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Post by mynicehome on Apr 24, 2015 20:22:11 GMT -5
What the heck happened to my quote?
I'll copy and paste what cyn said:
But now I'm wondering if that's part of the appeal to me, and that's why I wait until an area's so gosh-darn filthy before cleaning it. My normal fridge or a clean fridge doesn't look very different to me. A super-gross fridge, with gravy stuck to the door and butter smeared on the shelf, with huge sticky juice rings on the shelves...LMAO, now *that* looks fabulous when it's clean. Funny but true.
Apply to above.
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Post by openwindows on Apr 29, 2015 15:01:26 GMT -5
Today's ick has been picked and cleaned. The washing machine's fabric softener dispenser. Nasty!
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Post by sue5000 on Apr 29, 2015 15:58:05 GMT -5
Cleaned all the chrome on my bicycle with chrome cleaner/polish. Looks much better!
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Post by aquamarine on Sept 12, 2015 1:14:48 GMT -5
I do regular maintenance so do not have any horrors in my fridge or black spots, but I had an unexpected 'ick' recently.
I decided to get in bed early and read, with a treat of a cup of fruit tea and a 'finger' of a new chocolate I had discovered. I settled in, then when I wanted the chocolate I couldn't find it. It had not fallen from the bedside table onto the floor... I decided that I must have left it in my kitchen. No sign of it, so I got another one. The next morning when I got out of bed, I discovered that my pajamas and sheets were covered in melted chocolate! The wrapper was squashed flat. I do not know how the chocolate managed to fall inside my bed. I must have been wallowing in it all night!
I dealt with everything immediately and have washed the bed stuff.
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Post by Blackswan on Sept 12, 2015 1:41:55 GMT -5
I've never read this thread but definitely want to join in! I am seeing so much I can relate to already including being freaked out over a dead mouse and the gratefulness of discovering it's only lint in my case! I have several Icks to pick from when I go home tomorrow, I choose the kitchen sink like fly lady would want, it's full of bottles my roommate left literally a month ago. Yes my house is frozen in time from the demand resistance surge . I just wanted to say I was in sober living and asked to sweep outside and then to wash bird poop off the front walkway with a bucket and scrubber and I was asking the lady in charge: do REAL people DO this in REAL life? cause I couldn't imagine anybody caring about maybe ten splotches of bird poop along a standard street to house stone tile walkway. So I'm getting that pick an ick is for those sort of things that build up overtime but are easier to not think of, like the window buildups mentioned. I like keeping pick an ick in mind and here on our site to remind me about the hidden (to me in denial/ignorance Icks. Like washing outside windows! Have you ever?!? apparently people do and it's a part of normal house maintainance but I was unaware. Now I can read each and every ick here and say oh.... I should pick that ick too and beautify my castle! Thanks ladies! I can't wait to do the sink and be DONE! I would do it now if I were at home or had a car.
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Post by nifty50 on Sept 12, 2015 7:35:06 GMT -5
"I just wanted to say I was in sober living and asked to sweep outside and then to wash bird poop off the front walkway with a bucket and scrubber and I was asking the lady in charge: do REAL people DO this in REAL life? cause I couldn't imagine anybody caring about maybe ten splotches of bird poop along a standard street to house stone tile walkway." (Sorry, I can't do a proper quote box from my phone) Blackswan, we had to do this at a daycare I once worked at, and I remember thinking it was not a familiar task for me because I lived out in the country at the time -- I'd cleaned it off my car at the carwash, but I'd never had a sidewalk or walkway to worry about! It *is* an ick for me because it usually won't just hose off!
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Post by nifty50 on Sept 12, 2015 7:39:46 GMT -5
And as for windows, yeah, I guess that's where the saying came from, "I don't do windows!" For sure most of our downtown businesses don't do them themselves; there's a guy that makes a pretty good living doing the outsides of the windows with a big squeegy thing. He goes up and down the block, getting all the windows sparkly clean! He's picked one thing that he's good at, and he does it really well.
Speaking of windows, I'm trying to decide whether to leave ours open today. It's the first really nice cool day for a while, but they're resurfacing the road outside, and I'm not sure I want everything inside to smell like asphalt!
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