They sell a thing that is like a soft rubber nasal clip at Daiso and it worked!
In case anyone is interested, here is what the product is:
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I always use the canned light evaporated milk when cream is called for in recipes. For the thickness of double cream, though, I heat the evaporated milk and melt in some light philly cream cheese.
speaking of cats drinking out of the toilet...
having a cat was the trick to my husband finally keeping the toilet seat down every time he used it!!
I caught my cat a few times either trying to drink, or play with the water in the toilet... gross!! my cat likes to play with or in water (--just not her whole body in water though-- she fights for her life if I have to give her a bath LOL)
I started telling my husband if he really wants to keep leaving to toilet seat open for our cat, next time I catch her I am going to throw her on top of him so he gets toilet water on him, or will thoroughly rub her feet and mouth in the sheets on his side of the bed so he has to sleep with toilet water LOL
ahhhhhh its been so lovely the past 3 years with the toilet seat always closed!!
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back to the topic... my friend in the US has a Drinkwell Platinum drinking fountain and it is so nice! I don't know if they sell them here though... the difference between the regular Drinkwell fountain and the platimum one is just that the platimum's spout is higher than the regular.
What I do for our maids is we buy them uniforms. But they choose what their work uniforms will be... be it those uniforms that generally all gulf families have their maids wear, or jalabiyas (the Arabic dresses), or be it simple knit shirts and pants... whatever three of these they feel most comfortable in. With any of these choices, you can get them for really good prices and hey, they are for working in so they don't need anything fancy. And for the cooler weather, of course some warm-up jackets and things like that.
Then I also buy them a couple of going out outfits... what they can wear when we take them out or if they go out.
Oh, we also buy them a week's worth of underwear, bras, and socks.
As their uniform clothing, underwear, bras, and socks gets older of course then I buy them new ones.
The only other extras they get is for the 2 Eids each year we buy them a new outfit as well. A couple of maids we have had chose to wear something they wore on a past Eid and purchase an outfit to save for when they eventually go back home (stuff they are not allowed to wear in our home)and we are fine with that.
other than that, if they want extra clothes on top of that it is not our responsibility and they understand that.
I agree with Purple that if I give hand-me-downs it is up to the maids what they want to do with them.
<em>edited by Abaddon on 04/01/2011</em>
