Housekeeping Tips For Senior Men Living Alone

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  1. Marie Mallery

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    I have put my intestines back inside my stomah after C Section when I snatched up a kid to find the other one in 1970.Then took a bus to hospital with newborn ,a year old and a wild 2 year old the bus deiver almost ran over at the curb I had her on a child lease but she didn't enter the bus.
    5 years ago I dislocated and broke two of my toes.
    I was in pain and reached for reset and knock back into place and hubby said don't do it!:eek:I grabbed one an pulled till bones went back in place then the other and I screamed and hubby and cats and dog ran then I socked them back into place and screamed again. Hubby came in and ask if I was still concious,lol.
    My whole foot turned black so I went to ER hubby told dr what I did and he looked at xray laughed and said'she did a great job' but suggested next time come to er.
    You'd be amazed at what you can do if you have to.
     
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    C’mon Faye. Everyone knows that the only time a man uses a steel brush is for stripping paint and rust and removing the nicotine stains in his drawers. Unless of course, it has a nice long handle which makes it handy for scratching one’s back
     
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    Why wash the dishes? Put them on the floor and let the dog at them.
     
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    Good Lord are you sadist ?I am all for saving a buck but i have my limits.:eek:
     
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    No it more fear knowing they would do the same thing I did only maybe a shot too. 10 of us kids [mama had 3 aunt had 7] raised half time in the city other half country pain is just a part of life at times. Nothing to do with money we have and had good insurance.
     
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    Faye I would probably have to knock you out to set yours,huh?JK
     
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    use paper plates.....
     
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  8. Dwight Ward

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    Use rubbing compound, available at any auto parts store, to remove those stains on the inside of the oven door glass. These are baked on at 500 degrees and Windex won't touch them. Regular glass might be fogged by rubbing compound but the glass in the oven door is tempered and hardened and will take the polishing. Don't use a machine but do it by hand and start with a corner just to be sure you're doing no damage. You'll be surprised at how well the glass cleans up. You can once again see what you're cooking.
     
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    Or use a razor blade with the holder that window cleaners use to scrap off calcium and keeping the blade level horizontally, but at an angle (20-45 degrees) vertically, peel it off. Use lightly soaped water (hand wash dish soap) and clean up the scrapings and any grease, then buff up shiny with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. A lot less work and no chance of scratching. I use it on my oven door window and ceramic stovetop in the event I have a boilover and the burner bakes on the spill.
     
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  10. Dwight Ward

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    Good ideas. I've done the same with a single edge razor blade scraper on the glass but finished up with the rubbing compound. I haven't gone after the enameled parts of the door. That scraper stays in my carpenter's box. It's indispensable in remodeling.
     
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    I wouldn't advise using a razor blade on the enamel part of the door. I clean that with oven cleaner.
     
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    Just found another use for Clorox Gel bleach for toilets. Clean bath tubs good :rolleyes:
     
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    Whenever I've moved into a new place I check out the shower curtain rod. Most are placed so that one curtain falls outside the tub and one inside the tub. I reposition the brackets (usually about three inches change) so that anything wet hung from the rod falls inside the tub and can't drip onto the floor. I'm so brilliant!
     
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    I don't get the reasoning behind an outside and inside shower curtain. I use the inside rod and hang the curtain on the inside of the tub for part of the day and on the outside for the other part so both sides dry completely and it doesn't get moldy.
     
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  15. Dwight Ward

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    That reminds me of another tip. If your housekeeping is so bad that you start to get mold on the walls just take a sample to the paint store and get paint that matches the color of the mold and paint everything that color. Then no one will notice the mold except for the places on the wall that are kind of lumpy.

    Of course you could just wash the walls but that's work - something I try to avoid.
     
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