Friday OT - New Year, New Me

[jsb]

Since we moved into my parents house after my mom died, I think we have stuff from about the potato famine era in our basement.

There needs to be a market for those ancient heavy glass punch and cake sets from the 1950’s, I would be a millionaire. They could be projectiles to throw at the zombies during the apocalypse.

The market is my 70-something mother whose hobby is estate sales. As I often joke, the stuff she finds is going from one estate sale to another (hers) eventually.

 

[Trigger]

Not really New Years, but I'm gonna spend more time on myself to make sure my overall health stays well. Exercise more, eat a little better, get more sleep. We're gonna be empty nesters in the fall so my nights and weekends are gonna be a lot more free.

We became empty nesters in the fall of 2023. I swear we are busier now than ever! And our youngest daughter was an athlete in High School so we were always on the run. My wife and I joke about how we used to be worried about becoming couch potatoes once the kids were all gone and now we fantasize about a couple nights at home with nothing to do.

 

[cowgirl836]

I love your list but particularly getting kids to learn household tasks. I made the boys learn to cook, clean, and do laundry before they went off to college. Amazing how many college kids have none of those skills. Of course, they all preferred the riding lawn mower but none of them had a lawn of their own until recently.

The younger likes to help, the elder acts like we're doing a battlefield amputation and I suspect we'd all enjoy that more in the end.

 

[NWICY]

The market is my 70-something mother whose hobby is estate sales. As I often joke, the stuff she finds is going from one estate sale to another (hers) eventually.

@carvers4math have @cowgirl836 do a little on line snooping and you get cut @jsb mom a good deal on your "treasures"

 

[cytor]

My wife likes purging things from time to time. Strangely, she hasn't kicked me to the curb... yet.

 

[carvers4math]

The younger likes to help, the elder acts like we're doing a battlefield amputation and I suspect we'd all enjoy that more in the end.

My now 34 year old felt he should get out of chores due to babysitting/tormenting the four youngest.

 

[MLawrence]

This might be the year I make risotto.

 

[cowgirl836]

This might be the year I make risotto.

It's not that bad! I make a delicious one!