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CockneyRebel
Sid The Love Rat :O)
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Age: 33
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Location: Out in the evening, with me two best Rat Mates, somewhere in Canada :O)
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| My mum taught me how to iron, which is now ironic because I wear jeans and T-Shirts. |
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MsTriste
OTS
Joined: Dec 08, 2005
Age: 44
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:17 am Post subject: |
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[quote="sinsboldly"] | Mescalero wrote: | | You had silverware? |
Maybe a regional language confusion. In US we call all utensils silverware, regardless of whether there's actual silver content.
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"clean as you go is the sign of a pro," is how I learned, Mescal when you cook, keep a dish pan going in the sink and just wash and rinse and put measuring cups and tasting spoons and what ever into the dish drainer. Dump out the dishwater when it starts to get translucent and losing it's bubble. Use hot water and pretend you like the bubbles and then swab out the sink when you are done and if you think about it, put a table spoon or so into the drains after you dump the final dishwater to keep the drains sweet.
make sure you have a good broom, one with an angled brush bottom and a dust pan that doesn't have a gap between the flat part and the floor ( usually a rubber flange edge) and sweep the kitchen floor and use a damp sponge mop to get the crusties off near the sink and where ever you have chopped stuff, mixed stuff and in front of the sink. That will at least start some good habits, and you can do well to preseverate with good habits.
the one think you have to remember is NEVER LEAVE IT UNTIL LATER.
There is no 'Later'
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Have you considered adding a chapter of operating instructions to your book? |
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calandale
Stellar's Jay
Joined: Mar 10, 2007
Posts: 15131
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The biggest thing that I learned from
my folks was violence. Not that either
of them comes close to what I am,
but my dad acts far more violent
than I do, and my mother is truly
sociopathic. This turned out to be
VERY helpful in getting me through
HS, without going on a killing rampage,
but hasn't been to great since.
I also learned to be certain that anyone
I'm with is damned near perfect for me,
as they are such an awful match. |
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lemon
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Joined: Aug 28, 2006
Posts: 2794
Location: belgium
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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mother (not the real one, but the one who raised me) : useful:
sewing, knitting, typing, baking cake, tidy wardrobe and cupboards, keep the bath and toilet clean, how to clean the cupper things( handy when it comes to cleaning my trumpet), to be polite,not to spill food nor money, speak with a decent accent, not to give in easy, giving arguments, be strong as a woman, she realised that she did certain things wrong in our education, the fact that she told me that made a whole difference for me. (unfortunatly she died years ago)
but also (not very useful): how to depress
and certainly not : how to treat your husband or how to raise children
father (her husband): a little filming, how to run away from things, how to charm people and how that can rescue you, sawing(?not sure whether that's the correct word) wood,
socialising (a little), the cosiness of watching television together(occasionally), the fact that you can do your own projets how small they might be (even if they don't become a huge success)
unfortunatly: smoking (me for more than twenty years, and he now has lungcancer) |
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9CatMom
Ailurophile
Joined: Jan 02, 2007
Posts: 5554
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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My mom introduced me to books and reading practically from the time I was born. She always talked to me as if were an adult, and didn't use mushy baby talk.
Our family always had pets. They were my constant companions throughout my life. They still are. |
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Eclair
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 09, 2007
Posts: 528
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| 9CatMom wrote: | My mom introduced me to books and reading practically from the time I was born. She always talked to me as if were an adult, and didn't use mushy baby talk.
Our family always had pets. They were my constant companions throughout my life. They still are. |
"Manners"...they were apparently very important.
Not to swear...again, see manners.
Be nice to people....again see manners.
Sharing...again see manners.
Well, they tried to teach me anyway.
They taught me what practical things they could, but I've always felt very different from them even though they tried their best for the most part.
I think I hatched from an egg. |
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postpaleo
Huh?
Joined: Feb 22, 2007
Age: 58
Posts: 3036
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Always look both ways.
Took me a while to see he ment it in more then one way. Lol, the irony.
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bobert
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Joined: May 19, 2007
Posts: 300
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My dad taught me to love learning and, dispite his failings as a parent, taught me to pursue my many fleeting interests.
My mother was an aspie before being autistic was cool. She nurtured my ambitions and showed me how people with good survival instincts can always get by. |
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Pugly
Man-child diligently becoming a Dude, man
Joined: Jan 10, 2005
Age: 26
Posts: 2567
Location: Wisonsin
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I've just set goals to not be anything like my Father... I basically learned what not to do from my Father.
I've learned a few things from my Mother, but nothing major. I tend to be too stubborn to take advice on the first go around... I have to fail and build myself up first. I might have gotten some morals from my Mom, except that I am slightly more moral than her... so I don't know where that comes from.
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Ticker
Come to the Dark Side; we have cookies...
Joined: Aug 26, 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Cage Free at the moment
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My dad taught me to tie my shoes when I was the only kid in kindergarten who couldn't. He taught me how to read, drive a car and a riding mower, how to do simple car maintenance and repair things around the house, change bedsheets including how to short sheet a bed and how to be responsible adult and behave properly. My mom taught me how to cook, iron clothes, how to be a bitch and also argue and hate.
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9CatMom
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Posts: 5554
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| My mom instilled in me a love of reading and of animals, especially cats. |
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