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yeah those are pretty awesome. might as well make it cute.

i was thinking something like this, though with a lid?

Bloodbath doesn't seem to carry them, though. Maybe...this?

http://images.bedbathandbeyond.com/assets/product_images/230/1416812265328P.JPG

this is what i have. it just can't stand up to the weight of a lot of a laundry being stuffed in it. maybe this just means we should do laundry more frequently?

Yr link doesn't work, T.

ok try this
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/jall-laundry-bag-with-stand-white__71279_PE186610_S4.jpg

No, the first link. In earlier post.

haha ok
http://images.bedbathandbeyond.com/assets/product_images/380/10742316470686P.JPG

i would like it to fit in the bathroom closet if poss. maybe 1 for bath closet and 1 for bedroom closet? fancy!

I looked at that but I dislike ones that taper because thanks a lot for making it HOLD LESS.

I have just sat down after cleaning/hoovering/dusting for the last three hours. And where is my cup of tea? Nowhere!

And now the kids have got back from school so that's that.

currently putting off housework.

I will cop to having a housecleaner come in 2x/month, I fought it for a long time but we have the money and it is cheaper than marriage counseling. I am an awful housekeeper and having two kids who are not yet school-age in the house all the time doesn't help. It is awesome to start fresh twice a month even if it gets crudded up fast.

xp re tapering, seriously! also way to make it tippy when it's full!

i think w/ those you can pull the bag out to take it downstairs though... so less cumbersome?

yeah i think the cleaning thing is def gonna happen. although *someone* still needs to put their stuff away before cleaners could even come!

I have a straight-sided stripey one from Hold Everything before they went out of business. It's Paul Smith-y in colorway and about two feet tall and has cut-out carrying handles. Prob similar to these:

http://images.bedbathandbeyond.com/assets/product_images/230/120060120307C.JPG

I love having a laundry chute. at the end of the hallway it's bedroom x3 right next to the closet with the chute, I just chuck kids' clothes out into the hallway if nothing else, then it goes down the chute! Also fun to teach kids to take care of their clothes by chanting DOWN THE CHUTE DOWN THE CHUTE

omg a chute. so jealous.

i think 2 of those could work, theresa - and it is very handsome

ned, i wish i could make you a cup of tea!

I was so jealous of people who lived in modern houses and had laundry chutes.

Tapered baskets: They take up JUST AS MUCH ROOM as the top measurement, but hold less than you think AND tip over. Stupid stupid stupid.

god i LOVE chutes! so jealous, teeny!

l, my cousin's house was built in 1935 and has a chute!

WHOAH! If I had a laundry chute and a dumbwaiter, my 5 to 10-yr-old self would be so happy.

the laundry chute was one of my favorite things about staying at my cousin's house when i was a kid!

remarkably no kids have gone down the chute either!

Pets?

my technique for getting dog hair out of the carpet is to put leather gloves on and scrape it into batches which can be hoovered up, not pleasant at all.

I used to do that for my roommate's cat's hair, when I had a black rug in college, but instead of leather, I used a bowl of water and wet my hand every few passes. Works AMAZINGLY but fuck is it annoying.

Damp tea towel or hand wrapped in masking tape (sticky side out) is good for Kenny Whippet hair removal. My own dog will be a poodle, to avoid moulting issues.

Our chute in my family home was built into the bottom shelf of the bathroom cabinet in such a way that it makes more sense for my mom to jam 1000 bottles of shampoo and bubblebath onto that surface.

yup, we have a housekeeper come twice a month too...just never have time to keep up.

oh and hey let me spam you with a recommendation for green cleaners--the company is called Better Life and you can find them in many whole foods or they also have a directory of outlets on their site cleanhappens.com--the cleaners are really truly green and really effective. I don't have environmental sensitivity issues but I know people who do and they like these for not having volatile scents or whatever. They're on FB too and they're always doing contests for free product. They're local to me here in st louis and their owners' kids go to preschool with mine.

i love mrs meyers. i've had a bottle of all purpose solution concentrate that's lasted forever. it smells amazing and works really well.

good morning, ladies.

what a beautiful day.

i'm going to make some coffee.

ryan just told me some shorts were too tiny for me. so i put them on with a white belt. i don't think they're too tiny.

Tiny shorts on men make the wearer look like a cockney 9-year-old from all those b/w 'look at these interwar smallfry with rickets playing stickball in the gutter' photo essays. Beware.

I have fulfilled today's 'make some calls and set up features' allocation and due to issues with my hair, which has never been longer in my life, I look forward to spending the rest of my day chasing around the hair equivalent of rodent-sized dust bunnies. But first I need to go and get the best coffee in London.

don't dust bunnies always mystify you? it's like how did they get it together to get it together like that

i know - but these shorts aren't that SHORT, per se, they are just small in the waist

have fun at the coffee shop!

suzy, i am going to be thrilled when you get a poodle, there is a tiny black one who lives in the next street and harry (my dog) and i adore her, she is swift and a genius.

London is insane for household dust and I have a big studio that's filled with it. I HATE IT.

I know that rescue dogs are supposed to be the adoption option for all right-thinking people, but I prefer the whole bonding-with-a-puppy thing. That said, poodle rescue sites do exist and I look at them, because I might consider a rescue less than a year old. Unfortunately, I doubt they'd accept me because they're run out in the provinces and expect dogs to go to flats and houses with gardens, so *shrug*.

how do we feel about painting? i am scared of it. i need to do my bathroom and my bedroom. i guess the most annoying part is like having to move everything.

You could buy some cheap plastic shower curtains at the dollar store to use as dropcloths and to cover furniture? I've done that. Worked pretty well.

not a bad idea. i guess i could get the bathroom done in one day.

Have you painted before?

no :| ryan has, though - he's good at it

it's just that he hasn't gotten it started and it's been a while, so i'm feeling antsy

ned, i wish i could make you a cup of tea!

― j lol (surm), Monday, June 6, 2011 2:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I never did get to make myself one. Usual drama once the kids were home - "I don't want to go to Brownies!" "I am BORED!" "Life is crap!"...

If it wasn't for kids my house would be super spotless though. I love it when it's all done. And hate it when I see Trifle Jnr. eating a pastry WITHOUT A PLATE five minutes later. Will they never learn!?

We are about to paint the hallway. That will be traumatic.

"and laurel: i'm totally with you re mops. what is even the point of them, unless you use them literally every day, before the grime can get trampled into the floor."
get swiffer wet

I DID! that thing was useless. i still had to go back over it with a scrubbing brush or my damn fingernail to scratch off the stuck-on bits of food (i make a goddamn mess when i cook).

I got the kind of mop that spray cleaner forward and then you mop - its ok but my daughter always demands to use it whenever I get it out so I don tbother - true you need a swiffer supplementer to get the gnarlybits but still use two items and get the job done- i just use the wrong end of the swiffer

the only way to get floors really clean is to scrub them on h+k but then again i probably have... unreasonable... standards when it comes to cleanliness. i wash our walls/cupboard doors a couple of times a month