<p>The kid who was rejected from his dream school is posting that everything he’s done in HS was toward the effort of getting into that school, so now it’s in vain. I hope it’s just the agony of the moment talking and that he’ll soon realize that he got a lot out of his leadership positions. </p>
<p>There are two young men in the '10 class that I see as almost interchangeable - good looking, polite guys who are involved in everything. However, one is viewed as a resume builder and the other is beloved by the student body. My guess is that the former is not perceived as having the sincerity of the latter.</p>
<p>We have SO many of the little hotel toiletries - the way my husband hoards them every time, you’d think he’d never stayed in a hotel. But I bet that NONE of your H’s do this: When we are ready to leave the hotel, he wraps the USED tiny hotel soap up in a kleenex and brings it home where, of course, the kleenex won’t come off because it was wrapped around wet soap. I don’t think there’s anyone on earth who wants a donation of our collection of kleenex wrapped used hotel soaps.</p>
<p>The 32 bottles are of three different brands for three different “types” of hair: straight, curly, colored. I told them I refuse to buy any more shampoo until these bottles are used. They did not take them to school so I am using them even though I don’t style my hair curly! (straight and colored are perfect for me!)</p>
<p>NorthMinnesota: I put D on the self-pay plan for health and beauty products, and is she ever more economical with her own money. It turns out that with her own money, the generic version of the Clean & Clear facewash is just fine, and partially used (“I don’t like that one any more”) bottles of conditioner are no longer an issue. Remarkable!</p>
<p>My one exception is mascara, since I worry about eye infections from old mascara – at Christmas and summertime I happily take her to Target, and I buy her the new tubes she chooses, and when we get home she tosses the old ones. I’m sure she thinks I’m excessively paranoid, but since there is always some cool new mascara she’s read about, and mom’s buying,…</p>
<p>I am really paying attention to mascara since some of my eyelashes broke off in the middle last year. It was very strange and funny looking. They have been replaced by new full length lashes but I was worried for a while since it took some time!</p>
<p>Funny story about the shampoo/beauty budget, but be warned - gross boy stuff! Last term son got on the proverbial environmental soap box about laurel sulfate (I think) and proclaimed that shampoo wrecked your hair AND the environment. I’m not sure how many days he got to, but I recall his hair-scent reminding me of a stray dog at one point during a visit. I was suspicious that he was either too cheap or to lazy to take the bus to the supermarket/drugstore to actually BUY more shampoo.
By Christmas, clearly he’d given up his sacrifice for mother earth and his hair’s “natural oils” and returned to us fragrantly coiffed. When asked, he simply said “It was a very bad plan, as it turns out.”
I must say we were all quite relieved.
I suspect his change of heart might have had something to do with the hope of ever getting a date again ;)</p>
<p>KMC… too funny! Yes, some ideologies of youth go flying out the window - especially when datability comes into question.</p>
<p>I cancelled my closet But now I have to run to the post office and mail the certified letter. Even though the office said she would be happy to cancel it, I did read the fine print on this thing and am going to send it in just to cover my butt. Kind of a hassle…but I feel better. Ive never really had buyers remorse so this is altogether new.</p>
<p>Wise of you to read that fine print and follow the terms, Moda. Never hurts to cover one’s posterior. Hopefully you’ll be able to get something lined up within the budget. </p>
<p>I think my son would sooner die than go without hair washing. Definitely factors into the whole dating concept. When he did Outward Bound there were significant periods w/out shower facilities- I think that was a real struggle for him.</p>
<p>Supposed to get to 78 degrees today before dropping to the 50’s over the weekend. Heading outside to enjoy the warmth and see how my plants survived the winter. </p>
<p>Hair is constantly washed around here. Hence the very Gross clogged drains in shower and sinks! :eek:</p>
<p>I hear ya NMN… actually, on your whole post. I just sprayed all my early bloomers with liquid fence since last year I didn’t get any phlox thanks to the nibbling rabbits and just as my tulips were about to bloom, a deer must have come by and snacked off every single bud! So… I am hoping for better this year, but I didn’t yet rake the mulch off or cut back the sedum from last fall until the week after Easter. Otherwise, it could still freeze around here.</p>
<p>I have tried so many different things, including the human hair… the dog hair planting daffodils around the tulips (since deer won’t eat daffodils although I am not sure if it’s a toxicity or if they just don’t like them) and just about ever natural method I could find. I didn’t like the chemical spray option because I had a dog and we still have a cat and I was always worried about the whole caustic thing. The only thing that truly works for the deer and rabbit around here is liquid fence. Of course, we’ll see if it works again this year.</p>
<p>serious kmc?? I have had two cherry trees in my front yard devoured by the cloven hooved vermin. Between them and the peacocks pooing on my porch, curb appeal is hard to come by.</p>
<p>Funny about the shampoo too. DS is almost 15, has a new girl friend and I can’t keep him out of the shower or away from the gum. Anyone else remember the Leave it to Beaver episode where Wally gets his weird hair style?</p>
<p>Yes – in our area the deer look at the tulips and say - snacks! and at such a convenient height! Yum!</p>
<p>Luckily they do not like hyacinths or daffodils or alliums. </p>
<p>(And it isn’t a bulb, but the idiot landscape architect who designed our front yard had a hawthorn tree planted by our front walkway, saying brightly, “They’re great; the deer don’t eat them!” Well, that’s right, because not even deer would be stupid enough to eat something growing inch-and-a-half long thorns right at a child’s eye level. Our D reached the age of wobbly walking and we had the ceremonial chopping down of the hawthorn tree.)</p>
<p>Anyone watch that new show Parenthood? A week or so ago there was a whole storyline about the 15 year old son always in the shower and talking about his desire of self-gratification whilst there. The way they were talking, I was thinking did I totally MISS this part of son’s youth? And would that be a bad thing in the least?</p>
<p>I saw that too Moda…but how weird when they had family members go “talk to him about IT”</p>
<p>took my 13 yo to the pediatrician today for his annual well visit, he found himself feeling awkward while I was enjoying the memories while looking at the newborns and preschoolers who enjoyed looking way up at to smile at my teen…my s and I joked about how for a couple years he had to be convinced to take a shower…he is really such a fun kid to hang out with and schmooze with…very grateful for just plain good kids…</p>
<p>Modadunn, put that on the list of things that I don’t need to know about.</p>
<p>Son is such a sweetie. He just called to say he’ll be home in the morning instead of tonight because he stayed up so late working on a group project…in a class he dropped! He said there is just a ton of data to input and he couldn’t leave his group one man short. Why does that school not love him?</p>
But now I have to run to the post office and mail the certified letter. Even though the office said she would be happy to cancel it, I did read the fine print on this thing and am going to send it in just to cover my butt. Kind of a hassle…but I feel better. Ive never really had buyers remorse so this is altogether new.</p>