Thank you Ella, for the suggestion, amd ninakk for the follow up. I'll start with vinegar. The vinegar may kill two birds with one stone, as or next door neighbours are smokers. So far though, the smoke squeezes through tiny gaps in the adjoining walls (we think) - wide masking tape strips along the bottom of the skirting board seem to be helping a little...
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Kitchen Project day 2 gone awry:
In preparation for hanging my pot rack above the stovetop hood today, I cleaned the vent, filter, and stovetop drip pans after first extracting the electrical burner elements. Then put one element back in correctly but the other element askew and ended up hooking one prong onto the side clip and bending them both all to hell. Panicked, called maintenance and shouted incoherently about electrical fire hazard, electrocution emergency, and whatnot. No, it did not occur to me to flip off the power breaker, though I did vividly envision my electrocuted body lying here for days before being discovered.Maintenance man to the rescue.
All is well now. But the hanging of the pot rack will have to wait for another day while I recover from the excitement.
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@ Anita,
I hear you regarding landlords sluggishness to get jobs done. My landlord's handy-man has eventually painted the 2nd coat of paint on the outside walls today which should have been done the week before Christmas. Now I can put back all the pots on the balcony which had been moved so the painter could get at the wall which have been out since the first coat was done at the beginning of December!
So, Today's FATAD - Wall painted, (technically the Handy-man's fix-it!)
Put back flower pots, swept and tidied balcony.
Scrubbed kids play-house of paint splatters and paint marks (sigh), Cheers, Mr Fix-it!Posted 3 months ago # -
Ella -- never a dull moment at your house. At least you didn't electrocute the cat!
Fixed the cord on the MIL's Hoover today. It had some bare nekkid places on it and I remembered to bring my roll of electrical tape and covered up all the exposed wire. Took the vacuum outside, dumped the dirt and gave it a good scrub. Looks like new.
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Scheduled second appointment for HVAC so they can come find the leak.
Found somewhere that will sell and install biggggg propane tank for the emergency farm generator, appointment to stop in tomorrow for paperwork and payment.
Completed staff performance reviews which I was dreading (for no good reason, I have awesome staff). Just feels too formal and bureaucratic and we are NOT that around here. Anyway, all done. :-)
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Changed the furnace filter today. I try to change it monthly in the wintertime, but I kept forgetting to pick up a new pack of filters.
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Just fixed the bathroom back ready for use this morning. The kids are off for Half-Term, already?! They've cleaned out the mice, which is good - but the resultant mess isn't! They did try to clear up but I've finished cleaning up sawdust, mouse food and little mouse presents, ew! Plus DS has used the best part of a toilet-roll in the cleaning process, @ Lottielot, don't tell your dh about this, I remember his economy stance on such such luxury items as loo-roll!
Still, perhaps it serves me right for not keeping an eye on them instead of typing posts on Unclutterer!Posted 3 months ago # -
Just wondering why I seem to be clearing up after people lately, the landlord's handy-man yesterday, the kids this morning, no wonder I don't get much decluttering done!
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Notified that the kitchen light should arrive via UPS on Wednesday -- hard to believe. I picked it out in SEPTEMBER, delayed ordering it so it wouldn't arrive when we were in Scotland in October (hah!) -- so it's been almost a six month wait. Now I can schedule the handy couple.
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Clutterbug: I know just how you feel! No sooner do I blitz the kids' rooms than you can't get in the door again :( My entire house is covered in corn flakes.
Renewed my green waste bin subscription, so much easier than schlepping to the tip or, worse, having lots of prunings piling up everywhere.
My van has a flat battery after all this cold weather. Got to jumpstart it if I want to go camping today...Am contemplating staying home instead, making the house gleam and getting a stack of uni work done. I will go for a long run somewhere scenic with my new trail shoes :)Posted 3 months ago # -
@Lottielot,
Ditto my place, I've been trying to get DD's bedroom properly sorted out for years!! As soon as you sort out one corner, you take a breather and it's back to square one again. Doesn't help that she's got the mouse food in there for when she feeds her mice, it's forever scattered on the floor, especially as the kids like playing with it as play food for dolls?! (If I keep it elsewhere it'll probably be scattered all through the flat). I'm starting to dread Monday mornings, you know, the Post-Week-end Clear-Up!
Have a good week-end whatever you do, it's tempting to stay at home getting the house in order whilst your kids are away, remember to take a photo of it in it's tidy state before the kids come back, just to remind yourself of the few hours it was all in order!!lol!Posted 3 months ago # -
Lol, I think chaos and kids go together! Currently ds2 is permanently having teddy bear picnics with one of his soft toys. I find tiny plates with cereal or bits of bread wherever I turn. It's lucky they're not here, I would be shouting at them...Last week ds1 told me his karate gear had cat sick on it. 'But I thought you put it in the drawer as you agreed you would?' 'yes, but someone (we have an idea who) took out the drawer above so the cat got into the chest of drawers'. Went to inspect: one drawer had cat hair ALL over the clothes, then the cat had been sick on the karate gear in the other drawer. I despair sometimes. And this is the older kid...I made him wash it, hang it out and put it away again. I still need to deal with the cat hair clothes, I can't bring myself to go into the room right now. I will probably tell him to bring out 50 dirty items of clothing and make him wash it all himself, I refuse to go hunting for dirty laundry under his bed!
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Phew, lottielot, I wouldn't fancy going in that room either!!;-)
Have you got Half-Term next week? Could be their Half-Term project, entering and sorting the 'Rooms of Doom'!Posted 3 months ago # -
Yes, clutterbug, it may well be. I just hate having to oversee this sorting out! Unless I stand there watching or helping, they will both stand there helplessly wondering what to do first and doing NOTHING! It drives me insane! And I end up doing most of it when it's their mess, then they argue because they've both left their stuff in the other one's room, then I lose the will to live and go have a glass of wine...Far too much involvement on my part, even when I give explicit instructions like 'pick up all the dirty clothes off your floor and put them in your washing bag' nothing happens. I may tell them I'm only taking them to karate this week if their rooms are respectable, as otherwise I'll have to spend that time doing it for them.
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Fixed a loose nail in the floorboards of the dining room, I kept catching my socks on it. Pulled out the old one which was bent, hammered in a new one. Feeling like djk now :)
Sadly, I can't even start to fix the scooter as I found the correct Allen key but it's too stiff for me to undo. I'll ask dh tomorrow.Posted 3 months ago # -
heh heh lottielot I think you have me mixed up with my personal forum hero: Astreja! (or were you saying you'd like to bang my head with a hammer?)
I've been happily putzing around, tidying here, cleaning there, cooking, wiping, laundering (have I mentioned how I ADORE my new washing machine? but I love doing laundry. dramatic improvement with so little effort on my part)
The kitchen table serves as DH's office (laptop which lives in a nightstand table, a printer that lives on a bookcase, a mini TV/DVD player which folds in half and lives on a wall shelf. He puts everything away religiously after use, except the cords. So my fix was to use sturdy rolls (same size as tp rolls, but sturdier, from cat-hair sticky rollers) with labels on them, all piled in a basket. the cords go inside them, labeled. DH took to this idea right away, bless his disorganized little heart.
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djk: "putzing"!! Haven't heard that outside my own home since I left NYC in 1981.
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I've been a "putzer" since at least high school.
My sis is also a putzer. Some of my best pals are putzers!!!
Who doesn't love to putz, really?Posted 3 months ago # -
Well, around here, if you are a cleaning lady, you're a Putzfrau, cleaning agents are Putzmittel and to clean is putzen. And you can be putzmunter (chirpy), too. So you could have a sentence like "Die putzmuntere Putzfrau putzt mit Putzmitteln." (The chirpy cleaning lady cleans with cleaning agents.) But enough with the German lesson.:)
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Putzing and frittering and waffling and flitting and puttering and staring dreamily into space are my favourite exercises ever. I love to putz:)
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