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I hope you get to feeling better soon. It's hard being down like that.
Java. the end.
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I hope you get to feeling better soon. It's hard being down like that.
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It will get better. I just don't know why it couldn't have happened in January when there was no need to do anything outside savingdogs
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I'm so sorry, Java, I know just how you feel. It never happens at the right time, does it? Probably a good idea for you to take it easy for awhile until your back feels a little better. Do they give you exercises? My chiropractor gave me some and that really helped.
ksalvagno
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I hope you feel better soon.
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Javamama
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An ankle brace has helped my foot tremendously, so things are better.
Spring cleaning fever has hit me. I'm dreaming of a giant trash can over which I can shake my whole house
Is it just my kids, or are they all crap magnets? The mountain of junk they move into the house is ridiculous! They don't even care about it. Stuff from school, stuff from family who won't stop shopping even though I tell them to - they are out of control! Next week is spring break and my goal is for everyone to lose half the contents of their bedroom. It's just gotta go.
Spring cleaning fever has hit me. I'm dreaming of a giant trash can over which I can shake my whole house
Is it just my kids, or are they all crap magnets? The mountain of junk they move into the house is ridiculous! They don't even care about it. Stuff from school, stuff from family who won't stop shopping even though I tell them to - they are out of control! Next week is spring break and my goal is for everyone to lose half the contents of their bedroom. It's just gotta go.glenolam
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Ha - good luck with that!
My motto is "If I've seen it in the same spot for a month and it's not the spot it belongs in then consider it TRASH"
My hubby hates me for that...he knows I will throw it away....
We've started having our son give up a few toys every time a "present" holiday comes around. He has to go through and give up the ones he doesn't play with or need and make room for the new ones. He actually enjoys it because he think's he's gonna get more in the end. HA!
My motto is "If I've seen it in the same spot for a month and it's not the spot it belongs in then consider it TRASH"
My hubby hates me for that...he knows I will throw it away....
We've started having our son give up a few toys every time a "present" holiday comes around. He has to go through and give up the ones he doesn't play with or need and make room for the new ones. He actually enjoys it because he think's he's gonna get more in the end. HA!
ksalvagno
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Sounds like fun. Good luck. Hopefully the kids won't give you much trouble.
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Well maybe you should try what I used to call "toy sort", it is for kids under 10.
You dump EVERYTHING into the middle of the room (toy-wise). Start with a trash bag and toss broken stuff. Find a big box and collect a box of "baby" toys your kids have outgrown, to donate to charity or a friend with a younger kid. They love telling you which toys are too babyish. Then put everything left back into its sets and kits and boxes and whatever. Things with parts missing get tossed. I make the kids do a lot of this work, especially when it comes to finding and putting the toy parts back together. If you take each toy set one at a time it is more fun. "Lets find everything that has wheels" or "lets find all the lego next"....Then take what is LEFT of the reassembed and resorted toys and divide it into two.....and put 1/2 away on your shelves or toy storage and the other half in a big bin from Wallmart, or a giant cardboard box. Put this second box in the garage. I would put entire kits of toys away, not half of each type.
Then, on some day that they are bored and driving you crazy, have them box up those toys they have been using and exchange it for the ones in the box. You would be surprised how fun those toys are to them again.
I used this to great success. They don't really need all those toys and sometimes there is an overload/overstimulation when there are too many toys. And one time when our neighbors had a fire, I just took the garage box over to their house and gave it to them.
I was a girl scout leader and a cub scout den mother so I do have a few tricks up my sleeve, they just are not usually about self-sufficiency, but try that Java, it really works.
You dump EVERYTHING into the middle of the room (toy-wise). Start with a trash bag and toss broken stuff. Find a big box and collect a box of "baby" toys your kids have outgrown, to donate to charity or a friend with a younger kid. They love telling you which toys are too babyish. Then put everything left back into its sets and kits and boxes and whatever. Things with parts missing get tossed. I make the kids do a lot of this work, especially when it comes to finding and putting the toy parts back together. If you take each toy set one at a time it is more fun. "Lets find everything that has wheels" or "lets find all the lego next"....Then take what is LEFT of the reassembed and resorted toys and divide it into two.....and put 1/2 away on your shelves or toy storage and the other half in a big bin from Wallmart, or a giant cardboard box. Put this second box in the garage. I would put entire kits of toys away, not half of each type.
Then, on some day that they are bored and driving you crazy, have them box up those toys they have been using and exchange it for the ones in the box. You would be surprised how fun those toys are to them again.
I used this to great success. They don't really need all those toys and sometimes there is an overload/overstimulation when there are too many toys. And one time when our neighbors had a fire, I just took the garage box over to their house and gave it to them.
I was a girl scout leader and a cub scout den mother so I do have a few tricks up my sleeve, they just are not usually about self-sufficiency, but try that Java, it really works.
Dace
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I think all kids are crap magnets! What a great phrase.... Crap magnet 
