On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a 2 oz. bottle of No. 2 Poo-Pourri.Guys. GUYS. This product is the best thing that has ever happened to our family. Poo-Pourri is a blend of essential oils and it smells amazing. Their slogan is "Spray before you go and no one else will ever know." Yes, this fragrance is one that you leave on the back of the toilet. Teach your family to spray it directly in the toilet bowl before they do their business and the bathroom will stay odor free. I love the clever "No. 2" name for this fragrance and it even comes with a little crown charm symbolizing "the throne."
I got this product from cherrylanekeepsakes.com. Cherry Lane also has a darling boutique in Provo, UT located on University Ave. in the historic BYU Women's Gymnasium. You'll recognize the boutique when you see handbags spilling out the windows and front doors.
Aren't my giveaways easy? Short and sweet and frankly, pretty easy odds. I'll end this giveaway at 11:00 p.m. MT tonight and ship to the winner on Monday. To enter, just leave me a comment telling a potty story. It might be a potty training pointer, it might be a potty humor story, or it might be a toilet cleaning tip. Anything goes!
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Why, just the other day I had to make a mad dash into the men's restroom at the store, to chase down my quick-footed toddler.
ReplyDeleteAnd did I mention my husband wants to install a urinal in our home for him and our 3 boys?
My 6 year old is just starting to stand while he pees (I trained my boys to sit while they pee to make it easier for clean up). Well, he things he is so cool and has to show me how he does it everytime now! The joys!
ReplyDeleteFor my daughter's potty training I bought one of those potties that talk and play music. Bad idea.....every time the music came on she would get up and dance. Very counter-productive and a waste of money hahahaha. :)
ReplyDeleteMy 2 1/2 year old has been wearing big girl underwear during the day for a little over two weeks now, but still wears diapers at night. My husband heard her get up at 2 am, go the the bathroom, and then go back to her room. He decided to get up to see if she needed help. He found a trail of pee from her room to the bathroom. She had taken off her diaper and put it her diaper pail, peed all the way to the bathroom, finished on the potty, walked back to her room, put on big girl underwear and gone back to bed. Too cute!
ReplyDeleteMy nephew is potty training as we speak.. He is doing so well BUT, when we first started to teach him (and him being in a house full of girls) he would get VERY confused. He would sit on his little potty and strain.. we were so excited! Until he stood up and took the bucket in the potty and put it on his head! Then took off running through the house. Luckily there was NOTHING in it but still can you imagine if there was? He is starting to get it now but nothing will erase the memory of the countless times he would sing dance and run around with a potty bucket on his head. LOL!
ReplyDeleteOh, I wish I could post a picture! And not of "poo" either.
ReplyDeleteA few months ago my 7 yo boy was feeling so sick! I came home from work at bedtime, to find him with his face in the toilet! He had set up a folding chair by it to lay down the bottom half of his body on while his arms wrapped around the toilet seat and his face in the hole.
I just kept thinking, "You have to feel pretty darn sick to park your face in the toilet!" And, yes, I did take a picture! I didn't want to forget that moment. Nor did I want him to miss out on it funniness of it later.
With a houseful of kids and a husband with IBS (maybe too much info), this seems like a great stocking stuffer. Thanks for the idea, Mindy.
Misti
my little guy gets really chatty when he goes potty. it's his "talk time".
ReplyDeleteThis is just an example of what kind of conversations we have every single day. if we're lucky, twice:).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0Hwg3sMHQ
I am surrounded by boys in my house (my husband, and our boys ages 9, 6, and 4)! I am out-numbered...even our 2 cats are boys. Let me just say that sharing ONE bathroom with 4 boys is...well...it's gross! Some Poo-Pouri would definitely be put to good use at our house :D
ReplyDeleteI learned from the acclaimed Dr. Oz that when you "do your business" in the toilet and flush it sends up a poof of fecal matter into the air....gross huh?! I am a OCD germaphobe as it is so I am the "shut the toilet before your flush!!!" Natzi at our house now!
ReplyDeleteSo our little guy is 2 and loves chatting with EVERYBODY. The other day we were in a restroom stall and he was having conversations with people in the stalls next to us. So embarrassing. I just kept apologizing over and over again. The highlight of that visit to the restroom was when he declared, "oooh I just sneezed out my bum!" to the world. Our stall neighbors couldn't stop giggling. Love being a dad. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my, this is just too great!
ReplyDeleteSo my boyfriend and I went to Ireland in 2008, and we had an afternoon flight that arrived in Ireland the next morning. We rented a car and drove to our B&B some 3 hours away from the airport (and after a couple sightseeing stops).
As soon as we get into our bedroom, my boyfriend bolts for the bathroom, saying,"I've got something I've been carrying with me since Richmond!" (Where we live in the USA). I laughed and went to the window across the room from the bathroom (some 15 feet). As I'm staring at the view of the Cliffs of Moher, I suddenly hear this ginormous BOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSH! come from the bathroom...fifteen feet away!! As if someone had dropped a watermelon into a pond. I couldn't help it, I just started laughing insanely and my boyfriend did too...which made it a bit more difficult for him to continue.
We still crack up about this!
Once I had the flu and, not being a big fan of throwing up, was circling outside the bathroom trying to talk my body out of it. When it became clear I was going to lose this argument, I rushed to the toilet, flipped up the lid so hard it bounced off the tank, and the rebound crashed into my forehead just as I was leaning forward. I ended up flat on my back, not quite clear on what just happened. On the plus side, it likewise stunned my flu, and I at least got a temporary reprieve on the throwing up thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is HILARIOUS and GENIUS!!
ReplyDeleteWe need some of this in the communal bathroom at work!! :)
I love potty humor. It's a family thing. My potty story is about my Daddy (who passed away 9 years ago). When I was in high school, my sister and I talked my Daddy into letting us order Dumb and Dumber on pay per view. It wasn't my Daddy's sort of movie and it was also his birthday so he was sort of grumpy about it. We watched it in his office, sitting on office chairs, late at night. My Daddy was sitting at his drafting table and ignoring most of the film. When the bathroom scene went on and on and on my Daddy about died. He was laughing so hard. The next day we had a number of friends and family members come over. He took each on of them (seperately) into his office to watch that bathroom scene. It made me so happy to see my Daddy so amused on his 70th birthday. Priceless!
ReplyDeletelove love,
Fritzi Marie
When our daughter was potty trained we treated to a special day and called her Potty Princess all day. She had little business cards to hand out to everyone, dropped her pull-ups off at a 'baby' friend's house and was treated to the most darling custom made cupcakes just for the occasion. The packaging was beautiful and inspirational as well. You can read more about it here:
ReplyDeletehttp://girlsglitterngiggles.blogspot.com/2010/06/big-girl-party.html
I don't really have any potty tales, but I will say that the potty is the BAIN OF MY EXISTENCE. We live in an almost 70 year old house, with only ONE bathroom. Did I mention I have FOUR boys? Four boys + one Dad and only one Mom to combat the stink? I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS magic spray, and I SO SO SO need to get some!!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! Well when I was a kid about 7 or 8. I was at the mall with my family and my youngest sister (who was about 3 or 4 at the time) needed to go to the bathroom. So I took her to the bathroom and the lady next to us was clearly going #2 (I'll spare you the details). My sister turns to me with a disgusted look on her face and says as loud as ever, "EEEEWWWWWWWWW! IT STINKS!!!" Hahahahaha! This story still gets me rolling on the floor laughing! Oh the memories:)
ReplyDeleteMy toddler is potty training, so we thought she'd love a potty seat that makes music when she did her business. unfortunately it scared her so she stood up and peed on the floor! i guess i can't hope to potty train anymore anytime soon!
ReplyDeleteThe other day while my daughter was using the restroom before school, my one year old son thought it would be a good idea to throw both of her shoes into the un-flushed toilet bowl! OOPS! Good thing i was at work, and daddy got to clean that one up ;)
ReplyDeleteMy story is that I called the principal this week to complain about 2 teachers who wouldn't let Mr. I go to the bathroom, resulting is me having to pick him up early and one very devastated young man. Grrrr.
ReplyDeleteis there anything quite as disgusting as waking up feeling nauseous and running for the toilet only to find that your husband/bff has recently
ReplyDeleteforgotten one basic principle of potty training:
How to Flush???
With 3 (OK 4-including my husband) we have tons of potty stories. When my first child was being potty trained and he went the first time by himself (#2) he ran into me and said-"Mom, come wook. I have watsa poop". Yeah for potty training.
ReplyDeleteThere is something so disgusting and yet so humorous about potty humor. I live in an apartment with 5 girls, all in their twenties. As ladies, of course we are the utmost of polite and ladylike when it comes to...ahem...number 2. Okay so no we aren't. There are 3 bathrooms each shared by 2 girls. Lately it has become the running joke to politely ask if it is okay to use another girl's bathroom when the time for the deuce comes and avoid the aroma filling your own room. How polite?! It has come to door locking, sneaking into bathrooms when roommates aren't looking etc....Oh the joys of living with true ladies.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to teach my 2 year old that it's cool to use the potty....SO we get to work (she comes with me) and she tells my boss "mommy pooped and it STINKS"
ReplyDeletegreat right?
ha ha ha! i let my kids check out the book pipi caca! from the library and wouldn't you know it, it was the one book we forgot to take back to the library and when i was naive enough to ask the librarian, he looked a little embarassed, then blurted out for everyone to hear pipi, caca!
ReplyDeleteDoes this work for litter boxes? I imagine the spray may be a little hard for the cat to use.
ReplyDeleteMy first area on my mission our district leaders lived in the basement of members in our ward. We snuck in their apt one p- day and stole their Toiletries and left a scripture above the toilet Alma 60:7 "can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless stupor..." and then changed their answering machine with our voices, which really got a lot of peoples attention!
ReplyDeleteso i'm sitting in a movie with my nieces and nephews. despicable me, i think. in the middle of the movie i hear whining and rustling to my right. it a mom and four kids. one of the kids is climbing over the others to get to his mom. out of the corner of my eye i see her reach out, do something to his pants and turn him around. all of the sudden, we hear a steady stream hitting the bottom of the popcorn bucket.... flabbergast.
ReplyDeleteI worked at a preschool and was next to the 3 year old room (i was a toddler teacher.) One of my favorite boys had graduated to the 3yr old room. I could see the little bathroom from my room. Jake, who was my fav, went into the bathroom and had his pants down. Instead of going to the bathroom, he decided to blow bubbles in the toilet bowl, all with his tush for all to view :)
ReplyDeleteLOVE this idea!
ReplyDeleteOur daughter likes to name her poops based on size. At church Wed night, she proceeded to tell our Pastor about her, "Biiiiig Daddy poop and wee little Baby poop!" He was totally busting up!
Stephanie - pfeiff19@mtelco.net
This one is courtesy my nephew, who was 3 at the time of "the occurrence". My sister noticed he had gone "missing" for a few minutes and went looking in the usual spots her son, Keaton, typically went hiding. She heard him start yelling a split second later, "MOOOOOOOOM!"... and discovered he was shouting from behind her locked bathroom/toilet closet door. She could hear him repeatedly flushing and began to panic trying to unlock the door.
ReplyDeleteSeveral moments later, she got the door open to discover a flooded room...Keaton, stuck, and looking both pleased and uncomfortable had his foot wedged down into the toilet, thus trapping him, and had splashed his own dirty feces-filled water all out of the toilet bowl and over the floor.
I will email you a photo (internet appropriate) if I am lucky enough to win!
I'll never forget the day I felt like I had earned a badge on my "Mom" belt. My 15 month son was just fresh out of the bath and cruising along the wall naked while I was getting his diaper and jammies ready. All of the sudden the purple face and grunting began. The only thing I could do was run over and hold my hands out to catch the poo. I couldn't believe I didn't barf.
ReplyDeleteThis giveaway is awesome. Thanks!
while sitting on the couch nursing the baby today, i notice the 5year old daughter has been gone a while.
ReplyDeletemom: e, where are you?
e: in your bathroom having a heart attack.
mom: what?!
e: i'm having a heart attack, there is poop all over on my hands and I'm afraid it will get on my underwear.
thankfully the mess was not as bad as i expected!
Tis stomach flu season at our house, so my potty story centers around the joys of dealing with that! My hubby was sweet enough to stay home with my little guy on Friday because I had a work deadline. So, here is what my husband tweeted during his adventures...
ReplyDelete@montycharlton--"So I'm laying on my bed w/ my sick 3 year old. Out of nowhere he says 'oh dang, I pooed'. Great."
I am 43 years old and my mother still tells the story of how I was supposed to be taking a nap and all was quiet until she heard a strange sound coming from my room. The sound she had heard is me spitting (raspberry style). Why was I spitting you might ask? Well instead of taking my nap I had decided to paint her a mural, using the only thing I had available, Brown #2. When I had finally finished my masterpiece I decided to go to sleep and since I was a thumb sucker I slipped my thumb into my mouth while still covered my my "paint". My mom only noticed when she heard me spitting it out.
ReplyDeleteGood story? Maybe, but I think now that I have an adult child of my own my mom can stop telling it.
There is someone in my family that has earned the title of "Bionic Pooper." Because this person can clog any toilet at any time.
ReplyDeleteI need this! We only have one bathroom! I love Cherry Lane, I didn't know they had an online store!
ReplyDeleteMy oldest used to go in the corner when she was doing her business in her diaper and when we'd ask her what she was doing, she'd say, "Leave me alone! I'm resting!" So we still laugh any time anyone says they're resting.
I have 2 children and one is currently potty training. But the story that sticks out the most to me is one a month ago- when I accidentally flushed my wedding ring down the potty! I am pregnant so hysterics ensued! After 4 hours, a plumber, camera, and wet dry vacuum(my husbands idea)I got my ring back! My ring now stays out of the bathroom away from the potty! I look at my husband and my ring every day truly grateful and amazed!
ReplyDeleteHeh, we could use a product like this in the public restroom at my office. (Scary!)
ReplyDeleteHowever, I've been spraying air freshener into the toilet bowl water for years. Especially if I anticipate "the need". ;)
As for my story, it's not much, but it was cute for my family. One of our cats (Smokey) liked to play with water, so we would occasionally flush the toil...et for her -- because the movement of the water fascinated her (and gave her something to try to swat). One day, I walked into the bathroom and found her curled up around the open toilet seat. We took a picture of our "fur-lined toilet seat".
I went into a public restroom one time and had to go pee so bad! Everything went so fast and before I knew it, I did my business BEFORE realizing to take off my undies! Not my favorite moment in life.....
ReplyDeleteSo when I think number 2 this comes to mind, a year ago we were coming home from salt lake, we get stuck in traffic for what would be the longest traffic jam ever. So about 45 min in my daughter tells me she needs to go number 2. I say we are not near a exit so you will have so you will have to wait. Shw replyed calmly ok. Then about every five mintues on for the 2 1/2 hrs we were stuck she reminded me, but not with the sime ok, she was sobbing trying to hold her poo. I was stuck, and I wasn't going to even try to get off the freeway, to have to just fight my way back on. (mean mom I know) well by the time we got home and got her on the tolite she couldn't go it was so packed in there... So editing out the gross parts, 1 store bought enima, tears, wrestling match with my daughter, and quite a mess to clean up she finally pooped!!!!!! And I wasn't in the rolite either! Hahahahaha!
ReplyDeleteLOL!! You're kind of ASKING for TMI here, ya' know?
ReplyDeleteOK... I'm a night owl, so I am frequently up when everyone else sleeps... I go to the restroom without incidence... a bit later, my 13 yr old BOY gets up and goes... then back to bed...
Sometimes when I have a headache, I just use the night-light in the bathroom... Really, HOW much light do you need?
My next visit was a different story... NO, he didn't leave the seat up so I'd fall in... Mind you, when I entered, the smell was not too pleasant... could have used some poo-pouri... LOL! I sit... WTH??? My socks, bum, and leg are WET!! I jump up, turn on the light and gasp! There was PEE ALL OVER the floor, seat, and side of the tub!! And WHAT to my wondering eyes should appear?? Lumps and wads of paper in the throne backed up!! GAH!! WIDE awake NOW... I have to majorly CLEAN the bathroom and shower! I bring it up in the morning and he tries to argue that it WASN'T HIM! ??? REALLY???
Mind you, this BOY is as tall as my husband but huskier... and I never only use the night-light in the main bathroom anymore... *sigh*
OH... I forgot the TMI part... when he finally came clean that it was indeed him, he said it's because there's t oo much hjair that gets in the way!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!! ;p
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Word. I can't handle it. These stories are too funny.
ReplyDeleteRoad trip!
ReplyDeleteI run into the gas station as quickly as I can and choose one of two stalls. "Great, there's a floater" whatever - I'm going. I flush, and flush and flush and this thing still floats to the top.
I keep thinking "well I can't walk out of here when someone's waiting in line. IIIII don't want to be blamed for this un-flushable thing" I take wads of toilet paper to weigh it down, I use the toilet plunger to push it down during a flush - nothing, NOTHING!
I suck up my pride and decide i'm giving up, BUT as I go to un-lock the stall a FULL BUS LOAD OF KIDS barge into the bathroom. I freak and lock myself back in!
(remember there are only 2 stalls)
yes... hate to admit it... I waited it out while 13 kids used one stall.
Finally the coast was clear, and I booked it out of there so fast! 25 min had gone by because I was such a woos about someone else's stink.
*facepalm*
HAHAHA a potty story ! My 3 potty training stories are simple. Don't sweat it, it will happen when they are ready ! Who wants to force it and have to clean up poop on the carpet ! Not me :)
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaway !
Hugs
One thing my toddler says daily, that I know I'll never be happy to hear is "MOMMMMMMYYYY, WIPE ME!" Yet I know I have years of that ahead of me.
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