I love that some listicle on Facebook says that Zoey Deschanel lives like she’s poor, with a net worth of approximately $25M, and only $22,500.00 a month spent on expenses. What ridiculous bull shit is that. Twenty two grand a month spent is living like the “poors”. Are you mental? If it were $2,250 a month I’d say bravo on your restraint, and not having a mortgage payment to make, or at least not much of one. But $22K? Ah – no. In what world is twenty two grand a month spent being poor? Who are you? Tom Segura? Do you perhaps not use a wash cloth when you shower and/or bathe in general? Yikes.
In other news it is Friday. And I have two full tote boxes worth of janky toys to go up north with at some point in September. Oddly enough the living room is not bare! I sorted the Barbies, from the LOL’s, from the Rainbow High’s, and the Shadow High kids, one or two mermaids, and some Frozen characters. I cannot take all of the credit, at least 80% of it was done by my spouse with some help from the kids. I tackled the toy box, panda chairs, and inside the ottoman storage cubby. Unfortunately if I go any harder then that will cause major problems. But, on the other hand the kids will have a wide, and varied selection of toys to enjoy in the playroom at the cottage. That’s a big plus in my book. Should make next big break a bit easier if they have toys to sort through and play with. It’s hardly empty here. Their bedrooms are still full of toys. The baskets are now better sorted and stocked with dollies of all shapes, sizes, colours and Brand IP. Doll houses are intact, and still upstairs. I get ahead of next weeks purge. Toys don’t get thrown out but rather get moved on to a better location for all the littles to enjoy. I feel good about it. Again, the bulk of what I toss is garbage, random plastic packaging, Kleenex blankets, pipe cleaner bundles just strewn about the toy box, and hidden behind things on our floor.
I would be happy to throw more of this stuff away, but that’s cruel. More gentle to retire unused, or infrequently used items to the toy room at the cottage. With four kids under ten, I makes sense to have ample goodies available up north too. Ones that don’t have to get packed up and brought back home every single trip. Our vehicle is small, and with the fog now space is at a premium. My efforts to clean aren’t to harm any one, or hurt their feelings. It’s just that there is so much STUFF constantly underfoot that I’m breaking toes, and hurting my feet trying to avoid stepping on the overflow. I can also sense the kids being drawn towards phones, tablets, game consoles, and that sort of thing. Still very big into crafts, but not so much the toys. Or – better yet, toys are taking a back seat to technology, but when they want to play with toys, the go toos are not the Peppa Pig, Playmobile farm animals, or blocks, and stacking rings. We’ve aged out of that stuff I think. Barbie house, cars, jet skiis, and snowmobiles still have their place during play time. But a lot of the Blaze and the monster machines, Truck Town, Troll dolls are becoming a thing of the past with my kids. Not a problem.
I do think that taking the art off the walls to hang my wife’s framed Peru images, and Paris painting might cause a bigger stir. Those drawings have been up on our wall for atleast eight and a half years now. Since Tot-Spot in late 2015.
And, here’s the kicker, I’m not throwing it away, we just want the kids to curate their own works in a portfolio we have for each of them. It has lots of room for drawings, paintings as, and flat lying crafts. I just don’t think drawings from when my eldest wasn’t even two yet still need to be displayed so prominently in our living room / dining room. Especially now that the newer stuff they make is so much more inventive and indicative of their new interests, and skills. I enjoy a good scribble, but I now also really appreciate a Hatchimal character study with fine details, and colour matching done by my youngest. I love to see what draws their attention long term. To see where, and with what they will devote effort to. I can’t frame 63 different minecraft worlds unfortunately. I know they spend hours making castles, houses, and such digitally.
Yeah. So. Don’t take any wooden nickels or whatever.
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