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Old 05-08-2010, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Just read that, and yeah. Totally believable. It was the first thing I noticed when I went to an HEB to pick up something to eat after moving here.

 
Old 05-08-2010, 06:54 PM
 
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Time for a rant from Jules.

What is the DEAL with parents thinking that they need to load up all the friends of their little offspring with worthless pieces of garbage/trinkets for every occasion (birthday parties, classroom parties, etc)??!! Spent a bunch of time in my 8yod's bedroom today, organizing. She's been to 3 birthday parties and had a coupla classroom parties (valentine's, fiesta, etc), and holiday (Easter, Fiesta) parties at neighbors houses over the last coupla months. I was HORRIFIED at the amount of candy and worthless CRAP that she had hidden away! It was an ecological disaster in her room! Seriously, this crap is so useless and serves no purpose but to make the providing parent feel generous. Threw away 2 BAGS worth of "trinkets"! (fortunately there wasn't a whole lot of candy)

(yes, I'm sure a lot of the childless folks/parents of infants will have some instructional words for me about how I should check my kids bags before they enter the house. Thanx for your wisdom. )
 
Old 05-08-2010, 07:25 PM
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Time for a rant from Jules.

What is the DEAL with parents thinking that they need to load up all the friends of their little offspring with worthless pieces of garbage/trinkets for every occasion (birthday parties, classroom parties, etc)??!!
I've never understood that either. If it's so hard to get kids to come to parties that we have to bribe each of them with a bag of loot, maybe we shouldn't have the parties.
 
Old 05-08-2010, 07:32 PM
 
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I've never understood that either. If it's so hard to get kids to come to parties that we have to bribe each of them with a bag of loot, maybe we shouldn't have the parties.
EXACTLY!!! One time when we had a party for one of our kids, it was a pretty big shindig (cuz we don't do them every year). Don't remember what it was, but it involved "extras" sufficient that I didn't feel that goody bags were necessary. One kid actually had the huevos to ask "where's my goody bag?". I nearly threw up! And todays events made me realize that I commited a crime ~ I didn't hand out the loot at my daughter's party a few months ago. gasp!
 
Old 05-08-2010, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Pipe Creek, TX
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My son is 22 now, so forgive me for asking... but what exactly is in a goodie bag nowadays at a kids party?
 
Old 05-08-2010, 09:00 PM
 
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Mostly the same stuff you may have experienced (if it's anything like what my 19-25 year olds received). Little plastic garbage (tops, 3/4" bouncing balls, tiny erasers, tiny "skateboards", stickers, "sticky hands"). The more the merrier, apparently.

The icing on the cake to me tho, was this little light up ring. It had what looked like monofilament thread sticking up out of it, and it was powered by 3 watch batteries!!! You've GOT to be kidding me?!!! 3 minutes on a finger, FOREVER in a landfill!
 
Old 05-08-2010, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Pipe Creek, TX
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LOL so true!
 
Old 05-08-2010, 09:45 PM
 
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Iron Man 2 rocked my socks off. RDJ is such an awesome Iron Man. And the after-credits teaser was . Great start to the summer blockbusters, hopefully. Hopefully.
 
Old 05-08-2010, 10:14 PM
 
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so, was RDJ as hot as it looks from pix?????

I read that at the end of Sherlock Holmes he only weighed 151 pounds, but got up to 175 for IM2. He must be really short???
 
Old 05-08-2010, 10:19 PM
 
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His hair is a little poofier than I like but other than that, yes very hot. He lifts his shirt up a little in one scene and it's quite thrilling. LOL....just enough to tease. I'm just hoping he's clean and sober and stays that way, but yes, he's definitely hot. Gwyneth is one lucky chick......especially at the end. Yowza bom chicka wow wow.
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