And it is available for free on
Between archive.org and Project Gutenberg I may have to either buy stock in a disc manufacturer or get a few more gig of hard drive. After I trundle on down to the Windstream offices and beat up all the techs of course. This constantly falling offline is getting really old.
NightMist
I just laughed and laughed at the idea of "leftover Snickers bars".
I could maybe have the apples sliced and ready in the baking dish, get the food processor out and ready to go, jump in the car, buy some Snickers, make sure the sacks were in the very back of the car, race home and throw them in the food processor.
"leftover Snickers"!
Cindy
WHAT A COOL SITE!!! This is why I love the internet :) (of course this means I have something else to browse when I should really be more productive.....right now I am looking at the Doublets book by Lewis Carroll....didn't take me long to get distracted!!!) Allison
Ok, Leslie, I just checked my dryer vent (15 years old and never washed). I use organic fabric softener sheets, used to use the regular ones for years, and the water just ran through normally, but I did notice that the water running through was dirty looking so I washed it anyways. Hubby used the long handled brush to defuzz the lint hole a couple of days ago, so I guess I'm good to go.
My girlfriend was complaining of a funky smell in her top loading washing machine a couple of weeks ago. I asked her if there was any moldy gunk in the washer filter. She didn't even know that there was a washer filter. She took it out and it was black and slimy. My filter is in the top of the agitator and it catches critter hair and other gremlins. The little holes in this filter, which should let water through, get so gunked up that I have to force toothbrush bristles into them to clean them out.
Denise
I just learned about washing machine filters about two years ago! Not bad, seeing as I am nearly 38 now!
Why don't parents teach us these things?
Dannielle
Humph. From an age when the contents of people's cleaning cupboards were a bit different than now...
Boy's Own Paper, 14 August 1886, the "answers to readers' questions" column at the back:
I'm not sure if a later issue answered the obvious next question with "rubber gloves are for sissies" or "sorry, they haven't invented them yet".
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Washer filters? What?! Oh, great now I am going to have to see if I can find my manual and see where my washer filter is? I didn't know this and I'll be 42 on the 11th. HA!!! I learned just about EVERYTHING from my beloved DH, bless his soul. And God blessed me with him for the time that he did!
Launie, in Oregon....who's gotta go find out where the filter is!
Hi Launie, If it's a newer washer, don't look too hard. 10-15 years ago some rocket scientist decided washers no longer needed filters, since everyone uses a dryer, and that takes care of the lint. Liz (hmph!)
Not all washers have filters that you can easily clean regularly. My old Maytag had one in the top of the agitator. The newer Maytags don't have them, and I haven't seen anything in the user's manual about lint filters. And I'm a user manual reader :)
Julia in MN
another man who has never seen the mess that can come out of the washer, obviously. bet he has never washed a rag quilt either. ditto on that hrmph !! j.
"Liz Megerle" wrote... Hi Launie, If it's a newer washer, don't look too hard. 10-15 years ago some rocket scientist decided washers no longer needed filters, since everyone uses a dryer, and that takes care of the lint. Liz (hmph!)
there has to be a filter somewhere, surely??? maybe 'before' the water goes thru the pump as it departs the house. i wonder if there is somewhere online to see how the inside of the various machines work and filter? i have a maytag that is now.....must be 15yo, got it when we moved into this house. filter on the top of agitator. our last machine had a filter nearer the pump and when it clogged up completely, we had to get a man into fix it. never again. next time i'll be in the back of the machine myself. they charge a small fortune just to undo a few screws and clean out the filter, nope, aint gonna happen here. j.
"Julia in MN" wrote... Not all washers have filters that you can easily clean regularly. My old Maytag had one in the top of the agitator. The newer Maytags don't have them, and I haven't seen anything in the user's manual about lint filters. And I'm a user manual reader :)
While you young ladies are cleaning filters - do you know that the filters on your stove exhaust hood are really easy to clean? They are simple to slip out and will fit in the dishwasher. Personally, I think we've overdosed on cleaning. Let's quilt. Polly
"Julia in MN" Not all washers have filters that you can easily clean regularly. My old
My husband said someone from work told him this. We tested this. Bananas ripened the same whether connected or not.
When my niece was living with us for a couple of months she kept bananas in the fridge. She said they stay fresher longer. We debunked that one too! (I really dislike cold bananas!)
I'm passing the safety pin one on to my mom. She always complains about static electricity in her pants even when using fabric softener and dryer sheets. I tell it's because they are polyester. It's the nature of the beast!
Cheers, Mary
Amen Polly!
Trivia: who knows where the saying, "cleanliness is next to godliness" comes? No, not from the Bible. From a Pear's soap ad campaign in the high Victorian era.
Arrrrgh! My whole life has been a lie... I feel so... dirty. Think I'll go shower...
anthony, worked up to a lather in Clearwater.
Polly Esther wrote:
Hire a house cleaner! Some jobs are best left to the professionals!
anthony, relaxing in Clearwater...
jennellh wrote:
I find they DO stay fresh longer in the fridge...the outside will go brown but the inside is still nice. (Plus we like cold bananas better) Vive la difference!! Allison
cant ya freeze'em skinned? free flow, then bag'em all up together til ya need some. they do make nice 'custard'. freeze, partially thaw, enough to put into the food processor, add some yogurt to get the right consistency and any flavouring you fancy. yummy. j.
"Roberta" wrote... I had some banana bread candidates, really over-ripe, and we were leaving on a 10-day trip the next morning. No time to bake and freeze, So I just froze, threw them into the freezer in their own skins. When we got back, I left them out to that for a couple of hours, tossed them into the kitchen machine and made the Banana bread, and it came out just fine. Peeling them was a bit disgusting. Roberta in D
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