That spring cleaning thing

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yep, I am there looking nearly every day. So far, nothing that great. Thanks.

Only if the piece of shit doesn't have some good crap on it.Like your lawn mower. It may be a piece of shit but the blade may be some good crap you want hang on to for later.

or the blade could be shit and need replaced, or maybe you upgraded and can use that lawn mower engine for a go cart...

I wish I could get my man to understand that he has a lot of shit!!!!We moved almost 7 months ago, and his shit is still hogging up my garage! It's all gonna be full of sawdust soon, since it is the only place that is always dry for me to play with my wood projects! And there is barely any room for the tablesaw...

o0 I have a go-cart. Lots of fun!

my garage has a marcy gym, a weight bench, and a total gym. I still got roomfor a motor cycle and the wood shop shit and 5 cabinets full of tools

No, see, he has a desk, a portable dishwasher, a chase lounge (the indoor kind) a BUNCH of other stuff all shoved in boxes.
His kid was told he had to give a week of good behavior to start earning his toys back (7 months later he still only has his xmas gifts!!!) 1 week, of doing his homework, no notes from the teacher, and no fighting...that's IT...do you think he gets it! I think the toys should go to somewhere else. I'm talking crap toys too, nothing cool like bikes or wagons, or baseball stuff. No it is all action figures that he colored on, broken hotwheel ramps, a kinex (Sp) set that is not complete, stuffed animals, and crap...crap crap!
What is sad is there is probably 6grand invested in the crap that could have bought him cool stuff like a bmx, a go cart, some remote control things...
Now, for the tools...they can all stay. :smile:

how old is this kid?

yeah go-karts can be fun, but quads,atv's, whatever ya wanna call em are really fun i miss having a manual but its nice havin one that can actually do a lil work

He is nearly nine.

Definatly old enough to know that hitting other students is not ok, and that if you have to pee, do it at recess~

He should also know that he has to come in with his class, not hang around with the older kids and be 20 minutes late to class every day. And he also shouldn't require an escort to go to the bathroom, because he disappears.

He knows how to do his homework, but choses instead to just fill in the bubbles and call it done. Incorrect=not done. When he wants to, he does it. When he wants to go live with his mom, he doesn't do it.

Me being a bitch though, he went from only being able to read at 1/2 way through kindergarden level to grade level in just a few months, and his other stuff is at grade level now too.

Originally Posted By: OldFolks>>>"the less and less you have, the more you realize you don't need material objects anyway..."That's a very true and salient point that a lot of people don't realize. The liberation form being free of crap, that binds us down, can be a near indescribable feeling. Yep...the more you have, the more time you spend tied to it through maintainance. I once lost all I had and lived in an unheated loft above my brother's garage. It was the most liberated and care-free time of my life. I might have even stayed there had I not acknowledged the reality that I wasn't going to be able to get a family going in that situation.

I DO love my power outages, it brings me back to center. LOL, the only thing I miss when we're out, is water. That is why the want of a generator. Gotta get a shower!!!!

Its good that he has you in his life to keep him in line.You guys should tell him if there isnt a major improvement that the toys go on the curb. I believe my parents used that threat before.

LOL, they would already be there if I had it my way!!!I do it to my girls, they both know what it means when I am holding the black plastic bag, and asking them if their room is clean. (Or even worse, when I had a wheelbarrow, and would park it in the hall way with a shit shovel!)

better than the curb as a threat, junk the shit out of it, then donate the rest to some kids who dont have a damned thing. at least let his punishment benefit someone if he refuses to straighten up and come around.
soem kids simply cant do the work in school because they are not smart enough and nothing will bring them around.
This one already proved himself able to do it.

I would probably haul it off to the mission. Usually though when the bag comes out, all that is left is stuff that is good for the curb. (At least with my girls anyway). We always have a box for unwanted stuff to donate, when we have the moment, we haul it in. The kids are pretty good about putting stuff in there.As for the boy's toys. Most of em are crap. There is a bit of it that is but most of it has either been broken, or colored on, some with a permanent marker. He had a pink little tykes table out there, that for part of his Christmas gift, I cleaned it, and painted it blue. He thought he got a new table. In order to clean it though I had to take a degreaser/acid wash to it, because his mother had NEVER cleaned it, and there was P.B.&J. crap in the cracks, other gross mildewy stuff, and the rest of his toys are no better. Honestly, for health sake, it should be sent to the toxic waste dump!

wood and food shit I compost maybe you can dig a pit, layer hsi shit in it and build a lasagna garden

ROTFLMAO!!!It might come out cleaner in a month or two if I did it that way!I got a pretty good batch of hot shit this week,(Llama shit stinks worse than calf shit!) needs some curing, hmm....

some friends owna ranch, and train horsesand board them. I go get a load of horse shit about once a moth during teh fall and winter, stock pile it in a big bin at my moms and turn it over and add all teh garbage form both houses (greens not meat left overs!then in spring I lay it out in gardens and flower beds, till it in, keep the compost bin going for mulch to add to the top of them all all summer long...with a few added chemicals its really good. some basic fertilizer is all I add to it and a pvc water pipe with holes in it is buried vertically in the mess. compost makes its own heat and it sometimes drys out needs to be kept moist for the microbes to keep alive and working.the best part is if you do it all right, it doesnt even stink.the only bad part is hauling the horse shit, and then turning it over once a week. well that and the seeds that end up form fall cuttings and veggies, they sprout up on their own here and there, damned volunteers! the only ones that aused any real problems were the pumpkin seeds from halloween left overs

Close to what I do, just on a bit of a smaller scale. The pumpkin seeds ARE the worst! The ones we WANT to grow wont, but the volunteers, grow like weeds. Go figure.Sort of along the lines of, "if you wonder if it is a weed, try to pull it, if it comes out, it wasn't".