miscellany monday meets october

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1a. i like to hit up the garage sales of the rich and (probably not) famous whenever i can find them.  we, meaning my mom, my sister and myself along with my kids (it's a brave thing to take a 1 and 2 year old garage sale-ing... i give myself a "the deals will make it worth it" pep talk the entire time), in a borrowed (from my in-laws) crown victoria.

1b. no matter how hill-billy we may have looked with a bicycle, table with two chairs, a stroller, a doll stroller, a cart full of books, a few toys all sprawled out from front to back of the vehicle, we made it home with all our priced-like-dirt loot. i spent $33 and probably saved five times that.  and even if i had only found this retro radio flyer (for $5), that was lovingly welcomed into hunter's bicycle hungry hands - he's been asking for a bike all summer - it would still be worth it.

if you look closely you'll see two sets of cute feet...

she hitched a ride.  she was exhausting... his face says it all.

a chair to the table i found.  it needs a paint job, but it's so farmhousey vintage that i can barely bring myself to changing it.  they glued their hiney's to these chairs for a whole day.

3. photoshop actions make life way easier.

4. for the first time ever, i bought the all-natural, bleach and phosphate free dishwasher detergent.  and for the first time ever, my dishes smell like chemicals.  this goes nowhere in the convincing my husband natural products are better arena.

5.  my kids have mostly hand-me-down toys and clothes.  i don't feel like they're lacking anything because of it.  while in that wealthiest neighborhood mentioned earlier, a mom was telling me how she felt so guilty for making her second daughter where all of her older sister's clothes.  it's funny how the western world thinks... there are millions of children without any clothes or brace yourself, even food... now that's something we should think about.  ::stepping off my high-horse now::

sage with her used bitty baby stroller that was $1.50.  

6. it's much harder to refuse comfort food in the fall, this said while eating ice cream.

7. this girl knows how to get all prettied up.

-carissa

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