S/O Whats your " there's gotta' be a better way" moment?

All my wonderful business ideas turn out to already have been done. Except for cat toys that come back from under couches and chairs by themselves. If you can invent that, you've got my vote.

one book I recommend...along the moving stuff line.. "Moving heavy things" by Jan atkins.....shows historical ways people moved heavy stuff.. good gift for that guy..

We've been potlucking for three major holidays for the last 20+ years. I get asked to bring salad a lot. Two years ago, I came up with the ultimate way to potluck salad for 35-50 people. I put my lettuce and other dry ingredients (except croutons) into 2-1/2 gallon Ziploc bags. When it's time to put out the food, I add the salad dressing to the bag and shake it well so all the lettuce is coated. I add the croutons to the bag and shake some more so they're interspersed. I then dump perfectly tossed salad into my giant salad bowl. When it's time to refill the salad bowl, I repeat the process with the next jumbo bag of salad. It's so much easier to do this than it is to toss the salad in the bowl and I don't need to remove the salad bowl from the buffet table to refill it. I can't believe it took 20 years to figure this out.

Mine doesn't spark an invention, because it was already invented. Making mac & cheese...I was sick of grating all the cheese with my box-grater. After I was done, it hit me...use the food processor! Duh, it even has the blade for it. So I grated some more cheese, just because I could, in 30 seconds. I was so mad at myself!

Moving heavy furniture... put it on a blanket and drag it.

I didn't think of that though, saw it on HGTV or somewhere.

Saved a lot of backaches when we moved a year ago!


I think drive thru milk stores (like Starbucks only with milk instead of coffee) would make a lot of SAHM's happy.  No more dragging the kids to the store and the milk is always waaaaaay in the back... 

I always thought McD's or some fast food should sell milk (gallon or half gallon) at drive through. Lots of them sell bagged ice...Great for working mom's on the way home that don't really want to waste time stopping at the store. I think somewhere (maybe outside USA) they do or did? Even if it was the bagged kind. I hate going into huge grocery stores for a gallon of milk when it's a 10 minute hike to the b a c k of the store just for that. A little more $ to avoid that, I'd take it.

I have one that I hope someone has a solution to. I'm in the middle of a plantar fasciitis flare up. Taping my foot is the only thing that makes a difference. Problem is that it's hard to do myself, it's time consuming, it hurts when the tape rolls up and rubs against your shoe, and it hurts to rip the tape off every night.

Is there a better way to do this?

I've had one for 20 years for that exact reason.  So easy. I don't understand why people don't like prelit trees.

If you Google Plantar Fasciitis Wrap, a variety of things come up.  This one seems to be more highly rated than some others.

We have a drive-thru dairy a couple of blocks away. It's more like a mini drive-thru convenience store that sells bread, snacks food, and a few other things in addition to dairy products. It's really convenient when you just need a gallon of milk or you forgot to get eggs when you were at the grocery store. Their price for a gallon of milk is less than the lowest priced milk at the grocery store. The brand they sell is about two bucks less than the same brand at the grocery store. They aren't as cheap as Trader Joe's, but they're close. The only problem I have with them is that they close at six.

Someone needs to invent a child-sized, clip to the laundry tub, comfortable shampoo chair for kids. DD has long hair but is too young to wash it herself, so we end up laying her on her back on the counter on a blanket/towel next to the sink in the laundry room with her head tipped back in the sink. She complains it hurts her neck, water splashes in her face, it's hard to get the soap out of the hair on the back of her head, and she basically hates it but doesn't want her hair cut so she suffers through it.

We used to wash her hair in the tub, but we don't have a built in sprayer and the one that goes on the end of the faucet doesn't seal well so it leaks or sprays all over me. Plus now her hair is too long for that anyway. Even if her hair wasn't long, it's still a huge pain to wash a little kid's hair.

The other thing I wish someone would invent is a child's step stool for the sinks in a public restroom. I loathe taking my kid into a public restroom to use the facilities. It's bad enough that the kid has to sit on the seat (and probably touch it with their hands to prevent falling in), but then comes the challenge of getting their hands washed afterward or even if they're just sticky/messy beyond what a wipe will clean.

The sinks tend to be sloppy with splashed water and soap, most don't have paper towels available, and the automatic sinks with the magic "eye" that turns the water on had to have been invented by Satan himself! I can't tell you how many times I've struggled with my purse, sometimes also a diaper bag, my own winter coat, the kid's winter coat, and trying to hold the kid herself up to the stupid sink so she can get her hands washed without getting soaking wet from all the mess on and around the sink area that she has to drag her arms/body over to reach the faucet. It's a little bit less of a problem with rest rooms that have paper towels, those sinks can at least be wiped off a little. But more and more of them have the automatic air dryers too. It drives me nuts.

We've always had home milk delivery.  Perhaps that is because we are surrounded by dairies out here, but even the cities have it.  I'm not sure about Denver, but I know Northern Colorado does

When I had my daughter I told my husband that I wish a developer would come up with a store complex that was comprised entirely of businesses with drive thrus. Dry cleaners, grocery stores (with limited items), decent restaurants with curbside pick up, pharmacy, etc. Yes I know a lot of these places have drive thrus already but these would be in all.one.place. so you could get your errands done at once rather than driving all over tarnation. Everything is set up in a circular fashion, no parking lots. I even named it, Momville.

After reading about the prep area Eataly in NYC, I thought about a drive through food prep store. So you are driving home want to make a certain recipe but you don't have celery or you never use it all up when you cook? Drive through and get the one stalk of celery you need diced and ready to go. It could be bundled with convenience dinners and sides. But is has to be drive thru. 

My husband thought both of these ideas were stupid. Guess who does the driving, child wrangling, shopping and meal prep in our family? Hint: It is not him.