-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 06-29-16  22:45 <=-

 >> There were 5 girls and 1 boy in my family, so yes, generally the two
 >> oldest girls had cleaning responsibilities... very large two story
 >> home, so one would get the downstairs, and one the upstairs :)  Then
 >> later when both my two oldest sisters left home for college, etc., It
 >> was mostly me with some help from Mom.

6 girls and 2 boys in our family... the boys were number 6 and 8... when
I, the oldest, started college, they were 7 and 1... But as far back as
I remember, we all had some sort of chores according to our abilities,
whether cleaning or in the kitchen or laundry... and the older looked
after the younger...

 >> I didn't mind it.. if you kept up with things, it wasn't hard to get
 >> through quickly.  I do remember having some good fights with my
 >> youngest two sisters (they were maybe 10 and 6 or so) over their "mess"
 >> Lol..  Them: "YOU CAN'T THROW OUT MY FROG CAGE!!! I NEED THAT!" hahaha
 > Just had to encourage them to take care of their own mess, and then
 > nobody else would be threatening to toss their precious treasures... ;)
 JK> That was the problem they both seemed to have :)  I guess it goes with
 JK> the age pretty much.. :)  After enough warnings though they did start
 JK> to keep up with things like that :)

By the time I had my own kid, I'd decided I wasn't going to clean up
after other people any more... so he was responsible for his own room
(and had to keep his stuff picked up elsewhere in the house)... He was
told that it was his mess, and eventually he WOULD have to clean it up,
before he left home, if not before... I did start to doubt my strategy
at one point, when the room started to fill up...  But, the summer
before he left for college, he mucked out the room totally... Dozens of
garbage bags went out, and an amazing amount of missing stuff was found,
but he had the room totally cleaned bedore he left... And, learned his
lesson permanently...  (G)

 >> Theobromine can also stimulate the heart, but it does have a mild
 >> diuretic effect and improves blood flow around the body, leading to
 >> a net reduction in blood pressure.
 >> Cocoa beans are also good sources of these two substances.
 > A very good reason to be ingesting plenty of chocolate, in all
 > forms..... ;)

 JK> I never need convincing of eating plenty of chocolate 

Me, neither... but I always like having more good reasons to back it
up...  ;)

ttyl      neb

... ...I'm not loafing - I'm doing research on inertia.

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