Who made this mess single-handedly?

OH NO!

Not seen in the photo above...Candyland scattered all over, included meticulously placing the cards in the cart and bunk beds.

I confess…I spend money to save it!

I am a bargain shopper. Thus, I get adrenaline from buying something that is a super good deal. I went to buy light bulbs, thought they were $2.38 and I paid only $0.70. I left the store happy. Well, today I went to buy soda at Walmart, walked down the clearance isle and found a easy bake oven for $9, they are usually $24. A steal right…so while I didn’t need a easy bake oven and hadn’t planned to buy one in the near future I am now the proud owner of one. I spend money to save it (get it now?)

 

Brady was beyond pumped about the oven she could use though…

Attic Treasures

Karl and I are having fun lately with what I am going to refer to as attic treasures. Karl’s mother saved almost all of his childhood toys. Right before we moved to FL she passed them down to us. Because we were overwhelmed with moving we put them aside and didn’t give them much thought. Slowly we are digging through these Rubbermaid totes of goodies one by one. You may have seen pictures of the girls playing with his old train set or the 1980s fisher price little people. Those were the first of the boxes we got into last year and loved playing with them.

 

After the new year however, we have dug through quite a bit more! I started selling things from around the house on ebay. Things such as old purses I won’t use anymore. We also decided to sell some of Karl’s old toys. We sold all his Super Powers (ie batman and superman) items and all his He-Man items. We have made over $400 on these toys. Honestly I have to say I have had a blast selling them and watching the bidding raising slowly through the week and then last minute the price goes through the roof. It is really nice to have an outlet to sell things that have value but you no longer need.

 

However, we have also gotten into some buckets that we are really enjoying ourselves.

 

In October we are planning a trip to Disney. So I have started recording Mickey Mouse Clubhouse so the girls could learn the basic characters of Disney. Oh my goodness, I had no clue how much they would fall in love with that show and all the characters. So look at this GREAT GREAT toy we pulled out of the attic treasures.

He is a tape player that his eyes and mouth move as he reads the story book to you! SO MUCH FUN and yes, this was Karl’s toy when he was a kid! Well, you know Brady and her obsession with clothes, she had Karl dress Mickey up in all the included outifts.

 

Today we were rearranging the totes and consolidating. Well on the bottom of the stack Karl says is his play Mobil castle. I immediately get all excited. He says “Christy, I don’t want to sale that on ebay, I want to keep it!” I have been looking in the stores for a castle that was decently priced for Reese to put her little Disney Princess figurines into. The whole time it was sitting in our garage and it was FREE!

 

Karl set it up with the girls, and the Princesses now have a new home! For those of you who know the Princess and the Frog movie, Brady was excited to find a trumpet in the castle collection for Louis the alligator…

 

Who knows what treasure we will find in the next box we open!