Buy one of those bathtubs and fill them up with bath toys sm
Posted By: Mom and Wife on 2008-02-04
In Reply to: Good baby shower gifts? sm - DS
and baby towels, washcloths, Johnson & Johnson stuff, etc.
Or buy one of those dishwashwer tubs that fit into the dishwasher that holds nipples, pacifiers, etc and wrap that up in a baby bath towel with a big bow on it.
Get a basket and fill it up with onesies, socks, kits that include medicines, etc.
I love going to baby showers and creating unique gifts!
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Put all the food in a cooler, fill freezer with pots of hot water, & bath
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lead in toys/Made in China...beware of Happy Meal toys
I watched a special on CNN yesterday about lead content in toys. I did not realize by your child simply touching a toy and putting his fingers in his mouth he could be ingesting lead. The special included a segment on a nice family that lived in a brand new home with a 2 year old and 6 month old. They both tested positive for lead. A 2 year old!!!! Worried, I went to my boy's toybox this morning and it is AMAZING how many painted toys are from China. Most notably this includes happy meal toys. I haven't gotten through one toy box and already have a trash bag full of toys. Please, please go through your children's toys. Lead ingestion can lead to brain damage. Be paranoid. Throw away all of the made in China stuff. Christmas is just weeks away--they will be getting new stuff (hopefully stuff that is paint-free!).
Your best bet is to buy made in the USA toys but even safer toys are unpainted blocks, Legos and books. A good, safe place to look for toys is www.mindware.com.
pass this on!
Free shipping on tons of toys on line at Toys R Us. nm
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Sorry, that's "warm bath" but arm bath is okay too LOL
Hope you do well, I'm thinking of you!
I did not see, fill me in. nm
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$65 to fill up my gas tank
Granted I was completely on EMPTY, but $65??
It was $3.08 per gallon at the WAWA, it was $3.12 at the local Shell station. This is the cheap stuff BTW!
How much are you paying for gas in your neck of the woods?
I have had my fill today and I can be as
ticked off as I like. If someone gave me millions and I mean this, I would never want to visit India or anywhere that the language sounded anywhere near that. It basically hurts my ears to listen to this all day long. When you cut into my money, very thing I can get irritated about. I even had a NP who was an ESL herself dictating for a physician today and heck that was no better. I have done this work over 30 years and it only gets worse, not to mention the drop in pay. Frankly my dear, I don’t care to be enlightened.
haven't heard......fill me in...
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Misha, please fill me in on the hypermobile
arches, first I have heard of this. I used to go barefoot all the time and thought at first this might have been where this came from, do not do that anymore. The current is exactly in the arch so tell me more, if you know. Thanks
Don't forget to fill out FAFSA
Web site:
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
The info you fill out is used by the school, your state, and the US government to award financial aid in the form of grants, gov't loans (which would be in your daughter's name), and scholarships.
Filling out the FAFSA is how I'm spending my day today, once I stop procrastinating. It's a PITA but worth it.
Good Luck!
SUV owner........last complete fill up was
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There's a special coating you need to use first to fill in the grooves. Don't
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oh yeah, and free glasses with fill-up's
Our cupboards were full of glasses earned for fill-ups! i had forgot about that :)
We painted ours too - looks great - didn't fill cracks either
We used Kilz first to block any stain that might seep through and then painted over it kind of an off white (called orange peel). I love it - so much brighter and looks good.
I paid $65 to fill mine yesterday, too. And it wasn't - sm
empty, it was 3/4 full! I paid $3.81/gallon. :(
I wish I hadn't promised my mom I'd come to Thanksgiving dinner (in Los Angeles)... I'll be paying off that trip on my gasoline credit card 'til well after New Year's.
I wish I'd taken 2 weeks off work so I could RIDE MY BIKE down there, instead.........
I have seen them at Bed, Bath, and Beyond....
or it may be Linens and Things in your area.
What do you use to bath him? - sm
My min-pin was always itching and scratching and rubbing on anything he could. Then the vet told me to use baby shampoo on him, and it worked. Plus I only bath him like every other month or so. Gets a little stinky, but I love him anyways. I don't usually give him a bath until his coat starts to look not so shiny. Seems to have worked so far.
Not until after his bath, LOL.
He just came out of the shelter and I can hardly wait for him to be clean.
But oh does he appreciate belly scritches.
He is such a good boy.
LOL the bath tub
I JUST thought of doing that. I'm sitting here telling myself my husband will think I have completely lost it if he comes home to see I have filled every empty jug in the house with water and the bath tub!!! lol I'm doing it anyway. Glad I'm not the only one to think of that.
We are also in MI. I keep thinking back to the other ice storm we had a few years back and the blackout where there was no gasoline or anything. Scary stuff but I would just like to try to prepare this time around if I can. As soon as I finish up here I'm working off your list. Some really great ideas to catch up laundry, charging batteries, etc. Thanks!
toys sm
 my hubby and i have within the last two years gotten toys and use them on each other and it's a lot of fun! maybe you and hubby can go "toy" shopping together, find him something. i would guess, like one of the other posters said, he's probably thinking he's not doing his job good enough. hope he opens up to new things for ya!
sex toys
My boyfriend has given me several over the years. We both enjoy them. I once bought one on line but when I actually saw it, it looked so scary, I called the company and they agreed to take it back and give me a refund. It was still in the original wrapper so they trusted me. I would say just don't use anything that scares you or makes you uncomfortable.
toys
Slinkies
Lincoln Logs
Yo-Yos
Tinker Toys
Silly Putty
I love them all......
Toys, also
Hoola-Hoops
Toys...............
I have 5 cats. They'll usually try to sit in any box they find empty,even one their foot barely fits in...they'll make themselves fit!
Plastic bags! Yep, mine too! When they were babies, but now that they're 7 years old, they don't mess with them anymore.
One of our males thinks a leaf that made its way into the house is the best thing around. He'll bat at it and scatter it all over the house for hours until it gets lost under something.
All of ours are manx with the exception of one..... he's the only one with a tail....our senior citizen. The rest think his tail is a toy!!
Anything they can fold themselves up in is always a good hiding place so they can jump out at anything that goes by, including the dog. A drawer that's opened just a crack is tempting enough to make the effort to crawl in...the heck with the consequences of getting stuck!!
Two of them know how to open the bottom cabinets in the kitchen and think they're going to hide out.....we've had to put child locks on them but one of the males found a way to break it and get in anyway!
Not toys, but s/m
My kitty sticks her feet (hands?) in her bowl and licks them, instead of just drinking the water. Too cute.
Have you tried a cool bath. sm
I have also heard rubbing the child down with alcohol helps. Prayers going up for your baby.
Old dog getting stinky - even the day after a bath! (nm)
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Bath and Body sm
My DH got me some B/B red leather collection stuff, makeup bag, manicure/pedicure set (awesome) and a little purse which came with Moonlight Path shower gel and body lotion. I already had the overnight bag and the tote. I just can't get enough of that red - I'm a bling, bling girl all the way!!!
Bath and teeth
Maybe it's the toothpaste. Some of it tastes yucky to a kid or the mint may be too strong or brushing could be irritating his gums. Let him pick a child's toothpaste and soft toothbrush and see if that helps. As for baths, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the tub. What mom didn't know was that my older sister kept sneaking in and pulling the plug, telling me I was going to go down the drain. She said if I told mom she would call the adoption agency and tell them to take me back (I wasn't adopted, but at age 4 I didn't know that). Maybe he saw something on TV that scared him. Some shows are pretty graphic (news too). I recall one show where a lady was brushing her teeth and blood started pouring from the faucet. Try letting him sit in a dry tub with a bucket of water for a sponge bath. Sit down and talk with the kid (not talk to) and assure him/her that if there is something going on you can help.
Why did they say your dog needed a bath?
I just throw my collie mix outside when it rains and maybe take him to the groomer 2 or 3 times a year. If he was rolling around in mud and dead animals, that would be different.
Toys for Tots
I believe it is the one run by troops collecting toys for underpriviledged kids at xmas.
How did an innocent bubble bath
This discussion the strangest thing I have ever heard in my life! My husband uses body butter from Bath and Body Works, but he's not gay, and he is very, very masculine. He just has dry skin and cares about his appearance. I'd prefer clean and fresh, then nasty, stinky, unkempt with dirty fingernails. I don't think there is anything wrong with a man caring about his appearance. To each his own I guess.
I like the ones from Bath and Body called
socks to sleep in. They are so soft and so warm. My feet are also constantly freezing. I wear slippers all winter long. I have some, the brand is "old Friend" and they are leather with sheep skin in them. Your feet do not get sweaty, just toasty warm. I go through a pair every year because I wear them until it is about 70 degrees outside.
Rock. Bath or shower?
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Pedi. Bath or shower?
and you could put some smaller toys in big pinata....
Sex toys - embarassing & anonymous
Hi - I'm serious - anonymous embarassing question for anonymous answers! I am 39 years old and my husband recently found out that I have a sex toy I bought about a year ago. He is furious and is acting like I am a really bad person. I think these things are way more common than the thinks. Just looking for opinions?
I call Target, WM, KB, Toys R Us...
Circuit City, Game Stop, Sears and Best Buy every day and have been for the past 3 weeks - no one has any in stock. They are really popular right now and when they do get them in stock, they sell out within minutes. I'm also signed up to receive emails from Toys R Us and KB Toys when they get them in stock online, but they too always sell out within minutes. It's just ridiculous how hard it is to get one of these. My parents are actually in central Texas this weekend and I'm hoping they'll be able to get one for me while they're there. ebay has them, but they're at least $100 over the normal price and right now I'm not willing to pay that. Oh, well. Hopefully, I'll be able to find one before Christmas.
I used to LOVE soap with toys in it.
I think I had one when I was little called Fuzzy Wuzzy--or maybe I don't remember. (I'm 45 now.) But what a great thing to recreate.
Last vent on obnoxious toys. LOL.
The LeapFrog Tag thingy. I saw them at Wal-Mart and it looks like certain books work with it. I saw the advertisement and thought it was neat until that crazy man in the lizard costume or whatever it is insinuated that books are boring unless they can be used by that talking pen. I cannot figure out how that thing helps kids learn to read as it says it does. It looks to me like that pen reads for them. My 6-year-old is in first grade and they are trying to teach her to read by phonics. So when she and I read together whenever she stumbles across a word I have her try to look at it and sound it out before I will give her an answer and most of the time she can. I think I am just frustrated by that whole industry now anyway because I have had salespeople come to my door basically telling me that my kid is going to be a dumbazz if I don't buy their expensive junk....all the other kids have it and mine will be left out in the cold. I guess I am not giving those electronics a chance. I cannot see what they can do for my child that I cannot.
my dog sneaks kids toys and
takes them to bed with her. Or if you leave work gloves outside, she'll run off with one that you may never find again, but so far, that's the extent of her damage. don't know how well i'd get over eating up my headsets...
Kitty's favorite toys!
So what are your kitty's FAVORITE toys?
With mine, the store-bought toys usually get ignored, while she instead plays happily with the box the toy came in. Strings are pretty much the Numero Uno toys for her. And bags. She spent this morning smugly sitting inside a clear plastic bag that had been a 12-pack of toilet paper, thinking I couldn't see her.
Lately she's developed an huge liking for grocery twist-ties. So recently I began making her "spiders" out of a couple twist-ties twisted together in the middle to form a body, and the ends of the ties are legs. She goes NUTS with these, especially in the kitchen, since they scoot and skitter in a very lifelike manner when she bats them across the linoleum. She also likes to grab the spider and zoom all over the house with it.
Eventually she hides them, and I have to make her another. I'm sure that someday if I ever move, I'll probably discover old twist-tie "spiders" in all sorts of unlikely places.
Bath/shower gel? Pair of earrings?
Nightgown/pajamas? Gloves/ scarf? Candle? CD or DVD? Purse? Movie tickets?
I haven't tried the cool bath or the compresses yet.
I will try those and see if it helps to break the fever. Thanks so much for the replys.
tub bath outside in sun or cozy in front of fire
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If you have a bath and body works locally, try...sm
their shower gels and body butter in whatever fragrance you prefer. I too have such dry skin that it cracks and bleeds, especially on my hands and feet. I can write on the skin on my arms and legs it gets so dry, and my face looks like a road map if I don't moisturize. I also have very sensitive skin, but the perfumes they use don't seem to bother my skin. I use the Neutragena Wave foaming cleansing pads on my face and then use the body butter. Also try not to take really hot showers, the heat is very hard on the skin, and make sure you pat dry, not rub as that tears the skin. Apply the body butter first thing in the morning, right out of the shower and again right before you go to bed. That may seem like a lot, but it does not take much of the body butter. I use it usually about 3 times a day, sometimes more on my hands, and mine still lasts quite a while.
Throwing out the baby with the bath water
It seems somehow kinda wrong to determine that the health care is good enough for our military but I sure as heck don't want it for me. It's like those situations where instead of increasing standards all around to make something to be proud of, you lower the standards to the least common denominator. There is no reason not to use the military system and fix what's wrong with it rather than determine that it won't work. My girls were delivered in naval hospital, had surgery in naval hospitals, saw Navy doctors, etc., etc. The care my family received through them in wait times, time spent with patient, treatment, etc., was no worse than it was when we belonged to Kaiser years later.
I got toys for the nieces and nephews. Did pretty
good. Got Battleship w/a handheld electronic Battleship package for 8 bucks, a 20 pack of Hot Wheels race cars for 9 bucks, Barbie stable and horse for 23 bucks (two items), 4-Ever Best Friends for 11 bucks, My Little Pony Styling Pony for 9 bucks, and Pirates of the Caribbean PSP game for 39 bucks. I also bought 3 beautiful Christmas sweaters for 12 bucks each. I think I did pretty good.
I got tons of clothes and toys. I always hit Walmart,
Toys-R-Us and JC Pennys for those things. I also went to Pac Sun and got me some jeans (2 for less than the price of 1). I never go for electronics. I figure what you are trying to save for 1 item, you loose by missing out on all the other small things. I did get gaming things though, basically any electronics I do not have to stand in line for, like Walmart has you do. For instance, if you bought a PS2 game at Toys-R-Us, you get a wireless controller for 5 bucks, normally 20. I got a game and the controller for 10 bucks.
Severe warning about dangerous dog-toys!!
I came across this blog today on Craigslist: http://www.thechaistory.blogspot.com/
And if you have a dog, it's a must-see. It details what happened to a dog that was severely injured by a dog toy called a "Pimple Ball" made by Four Paws, Inc. The dog ended up losing his tongue, and the pain he had to endure was excruciating.
The dog's owner relates that the Four Paws Co. hasn't owned up to the fact that its toy is dangerous, and he's calling for a international boycott of Four Paws, Inc. After watching his video links of his poor dog's suffering, even though I have cats, I plan to be sure I don't purchase ANYTHING from this company, andhopefully you won't either.
Lots of chewie toys, because puppies
like to chew. And I have seen Springer Spaniel calendars at either Borders or Petco.
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