Paper Wasters of the World: Unite!

Every blue moon, one of my kids gets a bit print happy. They all have computers in their rooms connected wirelessly to our printer downstairs. My Eldest has his own not so quality printer, but he usually also prefers the downstairs printer.

So, when one of them gets print happy, we often find piles of paper of various screen shots, contest rules, etc. I should have known with summer break here, that we had a shit-happy print session coming.

This time PB was the gross offender. We found FORTY-ONE FLIPPIN' FULL COLOR prints of her faves. I don't mind if she prints stuff out, but did she really need NINE frickin' copies of the same "Countdown to the NEW Barbie Princess Movie" Calendar??? Three prints of the same pollypocket.com beautiful bedroom?? Or how about TWENTY-FUCKING-FOUR copies of the same screen shot of the Totally Spies Design Center "Play" Screen???!!! ?AAAGGHH! With each generation of the Totally Spies group, you could see the print cartridge get lower and lower and lower. Each print was less blue and more purple. This morning, the printer cartridges are drained.

I do at times have some environmental leanings (shocking for a Republican hard-ass I know) and this just hurts my brain that I have 41 full color prints when we should have about 3-4. So PB's butt is suspended. She's banned from free printing. She must now and forevermore ask permission before every print.

Li'l Man doesn't see what the big deal is. He tells me to just, "Throw them away, Mommy!" Geez! It's that simple in a five-year-old mind. I can already see him at the head of Chevron as a despot spoiling the homes of baby seals in pristine bays in Alaska.

By the way, did I tell you how we found PB's crime against nature? Well, we are making these grossly-wasteful, but oh do fun paper finger puppets again. Yep, we are making those Ready Mech finger puppets. Wasting paper in a better way. These finger puppets are so way cooler than the ones I had as a child. Before you say it, yes, just read the last post: I know, I know! That was back in the ice age! My years are screaming by and the big 35 will be here in early August.

Okay, enough self-pity. Check out these rad (tee hee I love this word from my youth) finger puppets that CG and the kids made above.

'lisciously scribed by Scout's Honor @ 9:09 AM