Appliances

What are you going to do when you retire? You planned it all out, right? “We are going to travel.” Well you will travel. You will go to weddings and funerals. At primary you may take a few nice trips but nice trips gobble up cash like a peacock gobbles corn. Also, if you travel by air, your trip is ruined by the airlines who pester you from pillar to post.

“Take off your shoes!”

“What do you mean you forgot your passport?”

“You aren’t going anywhere, Buddy, until we may check you out.”

“Bend over!”

So we old folks soon become confined to quarters.

Oh, we may go to the chili contest at the VFW. We may go to the cemetery or park on Veterans’ Day and solute the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance. We may go to a church social. And, of course, we may go to the Senior Center for baked beans and frankfurters. Most of the time we sit at home in front of the television and watch old movies and game shows. If you moved close to the grand-kids thinking they would drop by to see you now and then, think again. Old people are not what grand-kids have in mind. Your neighbors are too busy to think with regards to the old folks next door. You only see church folks on the weekend and they hardly ever drop by to see you at home.

You and your spouse (or that person you are living with) are on your own. You must do something to keep from going crazy. Here are galore things you may do:

Develop Your Spirituality

After all, it will soon be time to meet your Maker. You will have to bone up for the Question and Answer Period:

St. Peter: “Before you come through that gate, what did you do to make you think you were good sufficient to get in here? You can’t get in here unless you are perfect, you know.”

Well—

“Did you visit your brother in prison?”

Who?

“Jethro!”

Jethro! Is that why we didn’t get a Christmas card? What did he do? I didn’t recognise he was in the can.

“He didn’t do anything. He is innocent. You didn’t do one thing and you are an attorney.”

Well, I can’t do anything now. He in all likelihood doesn’t have the cash to compensate me anyway.

You had better have better answers than that. I suggest volunteering to empty bedpans at a nursing home. That ought to do it!

Strengthen Your Mind

My wife and I play a game called “Find the Purse.” We’ve been married for over 57 years for the duration of and before which my wife carried her purse everyplace she went. Now she has no need for the purse but she has the habit. I have a sign in giant letters above the washer saying, “Leave Your Purse in the Closet. You don’t need it!” However, she doesn’t read the sign, objects to the sign, and gets her purse out of the closet. She then quickly looses the purse. Now all we have to do is find it.

She is very clever in regards to putting it away in a heap of place we haven’t seen before. And she has the habit of wrapping things in cloth to make finding them harder. I ordinarily do more thinking than looking. I find the purse much more immediate that way. You may see that this is a outstanding mind builder. However she claims I’m losing my mind over loosing her Social Security and Insurance cards. We stopped looking for her glasses. She has a half-dozen pair around here somewhere. Great fun!

Build Your Body

I moved my body builder thing that lets me lift my body weight with my arms and legs and tread mill into the living room where I may look at them. I move them out in front of the television in the winter and then back in the spring. I am told that getting on those things may be good for your health. However, I’m more lucky to stumble and break my clavicle just attempting to get on or off the contraptions. If the weather is warm sufficient we walk over to our neighbor’s house and walking is good too. The main thing, so they say, is to stay active. Well it’s hard to stay active if you never are active.

And as for Saint Peter, not anyone is perfect!

Fly Old Glory!

Crazy Treadmill Japanese Game

This family game lets you take your clan into the wild without ever leaving your living room! Campers’ mission is to fill up a campground by completing 36 challenges. “Camping tips” (hints) support younger tenderfoots play. Huntar. Ages 8+

Popular Playthings Crazy Campers Brainteaser Puzzle, where setting up camp has never been so puzzling! To play, you firstborn locate the big tent piece on the campground base. Then plainly fill in the remaining 10 pieces. When each challenge is solved, the campground will be full with no empty spaces. There are 13 campsite challenges for the tenderfoot, that locate 2 pieces to aid you get started. For the seasoned camper, there are 23 campsite challenges that only locate the tent piece. If you get stuck, camping tips locating 2 further and added pieces are on the back of each challenge card. Still stumped? Don’t worry! The campsite solution for each campsite challenge is provided. So, what are you waiting for? Pitch your tent, begin the campfire and break out the s’mores!

Crazy Treadmill Japanese Game Picture

Crazy Treadmill Japanese Game Picture

Crazy Treadmill Japanese Game Pic

Crazy Treadmill Japanese Game Picture

Most helpful client reviews

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
Crazy Campers…FUN!
By Happy Shopper
This is a outstanding brainteaser puzzle. Actually, it’s assorted puzzles in one. I’ve had a blast with this game and the piece characters depicted in the game are a riot. I highly commend this for everyone!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Crazy for Crazy Campers!
By Michelle
I also purchased this game for my husband for Christmas. He has hardly even been competent to play it though because it is actually general with the whole family!!

The other reviewer said it was difficult for casual puzzlers–we likewise found it a little difficult and so when we get frustrated we just look at the hints. Each card has two “Camping Tips” that are hints so with the main piece and then one or two hints we are competent to do them. We are casual/new puzzlers and love it so do not be frighted off! The fact that it is challenging is a good thing because we will not get tired of it too fast—and as we get better we will have to be capable to do it without as a good deal of hints.

Highly commend this game!!

1 of 1 humans found the following review helpful.
Great fun!
By Andy
This puzzle is harder than other brainteasers. (If I want to play quickly and get solutions speedily I use Rush hour.) But I always use the hints and that makes it quicker; and that I still get stuck and just look at the solutions.
This is neat for little kids as well because the pieces are nicely made and they seem lasting (I had it around my 3 year old some times and none of the plastic elements ever broke off). It’s will have to be good for old farts too, so I’ll get one for my dad-in-law.

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