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What Can I Do About My Landlord? Long?

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:48:29 +0000

I recently moved across the country to a new state. I had to rent a place sight unseen so we could save money on paying for hotels. The lady got into contact with us a few months prior to the move and she sounded nice enough. She sent us pictures of the house and told us about the neighborhood. We spoke a few times on the phone and everything seemed fine. She has an older house built in the 30′s and told us she would be fine with us taking down her wallpaper and painting if we wanted.
We move across the country. The day we got there we had just spent 12 hours driving through horrific weather and by the time we get there we are exhausted and it’s dark out. She tries to insist that we go to midnight mass with her. I explain that my husband and I have been driving for 12 hours and just want to go to sleep. We finally convince her that we just want to go to sleep. She shows us the house and it obviously hasn’t been taken care of. The wallpaper is coming down (which she fixes by painting a patch of paint over the hole). The cabinet doors close with velcro, windows are cracked or broken. I could go on and on. Needless to say, if I had looked at the place before we moved, we never would have rented it. There is also no oven, a stovetop, but no oven. She told us that the oven was broken, but inferred that we would just buy one and take it with us. There isn’t any place to put an oven in the kitchen. Now we have to cook with a toaster oven. The bathroom walls are covered with religious messages from her and her daughter.
A few weeks later my husband calls about painting her hideous pink walls a more neutral color which she could pick out of the paint swatches we sent her. She completely freaks out and yells at my husband, she doesn’t know why any body would want to change anything in her precious house because it’s perfect in every way. After a few weeks she relents. She comes over to “check on things” and loves the paint color.
A couple months after that, my husband goes to wash the cars in the driveway and the faucet won’t turn off. We call and let her know, and she asks if we use a wrench because that’s what she always did. We try to use a wrench, but it is completely stripped from her wrenching on it for 30 years. She then proceeds to blame us and tells us that it worked perfectly when she used it in December (which isn’t possible because the snow was too high). It takes her two weeks before she relents and calls a plumber to fix it. During this time, water is spraying out onto the driveway and creating increasingly large ice puddles.
Yesterday, she came over to “check on things” again. She is two hours late and then spent 3 hours poking around the house, opening cabinets and drawers and talking on her cell phone the entire time. A tree in her yard blew down during a wind storm and my husband thoughtfully chopped it up and disposed of it. She yelled at us, telling us it was her daughters tree and it was our fault that it was dead. There was no saving the tree. Her mother is extremely old and sick and she let the poor woman sit in the car for the entire three hours she was there.
The point of this is, I don’t want her to come over to the house again. She is extremely attached to the house and resents having people live in it, even though we take care of it. She resents having to spend any sort of money on maintenance (like fixing the broken windows). What can I say to her to make it clear that I don’t appreciate her coming over every few weeks “to visit”. I know that it’s her property and she has a right to see it, but she is not acting in a professional manner at all. She acts as though she still lives in the house and my husband and I are just visitors. I’m afraid that she will start coming over to the house and letting herself in while we aren’t there. What can I say to make her get it?

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Do You Find This Amusing?

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:19:11 +0000

if someone randomly walks up to you and says
“there is a large jungle cat in my toaster oven”

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Rank The Following In Order Of Largest Wavelength To Smallest Wavelength:?

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:12:59 +0000

green light, a proton travelling at 1 X 10^5 m/s, ultraviolet light, a toaster oven sitting perfectly still, a student walking along at 3 mph.

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Wrapping A Large Sized Wedding Gift??

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:56:32 +0000

I have bought a toaster oven as a wedding gift for my friend’s son. But how should I wrap it? The box is quite big, and I don’t have wrapping paper that will cover the entire box. What other alternatives should I use? Other ideas?

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I Need To Sell Large Quanity Of Apliances To A Salvage Or Liquidation Company Please Let Me Know Of Companies?

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:16:40 +0000

Microwaves, toaster ovens, etc

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What’s The Best Way To Make Perfect Over Easy Eggs?

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:56:34 +0000

I tried with a little oil, a little margarine, a little of both. . . on Teflon, with plastic spatula, with metal spatula, bottom on stove and top in toaster oven broil. . . I tried so many ways but nuthin’ works perfectly!
I’m thinking I’ll need a large flat breakfast nook with a paint scraper to flip. Am I wrong?

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Working Women – Planning The Weekly Menu For A Smallish Family…?

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:03:13 +0000

I am looking for an easy and creative way to do my cooking for the week when I am off on the weekend. I guess this is a 2 part question – I would also like to ask how you eat well during the week without spending a lot of time and a $$fortune doing it? Also, I have one young fussy eater.
I have a large electric roaster oven, large crock pot, small crock pot, electric frying pan, microwave, toaster oven and of course, an oven/range.

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Baking Biscuits: I Can’t Find My Cookie Sheet ?

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:59:18 +0000

Baking biscuits: I can’t find my cookie sheet can I use a cake pan for drop biscuits? I would normally just ask next door but since I’m in China at the moment I am the only person I know with an oven (large toaster oven). Also does anyone know how long it takes to cook meatloaf in a toaster oven?

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Should I Bother With A Toaster Oven?

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:46:45 +0000

I live in a small dormroom. I have a bed, desk, and small bureau. The kitchen is at the other end of a large dorm building, and its in disgusting condition. I mean horrible.
I want to eat good tasting food, but settle for “quick and easy” meals as I often need to go other places and Im too lazy to learn to cook. I own a small electric grill for cooking meats and burgers, but I have nothing to toast bread. I’d like the versatility of having a toaster oven, especially for personal pizzas, bagels and of course, toast, but other than that I wouldn’t know what to do with it. Is it worth getting? Is there maybe a toaster oven/microwave that does a decent job?

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How Do I Adjust Baking Time/temperature To Make Mini Pies?

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:47:12 +0000

I am planning on making mini pumpkin and apple pies with an after school group as a thanksgiving dessert for them to each bring home.
We have a large convection/toaster oven, but I’m not sure how the baking times/temperatures should be adjusted to compensate for the fact that they are so small. (We are using tart sized baking tins)

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