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Keys/phone locator! Oh, the stress and time I have saved with a Tile. I hit a button on my phone or my keys, which then beeps the phone or keys, so I can find them — fast. $25 • thetileapp.com
It would have been easier to stay in our former home. But we couldn’t resist the opportunity to shine it up — to show our children the reward that comes from taking care of something and making it your own. They don’t fully understand why we would have moved into such a dump when we had a perfectly fine house and a custom-made playhouse in the backyard. Like Maggie Smith writes in her poem, Good Bones: I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. Whenever my squirrel brain starts scampering too far into the future, I think: We have to plant our trees today. We have to fortify good bones. That’s what we can do. Katie Dohman is currently living in the midst of a full-house renovation with her three kids, two pets and one husband. Follow her adventures at instagram.com/dohmicile.
mnparent.com • August 2019
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