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I see this as a project for my neo-traditional dining room. Let the old random chair collecting begin...

Cute baby clothes with lots of snaps and feet. So maybe I'm just a lazy mom - but I hate the hassle of those things and have only put #2 in such things three times of my own volition and purely b/c the people who gave them to her were coming to visit (ok wait - there is that one that is polar fleece and super cute that we wore once to take a brisk walk in the baby bjorn to Starbucks). I LOVE the baby gowns (for both my boy and my girl!)

Ok - BUT. What about Lead? Lead poisoning via DUST is a big thing here in the States. HEPA filters clean down to size .3mu particles and lead is size 3.0 so by default it should get easily caught by a purifier. What do you guys think about putting HEPA filter air purifiers in older homes that the EPA cautions might be lead hazardous? (I agree ozone and ionization are probably more trouble than they are worth)

I'm actually really ok with the Sesame street gang. For me its less about marketing (though I hate the consumerism my 3 year old drips from his mouth - and we don't watch commercials! - all his screen time is netflixed) and more about what the toy represents. If they are "educational" in nature as opposed to lame, banal, or just bad entertainment which is really for older kids but little kids watch (90% of Nickelodeon) I'm ok with it. So there is a lot of book origination overlap but just as many PBS characters.

But ANGRY BIRDS - yes it is a phenom. Every kid at my son's preschool is obsessed with their Dad's iphone or their ipad (I can't believe how many of these kids have their own ipad!!) and playing angry birds on it. My son was only allowed to ask for one thing for Christmas and he asked for the "black angry bird that explodes".
and he got it.
Because my mom got me a pair of skids in the 80s even though they were totally stupid and I'm embarrassed by them now...

I'd take a quarterly of new content - come on Conde Nast!~

Also stop sending me stuff to renew lucky when I have 3 years of credit b/c you cancelled Domino and OhDeeDoh... oh wait I mean CookieMag...

This is a great idea - I want to make one for my kids' preschool!

I like to play a game a friend introduced me to - I love it "this much". Its a variation on absofrikenlutey.
When buying ANYTHING - (works esp well with clothes) - before you look at the price say outloud "I love it "this much" and put a price in there. A pair of "I love it "10 bucks" shorts that turn out to be 25 bucks. Put them back. A pair of "I love it 80 bucks! I look amazing!" jeans that are 40 bucks... buy two pair and don't buy jeans again for a year or two :)

Love the "how much" question for volunteering too... "I love helping design curriculum for free for a young colleague just starting out for the price of treating me to Starbucks when my kid is in preschool but not enough to hire a babysitter and meet you at your classroom 45 mins away..."

one of my favorite glasses (esp for hot chocolate in the winter - don't know why...) is a rinsed out, label off Bonne Maman jelly jar (http://www.bonnemaman.us/)...
I get the preserves whenever they are on sale and when they are all used up we rinse and use.
But every once in a while my MIL or a sitter recycles them out of the sink not realizing they are now glasses so we still have a low count...

hard pressed to pick - LOVE the yellow rooms and I hate yellow in general and loathe the yellow we are stuck with in our kids' room in our rental - surprising! I wish we could rank 1, 2, 3 and not just pick one...
so dreaming of something other than yellow... I say Levi!

This is going to sound egregious but I had 6? maybe 8? CPKs (plus one of those weird hybrid animal kids they came out with - mine was half dog half kid). BUT its a good story. We were totally super dirt poor farmers (my mom was already working an extra job as the cook for the Priests at the catholic school they sent me to to cover my tuition) and for the holidays every year so they could buy presents and have a big christmas dinner my mom got a seasonal job on the ASSEMBLY LINE for Coleco who made... CABBAGE PATCH KIDS! The only perk to the overnight shifts (before she came home to work on the cows at 5am) was that each year she got to buy (at cost) a CPK. So I don't remember their names but I remember all the girls who laughed at my hand-me down clothes looking on in amazement when I brought out my parade of Cabbage Patch dolls - blonde, brunette, premie - boy and girls. I had them all... :)