When I have my fully funded emergency fund complete (baby step 3), which should be at the end of the year or so, I am getting a cleaning service. I can't wait.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Oct 16, 2010 8:54:44 am PDT #54 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
amyth - Oct 16, 2010 8:59:45 am PDT #55 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I'm thinking about canceling my cable and TiVo and just relying on hulu and Netflix for my TV and using the money I save for a cleaning service. My cable box seems to shut itself off every time I"m out of town anyway (which is a lot these days) so I end up recording a blank screen and catching up on hulu anyway, and I never watch live TV.
hippocampus - Oct 16, 2010 9:02:55 am PDT #56 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
canceling my cable and TiVo and just relying on hulu and Netflix for my TV
we do this. Occasionally, I suspect DH goes and watches football through the neighbors' window, though, so we reconsider sometimes.
msbelle - Oct 16, 2010 9:08:35 am PDT #57 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do no cable but Tivo. Hulu is often jerky when I try to view. It means I only watch network shows, but that is more than I can keep up with anyway.
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2010 9:08:58 am PDT #58 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am toying with the idea of a cleaning service myself. Maybe not very often, but just to get the place cleaned down to the core and then I can work from there.
amyth - Oct 16, 2010 9:10:12 am PDT #59 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I do wonder how a cleaning service would deal with a blind, diapered miniature poodle in the house. She mostly sleeps, but definitely would need to be vacuumed around. She doesn't bark anymore, and doesn't bite, but she'll wander with a vengeance, sometimes. It depends on the cleaning folks' comfort level with strange pet behavior, I suppose.
Spidra Webster - Oct 16, 2010 9:11:24 am PDT #60 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I couldn't justify the cost of cable, esp given that cable customer service sucks. So I've been living with just broadcast TV and what I can get on the Internet for years now. It can occasionally be frustrating but I'm mostly satisfied. And I don't have to deal with evil cable conglomerates nor spend that monthly $.
Sue - Oct 16, 2010 9:12:04 am PDT #61 of 30001
hip deep in pie
We can't see Hulu in Canadia and messing with proxies has never really worked for me, but I've thought about cancelling cable. I almost switched cable providers (but the cable comes through DSL lines so it's not!cable) but they told me that the service wasn't compatible with my TiVo...and their DVR sucks, so I backed off for now. I'm sure some googling will let me figure out have to have BellTV and TiVo, but that's for another day.
Scrappy - Oct 16, 2010 9:17:36 am PDT #62 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have a cleaning person come every two weeks. It's AWESOME. Two dogs and two cats make a lot of furballs, yo.
Pix - Oct 16, 2010 9:20:49 am PDT #63 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
New Natter! Yay!