We took the kids to a bunch of garage sales this morning since their grandmother had included $5 for each of them with the girl’s birthday card. They learned the art of budgeting and getting a deal. The boy ended up with two Pokemon books, some Pokemon cards, and a stuffed penguin. The girl got a trapper keeper type folder, a stuffed koala, and a stuffed dog. They both had about $2 left too. I was showing the boy how the Pokemon books originally cost $12 each and he got them for $1 a piece. What a steal! It was a nice, and cheap, way to spend a few hours and we saw areas of the neighboring towns we hadn’t seen before. We did spend too much by stopping at a local restaurant for lunch, though. We hadn’t tried it before, and while it wasn’t bad, I have no desire to go back there. Oh well, you live and learn. Now I’ve got to finish frosting the “birthday” cupcakes I baked so the girl can open her presents. We are playing a trick on her and wrapped up a huge can of Beef-a-roni since she had told Joe a few weeks ago that she’d be happy with just a can of it for her birthday. Look, you got your wish, LOL! Her real present is a scooter that she’s been asking for, which if I know her as well as I do, will end up in it’s own garage sale years from now in like new condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We took the kids to a bunch of garage sales this morning since their grandmother had included $5 for each of them with the girl’s birthday card. They learned the art of budgeting and getting a deal. The boy ended up with two Pokemon books, some Pokemon cards, and a stuffed penguin. The girl got a trapper keeper type folder, a stuffed koala, and a stuffed dog. They both had about $2 left too. I was showing the boy how the Pokemon books originally cost $12 each and he got them for $1 a piece. What a steal! It was a nice, and cheap, way to spend a few hours and we saw areas of the neighboring towns we hadn’t seen before. We did spend too much by stopping at a local restaurant for lunch, though. We hadn’t tried it before, and while it wasn’t bad, I have no desire Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-life","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}