Comments on: Tidy Conundrum 1

By: Roz

Roz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:14:32 +0000

I clip my nails carefully and cautiously and even so there’s always one toenail that takes flight, never to be seen again. At least they’re biodegradable!

By: Bea

Bea — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:08 +0000

I have been brought up to clip your nails and brsh your hair in private. It’s a funny thing I know, but I cringe when I hear others clip their nails in public. After careful thought I think it stems from my mother’s or perhaps cultural belief that leaving a part of yourself in a public area is easy access for anyone with an inclination to doing juju (voodoo) on you. I don’t personally believe it… yet I fastidiously dispose of my nail clippings nonetheless.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:06:20 +0000

one of the most liberating places to clip your nails is of course, out in the woods. or on the road? nail clipping can be fun when you get back to nature.

By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:16:33 +0000

I couldn’t believe “Messy”. That is me to a T. I can’t start cleaning cuz it takes me to too many other places. And I have no where to put things. It drives David crazy. I hide stuff or pretend I don’t see it. And if I don’t see it, then noone else can. I know where things are. If someone tidies for me I am lost.

I thought nail clippings disappeared. I thought it was odd, but I didn’t question it. David guided me toward sitting on the edge of the bathtub and clipping into the toilet.

By: alison

alison — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:51:02 +0000

Nope, no cleaning lady any more. The lovely and unilingual francophone Denise left us several years ago for an arranged marriage in Northern Ontario with a unilingual anglophone fellow cult-member. No idea how that went, but we haven’t heard back.

Mark said he didn’t want to hire someone else because he wanted to save money, so he is now the cleaning lady. A weary and self-pitying combo cleaning lady, tidying-up lady and dishwashing lady.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:33:08 +0000

I think you should go with it! Run with the idea! One blog post per individual item! I am entranced!

Personally, I am NOT so grossed out about nail clippings, and you are quite right about the bizarre thing of it being ok on the body and disgusting off. Note that hairs have the same reaction, esp if found in food.

What I do? I usually clip nails over my office waste basket or the kitchen waste bin. They fall directly in. Any that fly off I pick up and drop in right away. It has more to do with the fact that little bits of nail are prickly, and tend to stick in socks and the like much like cactus spines in your feet. Toenails I usually clip when I get out of the bath. I also clean under them, and the dead skin around cuticles with the nail clipper at the same time, since it is all softened up in the bath. I take a piece of toilet paper or kleenex, dig around under and around the nails, wipe it on the kleenex, examining it for extraordinary grossness or lack of it, and then cut the nails, putting them on the same wad of kleenex, which I squash up and throw in the garbage. I do not remember ever having a nail clipping disposal dilemna. Though I have had the social dilemna of wanting to clip a torn or ragged nail with others in the room, or out in public, and knowing that it is considered “gross”.

Go figure.

ps, doesn’t your cleaning lady clean the floor? Clip your nails onto the floor the morning of or night before she is set to come by. ;D