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Peg Bracken Versus The FLYlady

December 1, 2020 by Naomi Kritzer 7 Comments

When my older daughter was a baby, we needed a plumber for a broken faucet. The guy who came was running a probably-unauthorized side business hawking household products, and he pitched his product to me when he was done fixing the faucet: sink polish. “It’ll make your sink look new,” he told me enthusiastically. I…

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