{"id":64,"date":"2008-01-31T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/moon-sand-mayhem-mitigated.html"},"modified":"2008-01-31T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T02:25:00","slug":"moon-sand-mayhem-mitigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/moon-sand-mayhem-mitigated.html","title":{"rendered":"Moon Sand Mayhem…Mitigated!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timmy received a Moon Sand set for his birthday from our friends, Julie and Doug and their kids Evan and Kate. Julie recently had her kids over to play and we broke out the Moon Sand — as we saw the 7% fall to the floor (read more about my estimated 5-7% Moon Sand loss rate here<\/a>), we had a discussion about the inflatable tray I was interested in. Bless her heart, she remembered and Timmy got to unwrap a set with the tray on his birthday. Yay! It’s quite nifty, with a velcro top — so after Timmy finished, it was really simple to pop on the lid and put the tray away. Probably cut my cleanup time by over 50%!<\/p>\n

(All you Air Force-types reading this — how’s that for some action\/impact statements!)<\/p>\n

So here’s Timmy enjoying his Sand Castle kit in the inflatable tray. What a difference! The loss rate is now down to ~1%, at most! That’s a phenomenal 6% reduction in Floor Moon Sand! More fun and creative productivity for the kids! Whoo hoo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tangent: Paul sent me this <\/span>funny story<\/span><\/a> today, and there’s a part of the story about the purchaser having to page through all these web sites that ask you to add more stuff to your shopping cart before you can ever check out (he fell for it and bought an accessory). That reminded me of what I encountered at <\/span>MoonSand.com<\/span><\/a> when I was trying to look for an inflatable Moon Sand play tray earlier this month. I know you’re curious — go ahead, hit the link, note how the page is laid out to try to canoodle you into buying more and more and more Moon Sand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timmy received a Moon Sand set for his birthday from our friends, Julie and Doug and their kids Evan and Kate. Julie recently had her kids over to play and we broke out the Moon Sand — as we saw the 7% fall to the floor (read more about my estimated 5-7% Moon Sand loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[26,4,616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/08\/shameless-pitch-574.html","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Shameless Pitch #574","date":"28 August 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I felt like a pretty good Mommy.I started bringing the boys' crafty stuff out of their closets, starting with Moon Sand. 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