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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1:52:00 PM PDT
Today is my second time participating in WFMW hosted my ROCKSINMYDRYER.typepad.com . Go check out her site, there are lots of great tips and tricks, not to mention really great journal links and nice ladies!
Today I am going to share a lot. Starting with some random tips for reusing items around the house.
1- Use old plastic ketchup bottles for pancake batter to make the perfect pancake or whatever fun shape you choose. It's also a great bottle for adding sauces and decorating plates for your very fancy smansy dinners.
2- I reuse my plastic coffee container with the snap and seal lid for laundry soap. Since we buy in bulk, the gigantic box does not fit on my shelves above my washer, so I feel the coffee container up and use the coffee scoop to measure the powder. We use 2 coffee scoops per load. We save so much laundry soap this way, and it's conveniently in a nice size container. Our clothes are just as clean and were saving money by using only 2 scoops!
3- Old potpourri goes in our vacuum bag and every time we vacuum the house smells great!
4- Old cooking or home magazines are great for deco-pauge. You can totally transform a plain old wooden recipe box with a little mod-podge and old magazine clippings. The possibilities are endless!
5- Hubby's old undershirts make for great rags to dry the car and to wash mirrors....no lent.
6- The absolute best way to wash windows is with vinegar/water mixture and old newspaper. I don't know why but it makes the windows/mirrors shine like brand new.
Now the second part of my WFMW is going to be something that personally means a great deal to me. I am on the path to self discovery of sorts. I have had almost all of my personal relationships/friendships fail in the past year. I have done a lot of soul searching, praying, and research the past 2 weeks. I want to know why my relationships are failing. Since I am the common denominator I need to know what it is I am doing wrong.
I have figured out that I am a fixer. I always want to fix people's problems and help them in some way. I have the desire to be needed by someone for some reason. I look back at damn near every relationship I have had in the past and sure enough it was always with people that needed something, were having a hard time in their life, or were just plain CLUELESS. After a while people just don't need you anymore. They move on. If you have a friendship like this, be careful. I for whatever reason need to be NEEDED. So while I start a relationship with these people I am feeling great, and for friendships fast, and we become quite close in a short period of time. But eventually it all ends and then I am left hurt, and mad, and without a friend. At the start of each of these relationships I felt that this was going to be a good friendship that was going to last a long long time. I get mad at the way these "friends" treat me as if I am yesterday's trash. How dare they! I feel that I have been a good, no a GREAT friend to each of these ladies. I have gone above and beyond for them. Time and time again. So why do they end? I believe it is because everyone eventually moves on and just as children we eventually grow up and leave the nest to spread our wings. They are no longer in the situation they once were when we became friends and they are ready to start a new chapter in life. Sometimes, I think our friendship may represent a time when they struggled or were not the "picture perfect woman" and they just choose not to remember that.
I know that I need to find a healthy relationship with someone who does not need anything from me.....however they want to be my friend. To some of you this may all sound very childish and you are asking yourselves what is wrong with me. I assure you I am completely normal. In the course of reading up on this very topic, I was shocked to have found so many women go through this exact issue. So, I not just me!
Some times, I just was not a good judge of character. Sometimes, the relationships were completely one sided, and sometimes once they no longer had a need for me, it was done. I am compiling a list of good qualities that a true friend should have. And I continue to pray that God will show me what my faults are so that I can fix them. And I pray that when I am in a better place emotionally that the right person will come into my life and that I can have a meaningful friendship. Until then, I am on the fence with everyone in my life. I need to figure a lot of things out right now, and probably I need to do that without anything hanging over my head so to speak. I have a blank slate right now. Nothing more to lose. I am starting anew. I will no longer beat myself up over this. I am a good woman, a good friend, a good wife, a good momma, I am NOT perfect.
So here is my list so far.....
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WFMW
Today is my second time participating in WFMW hosted my ROCKSINMYDRYER.typepad.com . Go check out her site, there are lots of great tips and tricks, not to mention really great journal links and nice ladies!
Today I am going to share a lot. Starting with some random tips for reusing items around the house.
1- Use old plastic ketchup bottles for pancake batter to make the perfect pancake or whatever fun shape you choose. It's also a great bottle for adding sauces and decorating plates for your very fancy smansy dinners.
2- I reuse my plastic coffee container with the snap and seal lid for laundry soap. Since we buy in bulk, the gigantic box does not fit on my shelves above my washer, so I feel the coffee container up and use the coffee scoop to measure the powder. We use 2 coffee scoops per load. We save so much laundry soap this way, and it's conveniently in a nice size container. Our clothes are just as clean and were saving money by using only 2 scoops!
3- Old potpourri goes in our vacuum bag and every time we vacuum the house smells great!
4- Old cooking or home magazines are great for deco-pauge. You can totally transform a plain old wooden recipe box with a little mod-podge and old magazine clippings. The possibilities are endless!
5- Hubby's old undershirts make for great rags to dry the car and to wash mirrors....no lent.
6- The absolute best way to wash windows is with vinegar/water mixture and old newspaper. I don't know why but it makes the windows/mirrors shine like brand new.
Now the second part of my WFMW is going to be something that personally means a great deal to me. I am on the path to self discovery of sorts. I have had almost all of my personal relationships/friendships fail in the past year. I have done a lot of soul searching, praying, and research the past 2 weeks. I want to know why my relationships are failing. Since I am the common denominator I need to know what it is I am doing wrong.
I have figured out that I am a fixer. I always want to fix people's problems and help them in some way. I have the desire to be needed by someone for some reason. I look back at damn near every relationship I have had in the past and sure enough it was always with people that needed something, were having a hard time in their life, or were just plain CLUELESS. After a while people just don't need you anymore. They move on. If you have a friendship like this, be careful. I for whatever reason need to be NEEDED. So while I start a relationship with these people I am feeling great, and for friendships fast, and we become quite close in a short period of time. But eventually it all ends and then I am left hurt, and mad, and without a friend. At the start of each of these relationships I felt that this was going to be a good friendship that was going to last a long long time. I get mad at the way these "friends" treat me as if I am yesterday's trash. How dare they! I feel that I have been a good, no a GREAT friend to each of these ladies. I have gone above and beyond for them. Time and time again. So why do they end? I believe it is because everyone eventually moves on and just as children we eventually grow up and leave the nest to spread our wings. They are no longer in the situation they once were when we became friends and they are ready to start a new chapter in life. Sometimes, I think our friendship may represent a time when they struggled or were not the "picture perfect woman" and they just choose not to remember that.
I know that I need to find a healthy relationship with someone who does not need anything from me.....however they want to be my friend. To some of you this may all sound very childish and you are asking yourselves what is wrong with me. I assure you I am completely normal. In the course of reading up on this very topic, I was shocked to have found so many women go through this exact issue. So, I not just me!
Some times, I just was not a good judge of character. Sometimes, the relationships were completely one sided, and sometimes once they no longer had a need for me, it was done. I am compiling a list of good qualities that a true friend should have. And I continue to pray that God will show me what my faults are so that I can fix them. And I pray that when I am in a better place emotionally that the right person will come into my life and that I can have a meaningful friendship. Until then, I am on the fence with everyone in my life. I need to figure a lot of things out right now, and probably I need to do that without anything hanging over my head so to speak. I have a blank slate right now. Nothing more to lose. I am starting anew. I will no longer beat myself up over this. I am a good woman, a good friend, a good wife, a good momma, I am NOT perfect.
So here is my list so far.....
• Good friends listen to each other.
• Good friends don't put each other down or hurt each other's feelings.
• Good friends try to understand each other's feelings and moods.
• Good friends help each other solve problems.
• Good friends give each other compliments.
• Good friends can disagree without hurting each other.
• Good friends are dependable.
• Good friends respect each other.
• Good friends are trustworthy.
• Good friends give each other room to change.
• Good friends care about each other.
* Good friends don't throw you to the wayside when they make new friends.
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Great post sweetie, great tips as well as the list of what you are seeing you need and want from a friendship. My #1 thing is Good friends are honest with each other, even when honesty isn't sunshine and roses.
You're on your way hon. -
Great ideas & thank you for sharing....your friend list is so very true.....
Michele -
great friendship points.....that's why we work!!!
Becky -
Ok I am so going to try the katsup bottle trick with the pancake mix! AND I'm sure you can shake it up right in the same bottle too :) thanks for that tip AND loved your entry today!
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