This is a guestbook about housework, suburbia and baked goods. It is reserved for comments about daily life. About ironing, and vacuum cleaner filters, and children in supermarkets, and dusting, polishing, weeding, and shower curtain maintenance. Things like that.

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I recently got a freezer. My cousin asked "Why did you get a freezer?" I said "Well, it says in the bible that it is better to live on the roof of your house than inside with a nagging wife" She did not understand. My aunty did, however. This aunty is very experienced in the ways of married of life. My cousin then proceeded to discuss my rather small fridge with me. She knew amazing details, from the cfc reduction to the space and design. I was impressed. She has seen it once. My relatives have clearly been discussing my fridge. I was not sure how to take this. I have decided it is a sure sign that A/ they care and B/ they were trying desperately to avoid the many very interesting topics for gossip that my family has to offer.

Thanks for being the first to use my guest book service! And while I'm at it, my house mate wanted me to ask: "Does anyone know how to get stains out of the armpits of undershirts?" I suggested just buying new ones...but of course that can get pricey!

Remember when trying to get a pee stain out of carpet, to dab a little vinegar on the spot where your niece left her mark!

My favorite type of cookies are Snickerdoodles - If you would like the recipe, go ahead and email me.

Some times you wonder why you keep them around.. I work 40 hours a week, and that wonderful man in my life expects me to cleen up around him.. and take care of the child.. I clean sparingly, live extravegantly, and clean up all the little messes he makes with clorox with bleach. Including those little stains in his underware and under the arms..When he's good I cook..When he's bad I make him take me out to dinner.. When he annoy's me, I make him cook..and when he get's me soo mad I can't see straight..I make his best freind cook for us..and exclaim how wonderful it is...

First let me say that housework stinks. Second leave a toddler unattended and he will flush everthing he can get his hands on down the loo. Third somehow a toddler knows to save his best mischief for when he is home alone with dad.

favorite type of biscuit(cookie): Orange Milanos

Is there some trick to remembering to "keep up" with the housework? I never think about those little routine cleaning chores. I'm totally oblivious to the piles of laundry on the floor until I go to the closet and discover there is nothing to wear. I never notice the dirty dishes until the sink is so full you can't get a drink of water. It's not that I hate housework, it just never occurs to me that I should dust today. Unless I can't find my winter boots because they are buried under 6 months of dust bunnies.

I once bought a book called "Sidetracked Home Executives" ( or something like that) in an effort to bring order to my disordered home. Well, the system involved buying a card file and making all these little cards with EVERY chore of housekeeping listed. We're talking... wash the inside of the dishwasher, dust the tops of picture frames, sort the junk drawer... along with the usual laundry and toliet bowl cleaning. Just thinking about all of it brought me to a complete halt. I mean, why have a junk drawer if it can't be full of junk? So I've now accepted the fact that I like to read or play games on the Internet or write down my dreams or take a walk rather than "keep house."

My favorite cookie is a tie between raw chocolate chip cookie dough and those peanut butter cookies with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle.

My mom says that the women in our family have no housekeeping genes. I'm cool with that. But I do have a household hint, or actually two. If you own ferrets, you can blame the messy house on them, and people just nod knowingly. The other hint is that Windex or other ammonia based cleaners work well to remove urine stains from hardwood floors. So my over all tip for avoiding housework is to buy ferrets and stock up on Windex.

my favorite boughten cookie is Girl Scout Thin Mints, my favorite homemade is Scottish shortbread. Baking doesn't count as housework because you make a big mess while doing it.

I feel neglected. I'm not a housewife (although I am big and scary), but I still enjoyed your page. Could it be that you're anti-young-person-not-staying-at-home-long-enough-to-warrant-cleaning-the-house? Who cares! I loved your page, especially the Internet Poem.

By the way, my favorite biscuit(cookie)is the plain old sugar cookie.

I once read a great quote from Phyllis Diller. She said "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." And as many of you moms dealing with kids knows, it never ever ever stops snowing!!!! The task of keeping my home neat and tidy is especially difficult for me. I have a 3 year old son, a 2 year old son and a 1 year old daughter. Not to mention a wonderful husband who loves a clean house.

My favorite cookie is the delicatable Snickerdoodle. I also love any cookie that comes straight out of the package.

As I was saying - Today is New Years Day 1997 and I was cleaning the oven! I just wondered if I needed
A. Help? B. A Medal? C. A life?
Regards Cazzy

The best thing I ever purchased was a candy thermometer I now know how to make the best fudge in all of Southern Wisconsin

My favorite cookies are Homemade Chocolate Chip straight from the oven.

Tip for frying chicken (or shrimp or whatever): Drain cooked pieces on large paper grocery bag instead of paper towels. Food will stay crisper (paper towels tend to create a steaming effect).

This is the 90's housewife: noncustodial parent, 2 kids living with exes across the country. Every week I grocery shop, bake cookies and mail packages, burning up the internet with email to my loved ones, and paying exorbitant fees for the 800# which ensures that Mummy Will Always Be There. Ohmygod! I better get a beeper so they can reach me during business trips!!!! Excuse me ladies.

I think this must be the greatest guest book I have ever seen on the net: How absolutely useful!

My favourite cookie is a Swedish(of course!) one with raisins and oats.

Right now I am ignoring the trash in my bathroom , and if someone else does not notice and take it out, I will have a fit. So far it is unnoticed for weeks. I am thinking about putting a counter on my page to keep track of the passing days. Am I the only person who can see the trash? Is it my job to take out the trash just because i lost the contest of who can ignore the housework the longest? I live with two adults.

My favorite cookies are either banana sandwich with chocolate cream filling or Fig Newtons. But I like cakes best. I have enjoyed this page very much. Thankyou.

ya right

I am getting tired of the boys leaving their dirty clothes on the floor- they mix them up with the clean ones, and the only way to tell if they are clean is to smell them....Dirty boxers especially bug me! I hate housework, hate cooking, hate cleaning, hate going to the grocery store. I love to complain, love to work on my puter, and love to watch my boys play baseball. I also love a good homemade chocolate chip cookie!

regarding housework...i hate it. anyone know an EFFECTIVE window cleaner that can remove hard water stains that have been baked on by the NM sun??? Or do i need to buy new windows??

fav cookie: choc chip oatmeal..YUMMMM!!!!

Well, here it is, Saturday....the day I mobilize the kids to help clean so 'we can all enjoy the weekend'. First request...lets clear up these toys, books, etc in the public areas (est. time to complete: 10 minutes). What ensues is 25 minutes of argument over whose stuff each item is, frequent earsplitting howls of "its not FAIR", and scrutiny that would do an IRS agent proud to make SURE they don't actually pick up MORE than the other one. End result: I think one item was actually picked up, but I am not sure I should count that, as it was only so that it could be thrown at the seven year old.
Next theoretical project on the list is to fold clothes. The 15 year old threatened to murder anyone who TOUCHED her stuff..the 11 year old wanted to know why this couldn't wait until later (I presume she means later as in "After I've gone to bed, so I don't have to do it), the 7 year old - in all seriousness - declared that it would be easier to just put the pile back in to be washed again, so they wouldn't HAVE to fold, and they ALL thought it was unfair that they should fold THEIR things but the 3 year old didn't have to. I am now looking into whether there are any nudist boarding schools to send them to.
Now, they are outside playing...I think those shrieks I hear are the sounds of playing...maybe....
And here I am, browsing and editing my page, and it occurs to me why there are so MANY of us wives and mothers creating homes on the web. When we clean it up, it STAYS that way, until the next time WE put something there. And if folks get to rowdy in the guestbooks....we can delete 'em. ;)

Oops...almost forgot...favorite cookie? Any kind served up to me by a gorgeous hunk while I loll on some beach in Tahiti...

hmmm- i usually mix up tide and water for stains- haven't delt with the underarm stains yet--oh joy--i can't wait. love your homepage...still working on mine..grumble...... chin up!- grin- we all know it never ends- and hardly takes a time-out when we blink-i just stop and drink more coffee! favorite cookies or bisquit-hmmmmmm- does the sweet short- bread under the strawberries count- my mom made sweet, crumbly ones-- if they were dry enough for strawberries- good thrown in the microwave with butter other than that!

What a homepage! After fifteen years of marriage, many many moves and jobs and farming and disasters and more moves and disasters, it was a lot of fun to read through the comments of other visitors on the guestpage. I'm big and scary, and I guess I count as a housewife, though my opinion of housework is that it's for the birds. After, other members of the family mess things up just as much, if not more than I do, but they merrily walk on the floor-lying items. I'm not a retentive type, but the hubby is extremely expulsive, and a dear person who leaves a trail of catastrophe everywhere. We keep it sanitary enough to live in--I am in terror of inspiring memories in my son like some I have of my mother--someone who I remember always scrubbing the kitchen sink, dishes, clothes, toilets, blah, blah, blah. I never met anyone who says "I sure remember how Mom could clean a toilet!" So I homeschool my son, and try to write novels, and live below the poverty level at the moment (oh,

Favorite cookie? Well, they are these obscenely gooey, sinful things made with chocolate chips and caramels and a commercial cake mix, but we don't make them much any more, since our son's diabetes was diagnosed. If you want the recipe, e-mail and I'll try to dig it out of whatever pile it's presently residing in . . .

Wow I have spent hours net surfing for a page such as this.I am a "mom" or "mum" as we say here in NZ of 5 little and not so little darlings. As I have always maintained to my husband "I am a mother not a housewife!" So the house work that does get done is where and when I feel inclined and I can fit it in with the fun mothering type things. I'm currently working on a homepage - which at times is almost as bad as cleaning the toilet!

Favourite biscuit would have to be Anzac biscuit - a NZ concoction - email me for a recipe.

Shower curtains!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEK I have decided my shower recess does not need a shower curtain! very simple. Very effective. No mould.

I also use a document basket thing in the cutlery drawer. I have a life. Sorting cutlery into little compartments is not part of my life. (forks here, knife there, and the little oodgeywotsit that squeezes the teabags over there... I can see how comforting that must be.. for childless men..maybe!)

Windows
I have a cheap little paint scraper, the kind designed to get paint off glass. I find that with water it also gets rid of yucky baked on window stains.

Grouting
Is quite easy to do and I found it revived my kitchen tiles beautifully. Now I just have to paint the kitchen cupboard doors.

Housework
A cleaner once a week, or even once a fortnight, for two hours can achieve miracles. If you cant afford it try barter with friends or LETS (Local exchange trading system) or employ yourself. I have done all of these.

Toys
I have been known to throw away toys if my children misuse them. This included the tomato sauce that they painted the kitchen with. (Yes, the cupboards need painting, but...). I have thrown away several "toy" toys.
The first toy I discarded was a plastic sword which was regularly held high and charged around the house by my screaming three year old. He also found it handy for donging his baby brother on the head. End of sword.
My lad was required to demonstrate that he was a civilised enough little boy who to own a light up ninja sword. He was so good it hurt him . I eventually rebought that nasty violent toy. He treaures it. We keep it at his grandma's house.

biscuits
Chocolate fudge brownies. I blame continual "My Favourite Martian" repeats on the telly when I was a child.

I can't say that cleaning up behind my family constantly could be listed as one of my favourite past-times, and so pleased to find I'm in good company. However, when it comes to our bathroom during the usual early morning madness... there is one thing that gets up my nose. It is not the towels dropped on the floor, but those dripping wet flannels (facecloths) that no-one seems to know what to do with after they have so-called washed honey and other baked on gunk, off their faces. Any suggestions?

By the way my favourite cookie is a mean caramel chocolate chippie square I make...it doesn't last long around here, unlike the soggy flannels.

always put the plug in when you are going to have a bath...the cost o' hot water is no joke.........can i have some more cookies now please..............wizzzzzzzzzzzz
OH...and we guys hav to put the seat DOWN!!!!

Favorite cookie: chocolate chip.

Household hint: trying to keep a house clean with two autistic kids in the house is a never-ending chore. They are fascinated by liquids, and LOVE to pour out drinks, liquid detergents, etc.

If we lived outside would we vacuum the ground? Chocolate chip cookies rule.