I've been getting a ton done around the house. We're staying in because of the snow.
F has a friend over, and they're dancing around our bedroom.
I have been using my new steam cleaner. It's so great! I've cleaned all of our trash cans, cleaned the windows and screens in our bedroom. Cleaned all the nooks and crannies in the kitchen (ovens, under the fridge). This was what I bought with my birthday money - so happy I did!!!
I've also done my usual chores like vacuuming the house. And I reorganized my pajama drawers. And tidied up the hall closet (we had a lot of visitors this past summer and things were put away haphazardly).
Now I just have to make the girls lunch and I can spend some time doing something I want to do while they play.
Other things I've done to make next week easier and save money:
- got the supplies to make christmas crackers (I've been saving toilet paper tubes and have some scraps of christmas paper, so now I have the snaps and crowns) - enough to make 25 crackers which should last us 4 years.
- printed out license plate checklist and slugbug checklist and paper battleship for our Thanksgiving road trip (free entertainment!)
- made a list so we don't forget anything for Thanksgiving (including my parents' Christmas present which I'll hide in their house because my mom will open it if I give it to her right away - so I'll hide it and then send her on a secret mission to find her present at Christmas time)
- worked out a "meal plan" for the drive to California: sandwiches for dinner, lots of snacks and fruit (bringing our little cooler), hotel breakfast buffet the next morning and more snacks.
And, biggest money saver: D put the snow tires on today (we bought tires and rims which we worked out would save money in the second year because D can put them on himself rather than take the car in to have the tires put on).
Getting Lots Done Around the House
November 16th, 2014 at 07:26 pm
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November 16th, 2014 at 11:12 pm 1416179567
It's ok to use on mattress as you flip quarterly, upholstered furnishings and I use it regularly on the wrist area of my winter coat and down parka which I seem to mess up. When his SUV was newer, DH used it regularly, now not so much. What I like best is that it gets into tiny corners and crevices of anything ornate or awkward. It['s fun to use and so doesn't really feel like work!
November 16th, 2014 at 11:14 pm 1416179684
I hadn't thought of the mattress - great idea!
November 17th, 2014 at 04:54 am 1416200063
Earlier this year I suggested DS use one in his [new] apartment whose building was beset by spiders. We were surprised that it worked.
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