Les Mess, more fun

I spent most of today cleaning, which I probably wouldn’t have had to do if 1) my children weren’t such pigs (I say that with love, you understand) and 2) if I was better about getting them to pitch in on regular tidying around the house. This probably...

Winner of the ThermaCELL contest

Well hey, it turns out that there are plenty of people as aggravated by mosquitoes as I am. (Funny story: I moved to Georgia during a drought. So I was all, “Well sure, it’s hot here, but at least there aren’t any mosquitoes!” The drought...

Reminder: ThermaCELL contest

Don’t forget—you have until early tomorrow morning to enter to win a ThermaCELL mosquito repellent outdoor lantern, but you can’t win if you don’t enter. Make sure your comment is in so you can have your shot at it. As always, please leave...

Bye-bye, bugs

I came back from our vacation and was greeted by a veritable wall of boxes. Had I gone shopping-crazy? No! Just another batch of goodies to pass along to you, my loyal readers, who are smart and pretty and deserve free stuff. With summer now in full swing, I think...

Winner of the Calafant contest

Last week I offered up a chance for one lucky Want Not reader to win a Calafant cardboard dollhouse or pirate fortress from Creative Toyshop. Hundreds of you saw how cool it would be to have a plaything that can be assembled, decorated, played with, and ultimately...

It’s a cardboard wonderland

I wonder what I’m doing now. I mean, not now, when I’m writing this, last week, but now, when you read it. Wow, future publishing is confusing. Anyway! I am off on vacation, but you probably aren’t. And I’m feeling badly about that. So—a...

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