Preparing for wifey to come

[2tallbill]

Oh... and about the professional cleaners... I thought about it, but from what I hear from you guys, I kind of think... well, what's the point? She's just gonna clean anyways ;-)

That sounds like my son when he was a teenager I would tell him to clean
his room. He would say "why? it's just going to get dirty again" I would tell
him, "you wipe your @ss don't you? you are just going to use it again later too!"

Clean your house the best you can. You aren't expected to have the house FSUW
glow in the dark clean, actually if it's glow in the dark clean they will wonder who
did it.

Another thing I would suggest is having some extra time to spend with her. She
will be very reliant on you for quite some time. Check on English classes at the
local college.

Does she garden? does she sew? does she have hobbies? art? find the local place
where she can find knitting supplies or whatever hobbies she does. One thing I
did was to drop my wife off and let her explore the mall. She would call me when
she wanted me to pick her up. There was no way I could go shopping with her.
She would read the labels on dish soap for 20 minutes and I would have preferred
removing my own appendix to that.

My wife can go shopping for hours just looking or with $20.00 she can spent 3-4
hours and be as happy as a clam when I pick her up and she will still have $10.00
left

Udachi!


Bill

[alex330]

My wife can go shopping for hours just looking or with $20.00 she can spent 3-4
hours and be as happy as a clam when I pick her up and she will still have $10.00
left

+1  give her some spending money and let her explore stores like TJ Maxx. She will kill time and make home cozy.

[Muzh]

I started a thread about that very same question.lol. I intend to get one before my P gets here.

You should wait. Break the old one first and THEN get a new one. 

[oso]

Personally I would pray for a natural disaster, i.e. tornado, lightning strike or wildfire .... And just start over from that point. Your place will never be clean enough....Then picture trying to explain that strange hair that isn't the dogs

[alex330]

Did you get a new bed?

A very good point, but one that caused issues upon my wife's arrival. We went through about three different mattresses when she arrived until we found one that did not give her back issues. Our mattresses here are very different than what many sleep on in the FSU.

[xiphoid]

 All are excellent suggestions of course but IMHO what is even more vital is patience. Nothing on the list matters if you are not patient. Years ago, like a fool, I wasn't patient and I still regret it and still wonder at what might have been. Alex 330 please be patient with her no matter how difficult it is going to be.

[xiphoid]

Please excuse me Alex330, I meant to address iceshaft07.