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Old 03-13-2011, 06:21 PM
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"I am with you...my hubby always says we should have company every so often...that's when the house gets really clean!!!!!
BJ"
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LOL.. I do my BEST house cleaning when someone calls on their cell and says they are about 15 minutes away... watch me flyyyyyyyyy......
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:22 PM
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I have another wall plague in my house....
"You can touch the dust....but don't date it!"

enough said...
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:28 PM
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Housework?????
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sweeterthanwine
How do you find time to get housework done when all you want to do is quilt? My house sure suffers when I am in the quilting mood which is most of the time. Any secrets, please pass them along.
I live by my mothers suggestions:
1) don't dust - if you don't disturb it won't look "dusty" :oops: and soon it you will have "new gray" furniture.
2) dishes only need to be washed when you need more to serve dinner - a service of eight will last four days since there is only my husband and myself to worry about these days
3) the bed only needs to be made when company comes but the sheets need washing every week.

Hope this helps. Barbara W
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:37 PM
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WHAT?! Are we supposed to make a choice? Well, you know which one wins.
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:38 PM
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Here is a poem that someone put on an embroidered wall hanging
Cleaning and dusting can wait til tomorrow
for babies grow up I've learnt to my sorrow
So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

My babies are all grown up, no one died from oven crud poisioning so now I use that phiosophy about my quilting.
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:40 PM
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Other than hiring a maid, no clue. I am so sick of housecleaning and cooking. When do I really get to retire. Yes I have to work it all around my quilting which I want to do 24/7.
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Embroider this to hang in your home and remember it in your brain ......."Dull women have immaculate homes! :)
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Old 03-13-2011, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Sweeterthanwine
How do you find time to get housework done when all you want to do is quilt? My house sure suffers when I am in the quilting mood which is most of the time. Any secrets, please pass them along.
I try to keep the bathroom and kitchen really nice and clean but I don't sweat the rest of the house too much. My husband has been doing the vacuming and moping since I had shoulder and hip surgeries and he's happy to continue so I'm glad he's willing to do these things for me.
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I went to the FLYLADY site and I'm going to start the routine on Monday. I was better at keeping things straight when I had a small child and worked 60 hrs a week. Retirement seems to cause me to put things off. The downstairs "public areas" are always neat and clean. The 2nd floor is messy because we keep the fishing and quilting stuff in the extra bedrooms. Now I'm even overflowing into the nice quest room.
Quilts are nice. BUT, I have to decide what to do with old family pics. etc. I don't want my son to have to go through what my brothers & I did cleaning out our parents house. They had things stashed away where it didn't show but when you have to pull it out and look at everything! It took us almost 2 years of weekends.
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