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Good Reads: the Touch-Up Paint Edition

leaves Photo by noahg We’re fixing things up in our apartment this week: cleaning windows, touching up the paint, and vacuuming behind the furniture. We’ve got the windows open to bring [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 20:08:40

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I Have a Dream

Today, we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ... will one day not tear the house apart minutes after I have finished cleaning it and that a floor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:22:00

‘Chungking Express’ - A Film to Love

Faye Wong in Chungking Express I had never seen Kar Wai Wong’s Chungking Express ... to the right, which features Faye Wong as Faye doing a little "cleaning up" at Cop 663’s (Tony Leung) apartment. The song is also sung by Wong and is a Cantonese version of the Cranberries song “Dreams [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 13:00:40

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

Alligator(1980)d/Lewis Teague

Frosty'd freeze his snowballs off tonight ... of cleaning gator shit(!) up around their apartment,flushes little "Ramon" through the toilet pipes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:27:14

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

The Original Mr. Clean Has Made His Final Walk Into the Sunset

House Peters Jr., the actor who played the original Mr ... onto the scene in 1958 as the new mascot behind Procter & Gamble's message of household cleanliness ... . I am not one for cleaning, and as I take a look around my apartment, I think that I am characteristically unsuited [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 18:06:42

Coachapalooza: hello there, Turner Gill

have the guy who's already graduated from his MAC rebuilding job and proven himself at the next level as well? ... helped himself to while cleaning out the friend's dead girlfriend's apartment. And now Hornsby [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 06:55:56

Thoughts and Ramblings

I’ve only worked one day in the past thirty, and it has given me a lot of time to think, contemplate, and get bored and frustrated ... with my homesickness, and lately I’ve been reading and cleaning a lot since I have nothing else ... been checking apartment ads almost daily because I’m seriously fed up with where we live. But who knows [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:23:02

Quick (?) note re my recovery progress

I've been hesitant to blog too much about my 2 broken wrists for fear of boring everyone & because it seems a low priority with a war going on ... with assorted idiots, I finally got a home health aide yesterday. She'll be cleaning house & helping me shower ... when sleeping or out of the apartment, for protection). I have a gorgeous "Frankenstein [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:38:00

Are You Able To Tell Them Apart?

A friend was looking for a local carpet cleaning company the other day and started browsing the phone book. He couldn’t tell the difference between one company or the other by their ads [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:30:01

a beautiful sight.

Jump to Comments My friend BurghBaby has organized a show off your Christmas Crazy link-a-thon at her site, ... and then cleaning the house. Yeah. We’re crazy. Our routine in the old apartment was pretty set, after ... had to make some adaptations — different size porch, upstairs windows that need some kind of decorations [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 05:38:11

Hope

“My name is Hope, and if you have me, you still have everything ... or leadership or cleaning skills once went to work. Even if something falls apart without us, no one really [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:19:50

Children and identity theft

OK, so we know that overall identity theft is falling, ... listed under his SSN, with several thousand dollars in medical bills, apartment rentals, and credit ... person left with the mess of cleaning up identity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:07:16

How to Improve Credit History Fast

Mark Lauber asked: This article shows you what to do to help improve your credit rating and how to do it as quickly as possible ... . Beware of Collection Agencies Credit counseling services will suggest cleaning up past debts ... a car, getting a bank loan, leasing an apartment or getting a new credit card. Financial transactions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:26:12

Why we can’t wait

The following post was written last year, the Sunday before Martin Luther King day ... different city… Last night Doug was working on planning the worship service for today while I finished cleaning up the day’s play in the living room when suddenly our apartment was filled with the sound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:29:09

LIFE AS A PEON TO THE STARS

Cleaning dog poop off the floors of a $1.8 million Manhattan apartment, making Vicodin pickups at posh Fifth Avenue doctors' offices, and smiling as your boss borrows money from you to buy yet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:39:00

Hey, I helped the economy!

Check it out. My condo purchase last month is helping the economy. Home resales in the U.S ... of people and spending money on all sorts of things necessary for my home. Besides hiring a cleaning service once a month (which I did not do in my apartment), I now have a bed in my guestroom [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 16:00:38

Life as a Peon to the Stars

Date: 2009-01-18 10:45:11

I Cleaned My Carpets and Then…

November 29, 2008 The carpet in my apartment is disgusting. Really. I *think* it’s supposed to be beige (almost creme) ... The other day I decided that the best use of my time would be to rent a Rug Doctor and clean the carpet ... . Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)carpet helpSmell that?Cleaning Time Entry Filed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 15:42:48

Beijing Fends Off Chaos

Beijing Fends Off Chaos By Diana Fu Diana Fu is a Rhodes Scholar studying international development at Oxford University ... is not the only thing that needs cleaning in Beijing. When I was here in February, state-sponsored billboards ... apartment building in my residential unit. In fact, each residential district has a team of community [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 14:16:10

Cleaning house

Today I did something that I haven’t done in (literally) months: clean house! Three hours of hard work by me and Mike has gotten the apartment from “good Lord, these people ... , being generally much more interested in my current projects than in cleaning up after old ones [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:29:35

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

Protect your home

Protect your home from pests. Don’t let the beauty of your home lost its value. Contact the right persons now. Here at alphaecological ... pest control or commercial pest control such as at apartments, offices, buildings and real estates, you can get it here. Air duct cleaning is also an offered service. Give them a phone call and they’ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 14:59:42

Episode Four - Reality Bites

You can tell I was not best pleased about the idea of growing up, settling down and getting a job ... were from Hobbes. The shoes fell apart after two days. I shrank the dress because I read the dry clean only label with my eyes clothes. The jacket was from a charity shop and was a cut down Harrods [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:11:56

Good Questions: How to Really Remove Pet Odors From Furniture?

"Dear Apartment Therapy, It being Pet Month, ... plain water. We don't recommend steam cleaning if there is any chance urine is the cause of the smell ... housed within. Then we'd thoroughly vacuum the upholstery using a HEPA vacuum, followed by a thorough [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 00:10:00

HOW TO: get a shiny floor, lose 5 pounds and become your landlord's favorite tenant!

I don't think I paid much attention to the kitchen floor when I initially looked at my new apartment ... has been worn down, it's not going to help much.Before stocking up on cleaning supplies, I first did a quick ... store, picked myself up some basic supplies: Lundmark Floor Wax, some latex gloves, Scotch-brite [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 00:57:00

Laundry service by the locker

A few weeks ago we wrote about Dutch Insinger de Beaufort's shoebox approach to private banking, ... of traditional laundry and dry-cleaning services—many of which, like banking, can involve parking ... a fleet of lockers located in apartment buildings throughout the city. Customers begin by creating [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 14:21:48

Owie

So… today we helped Cherie and Aric move to their new apartment. It went pretty quick and easy and we got pizza! ... lump of blob-o these days. How dreadful.But the new apartment is lovely and the building is nice and everything got moved so it’s just cleaning and setting and unpacking for them. And Spain has given [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:23:04

'HIMYM' watch: Lily's 50 Reasons

Lily "Friends" had its Ugly Naked Guy, a man who lived near Monica and Rachel's apartment -- much too near, ... " is called "The Naked Man," and CBS describes the episode thusly: '"After Ted walks into the apartment ... here to see the entire thing written on a MacLaren's napkin): To avoid cleaning, studying or doing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 10:00:00

Think Positive

Well, at least that’s what I’m trying to do. Just got back to my apartment in Berkeley last night and I’m already missing the comfort of home, ... have it all cleaned by the end of today, I hope. In my cleaning spree, you know what happened? I realized ... hindering my cleaning spree because I’m no longer motivated to clean since I keep thinking the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:25:45

Affordable Rome Apartments Are Easy To Find

by Jill Krammer Thinking about a trip to Rome? Most of us are hoping to get the most out of any vacation without spending a lot of money, ... residential neighborhoods, these apartments are usually pretty close to public transportation. You’ll ... and through the walls, and once a day, cleaning staff come into your room unless you request them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 02:38:37

Sunday

I was surprised to walk outside today and see so much snow ... -in-able. I'm in my office prepping for tomorrow's classes. My apartment is disorganized, and I knew if I tried to work there that I'd end up cleaning instead. Or couching, and I can't have another full [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 19:28:00

Livin' Crazy That's the Only Way

Somebody painted this on a newspaper machine that had been dragged into the Picador ... and playing video games, but then I dug in and got to cleaning. My kitchen looks amazing right now. I'm spending two hours a day on getting my apartment in order and then another hour a day working [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:09:00

As You Know, Bob 9

Stephanie looked around the apartment. “Nice place you have here, Bob,” she said ... he said. “I haven't had time to clean since the police executed their search warrant.” He sat down ... and equipment. I think I'll go home now. Thanks for the chat.” --Freddie [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 15:16:00

HELP ME DECIDE? HOW DO YOU SELECT BETWEEN TWO JOBS? AAA OR AIR TRAN CUSTOMER SERVICE?

I have receeive an Pursuit suggest from AAA( automobile use) as well as we have an talk entrance up for Air Tran Airlines ... the planes in( cold), cleaning as well as stocking the craft for take off, boarding the passengers ... , it is sitting in the apartment, receiving calls from people, who need transport use, highway use as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:31:58

It’s Sunday, it’s Tweetday, it’s 2009-01-18!

@PaulGrahamRaven Is anyone seriously still touting that tired, stupid old line? Apart from trolls, I mean. I’m genuinely surprised! ... . in reply to warrenellis # Tonight I have accomplished nothing. Except some cleaning and decimating ... to pull through this. # Soooo apparently the Windows 7 calculator displays figures in binary as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:59:59

If I Just Breathe

We are having a beautiful spring like day today in Wyoming. It is 50 degrees and I haven’t seen the sun shine this bright in the long time. The windows are open in my apartment, and so far the day has been spent having morning coffee with a friend, doing a little spring cleaning, and laundry. I promise to update more often. Even [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:21:09

Little Ways We’re Saving Money

Today we finally got our move in date- January 24th. Only twelve days away, woohoo! I can’t tell you how happy I am to get out of this poophole apartment complex. Move ins are always expensive, even if the new place is less expensive than the old. Deposits, carpet cleaning, moving [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:58:21

The Molly Maid Difference – What Sets Them Apart From Other Service Franchises?

If you have been watching the franchising industry closely for some time now, ... categories – residential cleaning (maid) and commercial cleaning (janitorial) services. Among these two ... , it is the sister organization of other top franchises like Mr. Handyman and DUCTZ Air Duct Cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 08:26:57

INAUGURATION: Riding the METRO with Strangers

I used to know the Washington, D.C. METRO, but I do not anymore ... out to find a METRO stop that was not more than .3 miles from my friends’ apartment. I got lost ... . There was a man sitting next me from Howard University to the 13th and U stop cleaning his shoes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:06:37

Canceled

My children’s birthdays make me incredibly tense. I vacillate between going completely over-the-top, ... -subsidized apartment eating ice cream. I thought about my “Babes in Toyland” Christmas yesterday ... . I lost His perspective. I was too busy cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 21:32:48

Horror vacui

I'm trying to remember when A. first used the term vacuum to describe the absence of kink in this studio apartment. Sometime last month I think ... then we have found all sorts of ways to put nature's vacuums to good use cleaning carpets and lighting homes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:06:00

Hippo

I was going to spend today and tomorrow cleaning when I wasn’t hanging out with friends, but I just can’t bring myself to ... To You By … - VIDEOSMiley Cyrus to get her own apartment? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:28:52

Quiet City

The apartment is solely illuminated by the blue-black flicker of a television set airing football against the white walls. I am just waking up ... productivity. I look up to the ceiling. In the television's dull bleeps I make out a dust web in the corner and think to myself that cleaning my room is at least something. But, that's not going to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:15:00

What Are Your Holiday Plans

Since I’m officially on Christmas vacation and I know it will be flying by so I am trying to come up with a list of what I want to accomplish during ... . I followed her to her apartment and then we loaded up in my car to head to the movie. When I put ... re going to school with our crazy hours so I’ll be super cleaning each room of the hosue [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 01:50:25

Total Cost of Renting

One of the main reasons why I bought my home was because I was tired of moving every year ... commute time and cost though, which played a significant factor in my first apartment (25 miles one way ... been fortunate enough to have lived in apartment complexes where there was ample parking and the farthest I’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 20:05:55

Egyptian Slave Freed From Slavery... In America

Shocking story this week about an Egyptian girl kept enslaved as a house maid for three years by a rich Egyptian family... in the US ... in their Cairo apartment, and soon after as a "maid" in their California home. Her duties forced her to awake before dawn and work until past midnight, cleaning the luxurious five-bedroom mansion [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 05:24:00

Resolution Time

Resolution Time Posted by vpfsnews on January 5, 2009 at 8:31 AM Whether it was to go to the gym more, ... than renting an apartment and you won't have to worry about signing a lease or setting up utilities ... kitchens, towels, linens, expanded cable with a premium movie channel, bi-weekly cleaning, on-site laundry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:31:34

The War on Bed Bugs in NYC

[Editor's Note: Every so often somebody writes something so interesting on our super-secret internal email list that we feel obliged to share it. This time it was a rant on the return of bed bugs of all things. Since Angry Military Man is too busy to post this himself, the duty has fallen to your hombre-in-chief Angry New Mexican [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:03:36

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