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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

... like the water beetle. Travel lightly and make many trips.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Hmm, sounds a lot like my moving method for today.

Not so much for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day the Big Burly Guys with Large Truck come and take all my stuff away.

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

Oh, dear. I read too fast, and saw: "Big Gurly Guys with Large Truck." It was quite an image.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*giggle* I suppose that is possible. I'll let you know, after.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

B A Bay, B E Bee
B I Bickie Bye B O Bo
Bickie Bye Bo B U Boo
Bickie Bye Bo Boo
--From "The Alphabet Song" as sung by The Three Stooges.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

rivka, I hope all goes well with the big burly gurly guys.

This is sounding like a Dr. Suess book...

Hmm...

sndrake: [Hail]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Thanks, Bob. [Smile]

I actually have no concerns about the Big Burly Gurly Guys.

It's the getting all the stuff ready FOR the Big Burly Gurly Hurly Guys that has me stressed. Which is why I'm practicing avoidance . . . [Wink]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

The context for this, goes way back into my childhood. That line above is one of my father's favorite sayings. I don't know if he came up with it himself or not.

But I grew up hearing my mother hollering at him, "Ted you're water-beetling again!"

I am my father's daughter. We had a bunch of brush we had to haul out to the curb because this week is the "shredder" week for our neighborhood. So I slowly and methodically began taking two and three branches to the curb. After I'd been doing this for 10 minutes Steve walked out, grabbed an armful, and demolished the rest of the brush pile in two trips. He didn't call me a water beetle but did comment on my inefficency!

AJ

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

"Thanks, Bob. I actually have no concerns about the Big Burly Gurly Guys.

It's the getting all the stuff ready FOR the Big Burly Gurly Hurly Guys that has me stressed. Which is why I'm practicing avoidance . . ."

Let's hope your not being ready does not make them Surly Burly Gurly Hurly Guys.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Nah, whatever isn't ready for them to take, I get to lug during the course of the week. (That means I will be the surly one, not them. [Wink]

)

And since I have discovered that the box store is closed today, that will probably be a substantial amount. [Wall Bash]

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

Are you moving? Did I miss that? Or is this a Flylady kind of thing?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I am moving. Flylady has never inspired many [Wall Bash]

s from me, although a fair number of [Dont Know]

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

I think the only way I could declutter would be to move. I asked my husband if we could just pretend to move, and do that Clean Sweep thing, where they move all the stuff out onto the lawn.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Aj -- but you accomplished the purpose -- and got Steve to do most the work! I would say that was a winner.

When I was married it would often go like this -- something would need to be done and he said he would do it, but put it off and put it off indefinately. So finally I would go out and start on whatever it was (even if it was a half-hearted effort) and then he would suddenly show up to do the job -- couldn't stand the guilt of seeing me work without him!

[Big Grin]

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

It's a macho thing. If the what needs to be done doesn't bother the female enough to get her to start fixin' the problem, then a dude ain't gonna admit he's more delicate in sensibilities, effeminate than his mate by fixin' the problem before absolutely necessary. The absolutely necessary point being defined by the woman bein' fed up with it not being done.

Once the woman starts, "that's a man's job" kicks in. And the dude takes over and finishes to prove that he's more masculine than his mate.

[ August 23, 2004, 12:31 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

But it wasn't an issue of physicality. I am equally capable of carrying a huge heap of branches. It simply didn't cross my mind that that way would be the most efficient...

AJ

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

This is how I work. If I have all day to get 3 things done, why knock 'em all out in an hour and have nothing to do? Of course, my motto is 'Why run when you can walk, why walk when you can stand, why stand when you can sit, and why sit when you can lie down?' so what do I know. [Big Grin]

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Why post when you can......

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Why deal with packing and moving when you could just stay put? Oh, wait, I know the answer to this one . . .

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

I like the word "burly." I'm going to use it more often.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

The Burly Men have arrived.

That is all.