This weekend I bought a trampoline. A big one with a net. £400. Looks big in the garden. BUT best blardy thing ever.
Take two small boys, bounce all day. Exhausted at bedtime. Sleep all night. Job done. Sofas spared.
Even better bit. No longer have to pay to go to a gym or drive anywhere to exercise or whinge about DH not being home early enough for me to exercise. Now that the clocks have gone forward and we've got longer evenings, I can go bounce and get fit once the boys are in bed.
Tired children. Fitter mummy (well will be soon). I cannot recommend getting a trampoline highly enough.
Winter will of course be a different issue but I'll cross that bridge then.