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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 11:55:05 AM
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dance4joy
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Just for the record (and I've already said this) I never meant to imply that people who utilize daycare are "letting someone else raise their children".
I was only stating how I would feel about making that choice for myself. . .I would feel personally feel that way about my baby spending 8-9 hours a day in the care of someone else when I could afford to stay home with her. I completely understand that just because I feel a certain way about something doesn't make it true for everyone else and I intended no malice or condemnation toward anyone who feels differently.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 11:58:11 AM
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:06:45 PM
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LaurainAL
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what are your tips and tricks for keeping the house clean,
I have a housekeeper in every 2 weeks to do the heavy things. The rest DH and I handle at night after putting the kids to bed. My laundry in never done though.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:07:54 PM
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moon_mouse
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what are your tips and tricks for keeping the house clean, or keeping dinner on the table when you don't have a lot of time?
One word...Roomba! Seriously, my hubby bought a refurbished Roomba, and we loved it so much we got a refurbished Scooba that does hard surface floors.
Now the food thing, I don't know. I seriously hate to cook, and hubby's really finicky, so we far too often fall into the "he makes microwave popcorn; I eat a can of soup" thing.
I also have learned to focus on what is most important to me and hubby to get done, and put everything else on the back burner.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:09:23 PM
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moon_mouse
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I have a housekeeper in every 2 weeks to do the heavy things.
Me too, but once a month. Sure, it costs about 5 work hours a month, but it's some of the best money I spend!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:16:57 PM
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elastic
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ugh, laundry. i hate laundry. dh is pretty good about it though. we usually do it together (since we don't have a washer/ dryer in our apartment. it's downstairs on the first floor) we basically let it pile up for a week and then just take down to the laundry room when it's not busy. the thing i really HATE doing is socks. i cannot stand to sit/ sift/ and pair socks. it just wastes so much time. all that sorting and trying to match makes me crazy.
other than that, i am pretty much the person who cleans and dusts the place. i do the bedroom, the living room and kitchen. DH cleans the bathroom and keeps our office pretty tidy (for the most part), and because i can't deal with the sound of a vacuum, he does that too. I literally go crazy when I hear a vaccum cleaner, so he can't vaccum while I am home. He usually does it in the morning after I have left for work, or if he comes home from work in the middle of his day or something. I don't know exactly when he does it, or if he has a vaccum schedule that he keeps, but the floor is vacuumed and clean. That's all i need to know.
as for dishes, my husband likes to wash them by hand. I like using the dishwasher. the trouble is, he doesn't let enough dishes pile up to acutally use the dishwasher, so he ends up washing lots of dishes by hand. I don't know why he dislikes the dishwasher so much....it must be something close to my vacuum phobia that he has. although, our dishwasher is whisper quiet. you can't even tell it's running.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:20:38 PM
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moon_mouse
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The Roomba does a great job on the carpet, as long as you use the invisble walls to limit the area it covers on one charge. The Scooba has some problems with getting jammed under the edge of our kitchen cabinets, but we just keep an ear out for the "I'm stuck" beep and give it a little nudge. We also have to do our kitchen/breakfast room in two cycles, because the kitchen island messes up the pattern a bit. (Which is not a problem with the Roomba. The two machines have different ways of traversing the room).
We have a little doggie, and she doesn't have a problem with the Roomba, unless it sneaks up on her and bumps her in the butt. Then, she just gives it a dirty look and goes to sleep on the stair landing.
Another great little device is the Bissell Spot Bot. It does a great job on even pet stains!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:26:39 PM
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moon_mouse
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the thing i really HATE doing is socks. i cannot stand to sit/ sift/ and pair socks. it just wastes so much time. all that sorting and trying to match makes me crazy.
We've been able to resolve that issue by buying one kind of socks in bulk, so all my pairs of socks are the same, all his pairs of socks are the same, and my socks look different from his socks. Of course that works because I wear sneakers to work every day, and hubby wears one pair of colored socks per day (5 pair per week to sort, no biggie) and then all the post-work and weekend socks are the same, like mine!
My most hated thing about laundry is when my hubby dumps underwear turned inside out into the hamper and I have to handle it! I'll let you fill in the blanks as to why...  .
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:28:23 PM
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moon_mouse
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I can't speak for full-sized machines. The Roomba is the only way I clean the floor. The maid is the one who uses a vacuum, lol! But, the Spot Bot is pretty powerful, so I would imagine the full-size would work well too.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:42:04 PM
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moon_mouse
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Socks get sucked into an alternate universe where sock gnomes transform them into wire hangers and spit them back into our material plane via tiny black holes behind the dust bunnies in the corners of our closets.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 12:53:48 PM
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dance4joy
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So THAT'S where all of hubby's underpants go! I always wondered how he could have so many of them that most of the time they won't all fit in the drawer, and other times he can search and search for a pair, and not find any, not even in the dirty clothes hamper.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 1:43:59 PM
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 2:08:39 PM
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 4:38:34 PM
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The thing that bothers me about working the most is the fact that folks around here assume we were rich before because we made due on one income and then we must be rolling in it now because we have two incomes.
Someone want to go to the laundromat for me tonight?
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 1/14/2008 4:48:27 PM
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moon_mouse
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The thing that bothers me about working the most is the fact that folks around here assume we were rich before because we made due on one income and then we must be rolling in it now because we have two incomes.
Don't you love those Catch-22's! 
I like how people thing I don't have kids because I'm too busy with my career, yet also that I must have all the time in the world because I don't have kids!
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So I bought him 18 pairs of the same black socks, and 12 pairs of the same white socks, and then a couple different pairs of dress socks. 
