{"id":2145,"date":"2009-09-08T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2011-10-01T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T12:54:13","slug":"transporting-birthday-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/transporting-birthday-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Transporting birthday goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hosted my son\u2019s last birthday party at a birthday party venue.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that I would <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">have to<\/span> get to transport gifts home of different shapes and sizes, I carried a large plastic bin to the party for carrying most of the gifts home.<\/p>\n<p>In taking it to the party, I filled it with consumables: plates, napkins, cups, food, favors and the like and put the lid on it.<\/p>\n<p>By carrying all of those things in a box with a lid, I could stack things on top (unlike bags which tend to fall over and spill out in my car) and I could use the box to corral the goodies as he opened them, keeping anything from getting lost.<\/p>\n<p>The big box also made it much easier to carry everything to the car.<\/p>\n<p>And when we got home, the birthday boy had a blast going back through the box again. Plus the toys had a temporary almost-mess-free home until they found their permanent spots in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Using the bin I already had at home for easy party transportation totally worked for me!<\/p>\n<p>For more Works for Me Wednesday, visit W<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearethatfamily.com\/2009\/09\/wfmw-homework-center.html\" target=\"_blank\">e Are THAT Family<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hosted my son\u2019s last birthday party at a birthday party venue. Knowing that I would have to get to transport gifts home of different shapes and sizes, I carried a large plastic bin to the party for carrying most of the gifts home. In taking it to the party, I filled it with consumables: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}