Tip #1 - Put locked gates around your living room and dining room
Tip #2 - Wrap your kids entirely in bubble wrap, including all fingers and toes
Tip #3 - Cover your furniture with customized plastic slipcovers like grandma used to do (warning: sit up slowly, due to the effect of plastic sticking to your skin)
Tip #4 - Confine your children to their bedroom, bathroom and kitchen only (using yellow police tape is helpful if you choose this route)
Tip #5 - Place motion alarms around the rooms that hold your finest pieces of furniture, so an ear piercing noise occurs when small boys, girls, dogs or cats enter
Tip #6 - Store your favorite furniture in an off-site facility and just use hand me down or thrift store furniture until the kids or pets move out
Tip #7 - Only buy kids furniture for your home, which is made more durable to withstand the punishment of childhood energy, dog jowls, or cat claws
Tip #8 - Each time a child or pet does anything but sit on your good furnishings, spray them with a water gun (warning: this could begin a water fight)
Tip #9 - Buy a well behaved, older guard dog (perhaps of the rottweiler or pit bull variety) to protect your rooms filled with the more expensive pieces
Tip #10 - If you really want to keep your designer furniture looking new, don't have kids or pets!
If kids have already destroyed your furniture, there are lots of online coupons you can find here to buy: discount furniture!
