Duck Tape for State Mascot

I've always heard people talk about how duck tape can fix anything. And now I believe it. Just this past week we've nearly gone through a whole roll! Duck tape is amazing!

Exhibit 1: Duck taped swords
The boys took PVC pipe (what does PVC stand for anyway?) and wrapped them in foam and then tightly (and I do mean TIGHTLY) secured them with duck tape. The blue tape is painter's tape, you know, just for a nice aesthetic touch. Yeah, they were the foam squares I was planning to use for kitchen chair cushions but since I only talk about making those cushions, I decided to donate them to a worthy cause. Cool swords, guys. Now go outside and fight the pesky neighbor kids whose dogs poop in our yard.

Exhibit 2: Substitute Shoe Strings

Tate has some shoes that, well, I'm tired of seeing. What is it with boys that makes them want to keep ratty jeans and shoes long past the time when they get new ones? These are the same shoes Tate was wearing when he launched an 80 lb weight onto his toe and landed himself in the OU Chidren's Hospital surgery room over Thanksgiving... If those were my shoes, I would have long punished them and said my good-byes...

He keeps asking me to buy new shoestrings and I figure if I refuse, he'll start wearing his nice, new shoes and prove to his teacher once and for all I'm not a negligent mother. Nope. This is what I saw last week. Duck tape. All around the shoe so they won't fall off. Duck tape is awesome.

Sweet work, Tate. You're brilliant.

Exhibit 3: Backpack Patch
Nope, that's not for decoration...it's strategically placed duck tape to hold his backpack together. Seriously, we've reached the point on the school calendar that if something breaks, you duck tape it until May. Sorry chief, a new backpack simply isn't in the budget until August. (Dave Ramsey would be lovin' me right about now.) Duck tape will hold nearly anything.

Yep, this family has duck taped tons o' stuff...TV remote to hold the batteries in (you don't really thing we'd risk having to get up to turn the channel, do you?). I've even joked (JOKED) about duck taping lil Jack's head to his bed so he'll sleep on the correct side of his head... (Oh come on, I would never (well almost never) use duck tape on a kid unless it is absolutely necessary...(or enormously entertaining) )

We love duck tape. It's a staple in our storm emergency kit. When the next twister that comes through these parts we're going to duck tape stuff down so nothing blows away.

Duck tape should be our state mascot.

Oh pu-leez, stop grimmacing. Of COURSE I know it's duct tape, not duck tape. A few of you could hardly finish reading because of that...Does anyone use it on ducts?