Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Your husband is like mine, he thinks as well I am good cook and beautiful.
Nothing wrong with vegemite, it is full of nutrients.
I had to look up Vegemite. Interesting product!
My Tony will live for days on toast and vegemite if I am away. Minimal washing up when I get back, because he wipes the crumbs off and reuses every plate and mug. He thinks I am a wonderful cook, as well as being beautiful, and he is a genuinely nice man. Like I said, quit when you're ahead!
You have been busy!
Prepping for a move is a lot of work. Moving is work too.
It’s a good time to get rid of things that aren’t absolutely essential.
I find that the older I get, the less I want. I hate clutter.
I have always been fascinated with architecture and interior design.
I watched the series Million Dollar Decorators on Netflix.
It’s amazing to see how the super wealthy furnish their homes. It boggles my mind!
It’s also interesting to see that money cannot buy taste! 😁 One of the clients was a woman who married into the Max Factor family. Super rich family!
So, she said that she had an MBA and a law degree but didn’t know how to shop or decorate. She hires an interior designer, but wouldn’t allow her to do her job!
She was practically a hoarder. She bought pieces from all over the world.
She had a spare room in her house filled with art and furniture that she didn’t know what to do with.
She also had three storage units filled with more stuff. The interior designer had a really difficult time working with her.
Oh, one person on the show had a $30 million dollar home in La Jolla, CA. They spent $3 million just on the furniture. Must be fun! Huh?
One of the designers does work for Elton John, Cher, Sharon Osborne, etc. He said that he loved shopping with other people’s money! 😝
That retirement advice or whoever wrote it did not get a memo that it is 21st century!
Actually one couple retired now and husband took over almost all the cooking and cleaning!
The ‘retirement’ advice I’ve read rarely talks about how to divide the tasks differently. It usually assumes that DH needs to find new interests (or just 'enjoy leisure', avoid over-eating, and get some exercise), while W does all the usual work to keep running the household. Perhaps DH 'helps', but that's not dividing responsibilities for keeping daily life functioning. It's something that W is supposed to be grateful for, every time. That’s not fair when you are both getting old!
Yes.
In the last month I cleaned, decluttered and in general prepared our house for sale.
Sold it, finalized purchase and legalities of new condo.
Then need to sell, donate most of our furniture.
Fun will be buying new, except checking on line some won’t be ready till late August. I guess we will use patio furniture for a while as we are moving in mid July.
We can do things much faster than our husbands!
Mine is the cleanest man ever, he would clean everything!
But cooking with him, forget it, he would measure everything forever.
It would take hours what takes half an hour for me.
Maybe I will buy him air fryer and good recipe book, I think I found one with 150 recipes.
He took cooking course once and I am still waiting for that meal.
When my MIL was sick I took my husband’s grandmother shopping. She was not fun to go shopping with at all.
If I showed her sensible shoes she would say, “I am not wearing those shoes! They are for old ladies!”
Mind you, she was in her 80’s and really needed a walker but was too vain to use one.
So, she would buy heels and nearly kill herself trying not to fall.
Hahaha, throwing clothes away is one way of him not wearing them again.
I understand if a person has a legitimate reason to do so. The woman that I worked with did everything for her husband. He was lazy and didn’t want to do anything at all.
He thinks I'm beautiful! For me it’s ‘quit when you’re ahead’.
Yes, they operate more slowly than we do!
If I ask my husband to help me in the kitchen, he takes twice as long as I do. I run circles around him because he takes his sweet time! At least, it does get done correctly though.
Oh, and don’t get me started on loading the dishwasher. That’s another area where we differ!
He has everything lined up a specific way. Ask me if I care which way my dishes are facing? 😝 LOL, as long as they get clean, I really don’t care!
He’s very neat though. I can’t say that he is a man who lives like a slob and expects me to pick up after him.
He does his own shopping. I worked with a woman who bought all of her husband’s clothes! I don’t get that at all!
I am so thankful to my mother in law for raising her sons to be independent. He can cook, he helps out and the opposite of how his dad was. His dad’s mother spoiled him by waiting on him hand and foot.
My mother in law said that she had to deprogram my father in law, because she wasn’t going to become like her mother in law.
My husband is a great handyman in a lot of areas. He paints very well. He’s an engineer and is quite anal! When he does a job, it is completed, and done perfectly!
I never hang any pictures on the wall because he would have a fit! He gets out the tape measure and level tool and hangs it exactly as it should be. I would just eyeball it! Hahaha 😝.
Do what the men do when it comes to painting, or any chores.
My dH has perfected the following techniques to avoid working:
Leave the job site to go get the right tool, then do not return.
Mess up something, or break it to prove he cannot do the job.
Excuse himself, sorry, he has to take this call.
Be back later, (or not at all) gotta go to the bathroom.
Start another project and do not complete the job at hand, do not finish either project.
She died of congestive heart failure.
On a few occasions, she felt chest pain and was taken to the hospital to be examined and each time, nothing was found. The local hospital isn't always on its A-game, but it doesn't matter now. We've said goodbye and she's resting easy now.
I have been to renaissance festivals. They are so much fun!
Imagine living during medieval times!
It is fun to get dressed up sometimes. Mom lost her photos in hurricane Katrina.
Some of my cousins were kind enough to send me pictures that they had taken of my mom in her younger days.
Mom was stunning! She dressed beautifully. My father was very handsome and dressed well too.
When I look at photos of my parents in their youth and compare photos of how casually we dress now, we look like slobs! 😝
But hey, we are comfortable and styles and trends change throughout the years.
Can you imagine if we lived during the Victorian era? 😆 hahaha, how long did it take those women to get dressed in the morning? We can be dressed in a few minutes!
I have to say that my mom was never overly strict with how I dressed when I hit my teenage years.
Mom appreciated nice clothes but she didn’t nag me about hanging out in jeans and a tee shirt most of the time.
My mother was very stylish until she died. Even in her end of life hospice care home she wore pretty night gowns.
The aides were lovely with her and would say, “I know that you like to look nice. Let’s put on one of your pretty gowns.”
Their kindness meant so much to mom and to us.
You are correct about the dress being more casual these days in church, everywhere else too.
People dressed up in our parents’ day, and not just for church. We dressed up as kids.
On special occasions, during the holidays or attending a wedding and so on, we always wore a fancy new dress. New purse and shoes too!
I remember my parents dressing up to visit friends, shopping, going out to a restaurant, a movie, etc.
Clothing has gone up in price so much. Nowadays, casual blouses can cost as much as $100 and up.
That’s right!
Our church had fans in the back of church for people to pick up before the service started.
Everyone dressed up. We wore our Sunday best!
Hats, gloves, of course, stockings for ladies to wear with their dresses. Bare legs wouldn’t have been acceptable. Men wore suits, always with a tie.
Our kids don’t know how good they have had it.
When I was younger, no air conditioning in schools or church. I remember seeing people pass out in church. Those paper fans didn’t cool us off too much!
I don’t know how the nuns at my school didn’t pass out while teaching us. They wore those full habits back then.
We didn’t have air conditioning in our house until I was a teenager.
need - summers in Ontario when I was a child were very hot and humid, but it never hit 100. It didn't cool down at night either. No one had AC in those days.
nacy - I remember one summer like that in Fort Mc about 15 years ago They were digging up the sewers in front of the house then started digging them up behind the house. The noise bothered me more than anything else. It was awful. You couldn't get away from it.
It is stifling, zaps my energy. It’s very difficult to be outside when it is so hot. It doesn’t cool down at night either. The sun goes down but the humidity doesn’t.