You have got to be kidding me

[pegkerr]

This "tip" was included with a series of e-mail tips I received from the Dollar Stretcher today:

I save time and energy with a little housecleaning trick I learned from a friend. If you've ever scrubbed the sticky goo from the top of your refrigerator, you understand how cooking oil and smoke can mix with dust and make a mess. Now I just cover the top of the fridge with a layer of clear plastic wrap. When it gets dirty, I peel it off and throw it away, and then I replace it with a new layer. Whenever I can take short cuts and eliminate even a small portion of housecleaning, I'm happy.

Ordinarily, I like the tips I get with Dollar Stretcher, but I'll have to admit that when I read this, I thought, Lady, what kind of stuff are you smoking? Do you expect me to care what the top of my refrigerator looks like? Ever???

Jeez. Get a life. One that doesn't involve worrying about the tops of refrigerators.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

According to Wife (5'-2"), the tops of refrigerators do not exist. They are mythical. I could put a diamond tiara up there and she'd never see it.

[dreamcoat-mom.livejournal.com]

They are mythical - the place between worlds and the time out of mind where the flashlight, extra batteries, the key to the chest freezer and the spare cell phone go. It can only be reached by hopeless halflings like me with the aid of a mysterious force called the Kit 'chin Chare.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Wife has been known to access that mythical realm by invoking the rare and elusive h'sb'nd.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I live now in a strange and wonderful place where the "top of the fridge" is also my counterspace. Yay for well-designed galleys!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Ah, but does your galley allow a 6' human to stand up straight? The ones I've sampled, that's the trade-off....

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Our galley allows a 6'3" human to stand up mostly straight. (His head actually brushes the underside of the deck, but he can stand up straight with clearance just a foot toward centerline from the galley, under one of the hatches.