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|   | Subject: The REALLY lazy person's guide to dog dishes, whb's and everything
Posted May 27, 2005 by BooBoo | | Post: 1
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These tips are so appallingly lazy that I'm almost (but not quite  ) too ashamed to share them.
I have a dog and a cat, but don't like washing their dishes in the sink (since I don't want to have to sterilize the sink afterwards). So I save all those plastic dishes that things like mushrooms, green beans etc. come in. The life-cycle of a dish then is...first it's a water dish for a couple of days. Then it becomes a food dish, as a new water dish comes into action. The food dish is used for a couple of days, then I stick it down the loo for a couple of hours to soak, run the flush over it, and dump it in the plastic recycling bag. Water dish then becomes food dish, and the whole thing starts over.
Wash hand basins get a scum around the water-line that's very difficult to clean off, requires a lot of elbow-grease and scrubbing. However, if every time you empty the basin you use the flat of your hand on the scum line, it's a most efficient cleaner-offer of scum. Rinse round with fresh water, and the scum never builds up.
|  | Subject: The REALLY lazy person's guide to dog dishes, whb's and everything
Posted May 27, 2005 by BooBoo
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Ah, just remembered another tip, which works in a domestic environment just as well as in a studio. My work causes an awful lot of dust, which I don't like breathing in (great-grandfather died young of silicosis of the lungs from stone-dust). When I sweep up, fine clay particles will remain suspended in the air for about four hours. So I sweep up with a dust-mask on, and as soon as I've finished sweeping I get a pressurised water-sprayer (very cheap in garden centres) and mist all the air in the studio to wash down the dust particles. And WOW! does the air smell lovely after that!
Dust masks are also very effective at beating hayfever, though you look rather weird walking around with one on.
The absolute most lazy way to clean is to hire someone else to do it. The only problem is that it can get rather rexpensive.
| | Subject: The REALLY lazy person's guide to dog dishes, whb's and everything
Posted May 30, 2005 by  U94986
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I feed the dog dry dog food. There's nothing to wash off!
| | Subject: The REALLY lazy person's guide to dog dishes, whb's and everything
Posted May 30, 2005 by BooBoo
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The ultimate in laziness was a friend who had two German Shepherds. She'd buy a huge bag of dried dog food, open it, and leave it in a downstairs bathroom beside the toilet with the seat up 
|  | Subject: The REALLY lazy person's guide to dog dishes, whb's and everything
Posted May 30, 2005 by U94986
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That's just nasty.
I did feed the dog from a microwave meal that I had today. It had lots of gravy left, so it made sense. Because the container is so light, he's managed to dribble food all over the kitchen floor now. 
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