I only bought a couple small gifts for my son this year, but he’s the only little one on both sides of the family. In spite of restrictions my husband and I placed on gift numbers, we ended up driving home for an hour with a carload of stuff jammed between our legs and over our knees, and me generally trying not to have a major panic attack from claustrophobia.

Like me, you’re probably wondering where you’re going to put all this new stuff from Christmas, and you’re eyeballing the old stuff. Like me, you may have a spouse that would rather make a pile to consign to the landfill than be bothered to have a garage sale or donate things to charity. It’s become my job to get rid of everything, otherwise he will have it dumped.

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Anne usually speaks in memes and SAT words, and she frequently attempts to explain the laws of physics and high school chemistry according to the kitchen via her home blog FoodRetro. If you want to know why ice melts or pretzels turn brown, and you want to make food that you never imagined could be made from scratch in the process, she's your blogger. Her friends describe her as "hilarious when you get to know her," but it could be that they are just amused by the way she gets riled up when reading the paper. She can also be found playing the part of community editor and grammar nazi here on BLUNTmoms.

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