I need some major help!!!! I have to decide between putting an offer for these 2 condos (built in 2004). -They are both in the same building – except one is pretty cheap, 2nd floor, but I’ll need some work (painting and new carpet – it smells like cigarettes in there but I think if we change the rugs it’ll help eliminate the order). -The other one is about $45k more than the other one but it includes a garage, every updated and it’s on the 1st floor. The difference between the 2 is that I would be paying about $250 more a month if I pick the more expensive one. I really want a garage, but I can live without it. I appreciate everyone’s response.
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a couple of weeks ago, i came home and there was a massive stain of blood every over the carpet, blood, on the bathroom floor, around the toilet, behind the toilet. I asked my dad where it came from, he said it came from his mouth but he missed the toilet. It looked really bad, he went to the hospital a couple of days later, but complained because he didn't want to go, he hasn;t told me or the family what the doctor told him. Before he left for the hospital he told me paramedics that he gets stomach pains most days and feels sick. If he doesn't drink he has fits. He's been drinking like this since he was a teenager, he is now 42. He drinks a few bottles of the big cider bottles callled White Ace everyday and never has money for food. Is this a really bad sign? Do you think he has long left? I know I can;t do anything because he can only receive help if he wants it.
I'm want to receive carpet installed (over my difficult wood flooring, if possible), 16 tiny holes in my wall fixed (tiny drill holes because I had mirrors up), and a narrow shelf which is attached to my wall removed. Can someone give me a rough estimate on how much this will every cost? It doesn't have to be exact, I'm just really clueless on the general price paid for this nice of stuff since I'm only 15. :) (No one in my family will do this for me. Lol..)
Find the magnitude of the acceleration of a seat and the magnitude of the normal force acting on the seat: Yusef pushes a seat of mass 55.0 across a carpeted floor with a force of magnitude 144 directed at 35.0 below the horizontal. The magnitude of the frictional force between the carpet and the seat is 106 .
i only make 1400 a month. i have a broke down home that is a 4 bedroom 1 bathroom. it is 1500 sq ft. i need- trimming on every of the doors and windows. replace bathroom ceiling/drywall- paint entire bathroom keep the wood fence in back yard but paint it and replace posts new doors - 5 of them would like to carpet every 4 bedrooms (have hardwood floors currently) my bills are 900 in home taxes (possess the home every paid for) 70 in car insurance a month 40 in internet bill 8 dollars on netflix electric is about 70-100 a month heat is between 30-250 a month depending on season and 100 on cigarettes (i know i need to quit) my checks after taxes are 350 a week. i have to pay every my bills and then never have a lump sum of money and I CANT keep for the life of me. can someone help me figure out how i can fix up my home and how exactly can i do this? 900 a YEAR in home taxes so its around 70 a month
She is a 6 year old maltese/silky. She knows what and where the toilet is and how to ask for it. But she just insists on every now and then using the dining room. She goes thru stages too. Some times she wont do it inside for weeks, them some times its every day. Ive tried telling her off, rubbing her nose in it, sending her outside, spraying lemon juice on the carpet, spraying dog repellant, steam cleaned the carpet, citronella candles, fragrant room spray, talc and carpet deodoriser. Ive also used every these cleaning and smelling things every at once! She is an indoor dog, but she gets regular toilet outings. We cant put a doggy door in, for logistical reasons. We want to rip up the carpet and re floor, but not before we cease this habit of hers. How the hell do I cease this?? its been going on for years and I have tried everything suggested to me. Its so frustrating!! My other dog, has never had this problem! Ive tried specific dog deterant sprays and the only problem to sectioning off the room is that its a major walk way room to the kitchen. She always seems to do it when we arent in the area of the home to catch her, sometimes we are home and sometimes when we are not home. I have tried keeping her in the laundry or outside, but she cries and howls for hours. It drives us insane and has caused problems with one of the neighbours. Ive given up telling her off and rubbing her nose in it, as it clearly does nothing, coz we can never catch her. I stopped punishing ages ago, and always praise her when she goes outside.
So I have a male chihuahua and he is 8 months old. I am STILL trying to train him til this day and I have had him since he was 2 months old. He will poo or pee beside his pee pad or on the floor or on the carpets when he KNOWS where his pee pad is. How can I fix this? I need him trained and I don't understand why he isn't listening. I do everything I am supposed to do and he still doesn't hear. Please help, this is getting really frustrating!!!! Thanks
Ok, so I'm making a program that calculate costs of buying flooring for your home, and there are different types to pick from. How do I make a calculation formula that will take the different variables as per needed to calculate costs? For example: here are some variables: double cost, carpet = 2.50, vinyl = 1.50, squareFeet ...user inputs floors square footage, yadda yadda, and then carpet cost = carpet * squareFeet or for vinyl cost = carpet * squareFeet but of course if I could have ONE formula that will be used for calculating every the different floortypes, that would be so much easier. HELP PLEASE? Thank you!
I have Brazillian cherry hardwood floors in my entry and kitchen. It is a open layout with a 8' opening into the living and dining room. I am taking down a wall to a bedroom to make a bigger living room so i need new flooring 500 sf. The carpet didn't hold up good with little kids and animals so i want to go hardwood but i cant afford brazillian cherry. $3500 or $5500 for an exact match. I have 4" wide and the only where i can find that has a 1000sf min order. I only have a 1,500 budget installing my self Will laminate look tacky next to the hardwood. Should i rip out 200sf of the hardwood and put in every laminate. Its only 4 years old and in good shape but i did receive it basicly for free from someone What is your opinion? thanks
I have some of those gel clings on my window. Apparently, one of the stems from a clover fell off, because I just saw half of it on my living room floor. It looked like it had stuff on it, and there were some spots on my carpet, so I'm assuming my cat swallowed it and threw it up. Half of it is still missing though. I'm freaking out. I called my vet but he hasn't called back yet. I fed her dinner a while ago (this was before I saw the cling on the floor) and she ate, and she's eating again now. Should I be worried? Are they toxic? =(
I live in an apartment with hardwood floors and kids lol. im trying to add something to deaden the noise. Anyone know of cheap places to receive area rugs or carpet for cheap?
Hi I am a 25 year old college student and I also work full-time. About a year ago I was "talked into" moving back in with my grandfather because my grandmother was put into a nursing home and could no longer take care of herself. About 3 months ago my 90 year old grandfather fought for my grandma to arrive home (against my wishes) and don't think im sounding cruel my grandmother is not capable of taking care of herself at every. She can barely walk even with a walker. So now that she has been home it has been complete hell. Pooping every over the floor and the carpet, bed ect. I try and clean it up the best I can but I am not always home b/c I have a busy schedule.My grandfather screams at me if i am not cleaning his home and cooking everyday which is impossible. My grandfather has 2 biological kids and neither of them have stepped up to help AT every and one of them is a registered nurse! Please Please Please someone help me in what I can do I want to move out but need to receive someone in here to take over. Please let me know your thoughts
Hi, I am getting my home ready to sell. My basement currently has carpet about 1-2 yrs old, nice cream colour but my husband wants to put hardwood to make it look bigger, brighter and more modern. My husband is a contractor so he would do it himself, but I think the basement would be more comfy with carpet and opions........p.S. we would not be paying for the floor either he has plenty left over from other jobs. Our whole home is hardwood through out except the basement.
We live in Georgia. In the termination section of our lease, it says that "tenant must leave the home clean, as it was received". My leasing agency sent me my move out notice which explains that the walls need to be wiped clean, floors mopped, etc. It says that we must have the carpets professionally cleaned and provide a receipt. When I called and asked, they told me that it is a new policy and is written into every of their new leases, but for us it falls below the clause about returning it clean. I had planned on cleaning the carpets with my home cleaner, but an additional $200 professional cleaning seems ridiculous. Also, it says that we must have the home treated for fleas in order to receive our pet deposit back. We have bimonthly service for regular bugs, but flea service costs extra. Seeing that we only had the dog a month, it seems like a waste of money. This is another thing that is not in the lease, but she said it falls below the 'clean' clause as well. This is the first time we have ever rented a home and had this problem. Can they tack these things on? They claim they had the carpets cleaned before we moved in-so we should do the same before we move out.
i use to live their in 2009-2010 now i look it and it had carpet floors now it has wooden floors when did they redo it?
In only one spot in the entire home the carpet has become raised in the middle of the room and it feels like there's a metal rod about 3ft long below the carpet. I don't know how long it has been there because there's a mattress on the floor right there and I just moved the mattress and noticed it. The lump in the carpet feels extremely difficult to step on (there's no give to it), it's about 3ft long, and a few inches wide. It seems like someone just opened up the carpet, put a metal rod in it, then closed it up again. Can anyone help me identify what this might be without me having to take out the entire carpet to check? Oh, and I've had this same carpet in this room for like 3 years and this was never there before. The mattress was put in that spot somewhere around 6 months ago and the carpet was completely fine when I placed the mattress, so it's something that has just randomly happened. It almost seems like a metal pipe is expanding below the carpet, which would be horrifying but not make much sense. Ground floor, wooden. Well...I clip the carpet and looked below it, and it turns out the entire floor is buckling and the bumps on the carpet are where wood is cracking and lifting up and the area below the carpet around the cracking wood is wet. Yep...why me...?
Kindly help,I cant change the carpet,please suggest colors thta would blend with our black furniture white walls and dark green carpet
I recently saw a commercial from resolve that stated "Women are sleepy of getting on their hands and knees to scrub floors" or something along those lines. If you search for the commercial on youtube, I sure you will understand what I am talking about.
My paper shredder malfunctioned and after shredding sheets of paper scattered tiny droplets of paper everywhere. I was wondering if there is a cheap option to vacuum up the carpet well. Thank you every for every answers. Also can paper no matter how tiny actually stick to carpet or am I just being paranoid??!!!?
I have two kids that run around and receive complaints from the people below me. Wanted to know would getting carpet over the floors be good or rugs?
So my 5 month old long haired kitten Betsy has started acting a little strangely. Normally she is quite a reserved cat who doesn't like much attention and would rather sit away from you unlike her attention seeking sister Disney. But a few days ago she started rolling on the floor and dragging herself across the carpet on her side looking like she wants attention. I just thought maybe she is just developing her personality still as she's only a baby, but now she stars doing like a meow/pure every few seconds, you know like that noise cats sometimes make when they land off something. And today she started lowering her head to the floor quite alot like cats do when they're about to be sick.. But after doing this for a while she's goes back to herself until an hour or so later where shell do it again?! Is this just a hairball or something more serious? I'm worried :(
I have 950 sf, existing carpet would need to removed and the floor is 3/4 plywood. We will be putting a 10 ml hardwood look same flooring with underlay. What is a good labor rate per SF for my job?
I bought a flat and noticed, before I bought it, that it had a wooden floor, breaching the terms of the lease. I bought it anyway (perhaps silly but I did) and now have a very aggressive neighbour downstairs who is upset about noise - airborne and acoustic. I have 3 options - (i) find out why he hates the world so much (unlikely to be successful), (ii) move (expensive) or (iii) lay carpet (not cheap but better than the alternatives) Laying carpet will most likely hurt the resale rather than improve it so I want to keep the wood floors underneath. Can I do that? If so, can I just lay underlay and carpet or do I need to add many other soundproofing layers? Finally, does the type of carpet make a difference to soundproofing?
My roommate FINALLY came around training her stupid dog. She's removing her floors and installing new hardwood. I was reading around here and I heard its not just about removing the carpet but you also have to clean the concrete underneath the soiled carpet. Idk so far that's what she told me. Help?
I'm turning 15 in a few weeks and I'm having my bedroom redecorated.I have already ordered new furniture, which is solid pine. I am having cream walls, but need ideas for the carpet, curtains and bedding. I don't want wood floors or laminate, so carpet is a must. I also don't want anything to modern (e.g stripes) but something that looks chilly :) My room at the moment is every pink, but apart from that open to every colours :) thank you guys, any questions, just ask :D
OK, so I'm turning 15 in a few weeks and I'm having my bedroom redecorated.I have already ordered new furniture, which is solid pine. I am having cream walls, but need ideas for the carpet, curtains and bedding. I don't want wood floors or laminate, so carpet is a must. I also don't want anything to modern (e.g stripes) but something that looks chilly :) My room at the moment is every pink, but apart from that open to every colours :) thank you guys, any questions, just ask :D
OK, so I'm turning 15 in a few weeks and I'm having my bedroom redecorated.I have already ordered new furniture, which is solid pine. I am having cream walls, but need ideas for the carpet, curtains and bedding. I don't want wood floors or laminate, so carpet is a must. I also don't want anything to modern (e.g stripes) but something that looks chilly :) My room at the moment is every pink, but apart from that open to every colours :) thank you guys, any questions, just ask :D
It's supposed to have narration and reflection, with vivid details. The narrration is supposed to be over a period of months or years. The anchor is supposed to be over a span of a few minutes. I had just turned 14, fresh into high school. Things hadn’t been looking so great for me lately. My dad had just remarried to a lady I saw as fake and superficial. A bit of a turning point for me. I had been glad when it was just him but now, things weren’t the same. I was becoming depressed. My stepmom smiled every the time around my dad, but when he hasn’t around she’d belittle me and take her daughter out to eat, bringing me nothing back. I didn’t believe her harsh words at first, however, she said them so often, they started to sink in. I wouldn’t have made it through without Ky. In my first class of the day, I looked across the unusally silent classroom at my best pal Ky and gave her the signal, putting two fingers close my mouth. We went to the teacher and got passes to the bathroom. “I don’t know why you’re still doing this Ash. I don’t receive you,” Ky said softly, sounding a bit concerned. “You don’t understand. It helps me feel better about myself,” I pushed the door to the bathroom open, thankful that no one was there but us. I walked into the stall and got down on knees in front of the toilet. I pulled back my long dark brown hair, put two fingers in my mouth, and purged what was left of my breakfast that morning. The taste that it left in my mouth was horrid. It was as if I had ate breakfast out of a dumpster. I flushed the toilet, took my hair down and stepped out of the stall. I glanced over at Ky who was looking down at the floor and messing with her thumbs. I shrugged and washed my hands.We walked back to class quietly. Ky didn’t say much, she just offered me a piece of gum. This was our regular routine for the first 4 months of school. I despised switching houses up to three times a week. It gave me a feeling of instability. I was lost. Admist every the work and family issues, I didn’t know what to do or who to turn to. every I knew was I didn’t want anybody finding out about my issue. I was staying with my mom this day, and after I got out of the shower I stepped on the scale. 123. Down 31 pounds. glancing in the mirror on my way out, I thought I resembled Violet from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I grabbed my things and went to bed. The next morning at school I was called down to the principal’s office. He handed my report card and discussed my grades with me. I went from having straight A’s to the beginning of the year to nearly having straight D’s a few months later. Of course he asked why my grades had been slipping. I didn’t say anything. I remember him calling in Ky and then asking me to leave. I knew why my grades had been slipping. My depression worsened. When I went to stay with my dad I had to deal with my stepmom’s hurtful comments. My dad didn’t seem to notice that my clothes were basically falling off of me. Often times, I just took my shower and laid in bed, skipping dinner and talking to no one. I just thought silently to myself, rarely getting more than 5 hours of snooze a night. Why did this have to be me? December rolled around, and Ky and I were sitting down for lunch in the cafeteria when we were approached by the school counselor. I looked at Ky, confused. She looked down at her feet. We got up and walked with Ms. Holmes back to to her office. I sat in the seat closest to the door. The office was rather dull, with it’s pale white walls and ugly gray carpet. There were the usual motivational posters on the wall. “What am I doing here?” I asked, looking around the office. “Well Asha, your pal Ky here seemed concerned about you. So I decided to bring you in here.” We talked for a long time, about everything. Even my weight. This resulted in my parents being called down and me being admitted to a hospital. i stayed there for a a few months, and I was given antidepressants. I had to gain 20 pounds before I could receive released. every in every, at the end of it, I came out of there a better person, a happier person. Had it not been for Ky, I wouldn’t have gotten that fair. Intially I was upset, but then I realized she only did it because she cared. I couldn’t have asked for a better pal.
I got my labradoodle one year ago (he was just over a year old at the time). When I first got him he never peed the bed. He did pee on one specific spot on the carpet only first thing in the morning if I let him out of my bedroom but I stopped letting him out until I was ready to go downstairs with him and that solved that problem. However, about six months ago I noticed he started to pee the bed. At first it was just a couple of times in his possess bed. Then he started to pee the bed when we let him up on ours to cuddle. It's progressivly gotten worse. Now he pees on any bed we put down for him and for our other two dogs. He will find whatever bed he can, pee on it, and then snooze in it. He never pees on the floor and is let out numerous times during the day to pee as well as going for an off leash run for at least 45 minutes every day. What's going on?! We are going to receive him checked out for a urinary tract infection. If that turns out not to be the case what behavioural issues could be going on and how do I handle that? I think he was a puppy mill dog and I was told that his previous owners had left him alone for 10-12 hours a day (I think in a box) so I'm thinking that might be a major part of this behaviour. But how do I receive him to cease? I'm pregnant and the odor of him is making me sick because he smells like pee, and so he's not getting the affection I used to give him, as well as having to snooze on the plastic floor of his box since we can't wash his bed every day. Help!!
What nice of flooring should I put in my mobile home? It doesn't have to be every tile or carpet mix and match.
I'm babysitting a 7 year old boy, he was sliding around on the floor around an hour ago and grazed his back, its a little red patch but not bleeding. He complained for about 5 minutes then continued playing. I sent him to bed 20 mins ago and he's just arrive down saying its hurting. this could just be an excuse to receive out of bed. im going to send him back to bed but is there anything i can/should do? e45 on it or something?
I have a beagle puppy for 2 weeks and we took him out 4 times a day but he still constantly would pee on the floor or sometimes on the bed and i had to toss 2 beds out because of him It has been a month actually, and still the same puppy that will pee over anything in the home, especially when i am not looking i will find his pee spots on the floor thank god i dont have carpet, and so now i have him on the balcony most every of the day and i just take him out for an hour a day now then he stays on the balcony with food and water and it is alot easier and cheaper to clean the balcony rather than cleaning the floor and bed, that is disgusting. What can i do to potty train this pup?
Okay so I'm having a difficult time with this...here is the question: the jones are in the process of decorating their guest room which has for walls. One wall has a window and it will be wall papered the others will be painted and the floor will be carpeted. They have 6 possible wall paper patterns 7 paint colors and 4 carpet types to chose from. How Many different decorating choices can be made?...could some one explain how you receive the answer here please thanks :)
For the past 4 years, I have been extremely depressed. I have not cared about ANYTHING for the past 4 years... and it really is coming back to bite me. I have let my ferret poop on the floor in virtually every corner, I have spilled things on the carpet and have left them there for a year or more, and about a year back my ferret knocked over my fish tank and I never cleaned it up. I know, it is absolutely disgusting. About 3 months back I got put on antidepressants and antianxiety pills. I am now disgusted about my room. I was cleaning my room tonight, trying to receive the trash and disgusting stuff out, when I picked up some old boards on the floor. I saw this black, green, and whitish dots EVERYWHERE and it immediately smelled of musk. I picked up everything i could think of around it and threw it in the trash, I also sprayed bleach every over the carpet. I now know that I have a black mold infestation in my room, and I am sure it has spread to the baseboards. I dont know what to do, who to call, and if I am going to be taken away from my parents if I bring the issue to light with a cleaner or whatever they call them. I need to know how quick I need to receive the carpet removed, and how soon I need to call someone to help me out on this. Please, dont judge me for my past. I just need help.
My mum has lately begun hurting me. It wasn't bad at first and I could understand that she was punishing me for something I was actually responsible for. Lately, she's gotten very religious and she gets put off and angered when I oversleep for church or don't go to the religious youth club. She wakes up at 3/4am each morning to make us every pray to God and read the bible. I have difficulties with my snooze already so when I manage to receive an intended long snooze, I receive interrupted and woken up. When it happens on school days, I can't focus in class the whole day and I fall behind in class. I've had this focusing problem every one of my Chemistry lessons and I dropped from A* to D, from second highest achieving Triple Science student in my whole year, to last in the top 4 sets. My attendance has decreased greatly due to not managing to receive snooze and spending the school day sleeping. I'm tardy a lot when I receive sleepy after the bible session in the morning and fall asleep. My school have been sending warnings to kick me out. That's not the main problem though. Two weeks ago, my mum got stressed out because of the school warnings. She got the belt on me and started screaming 'Leave my daughter alone, Satan' while repeatedly whipping my back with every her power. I fought back and she took my phone away. I rely on my phone to keep me safe in case she does something worse. I could call someone to help me and pick me up. So her taking it meant everything would go worse for me. She accidentally dropped it and I picked it up, throwing myself on the floor. She took the opportunity to trample on me and kick me against the wall, her being 13 rock while I am a 6 rock 14 year old. I screamed and my sister came in and pushed my mum off. Mum gave me a kick in the face and walked off. This happened while she wore shoes, may I add. Weeks went by where I got threatened with the oven lighter and days were I got burnt with it or had the warm water and the light turned off while I'm in the shower so I'd have to shower in the dark and icy and my asthma would worsen. Today, I overslept for church. She came up to my room with a wooden fill broom and hit me with the top flat wooden bit. The first time it was gentle then it got harder and harder that I eventually threw myself off the bed, trying to run out through my window. She hit me in the face with it and I started sneezing then nose bleeding. She told me that I don't dare mess up her carpet and if I did something really really bad would happen to me, which I wouldn't like to mention. I ran underneath the bed but she moved the bed so she could receive to me. My aunt ran up, telling me to 'close the **** up!'. I didn't hear because the pain was so unbearable, so my aunt joined in and punched me about three times before pulling me out by the hair. I pinched her hand and screamed at her that I could call Childline and she backed off. My mum told me that I need to learn to respect those older than me and she said she'd hit me with the wood until my bones would break. She randomly stopped and walked off, telling me that if I didn't leave for church while she's downstairs, she'd take it even worse. I went to the toilet to wash my face. I undressed and there was bruises every over me. My arms have burn marks and scratches. My elbow is every puffed and bruised. Half my back is blue with bruises. My legs have both been clip but lightly so I could put a plaster on it. My nose hurts when I touch it and so does the bit right below my right eye, over my cheekbones. I had a talk with my mum where she told me that if I dared call Childline like I told my aunt that I would, I'd only be ruining my possess life. I'd be placed in care and be around strict people. I don't have close friends because I'm very paranoid about who to trust and such, so she said I'd be very alone if I left behind my family. She changes moods so easily. As I'm typing, she's being nice to me. Every time she hurts me, she spends a bit of time being nice to me or treating me. After she hurt me earlier, she called me on the phone from downstairs asking if I'm okay. I said 'Yes' and she hung up. I want to cease this. But I'm scared about being put in a place where I can't trust the people. I don't want to have a strict family or move schools and I don't want to mess up my family. Idk I'm confused. I need help. Please.
I have a dust mite allergy and was getting severe reactions from the 15 Year old carpet in my home. I also seemed to be reacting to rugs which were only one years old I have noticed when i am at other houses with cleaner/new carpets i don't react as much. i know carpet is the worst flooring, but will i be able to keep it provided i change it yearly? or will i have to go for vynil, wood surfaces regardless? thanks
Hi. I'm just gonna receive straight to the point. My Mom is a total bad bítch and has kicked every of us out except my mentally handicapped brother who is 25. He has borderline autism. He gets a disability check each month that she controls to do whatever she wants with it (she doesn't even ask him what he wants to spend it on.) She doesn't even encourage him to meet friends. He doesn't do any groups even for special needs people. He just sits with her in her messy, falling apart trailer every day rocking back and forth out of boredom. When she is mad at someone she'll manipulate him to hate them too. He already hates me and my other siblings cause she got mad at us for going out and having a life. She spends almost every his money on catfood to feed the feral cats outside (by the way there's about 40 feral cats if not more living below the trailer.) Not to mention five dogs she has that she lets pee every over the carpet, walls and furniture and doesn't even clean it up. There's no working toilets in the trailer so she and my needy brother go poop in bags and toss them in the trash. There's no hot water and the bathrooms are every moldy with one of the tubs falling through to the outside floor. There's big roaches that are overrun in the closets and there's so much more I could go on and on and on. So is this abuse? Or am I overreacting? What should I do? Who should I report this to if I should?
My roomies and I had some guests over last night. Some of the more uncivilized guests spread mud every over our living room carpet. We rented a carpet cleaner from Home Depot but that only seems to have pushed the dirt deeper into the carpet. I need some directions on how to remove dirt from carpet over a big area. Ive seen directions online but they appear to be helpful only with tiny spots/areas (half our living room floor has dirt on it). As of right now I will try to vacuum up what dirt i can. sick probably need some sort of stain remover and scrub away.
So I have some concerns about my step brothers and half sister, my sister is 2, the boys are 5, 6, and 8. Thank god I moved out with my mom and now have an apartment with my boyfriend, I hated it there (and I'm wasn't an unruly/lazy kid either, A+ student, polite, adults normally adore me and my twin because we are so helpful, my mom and every other family thought my sister and I are just wonderful kids, and this was when we were around 16) due to how stressful it was to live there. Cleaning was upmost importance, EXTENSIVE cleaning. (i.e. If after I spent an hour scrubbing the bathroom (walls, toilet, etc. with tooth brush so it's spotless, bleaching the tub, sweeping, mopping, and this was daily, if I went to go receive a drink of water or something, then my stepmom went in the bathroom and found A SINGLE HAIR on the floor or counter, I'd be grounded for two weeks. Or before getting ready for prom, (which btw I was extremely stressed out/frustrated, my first prom, my mom was in the military and couldn't help with my hair or fix my dress, I can't curl my hair to keep my life or put it up in anything else but a pony tail and just wanted to feel pretty and was practically in tears just because nothing was going right. I did my make up at the bottom of the stairs, and tried to straighten my hair there, picked everything up, and then went upstairs to my bedroom to find a hair clip or something. I was in my bedroom for around 30 minutes and suddenly someone was pounding on the floor. It was my dad, my stepmom found a few hairs and about a 1/4 teaspoon of eye shadow on the carpet. Because I didn't vacuum it before fixing my hair, he wasn't going to let my go to prom. Even though we were 16. after getting a snack and wiping down every the counters, sweeping, and sometimes vacuuming, if they found a single crumb, then we wouldn't be allowed to receive snacks or would have to eat them outside. I'm vegetarian (moral/ethical reasons), and if we were having rolls, meat balls pasta, and corn for dinner, then I couldn't make a microwave baked potato with barbecue sauce, I would have to have corn and a roll. Family time, meant going to church, then spending two hours EVERY DAY cleaning the already spotless home (do you know how difficult it is to clean something you don't think is dirty? Socks were mandatory at every times, one time I came home from school and I was wearing flip flops. Rule is you have to wipe of your feet with baby wipes, put on clean socks, then go to the bathroom to wash your feet. On that day, I needed to pee REALLY bad, so I threw off my flip flops, then CRAWLED on my hands and knees to the bathroom so my feet didn't touch the carpet, after peed, I washed my feet and put on socks. I got yelled at, and then grounded for breaking the rules.) Sorry if that seems like I am ranting, I just wanted to give a good idea of what happened when I was there. Now they are a lot more religious, going to a lot stricter church. Now that my sister and I are gone, the 4 kids are in charge of cleaning. They make every three boys (ages 5,6.8) -if they miss the toilet, they have to use clorax cleaner and scrub the toilet spotless -watch their 2 year old sister, make her bottle, receive clean diapers, hold her down when she is she really "poopy," toss away dirty diapers, go receive her when she is about to go down stairs, watch her when she is downstairs, go downstairs to find out where she is or why she is crying (seriously, I've been over there, my stepmom will just sit on her butt and demand the boys to do every that. The two year old was crying downstairs, the boys were quietly playing in their bedroom. She called the oldest out of his room, made him go downstairs and told him to "find out why she is crying." He would, and then he would arrive up and say "I don't know' and she would receive mad at him. Or she would make the o The oldest was having issues with bed wetting. It was getting to be at least a weekly occurence, and one night it happened twice. They MADE HIM snooze IN THE BED, even though it was wet from him peeing on it. She wouldn't clean it the second time, and wouldn't give him a clean blanket to snooze on -When he was peeing his bed, they wouldn't let him have a blanket except for a sheet, even though the home reached pretty icy temperatures at night, like below 50F easy If they arrive out every excited to show us a new level they got to on their video game or something else, and they kept asking about it while my stepmom was talking, they would receive yelled at for being noisy, and threatened with the belt when Dad got home -When the two year old is taking out the night light from the socket and playing with it, my stepmom calls one of the three boys upstairs to go find the two year old and take it from her and to "watch her better" The boys typical chores consist of (keep in mind the youngest is 5, the oldest is 8) -vacuuming the carpet and rugs -vacuuming the dining room -vacuuming the sofa/below neath the sofa -vacuuming the bathroom -using cleaner to clean the counter/bath tub -cleaning the toilet And lots of other stuff, those are the ones I remember right now.
This morning when I woke up there was about 100 maggots in the middle of our kitchen floor, and we found a few random others around the home where they had crawled away. We live in the tropics and our home is totally tiled so no carpets... I've checked the trash can, every the food packets in the cupboards, the fridge,inside every of the kitchen appliances (stove, microwave etc), and my husband even got into the roof to look if an animal had perhaps died and they were dropping through the light fittings.... Nothing!! I've cleaned the entire home and we are still seeing a few little random ones around... I have NO idea where they are coming from and it's totally grossing me out. Any suggestions on where they are coming from?!
I am 13. I have the feeling that I constantly have to repeat things and check myself. If I turn my head to the side, I have the feeling that I HAVE to do the same to the other side. I always check things plrepeatedly. Before I leave for school I will make sure I have my homework then, five minutes later I will check again. I will also, recheck in the car on my way to school. I do the same before I leave school. This one is nice of difficult to explain. I have the odd urge have everything perfect. If I am sitting on the sofa and the remote is on the floor, I will pick up the remote off the carpet. Then, I have make sure I smooth out the area of the carpet that the remote was on. I do this with a lot of other things to like if I move a dish of the counter I will have to touch the area that the dish slid on. Is this OCD? I will also have to rearrange things untilvthey meet my standards. Its also not out of control.
I don't know what is going on with me, lately I have been getting things like visions, I was sitting at my partners home and staring at the fish tank and then every of a sudden I saw the tank over flowing and flooding the floor with water from the tank later and it felt so real like it was happening later that night they rung me to tell me that the fish tank had over flown and the carpet was soaking :/ I dint understand what just happened and now I had a dream that my sister in law was pregnant I asked her and she said no until she took a test later that day cos she wasnt feeling well and it turns out she is pregnant. Can anyone explain any of this to me or guide me to a forum where there are people that look things like that because I am so confused and I cant control this it just happens. Please no snug comments only serious people. Thanks.
Sorry this question is common but I couldn't find the answers for my cats death. Its taken almost 2 years for me to bring myself to ask this question (died 27/2/2010) but I was very attached to him that words can't describe it + I still grive overr him. What happened was it was like any other day, but he had thrown up on my bedroom floor (Normally happened in my room) and we just thought he'd ate some grass again or something, But, after that he stayed in his bed, not moving much. We were worried about him because he wouldn't eat every day (every this happened within the space of 2 hours by the way) so carried the cat bed downstairs in the living room + put his food next to him. He nibbled a little at one point but started laying on the floor. I was worried but didn't expect this to happen. We picked him up + put him on the cushion which has my dressing gown laying on it (As he loved this dressing gown + always pawed at it) but pawed a little + then jumped off to go lay by the computer table. I went over to stroke him afterwards but he was freezing (I know stupid that I didn't realise what was going to happen but I think I probably didn't want to imagine the possibility) then I went back on my laptop and keept watching him. He then walked over onto anohter bit of the carpet (Forgot to mention that he was meowing a lot more than usual so before he was icy my mum called the vet but they said they were closed so emergencies only + we didn't think it was life or death) and layed there. I drew my attention away for a few minutes when my mum came in and called his name, seeing he wasn't breathing. We didn't take his body to the vets because we thought it would be disrespectful so but him in a cardboard box with a few of his toys + buried him.. Does anyone know why he may have died? Here's some of his details: He was 8 3/4 years old (Died 2 weeks before his 9th birthday) Male, of course, and was fed whiskers food mainly (sometimes tried different things but he had whiskers Sorry for some reason it clip short. About to finish my details : had whiskers food for most of the time) Not one for meowing - sometimes when he was hungry & whenever he was outside the door wanting to arrive in. Also didn't normally receive sick so we weren't sure how cats acted when they were this sick. You could tell he was an older cat as he was very reserved & always well treated. Please give me your thoughts on what could have caused this, serious answers only please. No trollers, thanks :) Tasha xx He was only ever timid when he was getting told off. Other than that, he was running around, confident, actually trying to receive my nan to move whenever she sat in his favourite spot...haha :') Basically him & his twin (Twin was ran over just 1 year old) were one of the first cats in the neighbourhood as its a new part of the village so practically ran the cat world of where I live lol :') I'm positive it wouldn't be shock because within a few years of moving here he was in a battle with another cat & they bit a tiny part of his ear off but he seemed just fine :P thanks anyway though x [By the way I'm in the UK so live close no snakes whatsoever]
if i have littler trained my rabbit should i be able to let my rabbit free roam my room with out worrying about it peeing/pooping on the floor and not going in the box?? will she go back in the cage if she needs to go? i want to give her more room but im afraid she will go on the carpet :/
I have done everything you can image to fix this problem. I just moved into this new place and did not know that smelled like cat pee until it got warm out. I have a cat and now he is peeing (yes he is fixed) to cover the cats that lived there before (yes i know the people had two cats and a dog) he never did this before so it is difficult for me to blame him (NO I AM NOT GETTING RID OF HIM). I CAN NOT afford new carpet right now ( i am saving for it) but i cant live like this it is driving me crazy. I have two questions ( I do not need home remedies or products that will "fix the problem", I have tried them every. question 1: as a short term fix can i just replace the padding or is it a waste of money? question 2: if i do this is there a liner that is can place between the carpet in the padding in case my cat tries to pee after i replace the padding? 44 minutes ago - 4 days left to answer. Additional Details You name it i have done it. The odor is everywhere, but the problem areas in front of the bathroom door, bedroom door and front door. I have tried oxy. we had some one arrive in and spray an enzymes and he said the carpet looked good. i know the carpet will still odor that is why i wanted to put plastic in between the two, so it would not receive in the new pad. I would receive hardwood but my husband does not want it. when we lived in an apt we had wood. i loved ) he hated The odor makes me sick (not going to lie most of it could be mental) and the reason this is getting below my skin is because I have a two year old and I don't want him to odor like cat pee when he goes to school. I was going to try to do it myself 1. I don't let my cat pee on the carpet 2. he didn't do it in our only home 3. he is doing it because the jack assess that lived here before I did, didn't clean up the cat piss 4. I'm aware that the only way to fix it is to receive new carpet. I need a short term
I have a feeling it's because I don't vacuum often. To be honest, I think I vacuumed once since I moved in here and I've been living here for around 5 months... I have long, thick, black hair and it's everwhere... (no pets)... Is it normal to have that much hair on the floor because I don't vacuum a lot? I mainly vaccuum only when i spill something with a hand vac but not the entire place cause im lazy. How do I receive rid of every these hairs? by using tape? It's everywhere. I am always so curious to know how other people don't have their possess hair every over the carpet. I also brush my hair in the main living space and blow dry my hair too and not in the bathroom because the fan in there is too noisy and I never clean up right after. I let it accumulate... So would you think its normal to have that much hair after 5 months?
I talked to this person many times before we met and I adopted her. Lots of e-mails and phone calls. She assured me that this little dog was potty trained. She would let me know when she wanted to go out. This is not the case and I am very frustrated. I don't blame the dog at every and I've grown quite fond of her. The reason that I got her was because I have anxiety and depression/the seasonal affective disorder is tough to deal with this year. I know that animals can help calm the nerves and pick the spirit up and I just totally adore every animals. I don't know what to do. I don't want to give her back but I am beside myself. She will not use a box because she has terrible seperation anxiety and whines because she is upset. She is now being taken out many times per day (sometimes she will pee/poo outside) and wearing diapers. She is very good in the car but she wears a diaper there also as I can not trust her and don't want my car to odor like poo/pee. She is a sweetie but as I needed a companion to help me through, I am now cleaning the floor several times per day, including carpets, rugs; and I rent.........not good and putting alot of stress on me. I don't want to just give her back because it will probably make her feel like she is abandoned/not wanted again (she had a terrible life before being fostered and then adopted by me). I'm almost to the point of either keeping her in diapers 100% of the time with maybe 3 walks inbetween (because she normally doesn't go outside but sometimes will if you walk her forever) or giving her back. I truly need decent people to understand and try to help. I am a total animal lover and do not need any rude comments. Thank you. I appreciate any advice or positive/helpful comments.
I have a very odd addiction of smelling things, and im starting to receive a bit worried about it. I dont know what brought this on but a couple years ago i started getting absolutely obsessed with smelling certain things. My main obsessions are new carpet odor, new shoe odor, new car odor, cleaning products, and especially the degreaser we use at work to mop the floors. When i think about smelling these things, my mouth waters and i just can not receive it out of my head until i do. When i do finally odor them i feel so satisfied and just can not receive enough of it. I really do not know what to do because this is deffinitly not normal, if anyone has any thoughts on what may be causing this your input is greatly appreciated.
The apartment complex my boyfriend and I are renting from refuses to send maintenance to finish fixing our flat. The carpet has had no padding, there are holes in the wall, and the ceiling's been leaking for over a month. They claim their maintenance man is afraid to arrive back because he walked in on a tiff between me and my boyfriend, but I know he's lying because I complained to the office a week after the incident and he came back to tear up more of the carpet padding and again to pick up his fan two days later. Now, three weeks later, I requested maintenance via their website and wrote a needy review of them on a rental website. Today the leasing office told me I'm not on the lease and have no right to request maintenance and threatened to have me evicted for causing a stink and writing bad reviews. I live with my boyfriend. He swears I'm on the lease either as an occupant or a guest, but the copy of the lease they gave us was incomplete so I can't know what they have written down. I've lived here for over a year. My mail comes here. The complex cashes rent checks with my name on them. Can they now demand I pay a $100 background check to stay even though I've already been living here and the state of Georgia only charges $40 for a background check? Can they evict me like they've threatened even though I'm not on the lease? If they do, can I arrive back as a guest of my boyfriend without worrying about trespassing? I'm so glad the lease is up end of March. These people floor me. I SHOULD be on the lease. I don't know if I really am or not. My boyfriend says one thing and the complex says another. I've requested maintenance on the apartment and made complaints before to management and had them resolved. This argument they're putting up is new and obviously retaliation because of my internet review.
All of my cats are very friendly and loving with the exception of the mom cat who I adopted already pregnant (previous owners were going to dump her in a field somewhere). I already have homes lined up for the kittens who are 6 weeks old. The issues I'm going to describe started around the time the mom cat arrived and keep getting worse. I have already asked a few vets and done a lot of research and tried a lot of things. I have or have tried: two floor-ceiling cat trees two other scratching posts Two scratching things that hang from door knobs one of those cardboard scratchers I clip their claws regularly. I have 6 litter boxes and have tried literally every type of cat litter to no avail. I have tried giving them catnip. I feed them twice a day - Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul adult difficult food with some chicken broth in it (and mom and kittens also receive KMR in a separate room). They have four water bowls throughout the home and I spread out their food bowls so they aren't very close to each other. I spray Feliway twice a day every over the place - it seemed to help a little but not completely. Mom is the only sexually-mature one who is not fixed. They don't have fleas (I check them and occasionally and flea treat them if I look any excessive scratching). They are every a healthy weight and active. No vomiting. They have been dewormed (per advice of the vet) five times with four different medications (first two were over the counter from a pet store for tape and round worms they actually did have - then later the vet prescribed Flagyl for suspected giardia. Then they were given Strongid for suspected parasites/worms (despite clean fecal) and most recently Panacur every of which didn't help at every and the fecals always arrive up with nothing. They don't have any skin or eye discolorations and have been checked out by vets - including blood work that showed no virus or infections and cleared for Feline AIDS/Leukemia. They don't cough or sneeze very often (usually they might sneeze if they odor certain things sometimes or cough if the receive hair in their throat or something). I've been to two different vets who simply ran up huge bills and gave me no answers what-so-ever. Here are the issues I'm having: One cat hardly ever uses the actual litter box. He ALWAYS goes right next to it. This is the same cat who has had persistent diarrhea while the others have had on and off diarrhea/loose stool/regular stool. This cat also tends to be aggressive towards the other cats. So how can I receive him to behave better and cease having diarrhea? A different cat (also male) is equally aggressive towards the other cats and he scratches the carpet a lot. He uses the litter box properly though. As for everyone else, they every eat too quick and I don't know how to receive them to slow down. They are always bloated and gassy after they eat. They were on this food for a while before and never had any problems. I can't leave food out every the time or they become overweight even if I receive light food and vets recommend not leaving food out every the time anyway. No one sprays - I know the difference between spraying and plain peeing (and I've checked with a black light), but two of the cats do pee in other places along the wall and it is teaching the tiny kittens to pee and poop there instead of the litter boxes. Their mom uses the litter box and I have showed the kittens and try to receive them there whenever I look them going. I clean up the pee and poop/diarrhea every single day - it's almost constant cleaning and I'm really getting sleepy of it. I use an enzyme cleaner. I also have tried the vinegar/peroxide-soap/baking soda method and it actually works better. But it still doesn't cease them from going there. Most of the time they do it when I'm not in the room with them. The other issue is that the same two that pee along the walls will scratch at my 1yr old daughter's bedroom door (which I close when she goes to bed) and they are destroying the carpet. If I leave it open they climb around on everything and make a bunch of noise that wakes her up. How can I receive them to cease peeing inappropriately (I've had them since they were born and they have always done this) and scratching at the door? Please qualified advice only. I don't need bs like receive rid of them or that's just how cats are because they weren't like this before. I know it is stress related and I'm in the process of giving away every the baby kittens and the mom cat, but it is illegal to give kittens away before 8 weeks so that is out of the question. I forgot to mention in things I tried - I tried giving them rescue remedy and that caused them to have even more gas. (btw, they are only bloated after they eat - not other time).I'm hoping that every the issues will be resolved when the mom cat and kittens are gone, but that&# To the illiterate moron who so helpfully pointed out that the cats are stressed out: 1. If you're not going to bother reading the whole question then don't bother answering. 2. I'm not an irresponsible pet owner - if you would have read the question you'd know that every the cats ARE spayed or neutered except the mom cats who the vet will not spay until she is not nursing at every because the kittens will rip the stitches out trying to nurse. 3. Every shelter around here puts down hundreds of cats and dogs every month because in a military town lots of people dump off their animals when they move. Putting them in a shelter is not an option. I don't think a whole litter of kittens should be killed simply because some other cats will be stressed for a couple weeks - receive real. 4. The cats are not being mistreated or neglected. My home doesn't even odor like pee or poop and I have asked other people's opinions too because I know when you live in it you can g