OT Housekeeping was Re: Storing Fabric

Sandy - I love that "Casual Housekeeper" - I'm a casual housekeeper too - I just didn't know I had a title! Well - I have Maria every other Friday, but in between, it's pretty casual - especially now, since we're doing more remodelling - it's a great excuse!!

Howdy! > > Ah, the Get-O crowd. > I remember the first time I encountered them online, about 1990. > Very entertaining. > But, just as with working at the LQS, > that takes so much time away from quilting. > And, besides, I'm a Casual Housekeeper. > I did, however, learn from my first Real Job in a supermarket deli/café to > CAYG: Clean As You Go. > > Storing fabric: I do. With great joy and enthusiasm. ;-) > > Cheers! > > Ragmop/Sandy--w/ new fabric and a new project to quilt for someone in > Virginia -- I've heard of Virginia... ;-D > > > On 8/26/06 7:04 AM, in article > 5NWHg.10482$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.pas.earthl> > > I haven't visited with them in years but there's a newgroup called, I think, > > alt.recovery.clutter. They had folks on all kinds of 12-step programs (of > > their own making) to ease the clutter in their lives. They were full of > > great ideas, successes and sympathy. Of course, first you must report in > > here every day but you might enjoy checking them out. My name is Polly > > Esther and I have a paper mountain too. Perhaps I don't need the invoice > > from everything I ever bought for Christmas? Maybe I could part with the > > hospital bills from 1947? I'll think about it. Polly > > > > >

Howdy!

Anything that leaves me more time for quilting and reading.

Casual Housekeeping goes from simple things like having a spare space like a big box, trunk, closet, room in which to stuff everything when I do the White Tornado clean-up (you remember AJAX liquid: Cleans like a white tornado!) when I expect "company" and have 10 minutes to clear the clutter, and travels on to Creative Solutions like wearing a shirt 4 ways (front, back to front, inside out front & back to front) and stuffing a few cute boxes in the knee hole in my vanity-style antique dresser. A laundry basket kept downstairs is great for piling in the things that need to go upstairs but often just don't (if they'd take themselves upstairs--we'd have no problem!). The best help for this Casual Housekeeper, tho', is to CAGY. and adopt an Attitude: if the dust bothers you, hon, here's the Swiffer.

Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy--whose friends and neighbors understand "a quilter lives here" and are so busy looking at the quilts spread everywhere they tend to ignore the clutter ;-D p.s. Right now I have a really neat "sofa table" behind the sofa, great place to store things in a moment 'cause nobody can see behind the sofa or under that table