View Poll Results: Do you spring/fall clean?
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Do you spring/fall clean? Who does the housework?
03-12-2007, 10:50 AM
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Once again, location, location, location. We have a 70's ranch (in need of lots of work as you all know), 2500 sf, 2 acre lot and we're paying less in mortgage than our kids are paying to rent 1/2 of an ancient house in downtown Mystic, CT with not one inch of yard and the house is so slanted they have to put a 2x4 under one end of furniture to level it up! They have 2 tiny tiny tiny bedrooms and one tiny bath. Then consider it costs them $600/mo to heat, and their electricity bill is another $250/mo. Our electric bill in the summer with the a/c running full time and the pool pump running isn't $250. I cannot figure out why we can't convince them to move!!!!!! 
03-12-2007, 07:08 PM
#62
My daughter just purchased a 4 year old all brick condo 1200 square foot for $107K. It was a forclosure sale and the bank provided 2 years of home insurance, along with paying 75% of the closing costs. She definately got a deal.
03-12-2007, 08:02 PM
#63
I do the main cleaning, my wife does none (except laundry). Cleaning after working long hours is not my idea of fun, but like my car, I like things clean. My wife tends to take care of all our kid issues/practices etc..., so cleaning does not seem so bad 
03-13-2007, 07:56 AM
#64
[QUOTE=alexz,Mar 12 2007, 09:02 PM] I do the main cleaning, my wife does none (except laundry).
03-13-2007, 08:00 AM
#65
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It appers we have some who do spring clean and those who don't know what it is. Then we have a quite a few who do heavy cleaning when the mood hits them.
I love these official scientific polls. They answer so many questions about our behavior.
Then we have a quite a few who do heavy cleaning when the mood hits them.I love these official scientific polls. They answer so many questions about our behavior.
03-13-2007, 08:05 AM
#66
Lainey, I was wondering if Spring Cleaning was a back-east thing. Like when the snow melts and it warms up, you clean up the cave you've been stuck in all winter? I don't know. Just a thought.
03-13-2007, 08:16 AM
#67
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Originally Posted by Kyras,Mar 13 2007, 12:05 PM
Lainey, I was wondering if Spring Cleaning was a back-east thing. Like when the snow melts and it warms up, you clean up the cave you've been stuck in all winter? I don't know. Just a thought.
I have friends who were really extreme with it. Totally emptied the room of all furnishings. I used to be pretty faithful to the twice a year heavy cleaning routine, but now, I find I don't care as much about it as when I was younger. This is the first time in a while that all the rooms will have received the spring cleaning treatment in a reasonalbe time frame. For the most part, I have better things to do with my time now. The other night my granddaughter spent the night. She gets my full attention when she's there and she's a lot more fun than cleaning.
03-13-2007, 04:15 PM
#69
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Originally Posted by valentine' date='Mar 13 2007, 06:36 PM
ITS TIME TO LEAVE THE CAVE, LAINEY. 
Call Geico, its so easy a caveman can do it. 
It's been undercover and parked in the driveway for about 3 months. We were both surprised at how good it looks. We'll be taking a spin after work tomorrow!
Then it gets cold again.
03-13-2007, 05:04 PM
#70
Michigan was the only state in the US where the average house price dropped in 2006. Out of all the metro cities in Michigan, my hometown had largest % drop of any. Want to buy house? Houses in our sub used to go in 2-3 weeks; now some have been for sale for years. It's been a rough time in the old-GM/Ford/Chrysler dependent sub-contractors. Every day it seems the headlines are another company closing. My son's closed (TRW) and moved everything to Mexico this past June.