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| Cash, Clean up and Goodwill
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Posted 1:17 PM on Sat-12-Jan-2013
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Exhausted and happy. That pretty such sums up how I feel right now. Miss 14 and Miss 12 arrive back in the wee small hours of Monday morning. I can't wait to see them! I have missed them so much! Its has been especially hard, as last night I recieved an email from Miss 12 that she really misses me... followed by lots of sad faces. Two more days to go!!! :) I have been especially busy these last few days. I ordered a skip bin, which arrived at the crack of dawn, yesterday morning. Thanks to my very kind little (ok younger but 6 foot tall) brother, The bulk of the rubbish was in the skip a few hours later, and all I have left to do is sort through and find any lighter
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| And the Clean Up Begins!
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Posted 10:20 AM on Thu-10-Jan-2013
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Im so determined to kick start this year off well. My 13 things for 2013 are going to happen if it kills me!! :P Yesterday I visited the Auckland Maritime Museum. It's something I have always wanted to do, but have never done. Check that off the bucket list. It's great too by the way. Well worth a look, and free for Auckland residents with proof of address. If you have some spare time, its well worth a look! Today I have another plan. Operation MAJOR spring (well summer) clean! My house is a disaterous mess. Being a reformed hoarder, and having lived with one for 10 years, means my house is full of crap that I don't need nor want. Time to get ruthless, and chuck it a
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| Finding Treasure
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Posted 9:36 PM on Sun-16-Dec-2012
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My major throw out is going well. By well, i should say im still sorting through things, but an extremely slow pace. Its such a busy time of the year, and with 4 more work days left, two kids to get ready for an international Jamboree, and a few more christmas parties to bake for, time is limited! I have sorted through a few more boxes. Found my old song sheets from when i was in the school choir. Oh the memories there! I found lots of school books. Lots of my notes etc from when I did 5th form cert... when the heck did I keep all that? I have no idea.A quick look over and into the bin they went. The best thing I found by far was an autograph book. It only contatins one claim
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| Pre Christmas Clean Up
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Posted 2:31 PM on Fri-14-Dec-2012
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I don't know about you guys, but at Christmas time, there seem to be a great deal of stuff that enters my house! I have presents hidden all over the show, and as I have three rather spoilt children, im expecting more things to enter the house on christmas day! "things" have taken over my house, and I feel like more things enter the door than exit it. I have lived here for nearly 11 years and haven't had a decent throw out since. There is something to be said about shifting... Its motivates a huge clean up. However, as it looks like I will be here for some time to come, i have decided to clean out as much stuff as I can before Christmas. There is one rubbish and
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| The Net
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Posted 9:22 AM on Tue-4-Dec-2012
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With smokey gusto, the school bus wombled passed. As it cleared the corner, the mother rubbed her eyes in disbelief at the monstrosity now apparent diagonally to her right. Not only was the two storied house in dire need of a paint job, it displayed net curtains. As if that wasn't bad enough, the net curtains in question were knotted. Knotted!I'm sure you'll get the drift from my half pie attempt at a suspense opening paragraph, I cannot stand net curtains! No offence to anyone who loves them, or just has them, or is thinking of buying some, to me net curtains are dusty, smelly, stiff, mold grabbers which yellow in the summer sun, and I have enough washing to do as it is.Some
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| The Teenage Bedroom
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Posted 9:21 PM on Fri-9-Nov-2012
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While my older girls were away last weekend I raided their bedrooms. Quite literally at one point too as I came across a huge amount of ants chowing into a slowly molding jam sandwhich! Teenagers are not known for their cleanliness, and with the guidence of Nigel Latta, and his politically incorrect guide to parenting teenagers, I have, with my girls, set guidelines for bedroom cleanliness.Basically we have agreed that bedrooms don't have to be perfect, but that we do need to be able to see the floor. Clean ups will have to be done now and again so vacuuming can be acheived, and washing is to be put out when dirty. all this to 'avoid' having to argue about messy room
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| Trying new things
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Posted 11:19 AM on Sat-20-Oct-2012
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You will not BELIEVE what I have been up to this morning. In fact, I think if anyone who knows me walked in on me, they'd be in complete and utter shock.Sorry to disappoint anyone who thought I've been up to something dodgy. I haven't. This morning I have been, hmmm now let me just try and remember what the correct word for it is........ ah yes, this morning, I have been ironing! IRONING! I just don't do ironing. Not hard, but not something I can be bothered with either unless we're going out for dinner or somewhere that requires looking uncrimpled.It's been a great chance for me too, to look closely at The Blokes t-shirts which he's had pretty much the who
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| I haven't vanished!
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Posted 9:15 AM on Fri-19-Oct-2012
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Has it really been a week since I wrote my last blog. I mean seriously? What have I been doing? Well, I'll tell you what I've been doing, I've been busy building the most massive pile of laundry known to man.I had it all under control there for a while. I'd wash it, dry it (usually in the drier), I'd fold it and put it where it needed to go. Then slowly old habits kicked back in and we're back to square one again.It's not a hard job is it? I mean, Pocket is pretty much able to fold up at least her t-shirts and she's not quite five yet. So why oh why, do I keep falling back in to this rut? I humored myself and told myself it was lack of storage. It'
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| House hunting
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Posted 8:31 PM on Wed-3-Oct-2012
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Yesterday we moved into our temporary home, our one sold quickly so we're renting until we find one or decide what to do. Our other one was lovely but not what we wanted right now. So hard to know what to do about houses, do we buy one quickly to save from wasting money renting and maybe sell it again if we find something better or wait until we find the perfect one, or will we never find the perfect one? We thought we had found the perfect house, 30 years old (not so perfect) with original bathrooms and toilets (not so perfect) but it was big and a huge sections and gorgeous garden, however after having a baby and business booming, we are left with a big house to care f
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| 50's housewife for the week
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Posted 10:32 AM on Sat-8-Sep-2012
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Occasionally I think of what it was like to be a 1950's era housewife, my profile picture made me think of it this morning and I often think it would be fun to be one for a few days, of course it would be with the easier modernised things of today like good ovens and irons! (have to iron hubby's suit for work lol) I would be wearing a dress with a apron and have the house perfectly tidy for 'Father' to get home from work, slippers and a drink would be ready... I dunno, what did they drink then? scotch on the rocks perhaps? and the pot roast would be nearly ready to eat and the table set with a vase of flowers and the best china. dessert would be jelly with a plate of
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