"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> Loading and unloading the dishwasher was a chore we used to assign to
> the kids. That and changing the cat litter.

We had no dishwasher when I was a kid but I had to wash dishes and do the
cat box. I don't assign too much to Angela these days though because she is
so busy with school stuff. They really pile the homework on to the point
where some nights she has no spare time at all. She has cut back on dance
the way it is and even at that she has had to miss it because she had too
much homework.

In past years, she was taking 12+ hours of dance per week so between that
and the homework, she still didn't have a lot of time left. I do assign her
some tasks but those things aren't in there.

She did once ask if she could empty the cat box. She was much younger then.

All of a sudden she hollered out, "Uh mom? Come here!", with a panicky
sound to her voice. I went into the bathroom to see a mountain of clumping
cat litter sticking up out of the toilet. I freaked!

At some point, we had switched to some other kind of litter. Can't remember
what it was. Some kind of natural material. It didn't work and smelled bad
so we didn't use it for long. But unlike the clumping or even the regular
stuff, it didn't stick to the poops. So I would put the poop in the toilet
and flush it. She must have seen me do that. But what made her think she
could dump the clumping litter down there is beyond me.

I know when clumping litter first came out, they said it was flushable. Not
sure they make that claim now but with our easily clogged toilet, I wouldn't
attempt it.

I can't remember exactly what we did but I had her bail all of the litter
out of there as quickly as possible. I think maybe I gave her a large
plastic cup or something. She did manage to get almost all of it out and
what little remained did flush down with no problem.

I just got a litter Genie when Target had them half off either through the
Cartwheel or a coupon. Can't remember which. She doesn't know how to use
it yet. It's actually easy to use but it took me a little while to figure
it out. I rather screwed it up pretty good the first week that I used it and
overfilled it. They make the claim that you only need to empty it every two
weeks with one cat. We have two cats and that first week, it didn't even
make it one week before it was overflowing. I have since learned that I
have to use the little scoop that comes with it and really pack the stuff
down in it. It did make it a week this time but just barely so.

No odor whatever though. Love the thing! Much better than my using the
cheap plastic garbage bags. If it was raining, I didn't want to run them
outside so I'd leave them in the bathroom trash where they'd stink. Then
when I put them in the outside trash, it would stink. No stink at all now
because the bagging plastic is so very thick.