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Thought y'all might get a kick out of these: THIRTY MINUTES TO A CLEANER HOUSE You're getting company in 30 minutes. Your house is a mess. WHAT WILL YOU DO? Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first session of Housekeeping Tips for Regular People. If you're a Martha Stewart type of housekeeper, this column is NOT for you. However, for the rest of you, this is your chance to learn 15 Secret Shortcuts to Good Housekeeping that your mother never told you. SECRET TIP 1: DOOR LOCKS If a room clearly can't be whipped into shape in 30 days
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If you think ovens are just for baking, think again. Ovens represent at least 9 cubic feet of hidden storage space, which means they're a great place to shove dirty dishes, dirty clothes, or just about anything you want to get out of sight when company's coming. Time: 2 minutes SECRET TIP 4: CLOTHES DRYERS Like Secret Tip 3, except bigger. CAUTION: Avoid hiding flammable _object_s here. Time: 2.5 minutes SECRET TIP 5: WASHING MACHINES & FREEZERS Like Secret Tip 4, except even bigger. Time: 3 minutes SECRET TIP 6: DUST RUFFLES No bed should be without one. Devotees of Martha Stewart believe dust ruffles exist to keep dust out from under a bed or to help coordinate the colorful look of a bedroom. The rest of us know a dust ruffle's highest and best use is to hide whatever you've managed to shove under the bed. (Refer to Secret Tips 3, 4, 5.) Time: 4 minutes SECRET TIP 7: DUSTING The 30-Minutes-To-A-Clean-House method says: Never dust under what you can dust around. Time: 3 minutes SECRET TIP 8: DISHES Don't use them. Use plastic or paper and you won't have to. Time: 1 minute SECRET TIP 9: CLOTHES WASHING (EEWWW) This secret tip is brought to you by an inventive teenager. When this teen's mother went on a housekeeping strike for a month, the teen discovered you can extend the life of your underwear by two ...if you turn it wrong side out and, yes, rerun it. CAUTION: This tip is recommended only for teens and those who don't care if they get in a car wreck. Time: 3 seconds SECRET TIP 10: IRONING If an article of clothing doesn't require a full press and your hair does, a curling iron is the answer. In between curling your hair, use the hot wand to iron minor wrinkles out of your clothes. Yes, it really does work, or so I'm told, by other disciples of the 30-Minutes-To-A-Clean-House philosophy. Time: 5 minutes (including curling your hair) SECRET TIP 11: VACUUMING Stick to the middle of the room, which is the only place people look. Don't bother vacuuming under furniture. It takes way too long and no one looks there anyway. Time: 5 minutes, entire house; 2 minutes, living room only SECRET TIP 12: LIGHTING The key here is low, low, and lower. It's not only romantic, but bad lighting can hide a multitude of dirt. Time: 10 seconds SECRET TIP 13: BED MAKING Get an old-fashioned waterbed. No one can tell if those things are made up or not, saving you, oh, hundreds of seconds over the course of a lifetime. Time: 0 SECRET TIP 14: SHOWERS, TOILETS, AND SINKS Forget one and two. Concentrate on three. Time: 1 minute SECRET TIP 15: If you already knew at least 10 of these tips, don't even think about inviting a Martha Stewart type to your home.
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SECRET TIP 12: LIGHTING The key here is low, low, and lower. It's not only romantic, but bad lighting can hide a multitude of dirt. Even better: REMOVE LIGHTBULBS. That way your guests won't accidentally illuminate something you'd rather leave hidden...
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I've actually *used* the hide everything in the oven trick. Warning: Do NOT do this with a Rubbermaid dish pan, especially if you are experiencing meno-fog and plan to do any baking. Preheat to 350 will melt Rubbermaid. Also, be careful where you put stuff when the grandkids are coming. I put a red plastic toolbox on top of the woodstove a couple of weeks ago so it would be out of their reach. (I don't have fires in the stove when little kids are around.) A few days later, we anticipated a chilly morning, so I prepared the woodstove the night before. Next morning, all I had to do was put a match to it. A few minutes later I was in the bathroom getting ready for work and heard my husband breathing very heavily from the room the stove is in. (He has emphysema and on nearly constant oxygen) and I began fussing because I thought he was carrying wood in. When I impatiently called out What are you doing? He said getting the tools off the woodstove! When I got in there, I first made sure he got back to the room where his oxygen was and got his breath then I started scraping melted red plastic off the stove which of course was hotter than hell, all the while cussing myself and my meno fog that could have caused God only knows what. Oh, it was beautiful. (NOT) The black woodstove with red plastic running all down the front of it. The tools were all stuck together with globs of the stuff. (I bought the tool box last summer so we could keep all our suff in one place and not have to search every drawer when we need a certain screwdriver or something. Well, the tools are all together now
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Sorry for the long ramble but I wanted to introduce myself rather informally as it turns out. Been lurking a long, long time and have really enjoyed the group the last few weeks. Merry Christmas to All! Ann Hello, Ann. I'm glad you did introduce yourself with a good story. Also glad it had a happy ending <grin. I think it was a fine way for us to begin to know you. Hope you'll join in more from time to time. Your home sounds tranquil at last, just in time, too. Merry Christmas to you and best wishes for the coming New Year. Regards, HelenN.
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Thought y'all might get a kick out of these: THIRTY MINUTES TO A CLEANER HOUSE *laugh* I've actually *used* the hide everything in the oven trick. Warning: Do NOT do this with a Rubbermaid dish pan, especially if you are experiencing meno-fog and plan to do any baking. Preheat to 350 will melt Rubbermaid. LOL. Have you done this, too, Pat?  Lianne To reply by e-mail, remove seesig. from my address. No spam, no announcements, no commercial e-mail, no mailing lists.
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