All About Life Without Maids

[Dekora]

I’m using wondering what sort of storage u have for your kids toys and how often do u

Clean them? My kid’s toy is stacking up and all over the place. And on top of that, it does gets dusty. Using water to clean them is it sufficient?

[Angelight]

Dekora, buy those big storage boxes with covers from NTUC or GIANT and store all the toys inside. This will prevent dust from going in cos got cover. You can also tell your kids to keep their toys in the boxes after they had played, so to keep house tidy and the toys clean.

[osim]

I plug my ears to my iPhone and listen to motivational talks when ironing. It makes me look forward to ironing session in the week. :imcool:

[Imami]

Dekora:

I'm using wondering what sort of storage u have for your kids toys and how often do u

Clean them? My kid's toy is stacking up and all over the place. And on top of that, it does gets dusty. Using water to clean them is it sufficient?

I have short shelves and cubby holes for my child to store his books and toys. We dedicated a corner as his play area and he knows that at the end of his play, he is to bring all his toys and books back to the play area.

I used to clean the toys, shelves and play mat once a week when he was an infant. These days, I mop the play mat once a week, dust the shelves once every month. Toys, I wash/wipe them once every two month or so.

There is not much dust actually. my child reads his books so often that his little hands would have clean the books and shelves!

[Coolkidsrock2]

Anybody using a dishwasher? Any advice? My maid is leaving in 2 days time and I will not want to do any washing as I only get home around 8.30 in the night. Kids asleep by the time I finish cleaning up. Thanks in advance.

[Lynn2010]

Coolkidsrock2:

Anybody using a dishwasher? Any advice? My maid is leaving in 2 days time and I will not want to do any washing as I only get home around 8.30 in the night. Kids asleep by the time I finish cleaning up. Thanks in advance.

How many people do you have in the house? Or shall i say, how many dishes do you have at one go? If you have only one or two, and you turn on the dish washer, it's waste water. If you can get to 3 qtr loaded at least, not too bad. I know of people start the washing after 2 meals so that it is almost full load

Bare in mind not everything is dish-washable. So, if you are using a dish washer, make sure the utensils you used can be put into the dish washer, otherwise, you have to end up dirtying your hands

[Lynn2010]

Also, once you are used to it, dish washer is quite useful

[Lynn2010]

Imami:

BeContented:

Why sorry? As if it's your fault :rotflmao:
Hmm.. You got a point. Can't be \"fresh\" as in just fished from sea. But no, I disagree on the part that there is NO difference if one is to buy from any supermarket. If a person is very used to high grade salmon/cod/promfret, it is not difficult to taste the difference.
I had bought cod fillets from Local supermakrts before. Cannot make it.....
:moneyflies:
Salmon fillets still can. But not promfret and cod....

aiyoh....that's why ask u try that Song fishery.
I also found those in supermarket cannot make it......then I tried this.....so far, I'm happy, mom also likes it and even MIL (who usually picks on what I buy) asked her other sons to buy.
PS : I not related

ok, ok, will check song fishery out.

Somehow, We are just never good enough for our mils, right? :scratchhead:[/quote]

Song fishery?? Can elaborate?

[BeContented]

Errrhhhh, actually I only went there once. A relative claim fresh & cheap cos can buy in bulk.


So basically like those warehouse wholesaler.....there's both frozen & fresh seafood. I bought a big batang & split with my mom & bought frozen scallop & cod fish. There's stuff like lobster, prawn, frozen crab etc.

Cheaper? Maybe, I'm not sure tho.
My experience with cod fish --->> Wet market - good ones ~$50/kg. NTUC - debone is ~$52/kg & frozen ~$40/kg.....but often, the fishy smell/taste quite strong. The frozen cod fish from Song is $47/kg, no bones & little fishy smell....so I like it. Recently, they were at Jurong Point & I bought another 3 packs of cod fish & 1 pack of threadfin fillet to try. The threadfin was IMO satisfactory too @ $34/kg.

Found their link http://www.songfish.com.sg
An alternative I guess

[Lynn2010]

BeContented:

Errrhhhh, actually I only went there once. A relative claim fresh & cheap cos can buy in bulk.


So basically like those warehouse wholesaler.....there's both frozen & fresh seafood. I bought a big batang & split with my mom & bought frozen scallop & cod fish. There's stuff like lobster, prawn, frozen crab etc.

Cheaper? Maybe, I'm not sure tho.
My experience with cod fish --->> Wet market - good ones ~$50/kg. NTUC - debone is ~$52/kg & frozen ~$40/kg.....but often, the fishy smell/taste quite strong. The frozen cod fish from Song is $47/kg, no bones & little fishy smell....so I like it. Recently, they were at Jurong Point & I bought another 3 packs of cod fish & 1 pack of threadfin fillet to try. The threadfin was IMO satisfactory too @ $34/kg.

Found their link http://www.songfish.com.sg
An alternative I guess

Thanks