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A question for you wimmins......
Posted on 05/18/2009 7:22:39 AM PDT by LouAvul
......who clean your own homes. 
 How do you clean your baseboards? Crawl around with bucket and sponge or is there some other way? 
 (I'm a "house husband" and am not too good at this. I still don't do windows.)
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: cleaning; housework
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:22:40 AM PDT
by 
LouAvul
 
To: LouAvul
    guess we know who wears the pants and who wears the apron, hunh?
 
To: LouAvul
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:26:06 AM PDT
by 
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
 
To: LouAvul
    you can try the vacuum cleaner hose with the brush attachment. Or my personal favorite tool is the compressed air can - but my husband thinks i’m crazy
 
To: LouAvul
    Not a wimmin, but there is only one time tested way. 

 Now get busy ! :>
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:26:40 AM PDT
by 
libh8er
 
To: LouAvul
    Try Fly Lady. http://www.flylady.net/
lots of cleaning/ decluttering hints including a daily email to encourage you to organize.
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:27:52 AM PDT
by 
Dutchgirl
("Every Socialist is a disguised dictator." Ludwig Von Mises)
 
To: LouAvul
    Go here. It will tell you the how and what.
 http://www.improvingyourworld.com/home/tips_for_cleaning_baseboards_001592.html
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:28:00 AM PDT
by 
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..'     ~ Thomas Jefferson)
 
To: LouAvul
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:28:26 AM PDT
by 
Hatteras
 
To: LouAvul
    Uh, yup. Thing is, you only do one room at a time, when needed. If while you vaccuum or sweep (depending on what kind of floor covering you have) you dust them each time or at least once a week, with a dry towel, the vaccuum with the brush attachment on, or one of those feather dusters, you will find you don’t have to wash them alot (once or twice a year will suffice, depending on what you have running around in a particular room).
I also keep a can of the paint I used to touch up nicks and scuff marks when they happen. It takes only a minute or two and it really makes a difference.
There ain’t a thing in the world with being a house husband!
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:29:23 AM PDT
by 
wombtotomb
(ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT VS. LEFT, ITS ABOUT RIGHT VS. WRONG!)
 
To: LouAvul
    Tie dusters to the cat and sprinkle catnip along the baseboards.
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:29:44 AM PDT
by 
listenhillary
(Rahm Emmanuel slip  -  A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
 
To: LouAvul
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:30:20 AM PDT
by 
US_MilitaryRules
("We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots)
 
To: LouAvul
    REAL MEN clean baseboards. Men (or wimmen)with penis envy make fun of you for doing it.
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:30:28 AM PDT
by 
beefree
 
To: Hatteras
    Leaf blower works well. :)
 
To: LouAvul
    You can accomplish a lot with a electric leaf blower.
 
To: LouAvul
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:30:55 AM PDT
by 
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
 
To: LouAvul
    I’m a male who hates dirty winders so I wash them.
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:31:23 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
 
To: LouAvul
    "Baby come back, you can blame it all on me."
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:31:45 AM PDT
by 
CholeraJoe
(ATTN Loons: If I don't agree with your posts, a FReepmail won't change my mind!)
 
To: LouAvul
    I am trying to imagine what would happen if you posted this on DU or Daily KOS.
Libs would be torn between lavishing praise on you for your wife being out of the house, or hating you for asking women for cleaning advice. Their heads might explode (hey, you should try it!).
Cleaning advice: none.
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:33:01 AM PDT
by 
Never on my watch
(The scientist who would have discovered the cure to AIDS in the Amazon was aborted in January 1978)
 
To: CholeraJoe
    We’re not blaming it all on Bush anymore???LOL
 
To: LouAvul
    We’re supposed to clean the base boards?????
 
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posted on 
05/18/2009 7:36:14 AM PDT
by 
sevinufnine
(Sevin - "If we do not fight when we know we can win, we'll have to fight when we know we will lose")
 
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