Put that on the List

When the kids want something we've learned (because we read it in a book) to say "okay, lets put that on the list." This stalls rampant consumerism, teaches the kids patience, the value of the dollar and keeps our little house from filling up with mountains of half eaten impulse foods and checkout counter crap toys that have excessively long battery life and jingles that call out in the middle of the night and that get stuck in places you can‚t easily find them when you don't have your contacts in. It works so well because when the kids are young they don't remember that there is a list so you're never asked to present the list and whatever it was that they wanted so desperately they've forgotten about by the time they get to the parking lot. I'm starting to think that I could use this in my daily life though. I just got off the phone with a source who was going on and on about various abuses, stories he thought I should do and other off-topic ideas and I kept wanting to say "okay we‚ll put that on the list."