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If you will remember, a couple of days ago I wrote a post contemplating the start-up of a new magazine. I have since done some thinking about it and decided to call it “Mess”. The following is an addendum to that post that I fashioned for my lengthier weekly column. As that radio guy used to say a lot: “And now for the rest of the story” ~
A little dose of reality in the otherwise perfect world of magazines has created a niche that I think can be filled with a slightly eccentric imagination ~ I think I may just start a magazine that shows “before” rather than “after” houses and call it “Mess”.
I think it might catch on—after all there are hoarders and collectors, too busy moms and dads, people who are more interested in intellectual pursuits than cleaning (that would be me ~ ha ha ha—okay I fell off my chair at that one), and some people who like to commune with dust bunnies. I envision “Mess” as having articles that would illuminate, celebrate, and reveal real life. Here are just a few examples:
1. Unmade beds are the ultimate sign of Happiness
2. Mess is the new Organized
3. Extend the life of your Vacuum Cleaner: Don’t Use It
4. Unexpected Guests? Spray Lemon Pledge in the Air
5. Let the Dust Bunnies Entertain at Your Next Holiday Party
6. Have a Clean Out Your Fridge Party (your guests get to eat anything that does not look like a science experiment)
7. How To Arrange Your Dirty Dishes Artfully
8. Cords: Don’t Hide Them Anymore ~ Celebrate Them!
9. What Your Dust Can Reveal About Your Personality
10. Crabgrass: It’s Green Isn’t It?
11. Who Would Rob This House?
12. Sheep: The New Lawn Mowers
What would your number 13 be?
Related articles
- I am the “Before” (onthehomefrontandbeyond.wordpress.com)
On the Homefront 
14. The many uses of Febreeze.
love that one–I use it for everything that Pledge does not cover
This is amazing!
Two very enthusiastic ‘thumbs up’!
Love it
And I know the perfect photographer for my new magazine–and I would pay you really really well (in my dreams–but seriously if I could I would–you are a wonderful photographer)
I totally understand this.
We must get a maid (I would need three)
#13 Save the washing and environment… no sheets use sleeping bags (that’s a stretch but couldn’t think of anything brilliant) Diane
I like that one, and may have resorted to it a few times
“Old birthday cards, calendars, and movie tickets: 15 reasons to hang to them forever.”
love it — have you beento my house?
#13 Guests for the Holidays? Tips on Telling Them to Leave Their White Gloves at Home
Perfect! Seriously I am going to have to make the magazine happen!
I have been housekeeping like that for years – happiness abounds
AV
ha ha – me too — happiness abounds here too!
Mess– love it. Haaa
but would you read it?
Hell I’m the centerfold
remember you said that!
Now you’re asking for a real mess…:)
ha ha
🙂 Love them all – especially the article about weeds being green too – it’s one of my husbands favourite sayings.
And I think the name of the magazine is perfect.
it does describe not only my house, but my life–I bask in chaos;
I’d say you’re very inventive!
thanks (I think)
Laundry – if you can’t see the stain from 5ft away while squinting, it’s good to wear again.
here here–another good one to live by
Erma Bombeck was right; dust is a protective coating. It actually protected some burglars from getting nabbed because of their fingerprints on my jewelry box. The cop said, and I quote, “Sorry lady there’s too much dust in your house for us to pick up a descent print.”
better get my Pledge out tomorrow — this would be funny if it wasn’t
How about “There really is a child in that bedroom somewhere” or “Company’s coming – best places to stuff the junk”
two good ones that would apply at my house! and the child we are trying to find is over 6 feet tall and 22!
Very funny Lou! Really enjoyed it.
I just complained in an email that you were not commenting–now I am here to say I am sorry–glad you found it funny!
Stains….the new black.
I like that–wish it was really true
When my then-fiance (now second husband) Lex looked under one of my apartment chairs, he said, “You don’t have dust bunnies. You have dust rhinos.”
I handed him a broom and he cleaned it all up. That’s when I knew he was my man!!
MESS. Can we include hair in this one? Love this, LouAnn, Amy
most definitely we can include hair–I cut my own so have to keep it curled so no one can tell!
you have a keeper there–a dust bunny cleaner upper is hard to find!
I love the title of the magazine! I would add, invite children and adults to a crafting party, anything not nailed down is free to create with, and they can take it home with them. This seems to work around here. 🙂
ah, but if they take it home then they are taking home the mess–you are one smart cookie!
Exactly. Who knows what my son really think of all the art the little ones have carried home from here 🙂
ha ha
Creative, so inventive I like it.
My #13 How to throw a roaring fun sock swap. Mate -up all those single lone socks whose mates never make it from the washer to the dryer some how.
Were do they go?
I wish I knew where they went cause if I did I would have a dozen more socks–this is truly the mystery of the ages–maybe I will write a children’s book about it and come up with a solution to that mystery–thanks for the idea!
Looking forward to this story Lou. Envisioning a Where The Wild Things Are kind of story
I see it that way too!
#1 – I am the happiest in the world 😛 (much to my mother’s discontent)
Cheers
CCU
me too! I made my bed once–it was a waste of time
#13 – How to spray paint your cobwebs to make them art nouveau
I have lots of those–good idea!
#13. Tidiness: a new early indicator of IQ loss in later life?
love that one immensely – now how will we prove it?
Prove what? What were we talking about?
I think I’m due for a #6 – call out the dust bunnies to entertain! lol xoxoM
ha ha
Love the whole list.
thanks Mati
I’ll be your first subscriber! 🙂
#13: Dog Hair- Fashion Accessory for everyone
ha ha – or cat hair (I have a cat)