Garage Sale Heaven

I love buying stuff for my girls. It's just so much fun. I love seeing them in new clothes, and I love seeing them love on a new toy. This is bad.

I mean, it's good, but it's bad. First, I really don't (though I do!) want to overindulge them. They don't need everything they see as we browse the toy aisles at Target. Second, I most definitely don't have the kind of cash needed to buy everything they love (ha!). Third, we don't have room for STUFF!

But, oh, do I love a garage sale... where I can do some (almost) guilt-free shopping. Yes, I do still have to control myself. Today, I saw about 89 toy kitchens that I immediately wanted to bring home. Michael, if you're reading this-- don't worry; we do NOT have a new toy kitchen. And today, I did manage to show a great deal of self-control and scored big!

I actually had begun to make a list of things that would be really really great to find at garage sales. At the top of that list-- Duplos and clothes for Riley. I won't build up the suspense because I'm too excited myself, but at the first sale I stopped at, I walked away with-- honestly-- about $50 worth of Duplos for a whopping $4!! Plus, I got The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and three Curious George books. To top it off, I grabbed a $3 Leapfrog My First LeapPad. Then, I was off to look for clothes. Riley needs a little more added to her summer clothing, so I was mostly on the look-out for shorts. At the next sale, I added four pairs of shorts, a super-cute top, a pair of in-really-good-shape Stride Rite shoes and-- one can't have to much control-- a Little Mermaid beach ball. All this for around $6.

I came home very pleased. The Duplos are currently soaking (another awesome thing about finding very clean-able toys at a garage sale), I'm about to throw the clothes in the wash; then I'm going to throw myself on the couch, pull out my Kindle and congratulate myself on a ridiculously productive morning.