Never again (housework rant)
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Topic: Never again (housework rant)
Posted By: ginger
Subject: Never again (housework rant)
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 11:30am
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I have spent almost an entire morning trying to clean the blinds in my kitchen. You know how surfaces in the kitchen get the sticky yellowish film on them? I'd finally got sick of the blinds and decided to tackle them.
3 hours later, I have blinds which are dirtier than when I started, half of them are broken, including the blimmin stick that turns them, and I'm covered in cuts from the stupid things! I *didn't* take into account how old they may be before I started, and how brittle old plasic gets (and how sharp it is when it breaks). So, I've thrown a tantrum, left the blimmin things as they are, and I don't care if they look hideous. Ooooohhh ... I'm so glad there is chocolate in the house at the moment!!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 11:36am
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Good excuse to buy more blinds??? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 11:49am
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New blinds aren't cheap. We're replacing our rotten roller blinds in our kitchen - and one blind for one window is $300.
You can get one of those blind cleaning gadgets from the Homecare catalogue - I can recommend them. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 12:20pm
| Blinds aren't actually too bad if you have a VIP card and get them from spotlight when they are special hehe |
Posted By: sally belly
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 12:47pm
LOL Ginger, I can just imagine throwing a tantrum too except I would've gone a step further & ripped them off the window 
We got some wooden blinds for our kitchen from Spotlight too when they were on sale & they were a pretty good price from memory. Of course your windows do need to be a "standard" size for this to work. Go the chocolate. You've just reminded me I have some in the cupboard... -------------    
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 1:21pm
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[QUOTE=sally belly] LOL Ginger, I can just imagine throwing a tantrum too except I would've gone a step further & ripped them off the window
[QUOTE] and i would of also thrown them across the room - some how it would make me feel better LOL  ------------- Ann 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 1:31pm
I decided that I'd get them back by cleaning other things in the kitchen so that they'd feel bad being the only crappy dirty thing  My cutlery drawer, fridge, kitchen cupboards, skirtings and microwave are still feeling a bit shocked, but it looks good! 
(Yesterday was the pantry - cleaned from top to bottom, including the light shade! I can't seem to stop cleaning at the moment - the whole of last Sunday was spent emptying and sorting cupboards and wardrobes and cleaning the life out of them as well ... Oooo and the bed was pulled out, the walls behind the bed dusted and the floor vacuumed to within an inch of its life!  )
And believe me, if I'd been able to work out how to get the blimmin things off the wall, they'd have been thrown a lot further than across the room! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 1:37pm
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What is it about spring? I've been cleaning and tidying like crazy too!
I hear ya on the blinds, Ginger, when I was a teen I once decided to clean the blinds in my room and boy I wished I had left them alone. How miserable! I don't think they were ever supposed to be cleaned. -------------  |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 1:48pm
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I did the same too, a full house clean, skirtings, kitchen, bathroom, kids beds the other day.. then went off to work for the afternoon - boy i was tired.
Our kitchen blinds need doing too, but after reading this, I'll let mike do it. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 1:58pm
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we must be all 'spring' cleaning LOL.. think its when the weather gets a bit warmer you feel a bit more motivated. ------------- Ann
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 6:33pm
i have a big house you could come clean ginger...anytime you run out of cleaning this house is just waiting for someone like YOU!
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 8:22pm
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I decided to exit mould the blinds in our bathroom and it ate the paint off them!!!! OOOOPS
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 10 September 2007 at 7:26pm
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Me too Ann. Yay for the choc in the house Ginger ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
AnnC wrote:Posted By: LILI
Date Posted: 15 May 2012 at 10:51pm
| may be you can try paper blinds.They are cheap and if you do not like,just throw it away! |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 10:05am
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Ya know what? I think LILI might be selling paper blinds... -------------   
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 10:10am
I think you might be right Hopes I am surprised that there isn't a link to a cool website she just 'happened' to find  -------------   
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Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 12:59pm
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Hold on Hopes and jaycee, here's one
http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29538&KW=LILI - link looks like LILI spent yesterday finding and posting in old blinds/curtain threads ------------- 
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Posted By: sem
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 1:02pm
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I'm sure she'll get heaps of business from here, being located in China and all ------------- Here we go again, another baby on it's way! 
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Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 1:59pm
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So funny, wondered why a thread from 2007 was bumped up! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Lucky apple
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 2:05pm
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 2:19pm
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I came to look cause I though Wow Ginger is back here posting lol ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 2:19pm
Hahaha - too funny  -------------
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 6:03pm
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Lol, I was wondering why on earth someone was posting about curtains after it was so long ago!
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