Parent Hacks is a great resource for Moms and Dads. Readers submit their parenting tips, ideas, and favorite products to the site, and they are reviewed and then posted if found useful. Awhile back I submitted 2 hacks we use around here. One will go up on the site today, but here they are anyway.
Formula dispensers take on a second life as a coffee grounds dispenser. This is especially handy for camping or if you like to take your own coffee when staying in hotels. You can pre-measure the coffee into the dispenser and then there is no need to take a tablespoon either.
Sticking with the bottle feeding supply theme, we have been using the bottle drying rack as a Ziplock bag drying rack. Although we live in the capitol of Ziplock Bags and often get bags of them for free, I hate to throw them away so we try to make them last as possible. They bottle drying rack is perfect for that. Do you have any parenting hacks to share? I think part of being a stay at home mom is trying to extend the life of things in order to make life easier and to save a buck. Oh, and it shames me to admit this, but as a teenager I was totally annoyed with my parents for re-using plastic baggies. I thought it was so simple minded and cheap of them. I guess my Mom gets the last laugh this time!
Tags: bottle rack, cofee on the go, formula dispenser, ideas, packing for camping, parent hacks, reuse, reuse plastic bags, tips, travel, ziplock
September 16, 2008 at 7:40 pm |
Go to tell you, I think the formula dispenser thing is brilliant. Where the HECK did mine go?????
September 17, 2008 at 5:47 am |
OMG…I also dry my bags on the bottle rack at our house!!! Too funny!!!
September 17, 2008 at 1:46 pm |
Your Dad is cheap, the reason I do the saving etc., one less thing
in the landfill. I.E. cloth diapers, reusing plastic tableware and
other quirky things you thought were weird. I always told your
Dad I belong on a Norwegian mountain. Never really felt like
I fit in the American throw-away lifestyle. My great Aunt Mugs
had a beautiful chair. She told me her Mother, my Great-grandmother,
pulled it off someone’s terrace and refinished it. Well there you go,
she came from a Norwegian mountain. You have some of that
mountain blood too! Ha! P.S. I’m a little cheap too! Love you!
September 17, 2008 at 5:56 pm |
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