McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy Duty Steam Cleaner
About a year ago I moved into an apartment in SF that has some problems ... Heavy Duty Steam Cleaner is a major part of my plan to fix up the apartment. I’d used steam cleaners before, but nothing of this size and power. FOr those of you who don’t know, a steam cleaner [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:39:12
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New moms network
We often hear about how women had it so much more difficult in the past, without the help of vacuum cleaners, washing machines, dishwashers, ... ; in packed, crowded apartment buildings, it seems as though we are divided more than ever. Also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 13:03:00
Ask Curbed: Moving Back Home, How Do I Break My Lease?
We have a feeling this reader isn't alone in asking this question: "I come to you in a time of distress. I have a lease with 8 months remaining and unfortunately I cannot pay for my apartment anymore ... My Building Manager? Cleaners? Curbed LA [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 00:05:51
Stressed? Injured Knee?But there is hope :)
Yes, its 12.00am as I'm typing this. Just finished 2 rounds of DotA with my buddies on Garena ... at the apartment, thinking the cleaners had come to clean the place. I forgot to lock my bag [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:00:00
trees
I am totally enamored of this Christmas tree. So pretty! So clever! So graphic! So un-knockable-overable by dogs and babies!! ... little “tree” that I bought when I lived in my shoebox apartment. It looks like it’s made of pipe cleaners and it pops open like an umbrella and it leans to one side and I think I paid $9.99 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 16:21:21
Present Professor, Meet Mr. Clean
Today I bought myself a little early Chanukah gift: I hired a housekeeping service to clean my apartment. See, I’ve been busier than I usually am ... for me anymore, I decided to spring for a service. If all goes well, they’ll leave my apartment shiny ... , and all-around slobs. Contact local cleaners beforehand to get an idea of what it will cost–many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 15:00:54
Our Brownies Are Running Amok!
We have Brownies. There is a family of fairy folk that lives in our house ... the house apart looking for it, dumped the vacuum cleaner bag, the works. After about two weeks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:55:49
D.C. Therapy
D.C. now has its own apartment therapy page. AT DC, ... If generic household cleaners don’t work to clean your tile stains, try a commercial grout cleaner….We also [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 20:45:20
I Love it When The Lord Points the Way!
If there's one thing I know, it's that The Lord sent me here to help others. I know I mentioned that I was going to surprise William by cleaning his apartment for him. While he does have a house cleaner come in every two weeks, there is no way a man can pay for a woman's [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:02:00
Discover More About Choosing A Home In Berkeley And Finding The Right Real Estate Agent
When you’ve decided to move to the Berkeley area, you need to decide whether you’re going to rent an apartment or house, ... to get a home or apartment that accepts pets, as well as finding out about dry cleaners and laundry services ... -Child Care -Contractors -Movers -Interior Design -Garden Information -Dry Cleaners & Laundry [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 18:56:21
Aotearoa New Zealand
After a very fun, food-filled week in Melbourne at a sociology conference, I was off (very early in the morning) ... doesn’t have) it doesn’t get dark until almost 9 pm. I was sharing a three-bedroom apartment ... of stale cigarettes. When I asked, I was told the cleaners just hadn’t gotten to it yet. So, I went [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 23:38:00
What to Look For in a Carpet Cleaning Company
There are a number of carpet cleaning companies, and all of them claim to be the best ... of their nice vans or their family. Usually, these companies have nothing that sets them apart ... reps that will answer your call live; however, many carpet cleaners are owner operators [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 10:28:33
Unbiased Guidelines to Choosing A Home In Berkeley And Finding The Right Real Estate Agent
When yoursquo;ve decided to move to the Berkeley area, you need to decide whether yoursquo;re going to rent an apartment or house, ... that you are able to get a home or apartment that accepts pets, as well as finding out about dry cleaners ... Servicesbr-Child Carebr-Contractorsbr-Moversbr-Interior Designbr-Garden Informationbr-Dry Cleaners [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 06:07:09
Vacation part 2, Texas
Cruise follow-up: Mary Beth posted her cruise photos on Picasa. Margaret posted her photos on Kodak ... to read my book. I picked up my rental car and headed to Julia’s apartment. She had worked hard at getting it cleaned up, including renting a carpet cleaner, due to pet issues with the carpet. I think [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 06:30:13
Date: 2008-12-31 20:11:04
How To Book Cheap Accommodation In Rome For Your Family
How To Book Cheap Accommodation In Rome For Your Family Posted By Jill Krammer on @ 11: ... or sleep on a sofa bed, you’ll save even more. Plus, apartment accommodations provide everything ... you to save on extra baggage fees and on trips to the cleaners and laundromat. Check out local cuisine [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 23:43:40
SANTA BABY #1 : KIRSTIE FROM BEAUT.IE
Here on Homebug for the next fortnight, I'm running a series called "Santa Baby" inspired by the song of the same name, ... . But here's my problem. I live in 440 square feet of one-bed flat, and as any Dublin apartment-dweller ... life people can actually comfortably live in. Y'know - people with crazy things like vacuum cleaners [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 13:26:29
Daily Links: One Show Edition
Since drastically curtailing our cable television, Kris and I have been catching shows via Netflix and the iTunes Music Store ... offers advice on living frugally and pleasantly in an apartment. A couple of these (trash out every ... has some tips on how to make your own household cleaners. Next, Paul sent an article from The New York [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 00:38:08
Angelo's Grundig Music Boy
I paid $26.00 plus shipping on E-Bay. That's appropriate; not a great deal and not a rip-off ... . No worries, I took out my cleaners, canned air and a few paper towels and now it's clean enough for "That Girl's" apartment---it would look at home on any 1960's end table. And is it my imagination [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:49:42
Cairo London. London Cairo.
* Before leaving Cairo, I sent my stuff to a 'recommended' dry cleaners and dropped some shirts at the ironing man. I arrive in London to find the dry cleaners have done a shoddy job (they might have worsened ... expanse of golden-coloured runways, arrays of apartment-blocks filling the horizon a safe distance [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:26:00
Christmas Eve Eve
Twas the night before the night before christmas. Santa Claus was sitting in his apartment in Lapland ... ." "Yeah....sounds like a troublemaker." "You got your antlers ready?" "They're down the dry cleaners [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 08:36:48
No, I Can’t Do the Laundry — I’m Working from Home
Getty Images For the last few months, I have been working from home one day a week ... projects are dealt with — all in the quiet of my apartment at my kitchen table. I took ... week he asked if I could drop off and pick up some items from the cleaners. And early on I could tell [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 15:49:17
8 Ways to Reduce Your Chemical Load
Last week’s New York Times featured an article about a Dr. Jeremijenko, not a physician but an engineer who offered clients tips for making their personal environments healthier, more naturally pleasing, and more environmentally friendly. Dr. Jeremijenko’s suggestions ranged from planting sunflowers and EDTA soil supplements to leach harmful [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 16:32:51
URBAN AFFAIRS
Without any money changing hands or promises by me to babysit their kids while they convince themselves, yet again, ... AND THE LUXURY by nycmomandmore.blogspot.com For the past twenty years, I've lived in various apartment ... , in my two decades of apartment living I have met only a handful of doormen who are not suffering [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 04:35:31
House "Cleaning"
One of the seemingly attractive things in China is that it's relatively inexpensive to hire people to do service work like cleaning ... in our temporary apartment, the new house we're moving into, and even good hotels like the Grand Hyatt has been pretty uniformly poor. According to Michelle, who has been in the apartment while housekeeping [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 10:55:16
Link Love
Date: 2009-01-02 10:00:00
La Vida Hobo
Ever since about a week before Christmas I have been living at Ray's place, ... is my apartment has suffered.In times past, when I didn't have a steady to do things with all weekend, I would get up Saturday morning, eat breakfast, read and then do chores until my apartment was not disgusting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 23:12:00
Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice
(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... for Janitors” campaign of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2 in Toronto. “In my [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36
How to Keep Natural Fiber Clothes from Wrinkling
“WARNING! Never iron or steam clothes while they are being worn.” – an actual warning in the operating instructions booklet for the high-end Rowenta electric steam clothes iron. Resist the urge! Even when you are frantically late and you slip on that freshly laundered – but not ironed – organic cotton shirt or bamboo skirt and the wrinkles jump [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:52:12
Sunday Window Cleaning News
Maintenance worker Larry Scott cleans the windows Thursday at the entrance of The Farmers State Bank and Trust Company in Jacksonville. Mr ... accused of stealing from blind customer: A Mitcham window cleaner has been accused of stealing after money ... . Scott said he noticed they needed cleaning when he saw the sun shining through. “I just couldn’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:49:00
99 Things on a Wall ~ And My Bucket List for 2009
Foremost, I'd like to wish everyone a Prosperous, Happy New Year for 2009!While blog hopping, I came across this Meme on a blog at Vanilla Domesticity, written by Katie, a Managing Editor at Blissfully Domestic.All of the things in Bold, I have done, or tried at least once.1. Started your own blog (several)2. Slept under the stars( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 08:26:00
New Releases available in the New Year
Date: 2009-01-01 18:12:10
Moving Again
How many times can a person move from the same house within five months? If you're me it is twice at least ... . Mans idea was to rent an apartment outside of a compound. Now I've lived in a private villa off a compound before so that isn't an issue for me. But the apartment is about 1/3 the size of our living [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 20:05:00
Date: 2008-12-22 23:25:22
It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning However strong the smell, though, he wanted the antidote to be gentle on the planet. Mr ... -cleaning stores have increasingly sprouted signs reading “organic” or “green,” as environmentally conscious consumers look for alternatives to traditional dry cleaning and its use of the solvent [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 04:51:40
Professional Carpet Cleaning - How To Pay Less
Date: 2009-01-07 06:10:02
URBAN AFFAIRS
I have managed to get two incredibly funny bloggers to write and post here every Friday for the entire month of December ... apartment buildings in NYC, most of which had a doorman. If you're thinking that I have some nerve ... as there are snowflakes, in my two decades of apartment living [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 15:18:59
What to Look for in a Carpet Cleaning Company
If you’re moving out of an apartment or just happen to have a lot of spills on your carpet, ... it. If you decide to go the easy route and hire a carpet cleaner, here are some things to compare among ... received. Not all carpet cleaners are the same. There is definitely a wide range of quality [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 01:51:50
“THE MERCILESS SLAUGHTER OF GAZAN CIVILIANS and the approval by World Jewry has put the nations on notice that an inherent evil is at work within Jewry’s approach to human affairs.” http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=364I agree with this statement by Brother Nathanael, because we have seen this transpire again and again [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 23:29:54
Dirt Devil
No other hand held vacuum cleaner matches the Dirt Devil. It even comes in a bigger model for around the house and a smaller for an RV or apartment ... for Techtronic Industries which is a company in Hong Kong that makes other vacuum cleaners ... a home vacuum system called Cyclone. The Cyclone sold over 25 million units. It was a vacuum with a metal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 09:41:56
FinaleWatch: 'Californication'
Californication wraps its second season run with revelations you could see coming a mile away and some that were nice little surprises. The best part of the episode, aside from the tidy resolutions of most of the storylines: the fact they didn’t end with a freeze-frame shot of anything [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 04:35:18
Goodbye, Shadyside
The first time S. and I moved to Pittsburgh, it took us three trips to the city to get an apartment ... and no larger than the kitchen in my then-current apartment, I abandoned any notion I had of a bohemian self ... by the time my graduate program began, we visited two apartment buildings run by the same landlord [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:21:48
Business idea 11. House cleaning service
Description of Job • Clean, vacuum, and neaten homes or apartments. • Carry out other services as requested by the client. • Perform turnover cleaning of rental properties. The Need Most of us, unless we live in a hotel (or in a dorm room and don’t care), are responsible for cleaning our house or apartment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 13:52:51
Purchased a Hoover SteamVac to Deep Clean My Carpets
When I first moved into my apartment a year ago, my carpets looked brand new. Even though I vacuum regularly, months of shoe and sneaker traffic, feline hairballs ... . I was considering hiring professionals, but this would be an expensive proposition. Hoover SteamVac [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 15:00:33
New York and L.A. and Austin, Oh My!
Since I can't get everyone out there a holiday present, I'm instead treating you all to Guest Posting Fridays! YOU get a laugh! YOU get a laugh! (OK, that was bad.) (Even for me.) (I blame the accident.) For the next three Fridays, two hilarious bloggers, Jessica Bern and Marinka, will post their very funny writing on my blog [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 13:46:00
just pay the damn rent already
what happened was just this (it really was quite simple)… well, maybe this will explain it more succinctly, or perhaps i’ll do that here… you see ( ... take care of you” who turn out to be actually ”taking you” as in to the cleaners or for all you’ve got… [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:51:00
Kicking Off the Panic of 2009
“Sir, there are no seats left. You’re going to have to stand in the back.” I was only 10 minutes late, but the conference hall was packed. Every seat was taken. The walls were lined with people. At that point, I knew without a doubt, there was a lot more downside left in real estate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:10:34
St. Louis, Missouri — Scott Joplin House
Tuesday: Our last stop before picking Hazel up from the cleaners was the Scott Joplin House. Scott Joplin House and Lain, Loitering ( ... exhibits and player pianos, plus a gift shop. You have to go upstairs to see Joplin’s apartment. Scott Joplin House Narrow Suitcase Joplin lived in the apartment between 1900 and 1903. Several people [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:05
Traveling To Rome With Your Family? Book Them An Apartment
by Jill Krammer It can be a real challenge to travel with kids ... , apartment accommodations provide everything you’d expect from your home, including in unit laundry facilities and a full kitchen. That allows you to save on extra baggage fees and on trips to the cleaners [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 23:48:23
How To Find Affordable Accommodation In Rome
How To Find Affordable Accommodation In Rome By Jill Krammer | December 18, 2008 by Jill Krammer It can be a real challenge to travel with kids ... of hotel and how much space you’d need, versus the size of the apartment and how willing your family ... you the basics you’d expect at home. You’ll save on cleaners and extra baggage costs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 23:54:15
