Stuology

Summary of our dishwasher saga, which has been broken for months: The dishwasher starts fine, pumping out all water, but when it comes time to start the wash cycle, it quits, gives an error code, and pumps no water in. The dishwasher is out of warranty, so we called around some local placed to get [...]

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I got my Valentine’s Day present. Yesterday. One of our shower heads* has been half broken, and when I took a shower on Sunday, something snapped and it became three-fourths broken and the fourth that was still working was doing so at about half capacity. On my way out of that sad shower, I mentioned [...]

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Both upstairs bathrooms have been cleaned. Laundry is caught up. My make-up drawer is clean. The kitchen is/was clean*. The big project, the kid’s playroom downstairs, was cleaned/re-organized. I’ve added four more Itso bins to the existing set-up. The kid and I went through the toys and designated 1.5 bags to get rid of. Then [...]

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I didn’t even touch underneath the stairs. Mac went through his closet clothes and his stored summer clothes. I went through the kids’ dresser drawers and closet, my closet clothes, the kid’s clothes that were stored from last year, a box of size 6 clothes that we got as hand-me downs that now fit Ada, [...]

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So far I’ve gone through closets, and most of that stuff I’m taking to charity rather than offering up a new home. I will update this post if I find more goods under the stairs. Stainless steel GE blender with glass container Tea length flower girl dress. This is a size 4. Fun play dress [...]

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It is that time of year, and while I’m not doing a complete house cleaning like I need to do, I am doing a Great Purging of Stuff. It is that time of year where I swap out clothes in the closet to pack away most of fall/winter and bring out spring/summer. It involves seeing [...]

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I had spinach. I had bacon. I had eggs. I wanted to make some kind of casserole. I though about beating the eggs, mixing with cream, bacon and spinach, whipping some egg whites, folding it in and baking. Then I got distracted while browsing and found this: Baked Eggs with Bacon and Spinach. AKA, A [...]

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I had a good weekend, but the longest I’ve been home and not asleep has been for about 1.5 hours. No cooking has been done for next week. No cleaning got done for next week. Lots and lots of shopping did get done. I saw Tron, and it was a birthday present for my eyes. [...]

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Thanks to Harold, who is making one to replace dressers, I want to make a couple of these laundry basket dressers for laundry. We have a three-bin separator in our bedroom closet for our clothes, but for kid clothes, cleaning towels, table clothes and other various things, they end up in the hallway. We have [...]

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The shelves that we hung up for books was getting a little too many books. Ada and I figured that out today when we were picking up their room and it tore off the wall, spilling books all over the floor. Books that we had just picked up. Luckily neither of us were standing underneath [...]

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