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Our Family Tried a Phone Basket at Dinner for Two Weeks
No phones at the table. The first three nights were excruciating. Then something shifted.
The Laughing Otter
The rules: all phones go in a wicker basket by the door from 6pm to 7pm. Night one, the Thompson family sat in silence so loud you could hear the pasta. Night four, someone told a story about a seagull stealing a chip and it ran for forty minutes. By week two, their teenage son asked if they could keep doing it — a sentence his parents have repeated to everyone they know. The basket is ugly, the rule is simple, and dinner is somehow the best part of the day again.
Could your household survive the phone basket? Be honest.
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