magical kidney beans...

Off topic, but, a kidney bean Limoges box? Weird.

My mother-in-law has always had trouble getting back to sleep in the middle of the night. After having no luck with sleeping aids, prescription or otherwise, she tried taping a kidney bean to her wrist as sort of a last ditch effort. It works.

She found this information in a wellness newsletter that she subscribes to. The newsletter says to tape an uncooked kidney bean three finger widths down from your wrist joint on your right arm (my mother-in-law tapes it to her left arm).

I suspect a smooth pebble would work just the same, but I'm making sure to buy a bag of kidney beans on my next trip to the grocery store. I'll let you know how it works for me. If the dried kidney bean ends up doing the trick for this sleep deprived mother of two, I will be making cute little pouches stuffed with low-tack cloth tape and kidney beans for all my sleep deprived mommy friends.