe hoovering. I sweep the carpet rather than drag that noisy apparatus. I don't mind doing laundry and the dishes (don't like dishwashers), but dusting is as required (read: when guests let me know they're coming).

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

We are getting Pizza today for lunch. Hubby has gone into town to pick it up.
We rarely have pizza. Maybe twice a year so this is a treat. We've been working hard out in the paddock this morning and neither of us felt like making something.
So we ordered some Domino's.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "The only thing I've ever used my iron for is to adhere some laminate strips onto the edge of a shelf. The ironing board is something I stick in a corner and keep moving - have no idea why. I haven'..."

My other half irons his work clothes. As for me, I try not to buy clothes that need ironing (love you jeans!!). If anything I am about to wear in public needs to be ironed I will iron. But if hubby is around I tend to bat my eyelids and say "honey bunnies my shirt is really wrinkled".
He irons it for me every time. :)

[Jane]

You're absolutely right! Goodness, I don't iron my stuff. If I look scruffy, I look scruffy!
[I love that word; I learned it from one of those Ruso books.] :)
At least I don't do like my mom did and iron sheets, pillowcases, and hankies!

[Bryn]

I also have strong anti-ironing views. Ironing is one of the most unnecessary things human beings ever invented.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Scruffy is one we use a fair bit. I always remember my Mum saying to me as i am about to head out the door for school "Did you iron your uniform? You don't want to go to school looking scruffy".

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "I also have strong anti-ironing views. Ironing is one of the most unnecessary things human beings ever invented."

Amen to that.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hey. This Live Pizza Tracker on the Domino's website is fun. I get to see when his highness picks the pizza up and completes the order. I feel like Big Brother. :)

[Jane]

Darcy wrote: "The only thing I've ever used my iron for is to adhere some laminate strips onto the edge of a shelf. The ironing board is something I stick in a corner and keep moving - have no idea why. I haven'..."

I hate the vacuum too!! We have one of those hoses that you schlep around with a big canister in a corner of the garage--my husband's idea from years ago. It's not really terribly efficient. At least we have an old one in the basement we can use for down there or to vacuum the car, so we don't have to schlep the thing up or down the stairs.

[Bryn]

Did you order one of their whiz-bang new toppings or more traditional?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't mind vacuuming. And by 'I don't mind' I don't mean I like to do it all the time. When I do, I don't mind it. A vacuumed carpet makes my living areas look nice.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "Did you order one of their whiz-bang new toppings or more traditional?"

I went traditional. Supreme with anchovies. Their whizz bang ones look awesome though. (in the ads) We just can't tell how big they are.

[Bryn]

When I met the PizzaTracker, at my aunt's, we had one with blue cheese and I forget what else, but it was spiffing.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I tell you what I did buy last week, Bryn. One of those Woolworths Christmas Puddings stuffed with Glace Cherries. I missed out last year. I was not going to miss out this year.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "When I met the PizzaTracker, at my aunt's, we had one with blue cheese and I forget what else, but it was spiffing."

I think Blue Cheese with anything is spiffing. :)

[Bryn]

Hah!!!
I am HAPPY to hear it, since I'm still guilty from last year.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have been jealous all year of your time with the Whole Orange Xmas Puddings. :)

[Bryn]

I haven't forgotten it. Can guarantee your cherries.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am so excited. $18! Not cheap..but that picture of all the red cherries falling out of the pud..omfg.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Damn. What's taking my hubby so long to get to Domino's.
I guess this is the bad thing about the Pizza Tracker. I see it sitting on 'Ready For Pickup' when he should have picked it up 15 minutes ago. Without the tracker I wouldn't know and wouldn't care.

Ah. The newfound mind games of the PizzaTracker. :]

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I spoke too soon. Order Complete! :D