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14 hours ago, Pawz4me said:
I think I remember the state you live in, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. But is there any way you can do something to make your attic a little less hot? I'm thinking adding a ridge vent and an attic fan (or more than one) or something similar? That would give you storage space, increase the lifespan of your roof, and help with cooling bills.
I added an attic vent and such, some whirly birds and such, thinking it would help. But when I pulled out some new hand me downs for youngest a recently, I found the elastic ruined.
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11 hours ago, wisdomandtreasures said:
You said there are lots of windows. What about putting in window seats that double as storage space, like this?
THIS would be perfect!!!!!! This would fit exactly what I need. How would I do this? How would I put this all in? Would I need to hire a cabinet maker or something? What kind of person would make this?
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21 hours ago, SKL said:
I've found that things hold up better in the garage than in my basement (damp) or attic (hot and also unfinished). To avoid critter poo, use storage boxes that close very securely.
Other than that, as others have said, there must be some walls somewhere that could make friends with a tall bookcase.
There is wall space in the media room, which I think is the best place to store things. I need deep shelving to be able to put rubbermaid containers on it or however I put the stuff up. Dept 56 stuff is not current in containers, but stuff like ornaments are. I should likely put the Dept 56 stuff in to containers. I swear, I wonder where my parents stored all this stuff in their house! However, on that note, several pieces of storage type furniture is being inherited by other family members, like the large China cabinet, a chest (cannot remember the term for it, it is like a hope chest of sorts, there is a name for it, it just escapes me now), other cabinet type things. I am getting one smallish China cabinet, some furniture that is more of a display type stuff that will be going in to more public like places (curio cabinet, etc), and some seating type things. Now that I am typing this, I am thinking adding in a storage type coffee table in the media room might help. I am also thinking more shelving in the garage might be fine and I need to focus on how to seal things up better so as to not allow critters. But maybe I should just put the metal Costco shelves in the media room like I had wanted to and tell anyone who does not like it that they do not have to look at it. I am wondering if Dept 56 stuff can be safely stored in high temperatures as those as the main issue for storage here. Most everything else has gotten a place with shelving that I added in other spaces.
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1 minute ago, Rosie_0801 said:
Ah. I have some book cases back to back in the middle of my room to create a wall and storage space. But perhaps that doesn't work in a family home. You could still put chests of drawers around, even if they cover up some of the window?
The media room has plenty of wall space so I am thinking of putting something in there. I have removed the speakers from the walls. I was going to put in shelving from Costco, but have been told, by family, that those shelves only belong in the garage. So now I have Rubbermaid type of containers sitting on each other. It works I guess. But I need to bring my parents’ Dept 56 stuff home as well as scrap book stuff. I am getting some more furniture with this, but it is not much as far as storage goes.
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4 hours ago, Rosie_0801 said:
You don't have room for more furniture? Wardrobes, chests of drawers?
(I've no idea what 4000 square feet looks like.)
It is an open floor plan with large windows. So very little wall space.
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I am quite frustrated by the lack of storage in our house. We have a big house, almost 4000 square feet, with small closets and no storage space. There is an attic space, but it overheats in the summer so much that it has damaged all clothes with elastic in it and damaged American Girl dolls and melted the base of an artificial Christmas tree. I have taken to storing what I can in the garage, but last year, found that lizards were laying eggs inside of some things. Gross! I am at wits end and do not wish to rent a storage unit. In storage I have things like hand me downs that will be used eventually by younger children and holiday decorations. There are some things I wish to store now that won't be used again for years, such as books that I love but have been read. I have some children's books that were favorites that I would love to have on hand in the years to come when and if I ever get grandchildren. And both my adult sons are have girlfriends that they have had for a while. I am not saying grandchildren are around the corner, I am just saying I like these kids books and want to keep them. I have a media room that I could put shelving in, but have been challenged in finding good shelving. I would love something like the metal shelving from Costco that I have in the garage, but more appropriate for indoors. IKEA has nothing to fit this as all their shelving is less deep and such. I have no clue why I made this post as this is likely a super dumb problem that no one could possibly help me with from a post, but I already clicked post so I cannot just delete the post. So I will leave it here and maybe someone will have some good ideas.
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19 hours ago, ScoutTN said:
Did he not know that it was a commuter school when he chose it? These things are generally pretty obvious, ime.
The college search was not much of a college search. He was serious about his ballet and was in a pre-pro program and had accepted a spot in a training program (had many offers, with scholarships) when Covid hit. He had to train from home which did not really work well as we did not have the space and he went in to a serious depression. He tried to find a new direction and was accepted in to programs he liked, but since it was an end of the game change of direction, and he was dealing with the depression, which was a serious severe depression, he could not face campus visits and such. Now that he is where he is, he is actually making all A's and is in the honors program but is unhappy. Since he is not too far from home, there is talk of maybe getting involved with something in ballet this fall, but not sure.
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I suspect his campus is largely a commuter campus. The campus is dead on the weekends. I have even searched through their FB pages and other social pages and there is just nothing. I think this is an issue of this being a commuter campus with very few people living on campus beyond freshman year. There is not even really a parent page like I have seen with other colleges. The few pages I do find related to this school have very little activity on it.
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1 hour ago, Kassia said:
Oh, I just saw that it's summer school. I think summer semester is a lot different and quieter than the regular academic year (fall/spring).
School routine. He has a suite room in the honors hall. His RA was his roommate this past year and was terrible. The guy was a YouTuber and kept telling my son not to come home for three or four hours at a time so the guy could make his YouTube videos. There was nothing social going on even in the honors college. What students do seem to be around that seem like they might be nice people seem to go home every weekend. And they have a shortage of housing so they warned everyone that if they weren’t freshman there’s a good chance they would not have housing this next year. Fortunately, I stayed on it and in the end he did get housing for next year but there’s just not a lot of upperclassman in housing. Seems like everyone I know who goes to the school. Their kids have moved back home after freshman year, if they didn’t already live there.
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Is campus life mediocre anymore? My son went to a university based on the scholarships rather than where he wanted to go originally. But there is no campus life really. He is in the honors college but nothing is going on. I have even looked online and at things going on around campus. Not even the residence hall had anything. The RA planned nothing.
He is in summer school and was literally crying over how lonely he is. I mean, not a huge carrying on thing, just quietly crying, trying to look out the window while I drove him home.
He is a straight A student in college. He would rather not go far away for college. My husband is saying this is just how college is these days. I am wondering if this is true or if he should be looking elsewhere. He has such good grades that I suspect he could go elsewhere if he found a place that would be better. I am just wondering if other places would be better.
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13 hours ago, Nm. said:
Anyone have some updates on tgtb math and LA? Interested in levels 2,4,5,6 in math and level 4,5,6 LA.
ETA We did 4 levels of tgtb math this morning and it went SO smooth. This may be a great fit for us. With only 120 lessons we can do some MM topics between levels.
I think the math is a good solid program. But I would not try to fit MM in to it. The lessons get rather long and you will find times where you will want to break a lesson up over two days or just take a day off. TGTB is so complete (as is MM) that neither call for supplementing. You will just have burned out kids who grow to hate math. Pick one and go with it.
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I like Primary Maths, US edition. However, it did take some getting used to the Singapore Way. Once I got used to it, I like it better than anything else. If this method is not for you, there are so many other great math programs that work well. Singapore Math is not so beyond the rest that it is worth struggling through when you are not comfortable teaching it. Move on to a different program.
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And I am calling BS in the idea that a group of teen boys rented one bike and felt they had the right to just physically grab it away from a woman. Why aren’t we talking about what the boys did wrong?
Fact is, it is because the woman is white and the teens are black that she is being attacked. If this had been a pregnant black woman who had just gotten off work and rented a bike and was starting to ride home and she were surrounded by a group of white teen boys trying to grab it from her, people would be destroying those boys.-
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On 5/19/2023 at 10:10 AM, MercyA said:
She keeps yelling "help me! help!" over and over when he's not doing anything except holding onto the bike.
She repeatedly puts her hands on him and appears to push him at one point. He's patient at first but finally asks her to stop touching him.
She accuses him of "hurting her fetus." He says something like, "I'm not touching you; you're pushing your stomach up against my hand."
It's an overblown and rude reaction on her part. I know she was tired. I know she is pregnant. But her yelling and accusations made it sound like she was being physically assaulted.
He was trying to steal the bike she was on and paid for. It was completely correct that she yelled for help. The man who was trying to take it from her never provided anything to show that he had a legit claim on the bike and was not just trying to steal. He had his hands on her bike that she was on. She should start carrying pepper spray.
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Audiobooks are very important. They improve the auditory processing portion of reading. This is a big deal. I would not take away audiobooks, but maybe just put them on when in the car or at bedtime when lights are out.
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I think the toxic person would send a gift to make themselves feel okay to be abusive. The cycle would always continue. There would be evil nasty behavior followed by very nice gifts and such and then evil behavior. Rinse and repeat. The cycle had to be stopped.
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You need to tell him. I just found out, after it was too late to exchange, that I was sending the wrong crystal glass for my sister's collection. I wish she would have told me sooner so I could exchange it, but she was afraid of hurting my feelings. I was able to correct it this year and get the correct one. I think it is best to suck it up and tell.
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8 hours ago, Ellie said:
Well, KONOS is a unit study, not literature-based. Just to clear that up for folks who aren't familiar with it. 🙂
Are you interested in a unit study? KONOS covers everything except math and English skills; that is, the dc might *use* math, or English skills,
I remember the extensive hands on and not being literature based. It seems everything out there is literature based these days and that is the last thing my children want. Plus, I already own a ba-jillion books so I do not really wish to try to buy more from someone else's list.
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6 hours ago, lewelma said:
What does your son want to learn? How does he learn? What does your dh want to do? How much time is there each day or week?
Physical science. But I would not mind a little Earth Science or such tossed in there. Or even more life science.
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Son loves science. Husband wants to teach him science for 8th. I would love suggestions on what to do or use.
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18 hours ago, popmom said:
Where did you buy your glasses? I want to go ahead and order.
Amazon
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Anyone have a very good hands on well organized curriculum that can be used with multi age levels? Not just a literature based program, but rather something that’s quite hands on? Two of my kids are not big reader so literature based it’s kind of difficult.
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Just now, popmom said:
Where did you buy your glasses? I want to go ahead and order.
Amazon. I ordered a package of 10 about a month ago and then I ordered another package attend tonight to be safe. I know I’ll need more like 15 or so. But I saw the price went up a little bit since the last time I bought it.
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I am having a party. I already bought glasses.
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Lack of storage in house, how to store things?
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That is what I was on my way to doing when "some people" (aka, family members) complained about my choice of shelving. So I headed to IKEA to find some more aesthetically pleasing options and found nothing was very deep, at least nothing I saw on the floor. I have already ripped out the built in speakers that came out from the wall so that the shelving could fit. The long term plan of mine was to add the shelving and eventually, move that space to be a small living space/apartment type place for the older kids after college. The room is huge. I am unsure of the exact measurements, but maybe 22 by 24 feet. At one end is a bed, as oldest son sleeps in there when he comes home from college. To another corner is an office space, where husband works from home. Then the rest of the room is a playroom, full of Legos and doll houses and whatever else. Then, the rubbermaid type containers are piled up against the walls, but not going too high as I don't want them to tip over. There is a large TV in there (not a new LED one) and a sofa. The room looks like the junk room and I am a bit embarrassed which is what is leading me to wanting to make it a more functional room, a place with purpose, and which does not look like a disaster zone.