Tag: Cleaning
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An Unclogged Drain, Letting it All Flow
I recently moved into a new place that’s great. It’s an old New England house, so it has a lot of unique features and character. There are narrow, hardwood floor boards, built in bay window seating. It’s a little small and the closets are at most two and a half feet deep and five foot…
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Cleaning Up: Feeling at Home Around New Friends
A lot has happened in the last two months. I switched careers, found a job earning the most I’ve ever made, moved into a new apartment while I was unemployed with a person I’ve only known for three months. And I’m starting out with no money in my emergency fund. I’ve also been cleaning non-stop.…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or so drug…