Dammit-ing My Way to Disney World
- February 3rd, 2008 7:47 pm
Recently, we invoked a new rule in our house. It involves the proverbial cuss jar. You know, the whole jig where the person who curses has to put change into the jar in an attempt to stop all the profanity flying around in our house.
Obviously, we were under the impression it would slightly inhibit our use of four and five letter words in front of the ginger. Truly, I thought this would clear up our dropping all of the “OH MY SHITS”.
Unfortunately, it has done no such thing. In fact, I’m almost positive that I will need to upgrade the Mason Jar currently housing our cuss money to a 50-gallon drum. Probably, we will need a few 50 gallon drums for this.
One application for the change we collect at the cost of our trash mouths will likely be some type of fun thing for Allie. At most, I thought it would a Barbie or playhouse.
However, I am wrong, and in the wake of such a travesty, there is good news: I’m pretty sure I am dammit-ing her way to Disney World one day at a time. 
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
One shit at a time… and your daughter will be hugging Cinderella….
Wow… that there is quite a thought…..
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
I’ve always wondered about the positive (negative?) side-effects of the cuss jar.
Enjoy Disney World!
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
Being as J. encourages them to curse, I’m sure we’ll be implementing the curse jar in our household in a few years. I have to admit though, it is quite funny to hear a 2 year old Yell “Shitballs Dora!” when she trips over a Dora pillow.
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
Unfortunately, in my house I would be the only one contributing to the jar!!
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
Hmmm, I am too scared to start a jar. I try not to swear around Amy though. Note that. TRY.
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February 3rd, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
I’d be out of money by noon the first day. Shit.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 12:52 am
See, this is the reason I have not instituted a cuss jar. My son would be the wealthiest kid on the planet. Hmmm, I am trying to figure out a way to finance Disney though…I may have to rethink.
They have something they do at school, and whenever a “shit” (or worse) slips out of my mouth he tells me:
COOKIES IN THE JAR!!!
I have no idea what this means, but apparently you do this when someone has said a naughty word.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 1:51 am
I do remember my mother saying half in jest “That’s enough of that effin dirty talk around here”
We never got paid for it though.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 2:47 am
Lol! When we were little my parents told us that if we put all of our change in a jar they would buy us a puppy when we filled it up. So my sisters and I were super excited and put our change in a jar everyday. But the jar never filled up! My parents had been taking the money! Lol. I forgot what they had been buying, but they eventually bought us a puppy anyway.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 5:11 am
My sisters swears like a trooper when she’s driving, but at home she’s pretty polite. My mom seems to have gotten used to my sister saying “f*ck”, but she can’t handle me saying pubic hair. Go figure.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 8:05 am
One of the guys I studied with in college and I did this, but we used the money to buy alcohol. So we’d put money in the jar for cussing, then take it out to buy booze. That still counts, right?
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February 4th, 2008 @ 9:37 am
Cripes, if we did a cuss jar around here we might be able to send Hope to the moon. Yikes!
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February 4th, 2008 @ 9:42 am
As other comments I too would have some kick ass savings plan.. I curse like it is my second language. LOL
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February 4th, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Yeah, we can’t do the cuss jar here. I would have to go to the bank to make withdrawals just to put in the damn jar! I’m quite possible raising an army of sailors.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I would be broke.
LOL.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 10:26 am
absolutely ANYONE can participate in our leap of faith friday campaign. join us!!
glad you like the idea! let me know if you want ‘take a leap’ and post about it friday and I will link to you in my post FRI. if you don’t want that much pressure of a LEAP than you can always join in via comments
whatever works for you!!
cheers~
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February 4th, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Ha! I would have a pretty full jar, dammit. My family got into a discussion over Christmas about second-hand cussing - basically whether saying “crap” is as bad as “shit”. They said it was because you really wanted to say shit but didn’t. Personally I like getting creative with my “curses”. My current fave is “OH PETE!” or “Well, Pete”. Just makes people wonder….
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February 4th, 2008 @ 11:13 am
yea my swear jar could send about 3 kids to college some day. I used to come into the office and just throw 5 bucks in the jar before I even took a sip of my morning coffee.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 11:36 am
At least it will be a well deserved trip
Great story!
Glad to see you in The League!
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February 4th, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
i used to have a cuss jar. actually, it was a huge piggy bank, in the shape of a magenta crayola crayon. i kid you not…i filled that fucking…oops…fricking thing. and, i took my kids to the toy store. i probably could have taken them on a disney cruise but, sadly, it was when i was going through a divorce and the thought of taking them anywhere by myself was overwhelming. but…they loved their trip to the toy store, courtesy of their mom and her truck driven ways!!
xoxo
February 4th, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
hahaha! clever!
maybe i should start a jar at home too. then i can shit my way to that new bag i want! hahaha!
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February 4th, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
I think I’d be swearing my way to the poorhouse… I’d have to make trips to the ATM just to be able to put enough change in the damn jar.
Just try not to cuss Mickey out, ok?
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February 4th, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Thanks for visiting my place! If we had a swears jar at our house, we would be SO screwed. Forget Disney World, we’d be working our way to a summer in France. It would only take about a week before we would be completely out of money and have to start writing IOUs.
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February 4th, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
i think i’m the only one that doesn’t need a swear jar in my house. we don’t cuss :(. my mom raised me saying “cussing isn’t pretty on a girl” so i don’t do it. i know, i’m a goody goody. *hides my face*
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February 5th, 2008 @ 5:12 am
This cracks me up! My baby girl (now seven) said “Oh my shit” AND “holy mofo” at a very tender age. To my VeryChristian sister. ROFL I don’t know where she learned that from, because when we curse, we do it properly, dammit!