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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
650 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 3:37:06 PM
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| Do you ever feel like as fast as you get one room cleaned the family is there undoing what you just fixed? Dont get me wrong. I love my family and dont take my blessings for granted but sometimes its frustrating.Maybe when the kids do their chores I should run in and undo them haha. |
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 7:15:32 PM
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Maybe that would cure them eh? lol I remember a "cure" that my mom had if we didn't clean our room properly/at all (my sister's idea of cleaning was to shove everything under the bed, and what couldn't fit under the bed was shoved in the closet) was to take everything that was on the floor & throw it outside on the front lawn. Nice. Solved the problem though!
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
1507 Posts
Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 7:29:36 PM
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My parents would go around the house at night and pick up anything that wasn't put away in the right place. They would hide it and we couldn't get the item back for a week plus we had to do an extra chore on top of our regular chores to get an item back. I picked up on this and started cleaning up after myself very quickly, but my brother was always "waiting" to get his toys back. It must have worked, because my brother now does this with his kids.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
7577 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 8:30:02 PM
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I think Phyllis Diller said it best: "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." It's all good, Lea. It just says that you have a loving, happy home. :) Hang in there - we always have hope - I hear there's great maid service at the nursing home! LOL! Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
www.papercraftingwithnini.myctmh.com
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 8:35:14 PM
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| Great ideas ladies! Thank you! Nini good to hear from you. I told my family I started this thread. You should have seen their faces when they found out I "told on them" to people all over America and even in other countries! It was priceless! The mess is still there though :) |
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Beverly Gill
True Blue Farmgirl
1114 Posts
Beverly
Marlborough
USA
1114 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 10:55:53 AM
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got to say as much as my family means to me having them overseas for awhile I get to clean to my heart's content----downsize then when they get back I hope to maintain....HOPE.
Right now I feel like a queen.......the place looks so great. Part of the problem is our home is too small for 4 adults to be living in....but I am grateful we have a home.
There's no place like home |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 11:00:35 AM
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My kids are grown but now I have dogs that do it. I don't think it ever stops!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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Lieberkim
True Blue Farmgirl
839 Posts
Kimberly
Sunnyside
WASHINGTON
USA
839 Posts |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 9:18:46 PM
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So true. I actually took a picture of my spotless livingroom one day to prove it could happen!!! Now that the kids are a little older (4&5) they help with tidying up the house. It's so nice to have all those years of training starting to take effect. :)
Excuse the mess & the noise, my children are making happy memories |
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 19 2011 : 6:06:09 PM
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Y'all are lucky... at least it's kids! Mine is adults! I pick up after 20 and 30 year olds that aren't even my family! I figure I'm gonna start charging for maid service!!
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX
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knead2garden
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Ashley
Spring City
TN
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Dec 16 2011 : 12:48:20 AM
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I feel the same way! Almost everyday I have a mental tantrum about the "daddd gummm house!"
~Ashley
#1677
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum |
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Kim L.
True Blue Farmgirl
162 Posts
Kimberly
Knoxville
TN
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - Dec 17 2011 : 2:21:40 PM
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Lea, I feel that way everyday. I thought as our kids got older it would be easier -- I was wrong. LOL Hang in there:)
~Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.~
Mother Teresa
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
985 Posts
Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
985 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2011 : 5:37:09 PM
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I clean my house and it lasts approx 2-6 hours. It's a never ending story between laundry, dishes, wood dirt tracked up from the cellar, dog hair. It wouldn't be so bad, it seems, if the house was a little bigger and we actually had closets and places to hang coats where they wouldn't get knocked off. UGGGGG!
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2011 : 10:53:00 AM
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The down side to living in the country and having an inside dog.
Most days it doesn't bother me. Just don't look across the room around 4 p.m. when the sun shines on the hardwood. |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13645 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13645 Posts |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Dec 31 2011 : 09:48:53 AM
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Lea: I know exactly what you mean. I will clean the den (the place we enter the house) and within minutes my hubby will come in with boots full of cat stuff, leaves stuck to that, etc...
He'll sit down and say, "I thought you were going to sweep the den". OMG... Now I just leave the broom by the door. LOL
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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marlee
True Blue Farmgirl
1650 Posts
Marlene
DeRidder
Louisiana
1650 Posts |
Posted - Dec 31 2011 : 11:38:55 AM
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I hate dust,we live att the end of a gravel road and our house has a circular drive,two other houses,one cabin empty,the house across the field was bushogged.
Talk about dust. I always heard from my grandmother (now deceased) to look at the rose in the vase, no the dust on the table. I've used that saying alot of times. Farmgirl Marlee |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13645 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13645 Posts |
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birdie71
True Blue Farmgirl
254 Posts
Robin
Glendale
Arizona
USA
254 Posts |
Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 9:13:53 PM
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Yeah! They sure do and not sure it will ever change! Course when the kids fly the nest, there will only be one to undo it! I wish that the dust was pretty then I might buy into it "protecting my furniture"!
Robin
Farmgirl Sister #1301
Farming in the Sonoran Desert? Hmmm?!
my mama's (ceejay48) craftiness ~ www.cjscreations-ceejay.blogspot.com
my daddy's craftiness ~ www.aspenforge.com |
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 07:22:42 AM
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Thank goodness, I thought this just happened to me...the Man of the House claims to be a neat freak and says messes stress him out. Yeah right! If that's the case, why does he always hang his rassin'-frassin' clothes on the couch? Then of course when I try to tidy up he says, "Don't worry about that sweety; that's my stuff."
I kid you not, if I don't ignore him and put stuff away it'll sit there for three weeks. It's a good thing I love him! *giggles*
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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crafter
True Blue Farmgirl
2313 Posts
lori
Fort Atkinson
Wisconsin
USA
2313 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 09:40:05 AM
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Alyce-
You crack me up!! Welcome to the sisterhood here!
Lori |
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 11:01:43 AM
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Thank you Lori! Another Wisconsinite, cool! I'm pleasantly surprised by how many of us there are here.
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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