Guest guest Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Darn, I thought you were going to give housekeeping tips from the perspective of a guy. I clicked right on this subject line to get some ideas. Oh, well, good point about deleting original posts too. ha ha +Coal Miner's Daughter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 You are such a nut! Housekeeping tips from the perspective of a guy , KO, and son of a hoarder. If it takes less than 30 seconds to do, do it now. Cup in sink, bottle in fridge. Don t let the little stuff stack up. Less is more. Look at any room. It probably has too much in it. If you re not sure if you need it put it in a box. Come back in a week. If you re still not sure , toss it. You don t need it, you re just afraid to let it go. You do not need more stuff than the number of people in your house can use. For every piece of stuff, you also need an amount of space to enjoy it in. Put a small trash can in every room, with plastic bags in them. Easier to dump those into one can on trash day than to pick up all over. Everyone needs a " man cave. " A place to sit and read, put up your easel and paint, start sloppy projects you dont have to clean up every night. Even if it is a corner of another room covered with a tarp. Cleaning closets is a job for a brave person. The primary tools you need are garbage bags. Be brutal. If you are like most people, 80 % of what you have in your closets should be at Goodwill or in the trash. Why the heck do I have this? If you ask that question about something, trash it at once. Does that help? Doug > > Darn, I thought you were going to give housekeeping tips from the perspective of a guy. I clicked right on this subject line to get some ideas. > > Oh, well, good point about deleting original posts too. ha ha > > +Coal Miner's Daughter > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 You are such a nut! Housekeeping tips from the perspective of a guy , KO, and son of a hoarder. If it takes less than 30 seconds to do, do it now. Cup in sink, bottle in fridge. Don t let the little stuff stack up. Less is more. Look at any room. It probably has too much in it. If you re not sure if you need it put it in a box. Come back in a week. If you re still not sure , toss it. You don t need it, you re just afraid to let it go. You do not need more stuff than the number of people in your house can use. For every piece of stuff, you also need an amount of space to enjoy it in. Put a small trash can in every room, with plastic bags in them. Easier to dump those into one can on trash day than to pick up all over. Everyone needs a " man cave. " A place to sit and read, put up your easel and paint, start sloppy projects you dont have to clean up every night. Even if it is a corner of another room covered with a tarp. Cleaning closets is a job for a brave person. The primary tools you need are garbage bags. Be brutal. If you are like most people, 80 % of what you have in your closets should be at Goodwill or in the trash. Why the heck do I have this? If you ask that question about something, trash it at once. Does that help? Doug > > Darn, I thought you were going to give housekeeping tips from the perspective of a guy. I clicked right on this subject line to get some ideas. > > Oh, well, good point about deleting original posts too. ha ha > > +Coal Miner's Daughter > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 > > > The original posts will always be there for whoever needs to read them, and this simple housekeeping task keeps the posts we read to a more managable size. Yes, I will begin doing this. It is in the Guidlines but I noticed know one else was doing it when I joined so I got lazy. Also, don't know if we have any blind members, but I learned this from a writer's site that has a lot of blind members. A lot of blind people use computers with computerized readers and they have to listen to all those posts repeated over and over when we don't delete. A friend of mine says the mechanized voice is really tiresome especially when the same post is repeated over and over. Also I loved the anti-hoarding advice. Home was chaos and I never learned the housekeeping skills a lot of my friends grew up with on a daily basis, but the good news is, if you are a non BP you can improve on little things daily. Kay > > > Doug > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 > > > The original posts will always be there for whoever needs to read them, and this simple housekeeping task keeps the posts we read to a more managable size. Yes, I will begin doing this. It is in the Guidlines but I noticed know one else was doing it when I joined so I got lazy. Also, don't know if we have any blind members, but I learned this from a writer's site that has a lot of blind members. A lot of blind people use computers with computerized readers and they have to listen to all those posts repeated over and over when we don't delete. A friend of mine says the mechanized voice is really tiresome especially when the same post is repeated over and over. Also I loved the anti-hoarding advice. Home was chaos and I never learned the housekeeping skills a lot of my friends grew up with on a daily basis, but the good news is, if you are a non BP you can improve on little things daily. Kay > > > Doug > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Oh please, yes. For the love of God people please. I don't have a lot of time to use the computer. I'd like to reply more than I do, but I don't have time to read the entire digest most nights. And when I try, it's the same message repeated again... <and again <<and again <<<and again <<<<and again <<<<<and again... May I just say: AAAAAUUUUUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHHH!!!!!!! (I'm OK now. Really.) --. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Oh please, yes. For the love of God people please. I don't have a lot of time to use the computer. I'd like to reply more than I do, but I don't have time to read the entire digest most nights. And when I try, it's the same message repeated again... <and again <<and again <<<and again <<<<and again <<<<<and again... May I just say: AAAAAUUUUUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHHH!!!!!!! (I'm OK now. Really.) --. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 It is in the Guidlines, but we all get sloppy from time to time, and new members come in without realizing. I did NOT jump right out and read the Guidlines as soon as I got on this board! A tip: As some have said, it is hard to keep straight what you are responding to. When you see the message, click cancel. This shows all the messages in the thread at the bottom. Right click the one you wish to respond to and open in a new tab. The reply to one copy, delete all txt that you don t need, and start to write. If you need to look, just click back and forth between the tabs and the info is still there. Also, if you don t do so, click preview before you send. This lets you make sure you said what you intended to, and see what everyone else will see. If it looks like War and Peace, just click edit and go in now and delete anything that is not pertinent to your post. We forget and get sloppy, and need to remind ourselves from time to time. This just makes it easier to follow the threads. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Didn't have time to respond yesterday - too busy cleaning. I'm definitely keeping this laptop. +Coal Miner's Daughter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Girlscout, You remind me a little of the cowgirl in Toystory 2. This is a complement. My husband, son and I LOVE her. Maybe 'cause you say " critter " ? Engaging, adventurous, strong and loving. That's YOU. +Coal Miner's Daughter > > Like like like! > I like these tips. > My biggest tip is fill your house with people and critters you love. don't > be a hoarder. And nothing else matters. Except if you can't cook, I think > you should learn because it is a huge step toward self sufficency. > > XOXO > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 When you get the email digest, which, if you don t , go to group preferences and set it up that way, much easier, then at the bottom of each message in the digest is an option to REPLY VIA WEB POST. Click that and it will open the group page with you ready to reply to that message, in that thread, by a post to the group. From there, you can cancel and see all msgs in that thread, or you can click on messages to the left to display all messages in the group from newest first, and click the ones you want to read or respond to. > > " When you see the message, click cancel. This shows all the > messages in the thread at the bottom. " > > I'm not sure what message you're talking about Doug? Is this something you > get when you're replying from the yahoo groups website? I just reply from > email and it might be that every email provider or program is different? > Sorry, just trying to figure out what you mean hehe. > > Mia > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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