This article is a guest blogger submission from Living Almost Large. If you like what you see, why not subscribe to her RSS feed? A few months ago we were watching our neighbor’s son. He’s four years old and very cool. Anyway, we were going out to dinner and Chuck E. Cheese and had to [...]
As a followup to my list of five reasons that boys are better than girls, I’d like to point out a comment from a reader named Jim Durbin, who attributed the following to his father-in-law: “With a boy, you just have to worry about one [boy]. With a girl, you have to worry about all [...]
Here’s a quick rundown of the top five reasons why having little boys is better than having little girls: 1. No whining (or less, at least) 2. No pink 3. No ballet 4. No make up 5. No growing up to be teenage daughters And just for the sake of balance, here are five reasons [...]
In case you’re not a regular FiveCentNickel reader, I thought I’d let you know that I’m the site has now been live for two years, and I’m giving away prizes to celebrate this milestone. Prizes included an iPod shuffle, iPod nano, 5GB USB microdrive, and a couple of books (as well as a box of [...]
Did you know that… 1. Citrus foods (oranges, pineapple, strawberries etc.) can cause really bad diaper rash. 2. Swim diapers only work to contain poop and don’t absorb pee (in other words, wait and put them on at the pool unless you want a wet car seat on the ride over). 3. Hand sanitizer (waterless) [...]
We’ve recently gotten a number search hits from people looking for information on how high to hang a basketball hoop. While I’ve written in the past about installing a basketball hoop (see also here), I never actually addressed this issue, so…
For all of you parents of young kids out there… You should identify with this video: Mom My Ride. Check it out, it’s pretty funny.
Talk about a father figure… According to the New York Post, O.J. Simpson has now thrown his hat in the ring as the possible father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Danielynn. According to Norm Pardo, who collected 70 hours of video footage of Simpson from 2002-2005, Simpson has claimed that he knew Anna Nicole “pretty [...]
I went bathing suit shopping the other day. This time there was no dressing room, no rambunctious boys, no three-way mirrors. I simply went to Land’s End and started shopping in the privacy of my own home. I’ve bought enough bathing suits in the past to know what I like and what I don’t like, [...]
Now why didn’t we think of this? A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf. They actually continued the ruse for close to 20 years and collected more than $280k in [...]
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