Tandem Cleaning – Getting By With a Little Help From My Friend

I’ve mentioned before that twice a month I get together with a friend who lives an hour away. We let our kids play, and often help each other out with projects.

Sometimes we work on fun things like making Jedi costumes for a birthday party, but other times, like today, we tackle the not-so-fun stuff.

The stuff that I rarely can motivate myself to do.

We scrubbed down the kitchen.

As in, the cabinets, the walls, the outside of the fridge, etc.

You know, the stuff even normal people put off doing.

I’m so thankful to have a friend who doesn’t pretend to be sick when I tell her to wear her grubby clothes to my house. And honestly, it makes a dreaded task take only half as long, and it’s almost fun when you do it together.

Almost.

I laughed when she looked at me and said, “You know we’re going to do this next you come to my house, don’t you?”

I’ll wear my grubbies.

I’m linking this up to Finer Things Friday over at The Finer Things in Life.  

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"Stuff" is Singular

I’m a grammar lover.

I know.  Nerd alert!

Recently, I read a blog post about stuff.

She said something like, “All of that stuff are . . . “

It sounded funky, and I knew it was grammatically incorrect.

Stuff is.

That’s the problem.  We think of stuff as being plural.  The stuff probably does consist of quite a few plural items.  Plural books.  Plural coupons.  Plural school projects.

A singular shoe.

But when it’s all together in a pile . . . it’s stuff.

And stuff is singular.

It has no personality.  No individuality. 

Hmmmm.

I am fully aware that by declaring myself a grammar nerd, I open myself up to criticism of my own grammar.  I will declare that I am fully aware that I take artistic license in writing incomplete sentences.  I also struggle greatly with where to place commas and periods around quotation marks. 

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Friday Reminders

Time for another Friday Affiliate Link post! If any of these things are things you would do anyway, I’d love it if you would use my links!

There are some good cleaning product coupons available at Coupons.com. There is a coupon for $1 off of one box of Hefty trashbags, several Windex coupons, various Scrubbing Bubbles product coupons, and more.

The vast majority of coupons that I print are from Coupons.com. They are by far my favorite printable coupon site. It’s free, there’s no registration required, and you only print the coupons you want. They generally print three to a page, so if I need two coupons, I’ll usually print one more that I might need to keep from wasting paper. When you go to Coupons.com, look for the categories of coupons on the left of the page. The cleaning product coupons are under “household.” If you click on that, you’ll see those coupons first and will be able to find them more easily.

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And if you’d like to know which coupons are going to be in this Sunday’s paper, go here:

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And if you’re headed out to eat, check Restaurant.com to see if any of your local restaurants are participating. Right now, by using the code TREAT, you can get a 25$ gift certificate for only 2$! My best friend says she buys them all the time. Read the fine print because you do generally have to spend 35, and the restaurant can automatically add in your tip at 18% of the pre-gift certificate cost, but it’s still a great deal, and they can usually eat at a nice restaurant for 15$, which these days is amazing! I was so glad I checked because there’s actually a nice restaurant in my little town on there!


Restaurant.com Weekly Promo Offer 160 X 160

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It’s Friday, so that means it’s also Mega Swagbucks Day, with more chances to win Swagbucks by searching the internet as you normally would.

If you haven’t signed up yet, you should. You can buy all kinds of things in the swagbucks store, including Amazon gift cards! I’ve been saving mine up, and currently have 100.00 to spend on Amazon!

You can read my Swagbucks explanation here. And if you sign up through my link, I get a matching swagbuck for each one that you win through searching the Internet, up to 1,000!

Those Amazon gift cards come in handy for all sorts of stuff. Did you know that you can get everything you need for Halloween at Amazon? From costumes to decorations to candy!

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And don’t forget that you can get 15% off of your first order at Soap.com by using my referral code – NONY.

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