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Setting up Swingset/Playset on Grass
... $40 for the landscape fabric underneath (to prevent weeds) and about $75 for .... On the lawn you are going to get a dirt spot under the swing from the ...
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- Hi L., I bought a Rainbow Playset when my daughters were pretty young like your son. We weren't sure if we should do the same about the wood chips. It's expensive an...
- Mowing around a swing set proves challenging which is why majority typically makes a "pit" area for the swing set. Otherwise it is pretty much your choice. To ancho...
- Ours is on grass...it's been no problem at all. The wood chips at the park give my kids splinters and the pebbles at my kids' schools come home in their shoes and get ...
What Chores Do Your Children Do?
Also when I'm outside gardening I have my girls help me pull weeds or my husband will have .... putting laundry away, and using the push mower for the lawn. ...
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- My daughters are 4 and 7 and they each have a chore chart with magnets they get for each chore they do. The 7 yr old gets a quarter for each magnet. The chores invol...
- Hi D., My 5 year old son makes his bed, picks up his toys, helps set the table and helps prepare food with a kids safe knife/spoon that sort of thing. He is not al...
- I have my children do most of the chores listed, but their favorite one wasn't listed...vacuuming! Maybe because I have boys and it's a machine, but they almost fight...
Chores
lawn care, gardening, meal prep, painting, baby sitting younger ..... She is old enough to identify the weeds vs. the vegetables she helped me plant, ...
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- I am a parent to 5; grandma to 7 and now foster children throughout the year. My 6 year old grandson learned his colors by sorting his dirty clothes when he was 18 mo...
- Hi G., My son is 5 1/2 and he has been doing chores for a small allowance for about 6 months, now. This is what he does: daily- set the table, feed the dogs, pick u...
- How about sweeping any wood or tile floors? Helping set table for dinner, clearing table?? the 3 yr old could help dust low shelves that dont have breakables or use a ...
How Much Allowance Should I Give My Children, and for What Chores?
Some great ideas for boys could be weeding, watering plants, sweeping side walks , .... It costs $25 or so a week to have the lawn mowed by someone else, ...
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- Ask your boys! Sit down and have a family meeting with them. If they are involved from the beginning it's much more likely they will do their jobs and be proud of th...
- I'll probably fall in the minority here, but I think that allowance should be given only for extraneous chores from the children, like certain yard work or any special...
- In our home its a $1.00 per year of age (ex. $10 & $7) per week. Although they have opportunities to earn more if they do extra (raking and picking up leaves in the y...
Allowance
... the grass is a task, as well as watering the plants, pulling weeds ..." ..... My eldest left the house without permission and our lawn was not mowed. ...
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- There are 6 kids in my family and I'm not sure what my parents did for the rest. I'm the youngest 5 years younger than the next, but here's what they did... and I thi...
- Our girls have certain things they are expected to do around the house, mow the lawn, take out trash, empty dishwasher, that they do because they live there and are ex...
- What about rewarding them every week with how their behavior is and whether they have accomplished their tasks (whatever they may be and that you set out for them)by t...
New to Area and Want to Plant a Garden
They're easy to maintain and no tilling involved, not as many weeds, and you can make a small garden to start out with if you .... Lawn, Flowers, Gardens. ...
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- We are from Illinois originally, and I had pretty good luck with the U of I Extension people. I know that U of MN has an Extension office, but I'm not completely sure...
- you know I have seen a premade kit for a salsa garden. which sounds like what you want. gardening in minnesota is an adventure. if you are starting from seed, planting...
- well, since i cant find your town (gwinn? MN) on a map, its hard to tell where you are located... however, i live in northern MN zone 3, and we can normally grow onion...
Your Interests in Gardening
I don't want a brown lawn in the summer! But even when I water and ... would be helpful and so timely. like how do you fight weeds without using pesticides. ...
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- i second the grouping ideas! i feel like i never know what looks great together. having things that bloom or have foliage at diffent stages of the year would be great....
- I'd be interested in hearing about soil testing and amendments, as I had some seed failures this year on new soil (to me), which tells me that I didn't prepare the soi...
- I would love to have a decorative, low/no maintenance parking strip that is not grass. I've been trying, but mine just looks mangy. Great topic, can you tell where...
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Then we started an organic approach to lawn care to keep them away. ... This is also good for weeds in the cracks of your concrete walkway. Helpful? ...
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- My girls are allergic to them. I did this for both my house and my parents house. Get a bucket with hot water and dish soap and fill the bucket with this mixture, th...
- I would like to second using Equal. You can buy it in a box and just pour a liberal amount (you want to get them all back in the hole) along the trail and then down th...
- I used instant grits, and they were gone immediately.
How Do I Stop Cats from Peeing in My Plants?
What if you got that netting that is for outside flwer beds to prevent weeds? .... neighborhood cats like to use my lawn and flower bed for a litter box. ...
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- Growing up when a cat would do this we would put ammonia all around the top of the pot, cats hate the smell. I have also heard of using the red pepper like others hav...
- Believe it or not - mothballs are toxic (and they stink). Here's a few organic and safe things to try: Go to a local garden center and purchase a small bag of lava...
- I have heard that if you put used coffee grounds in pantyhose and put them where you don't want your cat to pee it will keep them away!
Top Things You Look for When Purchasing a Home (Existing, Not New Build)
Crazy neighbors or ones that don't take care of their home/lawn. .... We have had quite a bit of trouble with trash, high weeds/yards and vandalism of our ...
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- The biggest mistake my husband and I made when we bought our first house in 1998 in FL was the AC was the original from when the house was built in 1980. Within a year...
- Some things that were important when we were house-hunting: * 2 story home, preferably with all bedrooms upstairs * No front entry garages * No pool (we were preg...
- J., Thought you might like to know what we did not look at and now regret. We found a house we loved and in a neighborhood that we thought was very nice. One sugg...
