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From: Magot
Date: 12-29-2003, 02:14 PM (1 of 17)
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Every Christmas Tony gets the decorating bug - this year he has hit the office - we now have his and hers office desks with matching drawers and chairs from Ikea as well as having painted the room. This meant I was off line for a while but it also means he has discovered my Plastic bags of Stuff collection. Anybody who works with kids will know what I mean: glue sticks, felt pens, 30 pairs of scissors piles and piles of tissue paper and he wants it out! ( or at least tidy in nice boxes) we settled for the boxes - but it was funny having got back from Ikea assembling our flat pack swedish furniture, Comments like "Carefull Sven, pull it off you will" and "Ingebord, where is the screw for driving for I need to drive in screws" Sitting on chairs we are now that go round and round... Trouble is I know I've thrown away a lot of rubbish but there still seems to be more to go in here than came out. I need a Tardis - heaven alone knows what will happen when he realises where my stash is hidden.. love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-29-2003, 02:37 PM (2 of 17)
Magot, an alternative hideaway is so necessary. What about the trunk of your car.
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From: Magot
Date: 12-29-2003, 02:44 PM (3 of 17)
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I hide quilts in there...
love and kisses, Jan
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From: james.diane
Date: 12-30-2003, 12:41 AM (4 of 17)
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I have four BIG drawers under my bed if you need space......!
Diane :)
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:04 AM (5 of 17)
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Talking about hiding things. I had an artifical Christmas tree, still do, anyway. I use to hid it in a bathtub we didn't use in one of the kid's bathrooms when they moved out. Worked fine. Then one son moved back and I needed the tub and I didn't have any place to put it again, so when it was time to take the tree down that year I couldn't. So it stayed up all year long. Then I got the bright idea that year, when it was time to take it down to put it in two large rubber boxes, stack them on top of each other make a cover for it and put pictures and plants on top and stick it in the corner of the room where the Christmas tree goes every year. Worked great!!!!! Now I don't have too far to go when it's time to put up the tree. And I have another peice of furniture to put things on. susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 12-30-2003, 04:44 AM (6 of 17)
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you are very strange susie.... My trouble is my lovely man would like to be minimalist - (perfect room=1 chair, 1 stereo,1 plasma screen tv) and I pile, I file in piles. The answer to "where is it?" is in the pile, now, I know WHICH pile so that seems OK to me, just go through the pile until you find it. I'm OK so long as I hide my piles! Before he comes home from work I hide my piles. How I cope when he is off work....essh! I know! I'll shut him in the office! love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-30-2003, 08:23 AM (7 of 17)
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A christmas tree that sits in the living room all year, and piles of piles. I think you are BOTH strange.
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 09:27 AM (8 of 17)
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In Feb. they said, You still have your tree up?...... In March they said when are you going to take down your tree?........In July they said you could put fireworks on it for 4th of July. Then in November they told me your lucky you dont have to put up a tree. LOL Jan of next year. Hubby said throw it out and well get another next year or find a place for it. It's not staying up again. ROFL He's no fun. Mary, I'm not strange, I'm just mentally sick that's all. LOL Just ask anyone who knows me long enough. Jan, I'm far from being a neat freak. I lost that feeling long ago when my kids were little. Now that they are grown it's worse. Now their kids are coming here and dumping stuff. I bet I have half their wardrobes in my washroom. When they can't find things at home they call me MawMaw do you have my ***** or ****. Wonder what they are going to do without me being here when I move.  I think they are all wanting to move with me OH OH there goes my peace and quite.  Susie
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From: Magot
Date: 12-30-2003, 12:20 PM (9 of 17)
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Tony's Mum had a very small house, 2 rooms downstairs,a kitchen, three bedrooms and the toilet was in the yard. Nobody was allowed in the front palour, it was kept for best when the aunties visited. You couldn't play in your bedrooms ( they had 3 kids) so you had to keep everything neat and tidy or you fell over everything. She used to dust every day! and clean the brasses every day! she now has a life bless the woman. My parents were in the army and for some reason my Mum never cleaned anything so whenever we were posted they had to get the environmental health/industrial cleaners in after us before the place was considered fit for human habitation. So, coming from different ends as it were, I think I 've made a lot of adjustments already - and there is no way I could be classed as a neat freak! love and kisses, Jan
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From: james.diane
Date: 12-30-2003, 03:16 PM (10 of 17)
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O.k. so I'm also strange ..........I thought the xmas tree in two boxes was a great idea - what inspiration, Susie! I also have "piles" of things. At work all my important papers are kept on a clipboard ( in a pile!) They are not in any order but I know where they all are when I need them....... this is quite sad when you realise that I have an office with a filing cabinet and letter trays etc!To each his own......
Diane :)
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 07:55 PM (11 of 17)
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I thought it was a good idea too Diane. AT least it got my husband off my back. But he's worse than me. He got a set of headlights for his old car from my brother for Christmas and they are sitting on my bedroom floor instead of in the garage. I'm going to have to beat him!!!! LOL Susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 12-31-2003, 03:18 AM (12 of 17)
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At my husbands'( then boydriends') digs once we found a carburetter in the oven- there were a lot of bikers in that house. I can never find my keys so my father in law made me a key safe ( he is a great carpenter) but Tony gets neurotic that if you put keys in a key safe then a burglar will know where to get the keys..but they are already inside if they can get to the key safe.. so he doesn't like me to use it for keys that we use. It has other peoples house keys in it (sans address) and I still lose my keys. If I want them I normally ask DD2 who goes through the " look in your bag, coat pockets etc etc routine" and checks the washing machine just in case... I've got piles on my new desk now, I call it a filing tray so he doesn't guess. love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-31-2003, 06:04 AM (13 of 17)
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I have piles in my sewingroom/office, does that count?
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From: Magot
Date: 12-31-2003, 06:20 AM (14 of 17)
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I ocasionally have piles in my b*tt too, but I don't think they do count...
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Ann Made
Date: 12-31-2003, 10:21 AM (15 of 17)
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I hear you with the piles. My counter in the home ec room is usually piled high with sewing and periodically I find students projects in it. My house also gets piles all over the place as I am only home on weekends and am working on my masters degree. Prior to Christmas vacation, I started cleaning up the home ec room. I have 1/2 of the sewing closet cleaned, and the stuff organized in bins. And the bins are labelled. The janitors hauled away 2 large garbage cans full. I have to keep at it after the break as I need to find the bottom of the mess. The students need space to put their projects and I need some sanity when I look in the cupboard. I will be ripping great articles from my magazines and putting them in plastic sleeves in a big binder. What has to be done, has to be done or I won't be able to work in the room. This holiday, the cleaning bug came home with me. I have been on a cleaning spree for 3 or 4 days now. I am purging again plus doing my spring cleaning. (it is late this year - I usually do it in the summer but surgery set me back). One of my biggest accomplishments was sewing 10 meters of fabric over the break. It is ready to be quilted now and I will do that until Feb. 15 when I start a new course. I have sorted, hucked, reorganized, washed, polished several different areas in the house. To date, I have not touched my fabric pile. That is sacred and is stored in huge plastic tubs in the basement. I will get at it later though I did donate some to a mom with 13 children. She appreciated my donation. Must run and start my kitchen. It needs some TLC. Ann Learning is a journey, not a race.
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From: Magot
Date: 12-31-2003, 10:33 AM (16 of 17)
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Sounds like a major project Ann, just don't lose the impetus!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Ann Made
Date: 12-31-2003, 12:22 PM (17 of 17)
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I won't Margot. I am almost 1/2 done the kitchen. It is tiny and has been done a couple of times before. I am now down to "if you haven't touched it in the past 12 months it goes" mode. I have a box that I am putting good stuff into for the home ec room. Some of their baking dishes need to go bye bye and mine are better than theirs. Melding my mom's and my cooking gear left me with tons of stuff and I have been sorting for 5 years now. It is almost bearable. The basement will be another story in my life. It has stuff in it that needs to be sorted and put away in containers. My husband has a policy - if we don't want it upstairs, put it downstairs in any old place and deal with it later. That is usually the summer for me. Back to the grind after I email my daughter to see if she wants a couple of things for their camping box. Ann Learning is a journey, not a race.
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