Comments on: My Patient Husband’s love note

By: Moving: the good « Seven angels, four kids, one family

Moving: the good « Seven angels, four kids, one family — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:02:43 +0000

[...] ordered a super high-efficiency washing machine/dryer combination (per my Patient Husband’s love note) and they were installed on Friday while the movers were here. They work [...]

By: CricketB

CricketB — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:25 +0000

About the email addresses, you own a domain name. Most host packages include a huge number of email addresses. Yes, it means your husband and kids would be @Mommy.com , but you’ll never have to change it again — very nice, if your ISP’s bureaucracy cancels your account. Another idea is use pobox.com or sneakemail.com. Give out those addresses, then tell that company to forward to your current address. If you move, just tell pobox or sneakemail. Much easier.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:48:41 +0000

You have to change e-mail addresses to move? That’s odd. It’s not like a phone number where the exchange means something.

If you start considering the ones with a bit of silver that can sanitize the wash in cold water (it’s a property of many metals), don’t bother. I have sock yarn with just as much silver in it and I can knit you a pair you can wear and then throw in the wash for the same effect.

By: CricketB

CricketB — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:37:46 +0000

Anyone can buy a card, but looking for sales on washing machines to make your beloved’s life easier? That’s devotion! (My guy got a clean garage and new shelves for Fathers’ Day — some (aka much) assembly required, and let daughter and me do the garden.)

I grew up with a septic system, we have one at the cottage, and my parents still have one. The biggest problem with cottage tanks is under-use or erratic use.

It’s worth having it pumped and inspected once. (The same guy does both.) They don’t need a camera or anything. The pumper can tell you the size of the tank, whether it’s the right size for your family, how much sludge and foam there was, and recommend when to check next. He’ll check that the baffles are still in place and the tile bed is working. As geeks, you’ll happily keep a record, and the pumper will laugh at you for doing it. (He’ll also laugh if you record where the hatch is, so you don’t have to dig up half the lawn next time.) We never used the enzymes.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:51:27 +0000

Nothing cuter than a man doing yardwork…

By: philangelus

philangelus — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:36:54 +0000

Have you ever seen the graphic going around the internet about housewife p * r n? It’s a guy vacuuming.

By: ladyknight

ladyknight — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:29:20 +0000

That was very sweet of your husband!

My sweetie did an equally (to me) romantic thing this weekend; he spent 2+ hours on Sunday digging out a new flowerbed for me! Lined it with pretty red bricks, raked the potting soil on top, and dug the hole for my rosebush. That’s better than a card or earrings any day!

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:30:01 +0000

MAJOR lovely man points for the PH! We had septic in our first home in Scottsdale, AZ, and several members of our family here in NY have summer lake houses with smaller, trickier systems. The rules of thumb are to go easy on the tp (they have single-ply and quicker-degrading types, but just using less of the Charmin is fine, too), compost in the kitchen rather than using the dispose-all whenever feasible, and flush a scoop of the enzyme stuff down the loo once a month and it will prolong the system’s capacity between pumpings.

I vote for red (it’s the Aries in me) or stainless!

By: philangelus

philangelus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:29:20 +0000

We probably won’t get the red one, actually. That’s about three grand for the set. But there’s a very nice one that’s less than half that, and I’ve got my eye on it.

My grandmother used to have colored toilet paper. I remember blue and pink, and sometimes patterns (white with pink.)

Catherine, I’ve been assured by others that the septic system can handle our amazing water usage.

But think about three teenagers using the showers too. So we might lower the number of laundry loads, and then use it some other way.

We use Arm&Hammer scent free/dye free. Is that safe? I’m goign to have to add a whole new level to my awareness of what goes down the drain!

By: Jenni

Jenni — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:53:44 +0000

coloured loo paper
They make that?!?

That’s so very sweet, Jane! I’ll pray for you to get them in red.
My Hunny bought the blue ones for me when we moved in and they make laundry time fun (how else can you react to pushing buttons on the washer that look exactly like the ones on your cd player?)
My only beef was that we had to switch detergents cuz our local stores don’t sell the HE version of Arm & Hammer, but it was a small price to pay.