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Jun
23
McKenzie swept the sidewalk earlier today in hopes of earning some extra school clothes money. She does this often, she’ll get a wild hair and make this BIG list of different chores that she thinks is worth $5. She gets as far as the final chore on the list and is then bored and moves onto do something else.
After she did her sweeping, she heard some buzz around our neighborhood that there was a garage sale, on the next street over. There went her jump start on school clothes. She hit up Daddy for cash, and got $3.00. I tried to explain to her, not to buy anything that we don’t need that would end up just going back into a garage sale we would have later. I probably should have walked with her but I kind of wanted to see what she’d come up with.
She came back a little bit later with change that she was going to share with Bailey, by taking her for a return trip to the sale. So, Bailey comes running in and says she bought me something. She pulls out this white crocheted pot holder. Not something I think I’d use to grab ahold of a hot pan with, it’s really thin. But it’s pretty and someone obviously put some hard work into it. She tells me “I almost bought you a jammie dress”…. David thought that was funny! Oh my. Glad she decided against it! I’m not sure I could have made myself wear something like that, EVEN for her sweet little face. She also bought this rather large blanket… with cardinals and birdhouses on it.
I asked McKenzie what she’d bought… and she said “oh just some baskets”… and I kind of thought to myself, “sensible purchase” LOL. Then she goes and gets them and I couldn’t help but laugh a little. She was so proud of the deal she had gotten on them. The guy had them marked $2 each (no wonder why they were still there Sunday night of a 3 day garage sale!) and sold them to her $1 for both of them. She said “mommy, I got $3.00 off!” At least she was looking for a bargain! That’s my girl 
I was waiting for her to rattle off something about the percent of markdown that was LOL. It was cute, we got a good chuckle out of it.
Now what am I to do with this JUNK? The girls decided Great Grandma will like the pot holders (did I tell you, McKenzie got the matching one… they were in the FREE box she tells me), her favorite color is purple and Bailey says “they are her style” and Plain Grandma loves birdhouses, so she may get that blanket. Maybe Grandma Lisa needs a nice new basket. Mckenzie has plans for those though, she wants to put dirt and seeds in them. LOL. GIRLS! A deal is a deal only if it’s something you NEED! They’ve got some learning to do!
But I will say it was $3 of entertainment
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