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09-23-2010, 10:39 AM

#151

GailG

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Originally Posted by trupeach1

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Originally Posted by mamapeggy11

Fill the kitchen sink with hot water and pine-sol --house smell clean !!! LOL

LOL..........that's a good one. I put cinncmon, cloves and nutmeg in water and let it simmer on the stove. It not only makes the house smell clean it makes it smell like you have been busy baking. The bonus get a store bought spice cake put it on a pretty platter and let the family think you HAVE been baking all day.

I buy Fabuloso (the blue one) in the biggest bottles I can find. When we leave the house, I always pour some in both toilets. I leave the lid open. When we get back home the house smells soooooo fresh. Smells like someone was cleaning while I was away.

09-23-2010, 12:01 PM

#152

MaggieLou

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Originally Posted by Moon Holiday

My housework and cleaning tip: Marry a great guy who loves to clean, cook, and do laundry! Actually for the first 27 years I did all the cooking, cleaning, laundry and raising the kids while he worked at an office. Once the kids moved out, I worked away from home in an office and he worked from our home... so he began doing the cleaning and cooking and the next thing I knew... when I was actually at home there was no housework needing my attention.... so I could sew and read and do fun things. Believe me, I've been smiling non-stop for the last 20 years!

How do you get them to help??? Mine DH just sits and watches TV. I can't get him to do anything unless I bug him about it.

09-23-2010, 03:53 PM

#153

sandpat

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Peachy...great idea! I had forgotten about doing that! i also have some candles that smell like blueberry pancakes...the downside to all that is that it makes me hungry:lol:

09-23-2010, 06:59 PM

#154

AlienQuilter

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Gramof6 wrote:
Tell the men that leave things lying around "I am cleaning in the morning & everything that is left out of place is going to get tossed into a laundry basket if not the grabage."

If I did that, my guy would be running around naked!

Toss him an apron! :lol:

09-23-2010, 07:02 PM

#155

AlienQuilter

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I'm afraid to have ammonia in the house. I know someone who got carried away with getting a stain off the floor and mixed bleach and ammonia together. It was a fatal mistake.

09-23-2010, 08:38 PM

#156

beckyw

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I need a cleaning party after my daughter, husband and four kids move out. Anybody want to come. I cook real food and have plenty to drink.

09-24-2010, 03:17 PM

#157

Caroltee

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Well I took the big plunge today........I started at the top and clean to the bottom Cleaned everything and now I think I need to make funeral arrangement because I feel like am going to die. I don't know why I think I have to do it all in one day but when I get started I don’t want to quit until its all done. I know am not as young as I U 2 B. Oh…. but it is sooooooooo clean and smells sooooooo good. I guess if I do die people can say that at least I was a good housekeeper

09-24-2010, 03:31 PM

#158

sandpat

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Well, congrats on your newly cleaned house! Can I come over and smell it? I've forgotten what that smells like!:oops:

09-24-2010, 04:50 PM

#159

GailG

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Originally Posted by Caroltee

Congratulations. Now if only someone would tell me WHERE to START!! Wherever I start, I get side tracked and seem to go around in circles and by nightfall, not too much has been accomplished.

:roll:

09-24-2010, 05:12 PM

#160

peabee

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daughter was in charge of sorting family socks. husband always screaming about mismatched socks. i tried basting quilts with those bent pins. hated it. theres a cup with quilters safety pins (the small ones) next to the dirty clothes hamper in our bathroom. if he wants his socks matched properly, he has to pin his socks as he takes them off before they hit the clothes hamper. we're all happier now.