PARENTS: STOP BUYING STUFF FOR YOUR KIDS _ If you’re home is busting at the seams, or you’re one of the millions of homeowners that pays for monthly storage, you don’t need a bigger home — you need to seriously downsize your stuff. And you can start with your kids. No, don’t get rid of them — get rid of their stuff. Specifically their toys. British researchers found that the average 10-year-old owns 238 toys but plays with just 12 daily. And it’s not just British kids: 3.1% of the world’s children live in America, but they own 40% of the toys consumed globally.
WHAT WEIRD THINGS HAS YOUR SIGNIFICANT SAID IN THEIR SLEEP? There’s a Twitter account where a woman shared everything she heard her boyfriend say in his sleep. She’s no longer with that guy. She met another guy she married and kept tweeting stuff her husband was saying.
Some of the things her men have said while sleeping:
• Your eyeballs smell like eyeballs
• OH GOD. We’ve gotta get the chainsaw first.
• Did you cut off the leg?
• Why is it doing that. Why is it cold. Get me a leg.
• HEY. Don’t pee on it.
• I performed a surgery.
• We have to get to the sewers… turtles.
• There’s never enough nacho cheese.
GOOD NEWS IF YOU WERE BORN IN THE FALL _ People who are born in the fall will live a few months longer than the rest of us. A study looked at more than 1 million people over the age of 55 in Austria, Denmark and Australia. They found that people born from October to December tended to outlive people born in the spring by about 3 to 6 months. The same held true for people born in Australia when the researchers factored in the seasons for the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists credit an abundance of food in the traditional fall harvest months for giving babies born then a nutritional head start.
