On Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School Is In Session!
@RosemaryF I always hang near the bottom hem for T shirts (maybe 4" up from the bottom)to avoid "torso twist", and from the tops on panties unless there are stains, in which case I hang them with the stain part uppermost so the sun can bleach it out. If you throw your line dried towels and undies into the dryer for a few minutes on "air" they are not so abrasive, and you still have most of the benefits of lower utilities because you are not using the dryer so much, and not having to cool the house from the dryer heat.
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On Semi-Secret Affairs, Smanging, and the 88 Percent
If you're dating a woman, showing her your place to provide a demonstration of a desirable level of cleanliness might be effective, but with a young man, probably not. He'll never in a million years make the connection. You'll have to come right out and say "you're a pig, I won't smang you until you clean this shit up".
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On Ask a Clean Person: Let's All Make... Our Beds
The secret is not separate blankets, it's enough blankets. I dress my queen size bed with a king size duvet. It stays put all night and everyone gets enough covers. We use a medium weight down comforter in the duvet. She's always hot and I'm always cold, so I sleep with wool socks and on frigid nights add a hot water bottle.
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On Secret Weddings, Self-Googling, and the Unfriend
Your're already having your wedding. At city hall. Why not have an informal reception at your home with your friends before you leave? I admit I lack the big wedding gene, but even minor deception added to the gigantic expense you expect your friends to shoulder by traveling to Hawaii for your fake wedding seems unfair to me.
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On Ask a Clean Person: Sweat, Dye, Must, and Onions
@oyster If you you cut you onions breathing ONLY through your nose or ONLY through your mouth you will not cry, but if you change breathing patterns you will cry like crazy. Sounds odd but it works for me.
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On Five of Cups
@littlegirlblue Agreed. I used to read for everyone on NYE but stopped because a)sometimes the info suggested by the cards was too personal for the venue and b)some people had some very specific things they wanted to hear which were NOT in the cards.
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On Holiday Gift Take-Backs
@oldfay The magic words are: Gratuitous Bailment. If he leaves stuff with you and does not arrange to move it or pay you for the storage it's yours.
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On Rapid Gift-Basketry
@ms. alex I for one would rather have a gift basket of cleaning supplies than some of the useless things I have received. It's not a bad idea for the fixed-income person on your list who has no need of junk but is chronically short of cash.
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On Saying the "D" Word
@redheadedandcrazy Yes! There is a lot of difference between what the young believe to be an acceptable quality of life and what the terminally ill find to be tolerable. Please don't put me down based on your own opinions!
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On North Carolina's Proposed Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Yes. Exactly this.