25 Morning Timesavers
Leave the house less harried with these helpful products.
by Nicole Feliciano
September 16, 2008
Getting to work by 9 a.m. used to be so easy: the alarm went off at 7:30, and after a quick shower and a gander at the paper, it was time to go. Add two or three kids into the mix and making it out the door on time for preschool drop-off takes the skill of a tactician. While we can't buy you an extra ten minutes in the morning, we did track down twenty-five products to help speed things along. — Nicole Feliciano
1. Pack lunch the night before. The Fit and Fresh Salad Shaker containers keep lettuce crisp overnight. $9.61
2. Load up all your kid's gear in the many pockets of a Crocodile Creek Backpack and leave it by the door, ready for the school-bus dash. $25
3. Skip the bowl and shovel baby's food in faster with a Boon Squirt feeding spoon. $11.99
4. Kitchen clean up will be a breeze with the Kiddopotamus Tiny Diner Placemat. The mat suctions on to the table and has a tray to catch the dribbles. $10.95
5. Babies love to bathe in their breakfast. Bibs and Match is a onesie bib combo. The bibs attach directly to the onesie via simple snaps and detach easily to change to a clean one--no more ruined outifts. $28
6. Did we mention kids are messy? Keep spills to a minimum with a Baby Cie suction bowl. $11.25
©2008 Babble
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Nicole Feliciano is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. By her estimates, she's walked more than 50 miles this year road-testing strollers. When she's not unboxing baby gear for Babble guides, she writes about parenting style
on her blogs:
Momtrends and
Momtrendsnyc.com
For more of her picks check out Momtrends, her parenting blog.
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