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Show , Review - Wednesday, November 14, 1984 - Page 3 j porcelain preacher seeks cure to home hassles - I ' ! j By SHARON MOKREY He's been called, the "Porcelain Preacher" and he's the successful esident of a multimillion dollar Peaning business but author and husband Don Aslett says most of all "he's teen educated in the amount , usework that's dumped on en" and he's out to help. "I have just been amazed at my since we started this whole !Lg" says the popular speaker and author of three books. ("Is Lre Life After Housework," "Do I puSt or Vacuum First?" and i gutter's Last Stand"). I get all these frustrations by mail and it's all the same; men and kids think it's mama's job to clean. das long as mother will do it, it is. We'll always respond depending on What we can get away with." "I'm a repentant slob I hope," shares Aslett. "I own my own cleaning business and I teach seminars about how to clean but I still find little things I start to do around the house and I wonder, 'Who did these things before? And look the at time they take up!'" Aslett says he doesn't have all the answers but he has some of them and everyday he's finding more. "When I find the answer to how to get the husbands and kids to do their part, rn make an instant $2 milljon dollars," laughs Aslett. Meanwhile, with wit and humor, Aslett is storming the country with his ideas that essentially put cleaning and housekeeping in its place. He advocates "making less mess" first of all, being responsible for ones own messes. "Men ought to be punished for their own sins," he quips. "Don't be the family janitor. Set ' an exciting example by and establishing order without reinforcing slobbiness in others. Just don't pick it up for them." "I had one lady write to tell me she just kicked her husband's work-pant-baseball uniform, dress pants, etc. under the bed until he appeared in a towel one day looking for his clothes. She told him they were right where he left them. She never had any more trouble with him picking up his clothes." "That's what you may have to do. Let the kid go to school in stinky shorts if he can't remember to put them into the wash." "Everyone's lime is worth exactly the same," he stresses. Aslett admits thai the woman of the house may have to be ready to forget about her "image" to do this. "Let them suffer the con-sequences or they won't change. Why should they if mom will do it? People have to want to do this." Aslett says he gets lots of letters with job-cha- rt ideas and tips to get the family to help but he dismisses it all as "trickery to get them to do what they should, and why should you use four hours to devise a plan to get them to do their work?" He urges mothers and wives to bring their husbands to his seminars like the one scheduled this Saturday, Nov. 17, at 9 a.m. at the American Fork Junior High. "Don't let them go duck-huntin- g and send you to the seminar alone, (leaving a trail of peanut-butte- r and feathers for you to clean up later.) Bring them, I'll tell them what I've discovered. I continue every day to be amazed at what women are ex-pected to do." And Aslett promises to excite both men and women with new concepts in his g philosophy." Aslett maintains that clutter and junk is crowding out happiness in the American lifestyle. "Clutter is one of the greatest enemies of efficiency and stealers of time." "Clutter can be traced back to Adam who, when his fig leaf wore out and should have been discarded, pressed it and saved it as a memory of e days." "That's stuff that crowds out feelings of love. The very thing you save strangles you. People keep such junk. If all the National Geographies stored in attics were gathered into one place it would tilt the earth. Throw away those mouse-manure- d mildewed magazines." "I went through a stack of piano books and music my children used, reduced a two foot pile to four in-ches. The time for its usefulness was gone. It was past." "We hold onto things long past their usefulness. One man I know saved a box of chicken feathers for 30 years - 30 years! And it was a big box. That's junk!" "The junk concept is just phenomenal," says Aslett, who has a wealth of ideas on how to recognize junk, how to say good-by- e to the junk habit and how to avoid junking up in the future. "It's like an alcoholic," he con-cludes, "You must admit the problem before you can get help." Don Aslett Mrs, Utah runner-up- , Lynn Jones ML. ' of William and Mary, in Petersburg, Va. She is a graduate of Petersburg General Hospital School of Professional Nursing with an R.N B.A. She was a runner-u- p and Miss Congeniality in the Miss Virginia Pageant. Lynn loves to play with her children and spend time with her husband. She claims to be addicted to cross stitch and all kinds of hand sewing and crafts. She has studied music since the age of five and has loved performing at the piano and especially at the organ. She enjoys singing, especially harmony, and is involved with a singing group. She keeps active in PTA and also in her LDS Ward. Among her local sponsors for the pageant are Dr. David Dickerson, Deseret BanCorporation, Nortons Food Center, Barnett's V & S Variety, Adventureland Video, The Bungalow, Durfeys Extra Care Dry Cleaners and Story Pharmacy. --continued from front page pageant the contestants appeared in evening gown and swimsuit again and were also judged on their poise on stage- They were required to answer two questions if they were one of the five finalists. Lynn said that her title will mean that more doors will be opened to her and she will have more opportunities outside of Utah Valley. She also said it would further enhance the challenge of team work in her family. She noted that the current Mrs. America is LDS as are the current Miss America and America's Junior Miss. She said she feels the light of Christ shines through and the practicalities of the health code of the LDS Word of Wisdom aided in the choice of LDS women to these honored positions. Lynn said some of the things which are important to her are to teach her children that work is love made visable. She added that she loves to share her enthusiasm for married life and the family. A registered nurse, Lynn feels that the contemporary married woman can have it all: a happy marriage, children, and continued personal progress if she firmly establishes her priorities. Lynn is a - certified lactation consultant and feels strongly about breast feeding and offering help and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed their babies. She is a La Leche League leader. She enjoys speaking to church and civic groups on makeup, poise and personality. She teaches Feminine Dynamics and has done private coaching for pageant contestants. Lynn was adopted as a newborn and raised with her fullblooded sister who was also adopted by the same couple. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Douglas Orange of Jacksonville, Fla. She graduated from high school in Jacksonville and has attended Richard Bland College, The College - si ' ' ' - S , " ; ' I Lynn Jones Residents invited to join football motorcade By JODI BETHERS This Friday Pleasant Grove will play Ben Lomorid in the state 3A football semi-final- The game will be at 10:30 a.m. at Rice Stadium in Salt Lake. Tickets are $3.50 for adults and $2.50 for high school age. There will be a police escort and motorcade from the high school, through American Fork, to the freeway entrance. Everyone who would like to, can participate. There will be free "G" signs and plastic to decorate cars. Balloons will also be sold for 10 cents or three for 25 cents. Bus tickets will be sold for $2 at the school to anyone (senior citizens, parents, or whomever) who wants to go up and wants to save wear and tear and gas money. Those who ride the bus will get free popcorn, apples, and balloons. At the game, baggies of rice will be given out and everyone is en-couraged to form the line for the Vikings. Friday morning at 8: 15, there will be a pep assembly in the boys gym. The public is invited to come and show their spirit. This day will also be dress-u- p day. Sophomores will wear white, juniors, light blue; seniors, royal blue, and the public, blue and white. Blue and white wavers will also be given away. Everyone come out and help our awesome football team take state. Youth city council reports The Pleasant Grove Youth City Council met with the regular City Council Tuesday to explain their goals for the year and report on activities to date. Mayor Cedele Smith, youth mayor, reported that the group had sponsored a Mock Election at Pleasant Grove High School. The vote for President Reagan was about 279 to 6 votes for Mondale. She said all of the Republican candidates won handily. They called all of the local candidates and told them how they had fared in the high school election. They even called the White House and received a call back, even though they did not get to talk to the president himself. Other goals, in addition to the mock election held Nov. 1, include relocation of the city Christmas Tree, a Dance at the Community Center as a fund raiser for Christmas service projects, listing community projects for Eagle Scout candidates, scout troops and other service organizations, identifying and improving hazar-dous street corners. They also propose to continue the Week begun a few years ago, hold a Drug and Alcohol Abuse Awareness Week, and they plan to change two city ordinances: the curfew law and the snowball ordinance. Mayor David Holdaway reported that the Youth City Council will be sworn in at the next City Council meeting on Nov. 20. The youth council will be given time to report at one city council meeting each month. Still time to enter candy contest There is still time to enter the Holiday Candy Recipe contest sponsored by this newspaper. En-tries will be accepted until noon Friday, Nov. 16. A cash prize of $40 will be awarded to the first place winner, $20 to the second place finisher and honorable mention will receive free sub-scriptions to the newspaper. To enter, make up a batch of your favorite holiday candy and submit samples of the finished product along with the written recipe. En tries will be judged on taste, ap-pearance and the written recipe: Entries may be taken to the American Fork Citizen Office' any weekday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or to the Pleasant Grove Review office, 11 S. Main, Pleasant Grove, or the Lehi Free Press Of-fice, 32 W. Main, Lehi, on Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Nov. 16 until noon. The winning recipes, along with as many others as space allows, will be published in that same edition. (3jH Oil QsS D7 American Fork Store Only! 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