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Household tips that get you out of a spot
Posted by Austin on 11 March 2010 - 8:39am.
This is a little gem that I have picked up in my decade-so-far of marital bliss.
Scenario - You are meant to be cooking dinner, but the snooker has distracted you. Yikes! Now you hear her key in the door...oh no!
Solution - simply rush into the kitchen and start chopping an onion. The activity makes you appear to be hard at it and the aroma even can prompt the comment "oooh...something smells nice!".
This really works. Any more?
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Lots of paper
strewn about your desk, pencil behind your ear and glasses perched atop your head and slightly ruffled look spells " Look at me, Im really busy " or "Im hopelessly inefficient and a well-trained golden retriever would be more productive "
See also ...
... printing out some random document, picking it up and saying, 'I'm just off to have a word with finance.'
Good for a nice walk around the block for at least 20 minutes.
Just be in the kitchen...
..doing anything - eg -
...about to take out the recycling/compost, putting the dishes away/clearing the dishwasher, placing dishes somewhere near the sink/in the dishwasher...
The onion is good though.
Loading / unloading the Dishwasher
can take anything up to the whole of a second-half to complete to a satisfactory standard
I also sometimes do household tasks because it seems acceptable to the GLW that I am wandering around the house with the Ipod on, listening to podcasts
Do the hoovering
it's a quick & easy alternative to tidying up.