Comments | kellyrfineman: Pottery Barn woes

kellyrfineman

Pottery Barn woes

Sep 17, 2006 16:24

No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with their products or their customer service. It's their catalogues. They make me feel inadequate, and like a really genuinely bad housekeeper. Go ahead, pick up their catalogue and have a look-see. No papers, pretty much anywhere. No "stuff" thrown on top of all the flat surfaces, or covering the floor in ( Read more... )

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linbinwriter September 17 2006, 22:09:56 UTC

Yes, the pottery barn catalogue is right up there for feeling inadequate with my college alumni magazine. It's a toss up between torturing myself with all the unstained sheets and leather ottomans (always wanted one of those) or the college's updates for each graduating class of what all the successful brain surgeons and pubished writers have been up to.

kellyrfineman September 17 2006, 22:19:54 UTC

Teddy Roosevelt looks like he's looking past me into my house and disapproving of the décor. Sigh.

I know whatcha mean kidlit_kim September 17 2006, 22:31:41 UTC

I know what you mean. My granny is coming this week, and I have not even started cleaning. (Why bother with three monsters running amuck?)

I'm thinking she's almost 90...maybe she won't come to my messy room? I suppose she'll make it to the kitchen. I'd better get the paper under control in there. I've been meaning to do that anyway.

Re: I know whatcha mean kellyrfineman September 18 2006, 12:30:36 UTC

The stuff that needs to be thrown out isn't the real challenge. The real challenge are all the forms that you need to make decisions about. Do I need this store coupon? Do I want to sign up for X committee? And, oh yeah, I'd better keep this one to remind me of the dates for soccer/school nights/dances. Ack.

beachalatte September 18 2006, 00:00:59 UTC

I need to do that too. . clean the office

kellyrfineman September 18 2006, 12:28:53 UTC

Oh yeah -- I need to clean the office too. Only my "office" is a desk and a shelf wedged in a niche between the family room and the floor of the kitchen (I live in a split level, so the kitchen is 3 feet higher than the family room, and my niche is next to a cut-out where you can see from the kitchen into the FR. So I can clearly see that I need to clean not only my desk area, but the entire family room. And kitchen.

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kellyrfineman September 18 2006, 12:23:48 UTC

I am certain that you are correct. If I would just spend all the money for the stuff in the rooms they show, I'm certain my house would remain as tidy as the pictures, right?

amanda_marrone September 18 2006, 01:54:39 UTC

You are sworn to secrecy--lock this post--Um, I have clear packing tape on the edges of some of my couches because the cats were scratching,--well, only Gink was scratching--Nutty is a good boy. But I hear you--looking at those pages--where are the cat proof couches?

Gink is a bad, bad, cat.

kellyrfineman September 18 2006, 12:25:50 UTC

Have you tried the squirt gun method of negative reinforcement? It works for most kitties, although my ex-husband ended up with one kitten that thought being squirted with a water gun was a good thing -- and his furniture shows it. I, on the other hand, have cats who are declawed in the front. And yes, I felt awful about that whole "amputation" thing.

amanda_marrone September 18 2006, 13:29:39 UTC

I recently got out the old scratching post and that seems to be curtailing the couch scratching--we tried the water bottle but we'd hear him scratching late at night--I'm still not buying those studies that say pets lower blood pressure--I think the make it go up as much as the might lower it so it's all evens out.