What grinds your gears.. DH and kiddo edition

Ugggg...and THIS!!!....I could go on.

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Yet we still love them.

The men, well they are most definitely the extra child, at times.

lately i have been finding dirty glasses and mugs placed an inch or two away from the edge of the counter. i cringe every time because i know one will get knocked over one of these days. i haven't brought it up yet... i am just letting it stew for a while before i kindly bring it up. or maybe i am just too darn tired and don't have the energy to mention it to him when i come across it :P

isn't it funny tho, they drive us bonkers, but a little smile and tickle late at night, and we forget all of it... until we walk into the kitchen the next morning and start all over :)

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Originally Posted by HeatherWake

....and this.

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Argh....This is one at our house. My kids aren't teens, but the oldest 2 are 10, and they seem to not grasp the concept that if you have to shove it in, jump on it, stack it artisitically, etc, the garbage needs to be emptied! And it's one of their jobs. And with 5 of them and me, it can fill up from empty to super stuffed at supersonic speed! Plus, they don't want to take the recylcing out, so they constantly sneak it in....without squishing the cereal boxes, so it is really obvious that the garbage is stuffed!

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Originally Posted by anisa

isn't it funny tho, they drive us bonkers, but a little smile and tickle late at night, and we forget all of it... until we walk into the kitchen the next morning and start all over :)

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:lolsign: love this !!! Couldn't have said it better ..
Sometimes I think I'm the only one that notices the garbage is full, somthing is dirty or the garbage is full..

My DH teaching by 2.5 twins how to use the computer or stereo. Then when they touch it on their own, he goes ballistic!

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Originally Posted by abbasgirl

That sounds normal for a 10-year-old. But..."no garbage policy?" So they don't have a garbage can at all?

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this is starting to become more common at schools.. our school has a limit on how much garbage they throw out they have to wash out and recycle yogurt tubes!

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Originally Posted by anisa

lately i have been finding dirty glasses and mugs placed an inch or two away from the edge of the counter. i cringe every time because i know one will get knocked over one of these days. i haven't brought it up yet... i am just letting it stew for a while before

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hubby ALWAYS leaves his butter knife on the edge of the sink right near the front (i guess with the idea that if he needs it he can reuse it) but i always bump into it (i'm short l lean across the sink for turning on the water/getting soap) and end up with PB or Jam on my shirt oh my arm i ask him to stop but.. the next day.. the knife is back there!

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Originally Posted by Midnightly

this is starting to become more common at schools.. our school has a limit on how much garbage they throw out they have to wash out and recycle yogurt tubes!

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I guess they really want to teach recycling, don't they? But why are they sending pizza crusts home?

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Originally Posted by abbasgirl

I guess they really want to teach recycling, don't they? But why are they sending pizza crusts home?

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no idea! they should have a compost in the class for food scraps (i know my daughter's kindy class has one and they have them in the hallway) but i do have to remind her to put her banana peel in the recycling

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I guess they really want to teach recycling, don't they? But why are they sending pizza crusts home?

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Basically at my daughters school the only things they can throw out are used kleenex, used paper towels, bandaids stuff like that. Any wrappers, containers, food etc from lunch have to come home to be thrown out. Even if they drop the food on the floor it has to come home.