How often do you phone your married sons?
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Comments (16)Well, this is a strange topic for any forum so why am I compelled to answer? Will I regret it? I change the sheets every Saturday when the family are home to help. When the kids were little, I told them that they needed a ticket to watch the Saturday morning cartoons. The ticket was their sheets and towels and laundry baskets. And the TV didn't go on til EVERYONE had brought their stuff downstairs. Lots of peer pressure going on but good habits were instilled, so I thought. They left my home with those good laundry habits. Pride goeth before a fall, however. I had the exact same experience as others have posted. Dropping our older son at college, weeping profusely, I made his dorm bed with the brand-new sheets I had so carefully chosen. Oh, the agony of parting. When we picked him up in May at the end of the school year, he informed me that not only had he never made his bed since I had in September, he had never washed the sheets even once. Gag....See MoreHow often do you talk to your builder?
Comments (5)I gave my builder, the crew chief, the electrician, the tile guy, etc. my office and cell phone numbers. I also have their cell phone numbers. I asked them to call me if they have any questions, I don't want them making assumptions. I try to encourage communication by responding quickly to calls and thanking them for asking me. I feel free to call them if I am sitting at work thinking "OMG what are doing about Â". The frequency depends of what they are doing. Sometimes it is several times in a day. In addition to phone calls one of us tries to stop by the site, when the crew is there, once a day to solicit questions, resolve ambiguities and generally stroke them....See MoreHow often do you prune your belongings?
Comments (39)Artemis, same here! I must start sorting and discarding--we have the great luxury of over a year's lead time till we retire and transition to living in what is now our vacation house. I must begin working on the mammoth project of clearing out our home of 30 years. We're not hoarders but we have a full house of stuff, as everyone does and it cannot all go down there! I know the hardest things to part with will be the furniture and decor items that just don't belong in the new place; I've lightened up my 'tropical traditional' style considerably in our new house and I love the fresh look I have going down there. But oh it will be wrenching to give up things I've used and loved so long. I"m planning to start with the easy stuff-things that are not sentimental or in use. Friday is commencement day at my university which for those who work in higher ed is the official start of summer :). I'm going to try to discipline myself to either set a timer or make some job slips (clear a shelf/empty a drawer/sort a closet bar) and draw the winning task each evening since I won't be coming home exhausted and fit only to eat dinner and gaze vacantly at HGTV for an hour or so before heading off to bed....See Morehow often do you change your pastry brush
Comments (23)I do have several rolling pines. I have an old heavy one that was Grandma's, a french style wood pine which is my least favorite, a plain flat "dowel" type pin, a springerle pin, a couple of embossed pins for shortbread. Grandma's gets the most use. A million years ago in another life, when the ex and I were still running the bar and grille, I would roll out pie crust with a Kessler's bottle. I'd take an empty one, fill it with ice water and roll. It worked, but a rolling pin works better! I used to shake my head and the number of people who would stop at the local bar/grille for a piece of homemade pie and a cup of coffee, we shoulda been a local diner, LOL. We did sell far more food than we did alcohol, except on Friday and Saturday nights when we had live music, so during the week we WERE kind of the neighborhood diner! Annie...See MoreTigerlil
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