Daily Archives: October 2, 2009

If your washer drains into a slop sink and you’ve been painting earlier in the week, no matter how busy you are in the morning, ALWAYS make sure the sink is clear before running a load of wash. Paint supplies and the residual paint on them tends to severely clog drains.

Attempting to teach one Bible story to twenty sugar-high kids between the ages of 6-months and 5-years is just as crazy as it sounds. If at all possible, keep a Zoe (from Sesame Street) puppet with you at all times. Be warned, however, that some toddlers are afraid of Zoe and will scream hysterically if she tries to kiss them.

Hip-high piles of dirty laundry aren’t always a terrible thing. For example, when your basement floods. These typically atrocious mountains absorb the majority of the water leaving less for you to mop. (This works best if you back slowly out of the room, close the door and pretend you didn’t see the 2″ of water; go attempt to teach twenty kids something about Moses, but mostly about Zoe, then return to clean up hours later.) Since you had to wash those clothes anyway, you have no new work. In fact, you now have greater motivation to tackle the work you’ve procrastinated for days. Come tomorrow morning, you’ll be amazed at all you’ve accomplished in a short period of time! Clean floors, finished laundry and maybe even an aerobic workout climbing flights of stairs.

The floor of a basement laundry room is not the best place to store non-perishable groceries, especially if you have ignored Lesson #1 regarding paint supplies. (Normally I never do this, but my week has been crazy and I put them there just until I had more time to properly organize the dry goods on the pantry shelving we have in that room. Unfortunately, my dry goods are no longer dry.)

Reusable plastic bags that look like they’re waterproof usually aren’t.