Alicia Knight

We don't sort colors anymore -- we use a product called a dye magnet.
Just throw it in the washing machine with the dirty clothes and the dye
magnet magically prevents any colors that are running from sticking to
other clothes. http://www.dyemagnet.com/

http://www.nbc4.com/doesitreallydothatarchive/1166053/detail.html%27,%27width=450,height=225%27)

My son recently expressed an interest in learning home economics. He's
already mastered cleaning -- he can sweep and mop a large
kitchen/breakfast room floor pretty well. We're all enjoying that he's
really enjoying learning how to cook. He's actually very good and isn't
afraid to try complicated recipes that require an array of skills -- a
recipe for fisherman's pie required sauteeing, chopping, pureeing,
making a pastry crust, making a white sauce. He's learned to make an
awesome stir fry vegetables with rice, fetucinni carbonara, veggie
lasagna. He's had to create the menus and shop for the food. I've only
had to run interferrence with a fish monger who questioned why this 12
year old boy was asking for a pound each of whitefish and shrimp.

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PSoroosh@... wrote:

> I was responding to people blaming their parents or step-parents for not
> teaching them about cleaning. I don't see it as needing a whole lot of
> "teaching" -- it isn't that hard to learn IF someone wants to learn
> it. There
> just isn't that much to it that would have to be taught by someone who is
> more expert, is there? There might be -- I might not know it (and
> Sandra and
> many others here have seen my house so I should say that I do know HOW to
> clean a lot better than what it looks like - I really just don't like
> to take
> the time). And there a b'zillions of household hints books and
> websites, etc.
> They're sometimes fun.
>
> I don't separate colors and whites - I separate new colors from
> everything
> until they've been washed a few times so they won't bleed. After that - I
> wash everything together unless it seems to be something particularly
> delicate because I noticed there was a "delicate" setting on the washing
> machine and figured that was what it was for. <g>
>
> --pam