Don't mind candles, Pampered Chef, or Tastefully Simple. HATE Mary Kay parties! nm
Posted By: nm on 2006-05-24
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I Love Pampered Chef too
Some of their things are expensive, but there are smaller items that I have that I couldn't live without. They have these great measuring spoons and cups I just got recently and a glas mixing bowl that I use all the time, you can even bake a cake in it.
Pampered Chef--went to a party over the-sm
weekend. She made a broccli and chicken braid. Does anyone have that recipe? Really good.
I just had a Pampered Chef party.
My Pampered Chef lady probably has it. E-mail me if you really want it and I'll try and get it for you. 
My DH has decided to become a Pampered Chef demonstrator.
Does anyone have any info on this? Is it a good way to make some extra money? I said NO, he decided to do it anyway.
That is a great idea. Pampered Chef is awesome!!!
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I hate any of those "obligated to buy junque at a party" parties
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I hate chart notes so that is a simple choice for me.
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I have bilateral tinnitus and HATE it. White noise or radio softly on helps get my mind off of it.
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Love psych notes. HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE,
HATE ER notes.
They are called Mary Mary
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Pampered
I am so curious; I love their stuff and buy it all the time through a "second party" who hands out brochures for the PC lady (I have never gotten to meet her) for a lot of us who never have time to go anywhere, but still want to purchase kitchen stuff. Why did you stop doing PC? Would you do it again?
Soy candles
Hope this helps When I want to make something and don't anything about it I go to the internet and type in what I want to know. Type in "making soy candle ideas" see what you get. There are alot of craft ideas for free on the internet. I'm a crafter at heart.
Chef. nm
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Am a fan of candles too...
Love Yankee Candles also but there is a small company who makes candles just as well, scents the whole house, not sweet or yucky (I get headaches from yucky candles), and they are called Makepeace Naturals with natural soy wax at www.makepeace.com. They are just as good or better than Yankee Candles at much lower price. My DIL introduced them to me. Just thought I'd let you know. I believe a 16 oz candle is 8 dollars.
This is exactly why I want to be a chef.
Had enough of this BS.
Soy candles? Oh, please do explain!
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Yankee Candles
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To I Love candles
If you want to email me, I can explain how to make them :-)
MQ pity parties
Why don't one of you MQ whiners start a blog so the rest of us with the good sense NOT to stay with a crappy company don't have to see your "poor me" posts. It is not that we read them, it is just a pain to have to navigate around them. If you don't have the sense God gave a goose and leave a company that treats you so shabbily, then you deserve to be there. Just don't subject the rest of us to your pity parties. Someone start a blog, where you can all go and whine to each other, while your kids "starve". Btw, if your kids were starving, it would be your faults for not getting a job that would buy your groceries and pay your bills.
looking for help making soy candles see message
I want to start making soy candles and would like to correspond a little bit with somebody who has experience making them. I have questions such as where is the cheapest place to get supplies, what problems I might encounter, what to do to rectify them. I'm looking to get started to make these as Christmas presents plus for myself at home. I would appreciate it very, very much if anybody could help ME that is not going to mind getting a few E-mails from me with questions.
Candles essential in my home...sm
I will even pass up the highlighting kit that covers up my gray hair for a candle(s)! I'll even have an awesome coupon for the exact kit that I use, but if I'm low on candles, I'll go to the dollar store and load up instead! I dunno, there's just something about the mood they create that I love!
In my single days, when I had great MT jobs that paid well, I bought the coolest candle from a novelty store (yeah, they sold XXX toys there too!). Anyway, that candle made the room look so nice. It came in a Mason-type jar, and lit the room in a special way (it was definitely a bedroom candle)! It was pretty expensive, but I wasn't poor back then. I'd love to find one just like it again, and be able to afford to buy it.
We're all just different people liking different things I guess.
What kind of things do you buy when you have a few extra dollars (for just yourself)?
Have you ever made those water candles?
When I was a young teenager, we would make the water candles in a bucket of water. Got burned more than I care to think about. Made some pretty awesome-looking candles though!
I make my own candles - easier that way, and fun!
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I hear ya about the Chef-Boyardee!
I don't even know how to spell it--that's fancy stuff right there! I usually eat weeners and ramen! I actually cooked a little roast beef and taters for the first time in MONTHS tonight! I could eat better if I dumped my critters, but then for me, what would be the point of doing what I do?
It's hard, no doubt about it. We have married friends back in Mass who TAKE HOME $75,000 each and each have excellent bennies. BUT, they live in a house they never get to LIVE in and they never sit down together to eat...always eat separately on the run. They've got a gorgeous yard that they hire someone else to take care of. It's whacked...they've got a gourmet kitchen and NEVER USE IT! When they want to take a vacation, guess where they come? To my place here in the boonies! How messed up is that?!
We only get one go 'round (or at least that's what I believe anyway) and we are the choices we make. I'm thankful I've been able to make the choices I have. I just happen to choose the beef-flavored ramen over the chicken one, and the smell of grass and manure over asphalt and exhaust.
Same here, I am thinking of becoming a personal chef. nm
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Brandi throws the best parties....
We did used to have a wild time. I absolutely love TQ now that it is no more. I used to have so much fun and got paid to do it. Man--I was making $ hand over fist--bought my house--paid cash for all my furnishings, etc.--worked my @*#% off but it was great!!
Our block has parties a lot that go well into the night. sm
They have even had a couple of bands come and play. This was a problem last year for me because I needed my sleep and worked weekends. This year, it will be nice since I now work nights. For a short street, it is really lively.
who hates candle parties?
I hate Pampered Chef parties and all those that I get invited to where it is really about me paying for junk.
Who else hates these things?
Well I don't buy stuff like candles, for one thing, if I'm having to be careful. SM
I've always lived somewhat frugally (unless you count my PERSONAL spending habits). I don't even have cable TV.
Candles that smell like fresh cut grass. sm
Gosh, I just love that smell. Anyone know where I can purchase something like that? What a great pick me up for winter. Also, love the clean smell of fresh rain. If I could only bottle that aroma.....
My husband is not a gourmet chef and I don't have a housekeeper... SM
So consequently, cooking falls to me and cleaning the house falls to me. My husband helps, but let's be honest husbands can sometimes be as needy as the kids.
Minnie, do you hear yourself? You have a housekeeper, your husband cooks, your kids are grown. That's great for you. It sounds like you work because you want to and that's great again, but most of work because we have to. We don't have a choice and we have to find a way to make money and be a good mom and a good wife all at the same time. It's hard. My kids are a priority and my paycheck is a priority, but if one of my kids wants to sit down and talk to me for a few minutes, then I'm going to listen. If that makes me unprofessional, then I guess I am.
That doesn't mean I don't get upset with my kids when they interrupt me for silly things. I do and they know when I'm mad, but that isn't going to stop them from doing it again, because they are, after all, just kids and what is important to them, may not seem important to me, but it IS important nevertheless. No, I don't have them trained like dogs with the wave of my hand, but they're good kids and I am eternally grateful that I can take them and pick them up from school and I always know where they're at and what they are doing and when they'll be home. I'm not calling from an in-office job wondering why my kids are answering the phone. I know their teachers and friends and friends' parents. Sure, my production may slip from time to time, but I've learned to adapt and I'm willing to sacrifice for what I view is the best reason to be an MT right now.
Anyone going to any Harry Potter midnight parties?
No midnight parties here, but love the books!
I've only seen the first one at the movies, but I'm not much of a movie or TV person. More of a reader. Can't wait to get the book to add to the collection. Started the collection with my son who has lost interest at 15. He looks like Harry though. He went to the playground one day when he was 12 (dark hair, little round glasses) and all of the little kids were screaming, "It's Harry Potter! It's Harry Potter!" and running after him. He said, "MOM, IT WAS AWFUL!" He now has contact lenses and he put his magic wand away.
Xmas parties where the Prez gets silly,
company-covered bar tabs, having someone come and listen to your blanks, staff meetings, being able to look someone in the eye, your supervisor inviting everyone over to her house for brunch on Sunday. Having the choice whether to work in the office or work at home.
The downside? The typical problems working with a bunch of women. Then there was the fact that I was not a social butterfly and didn't like the endless requests for money to fund birthday, wedding, baby, sick, divorced, married parties, Tupperware, Chef this, Southern that yadda yadda yadda fests. The lunch you were so looking forward to no longer being the in fridge, but the wrapping is in the trash. A favorite reference book being found on someone else's desk at the other end of the hall. And she smokes. Ergo, your book now smells to high heaven because she sneaks her smokes in the office during her late night shift, and her nasty, smelly fingers have been all over it (only a nonsmoker will understand how awful this).  And she claims she doesn't know HOW the book got there when you ask.
Would I do it all again? In a heartbeat.
they always have and always will have hurricaine parties and joke about death.
I grew up in hurricaine country - there are folks who would much rather die at home. I do not understand it, but I know that its true.
they are the only parties that I go to anymore....great food!
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Is this beauty control? I use to sell, but never did parties. SM
I had my opening party, but that was it. I served the food at the table in the kitchen. Everyone just helped themselves and then sat in the chairs I had out in the livingroom to eat. Once we got started, everyone pretty much disposed of their plates and then settled in. I think it worked out good. I had everything ready when they showed up, but I think that everyone pretty much waits until other people get there before they start eating. I would definitely offer drinks when they get there though.
The menu sounds great, so don't worry about that. Seems like a lot of variety for them to choose from.
Don't be nervous...just relax and enjoy it. That's the purpose of the spa party :) Good luck!
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Suze Orman had a chef on her show last week ..
The girl spent $35K to go to an 18-month culinary school. Now makes $7 an hour and with interest on her $35K school debt, she is paying back $119K.
At $7 an hour, she'll have to pick up another job.
Chef's make LESS than we do! LOLOLOL
There were in-house parties, donuts, 40 work week.
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I guess I'm the odd ball; I LOVE going to home parties! sm
But on the other hand, I HATE shopping. I do the majority of my shopping from home parties -- Lia Sophia (sp?) jewelry, Tastefully Simple (a fave), Pampered Chef. I'm waiting to go to a Southern Living Home Show but haven't been invited to one yet.
I read that, too. I love to cook, too, but I wouldn't want to be a chef or caterer.
Working mostly evenings and complaining patrons. I don't know. There's this little yuppie deli downtown that I would love to open one very similar to. But would I want to do it everyday? Then again, I like gardening and canning. I could be a farmer and sell organic vegetables. Or I could sell homemade canned foods, but there's so much regulation there and worry about botulism. I also like writing. My true dream is to be a paid and published writer. I don't care about fame or fortune, just enough to be able to work a flexible schedule and support my family. My family says it's a pipe dream that everyone wants but few people get.
Love cardiology, hate podiatry. Hate discharges, but
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I hate those but I hate trauma notes on children even more sm
I used to work for a large hospital that saw a lot of children for various horrible things.
The very last one I did was a 12yo boy who had hung himself while his mother was at work. She thought he was in school. The doctor cried, I cried (as I usually did) and I just couldn't handle that anymore. That was the longest report I swear. Short in lines but the length was almost an hour. The doc didn't pause the machine, she cried, horrible gut wrenching sobs, and I did too, right along with her.
Your mind was in the gutter up there with sauteed stool, too. Would you please take your mind out of
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Way to go Mary! Yum yum......
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