Cleaning Time

“Parent's just called and said they were coming up for the weekend. Time to do some major cleaning! Also I gotta hide all the things that I don't want them to see. Fun fun!”

“Dangit! I just did a quick sweep of the house...the kitchen is a mess and the roommate that was supposed to clean it yesterday went home this weekend. So where to start...my room or the kitchen?”

“You scared me! I thought we were going to have to clean up these threads.
(Wipes sweat off his brow brow and calls, Nigal, you can come out now.)”

“Nowslimmer, you should know me better than that! I would never say something like "clean up the threads, there are little kids here!" Leave such statements to the other board.”

“Kitchen first, absolutely!”

“All ya got to do is get some good old fasioned cabin fever !! I about scrubbed the paint off these walls in the last few days! I dont think this place has ever been this clean!! LOL”

“I figured I should clean my room first, so when they saw it was spotless I could claim that the roommates kept the rest of the house dirty, like the kitchen. So I made some HUGE progress in my room. Removed 3 full trash bags so far. Took a bunch of stuff downstairs to prepare for eBay. The sad thing is I'm about half done after 3 hours when my parents busted in. I think I'm gonna stay up tonight until it's done. It's kinda nice having a clean room. Next thing I need is a new set of sheets and comforter to match the room.”

“I'm cleaning house for a birthday party tommorrow...mostly family but they're the most critical. cleaning is my all-time-least-favorite job.
I've got the equivilent of messy roommates: three young boys who don't know how to pickup after themselves :(”

“My house was so dirty, for Christmas my parents bought me an air filter as my big gift. I just hooked it up tonight before they came up, lol. Kinda noisey, I think I'll leave it on in the summer when the windows are open and stuff.”

“You won't smell so bad if you take a shower, occasionally. When parents come to visit you have to stop pretending you backpacking.”

“It must be house cleaning weekend. It's on my list, too. Been gone alot of weekends and have NO energy left after work and the gym during the week, so NOTHING is getting done around here. Taking the truck in for service in the morning, looking for new apartment, cleaning this apartment, maybe have time to upload to Webshots (dial up is a pain) and will hopefully have enough time to sit down and watch the Superbowl!”

“bacpac, i see you're new moniker is chicagomark

i'm still cleaning...really wish i took a before and after photo.”

“the worst is when you have a rain forrest growing in your bath tub. Nothing scrubby bubbles can't take care of...”

“Yeah, my bathtub is pretty gross, so is my sink...but the toilet is pretty clean. I can't stand a really dirty toilet.”

“Sure, it makes sense that the area where you dirty yourself be very clean, while the area where you clean yourself is dirty.”

“So I stay up way into the night cleaning and what do they do...wake me up at 11am to clean.”

“Chicagomark is NOT bacpac.”

“What treebait said.

I went public with my name change.”

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"I went public with my name change."
ChicagoMark

That's not good enough. Your new name has to be initiated. You troll, you!

How do we know you haven't been bacpac all the time!




LOL.”

“ChicagoMark is our ole buddy stumprider.”

“was the cleaning a success?”

“Nope...still cleaning! Well, kinda. I made a huge dent but I have some more clothes to put up, my nightstand to clean, and my desk needs a few hours.”

“Cleaning your gear after two weeks of backpacking is a major pain in the ass.”

“Heres an idea....Ship your gear to me (email me for my addy) and I'll clean it for you! Free of charge :D”

“You'll keep it free of charge I bet.


It's a good thing Leslee's in Reno, I pretty much just destroyed our bathroom, now that my gear is clean I'll have to do a major bathroom cleaning.”

“Moi? I'm innocent :)”

“i know what you mean...i've got a rain coat that was clear when i bought it now it's an opaque shade of green”

“I hear ya Bison! I try to get to gear clean up as soon as I get home, but that rarely happens because all I want to do is sit down and drink a beer.”

“Gear comes first! FORSHAME!”

“The backyard is now full of drying gear draped over lawn chairs, getting it all clean was about a three hour job.”

“next time you know where to send it :)”

“
Ammonia!     Ammonia!     Ammonia!
Get off!     Get off!     Get off!

Mason Williams
1964

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"To clean windows, spray with half vinegar, half water. Wipe clean with either newspapers or cloth."

Yep, that's what I used to wash the windows for my mother, while I was in high school.”

“Went into cleaning mode today, (really yesterday if I think about it), started with laundry........................................... thought about cleaning this one corner of my bedroom and worked on that for a long while, found pennies, dimes, nickels, a dollar bill folded up in a store reciept.......................................... pulled more laundry off of the top of my dresser, put some clean socks away and realized that my shot glass of silver coins had fallen off my little shelf over my dressers........................................ started cleaning up underneath the dressers.................................. found even more pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, lots of legos........................................... found all the silver dimes and the mercury dime, but I found only two out of the four silver quarters :( .................................................... got all the junk out from underneath and vaccuum............................... decide to clean off top of dressers to see if silver quarters fell there................................................. take two books up and prepare to put them away, one of the books has something in it............................................... it's a note from my sister with a check for $225 which she wrote back in March 2006 just days before I went into the hospital, now I know the check is no good, but get this, it's wrapped around 4 $50 dollar bills!

Yeah, my sister gave me $200 cash that's been sitting in a book on the top of my dresser for almost two years now!!! Isn't that amazing! And I was already feeling rich from pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and the folded dollar, LOL! She gave me this money because I'm the one who bought the airplane tickets online when our Grandpa died. I called her up to tell her I found that check she was asking about. So funny, when she asked me about that in 2006, I said that I had cashed the check because there was a similar deposit in the bank and I thought that was it. Hospital sent me home with some good drugs. We had a very good laugh over this. I promised her I would not try to cash it, ROFL! And she promised to reissue it when her tax refund comes in.

Meanwhile, I think I shall go down to REI tomorrow and look over the climbing harnesses, afterall I used my savings to pay for those tickets. The rest of the money will go to food and fuel and whatever else comes up of course.

Oh, and I ordered Girl Scout Cookies from my neice since I was already on the phone, have you guys been hit up yet? Don't forget Operation Thin Mint Ok?
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“Looks like it is time for Dub's bi-annual cleaning.”

“not married, eh? yeah, two years'd be about right. you can mold the dust into actual bunnies by then.”

“dibs on the legos!”

“isn't anyone going to say anything about how amazing it is that i found $425 dollars?!! more if you count all the change i found.

today is even sweeter, i picked up a high school day, so that's another chunk of change i'll see next month. God is good!”

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      ka-CHING!

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“Life is good, God is great! I used the money I found last night to get my climbing gear.
:)”