Daily Archives: November 23, 2007

Day 83: Shampoo & Shepherd’s Pie

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 23, 2007
The Daugh­ter and I made a library run this after­noon — we both had a stack of DVD’s on hold and I had sev­eral Per­sonal Finance books wait­ing as well.  Oh, and The Son had a Ray­mond Chan­dler book on hold. While we were at the library, I remem­bered that yesterday’s shower had been one of frus­tra­tion [...]
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The Cardinal Rule for Shopping with Kids

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 23, 2007
All par­ents know that the best way to avoid melt­downs and tantrums is to leave the chil­dren at home when you shop.  Of course, we also know that shop­ping with­out the kids is a pipe-dream, a logis­ti­cal impossibility. Today I’m going to share with you my sure-fire, tried-and-true method for avoid­ing the gimmes while shop­ping with children. Never, [...]
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