Tips for Tuesday! Repurpose those children’s books!

So the other day I was gathering together a bunch of books that Ana no longer reads (we have waaaay too many) and I got to thinking, “Candy Ass (positive self-talk), there’s got to be another use for these books. You’re smart, resourceful, sexy, and humble, surely you can think of something.”

Not one to waste anything, except time and money, I found a solution…re-edit those books to tell completely new stories! You can do this by simply typing up new text, printing it out, and gluing the paper directly on top of the author’s original words. *selling these “new books” might result in a lawsuit. so don’t.

 

Think about the creative freedom! Now you can create stories to suit the needs of your family, using the warm and familiar characters they know and love. Here are just some of the topics you can cover:

 

Addressing manners…

 

Where our food comes from…

 

The importance of common sense…

 

Awkward and sensitive family situations…

 

 

 

But don’t limit yourself to repurposing books solely for the children. Even adults can find comfort in these characters. What a great way to help a friend through some of life’s tougher moments!

 

I’m off now to repurpose Snow White. It’s mostly the same, except when the heartbroken prince wakes her up with a kiss, she tells him that her mani/pedi was $150 and he says he doesn’t care because he’s just glad that she’s not dead anymore. I’m reading it to Brian tonight.

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The Moment My Dignity Died

I know today was supposed to be Cheapo Wino Review Wednesday, I know it, ok?! But I have a really good reason to postpone it until tomorrow (admittedly, Cheapo Wino Thursday doesn’t have the same ring to it), I’m guest posting on an awesome blog today!

One of my bloggy BFF’s, Dani over at Cloudy With a Chance of Wine, has a fabulous guest post series on her blog called “Priceless Mom Moments”. After reading a few, I’ve decided that they’re called “priceless’ because you couldn’t possibly pay someone enough money to switch places with you, at least not until your parental humiliation was over.

Anywho, when Dani asked me if I’d like to contribute a post I was like “Hell yeah! Sign me up!” but then she was like “It has to be something new, something that you haven’t written about yet.” and I was like “But I share all of my embarrassing stories with my readers, almost immediately…sometimes while they’re happening. Ana couldn’t possibly do anything between now and next week to humiliate me.”

Well, guess what my friends, I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

 

While Ana prefers to embarrass me in ways that are best explained through pictures:

 

she did something last week that I thankfully did not photograph. In fact, a picture would have caused you to vomit. click here to read what it was You’ll be magically transported over to Cloudy With a Chance of Wine (P.S. finish your breakfast first).

 

 

 

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Craigslist: Absurd Inspiration (my favorite kind)

I don’t know about you, but now that my kids are back in school, I finally have some time to focus on my favorite hobby, Craigslisting.

As a creative writer with a flair for the ridiculous (recent feedback includes: “There’s something seriously wrong with you.” & “Maybe it’s time to up your meds?”), I often find inspiration while drinking coffee/wine in my king sized bed and reading some of the crazy ass things people post on Craigslist. I can’t help it, I just love it! They make me laugh, they make me cry, they make me say, “Whaaat…the…hell? BRIAN! BRIAN! GET IN HERE, YOU GOTTA READ THIS ONE!”

To see some of my favorite ads, click here.  It’ll pop you over to the VERY clever Something Clever 2.0  where I’m blogsitting from my bed while the fabulous & funny Jenn is in NY consciously avoiding muggers.

 

 

 

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Free Advice Friday! A fabulous business opportunity for you and you and you!

If you read Tuesday’s post then you know that my family and I are currently on stay-cation. And can I just say, we’re a little less than thrilled with our accommodations.

Anyway, today is Free Advice Friday so I thought I’d take a quick break from all the excitement happening in our resort’s lounge area (aka- our family room), and answer a question that I received last week.

 

 

Dear Kim,

Other than your blog and being a mother, do you work outside of the home? I’m thinking of getting a part time job but my kids keep me busy, I’m afraid it’ll prove to be too much.

Thanks,

Becky

 

 

Dear Becky,

Technically, I do work outside of the house during the school year- I work in my driveway.

You see, last summer my kids decided to operate a stand selling watered-down lemonade and store bought chocolate chip cookies (at a 500% markup, because kids are cute and they can get away with that shit). Inspired by their business model and their overflowing piggy banks, I decided to start my own stand.

Now, when the kids are in school, I take their stand to the bottom of our driveway, replace the “Lemon” in Lemonade with “Mommy”, and sell frozen margaritas and psychological counseling to all of the stay-at-home-moms in my neighborhood.

Based on a recent Mommyade customer survey, my margaritas are a huge hit!  The psychological counseling, not so much.  But despite feedback like, “I’ve received better advice from mass produced fortune cookies” and “I thought you had a Masters in Psychology?”, business is booming!

*In my defense, I said I considered myself a “master of psychology”…and she had been drinking.

Becky, you’ve come to me at the perfect time!  I’m currently looking to expand Mommyade by offering franchise opportunities to the first people 10 million people that contact me, SO ACT FAST!

For only$199 and 30% of your profits, I’ll send you my margarita recipe and a list of my more successful canned counseling responses such as: “How did that make you feel?”, “Really? It looks like you lost weight to me.”, and “No, he’s the asshole.”

Of course, you’ll need to secure your own Mommyade stand, driveway location, lawn chairs, tissues, limes, margarita machine, cups, and tequila.  Oh, and I highly recommend increasing your homeowner’s liability insurance.  It’s as easy as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9!

If you’re interested, email me today for an application and you could have your stand up and running by the first day of school- traditionally my biggest sales day of the year!

I’ll keep an eye out for your application request!

 

Yours truly,

Kim

 

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