Moppet Babbies
August 15, 2005
A few months ago I told you about my trip to Boston. I told you that just being in the city made us feel smarter, and that when we visited Harvard we each bought a book from the Harvard Bookstore. Mine was a scientific book of inventions, and I promised to share random excerpts from it with you, Internet. Therefore, from time to time you will find some of my favorite Chindogu inventions highlighted on here. Enjoy!
Excerpt taken from The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions by Kenji Kawakami.
Baby Mops
Make your children work for their keep. After the birth of a child there's always the temptation to say "Yes, it's cute, but what can it do?" Until recently the answer was simply "lie there and cry," but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they're born. Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or tile floor that needs cleaning.
You may at first need to get things started by calling to the infant from across the room, but pretty soon they'll be doing it all by themselves.There's no child exploitation involved. The kid is doing what he does best anyway: crawling. But with Baby Mops he's also learning responsibility and a healthy work ethic.
Comments
18 Comments:
At August 15, 2005 1:16 PM, Katie said...
Does the baby come with the set or is that an additional cost?
At August 15, 2005 1:27 PM, jes said...
you must supply your own child.
can you imagine how well this would work if you had twins?
At August 15, 2005 2:29 PM, steve said...
Was this invented by "Nike"?
At August 15, 2005 2:34 PM, Amstaff Mom said...
He looks like a lion with a shedding problem.
At August 15, 2005 3:06 PM, steve said...
I thought he looked "Italian"
At August 15, 2005 3:35 PM, Amstaff Mom said...
I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed your title, too.
At August 15, 2005 3:53 PM, Sydney said...
With 3 almost 4 kiddo's man my house would be spotless! Someone send some!
snicker,snicker....
At August 15, 2005 5:40 PM, Amanda Sue said...
what is a babbie? why don't i get that?
At August 15, 2005 5:43 PM, jes said...
ahahahahahahaahaha!!! amanda sue - i totally missed that. but then when i read it (over and over again), i thought it was so funny that it MUST STAY. :)
At August 15, 2005 5:53 PM, Katie said...
Now all you need is the babbie wet vac, with optional buffer.
Hmmm, think the patent is already taken on that.
At August 15, 2005 6:30 PM, jes said...
kt, not necessary! remember?!? babies drool!
At August 15, 2005 9:15 PM, The Blog Patrol said...
LOL!! Times 5!
This is a great post! With great pictures! Jes, you are clearly raising the blogger bar!
The BP awards you 10 bonus points!
At August 15, 2005 9:17 PM, Edgy Mama said...
I definitely could have used one of these. Brilliant.
At August 15, 2005 9:22 PM, Amanda Sue said...
thanks for leaving it, cause if you took it away, my comment wouldn't make sense.
i know that was a big step for you, OH, PERFECT ENGLISH SPEAKER!
At August 16, 2005 6:15 AM, MsThang said...
LMAO Jes.. that is hilarious! And when I originally read your post title I thought it was a twist on muppet babies.. and I thought "what could she come up with next" as I excitedly scrolled down lol. This though, is so much better in so many ways lol.
At August 16, 2005 2:01 PM, Jenn said...
Isabella's is pink. I just tweaked it a bit and added little bristle brushes on footies to help clean the grout between tiles.
At August 17, 2005 10:17 AM, girl from florida said...
Where can I buy one?
and
Would this be considered child abuse?
At August 17, 2005 4:15 PM, Allison said...
I could have sworn I commented on this back when you posted it. Guess not! What a genius idea! I love it! :-) (I thought it was going to be in relation to muppet babies too!)
Posted by: jes | May 2, 2006 04:03 PM