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Thanks everyone on here for their advice... I enrolled in a course today! Can't wait to start. - No Name


Posted: Dec 01, 2010

I chose Andrews because I feel it will prepare me the best.  I like their format and their style of teaching.  I feel it is the best match.  Thanks again everyone!!!!

Now you have to rush to clean your house, get groceries, etc. - Get ready to study!

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Congratulations on getting started! I've heard it's a really good idea to get your house clean, buy lots of groceries and maybe cook and freeze, and whatever else you can do to prepare, because you will be busy studying. All the best with your studies!

Also . . . - sm

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That's very good advice! Definitely, the house needs to be clean. You don't want it clamoring for attention. It will be the first thing making noise when you get a bit bored with a lesson.

If the clean plan fails, though, just remember that once you get used to a little extra mess, you won't even notice it. I still have some lying around from when I went to school, and I finished two years ago. One of the best lessons I learned was that if you pick up mess it stays picked up until you make more mess, at which point you have to pick it up all over again. If you leave the original mess there, it doesn't get much worse. I have saved probably years of cleaning time by just leaving things where they fall. That alone was worth all that tuition.

There are lots of different (and free!) planning calendars at calendars dot com. Flylady has lots of good cleaning-up suggestions, too.


Everyone deserves a day off.... - sm - Anonymous

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To clean their house, do laundry and grocery shopping and pick things up. Wouldn't it just be easier to put it away in the first place instead of leaving it where you drop it? Eventually you'll have to deal with it anyway. I could never leave stuff where I dropped it for 2 years but that's just me.

LOL! I have had years like that. - nm

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