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Post by messymimi on Apr 15, 2010 8:08:54 GMT -5
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Author Unknown
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Apr 16, 2010 0:22:39 GMT -5
"My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.” -- Dottie ArchibaldWhat if you don't have a spouse to blame things on? I guess you could always resort to children, roommates, or pets . . . ----------------------------------------- MM, wouldn't it be wonderful if "sweeping the room with a glance" actually worked? I'd have the cleanest floors in the history of mankind. That Ann Landers quote is all too true for me, bluefrog. When it comes to packing up or sorting thru books, magazines, or any other printed material that might be remotely interesting, I am last person you want to ask for help. (If you actually want to get the job completed, I mean.)
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Post by messymimi on Apr 16, 2010 13:11:28 GMT -5
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. ~Dave Barry
Dragon, it is true, neither of us does it!
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Post by Mess Lyby on Apr 16, 2010 13:26:24 GMT -5
A long time ago I saw a Shoe cartoon where the eagle was sitting at his rolltop desk piled mountainously high with papers and the line, "I'm not afraid of falling down in my work, but I am afraid of my work falling down on me."
I'm sure my yellowed newsprint copy is "saved" somewhere in a box, file folder, purse, etc. That is probably piled precariously high over somewhere I sit. When I find it, I will trade the paper copy in for an electronic version (I can tolerate excessive jpeg files) and put it on my desktop.
I'm convinced that the "notes" element of Microsoft Outlook was created by a clutterer who had the goal on their annual performance review at work to straighten up their desk area.....now I have a pile of sticky notes of things I need to put on "notes" when I have time. Another clutterer finds a way around the organizational device.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Apr 17, 2010 0:11:15 GMT -5
"You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate." -- AnonymousSo does that mean if I can still procrastinate, I'll never get old? Wow, I'm gonna live forever. Thanks to MiSC for today's quote!------------------------------- Oh my, MM, as someone who has spent most of their life in corporate America, I can say your hilarious Dave Barry quote is all too true. I once had a boss that acted as if he deserved a gold star, a pat on the head, and a cookie if he got up to get his own coffee. Heaven only knows how he would've acted if he had ever actually cleaned something. (Or, for that matter, did anything else. ) Mess Lyby, that "Shoe" cartoon is great! If I can ever find it, I'm going to frame it and put it over my obnoxiously cluttered desk (which has experienced an office supply avalanche more than once). If you find any more funny comics or quotes on clutter in your precarious files, I hope you'll share them with the rest of us.
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Apr 17, 2010 4:11:39 GMT -5
I used to years ago have a cartoon that you reminded me of...it was Doonsbury and it was Duke the drug addict standing there with Zonker who was saying something about LSD or something and Duke in next frame looked all glassy eyed at Zonker who now looked like a lizard and Duke says "this is rediculous! Why am I arguing with a lizard?"
You had to get the humor of the LSD deluded Duke but for me it hit home within an inch of my heart.....hugs btt
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Apr 17, 2010 9:37:15 GMT -5
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "we screwed up but we had fun!" I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer you get to the end the faster it goes. The Lord didn't do everything in one day what make me think I can? the less time I have to work the more that I get done. hugs btt
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Post by messymimi on Apr 17, 2010 9:47:36 GMT -5
The Almighty put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind, I will never die! ~ Anon.
I'm really enjoying this thread.
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Post by MiSC on Apr 17, 2010 9:57:51 GMT -5
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer you get to the end the faster it goes. ...and the more precious it becomes...
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Apr 17, 2010 14:18:30 GMT -5
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer you get to the end the faster it goes. ...and the more precious it becomes... yes MiSC you added a gr8 point to that one...it does become precious every day we live.... I have sleep apnea and sometimes I awaken with a start feeling that I just died....I tell you what it is nice to suck air again and know I am still alive! I cannot describe the feeling well enough but fear strikes hard when I wake up thinking I am dead and is gone the second I suck air again! hugs btt
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Apr 18, 2010 0:17:23 GMT -5
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" -- Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)All this time I thought I was simply avoiding housework, but I was really just being safe. ------------------------------------------------------- Marvelous collection of quotes, BTT. And I actually remember that "Doonesbury" strip! I was really young, but my favorite neighbor was in college and read "Doonesbury" every day. I wanted to be just like her, so I read it too, even though I didn't understand it most of the time. The "arguing with a lizard" strip was one of her favorites. I had no idea what it meant, but I thought the lizard was funny. (It obviously became much funnier as I got older.) MM, my mom has that quote hanging in her (spotless) kitchen. The irony is she's never been behind in her life. And I'm so glad you're enjoying this thread! It's been great to read your quotes each day. (I'm still loving that Joan Rivers quote about linoleum.) MiSC, amen to life becoming more precious. Well said.
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Post by messymimi on Apr 18, 2010 10:05:25 GMT -5
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce, I keep the house. ~ ZhaZha Gabor
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Apr 18, 2010 11:50:39 GMT -5
yes mm I have heard that as a man if your thinking of getting married just buy her and house and be done with it! Hugs btt
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Post by eagle on Apr 18, 2010 13:34:00 GMT -5
Or, in some cases, when a woman thinks of marriage, get a pre-nup so she can protect her financial assets, including the house she paid for with her own money.
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Post by eagle on Apr 18, 2010 13:34:59 GMT -5
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Author Unknown
messymimi I like this one. I just recently chose to sweep the linen closet with a glance.
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