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Oct. 7th, 2008 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyDon't you hate it when you're trying to put the baby to sleep and just when you finally succeed and are mere minutes from putting her in her crib, the phone rings loudly in the kitchen and you can't get to it to answer it, but before your spouse can sprint into the room to retrieve it, the baby has woken up and is looking around in confusion and therefore spends the next twenty minutes trying to fall back asleep?
Yeah, me too. It was a semi-local number so I'm assuming wrong number but it could have been someone we know, I suppose. I lost my saved phone numbers during the washing machine incident so I couldn't say for sure.
E and I had a busy day, involving a morning trip to Walmart and an afternoon trip to the drug stores, and JoAnn's (though I didn't buy anything there.) Total profit of almost five dollars on the day, and merchandise purchased includes: three Glade Wisp flameless candles (the big moneymakers), five Glade plugins, one Glade candle, one Vitamin Water, two trial sized baby shampoos, two trial-sized Aquafresh toothpastes and one Scrubbing Bubbles Action Scrubber. I am still having so much fun with my professional shopping. Evelyn is getting big enough to kind of be fun to take places. She's my little shopping buddy. :) I don't know what the deal was today but three different people asked me how old she is. Anyway, people say things like, "I wouldn't know what to do with all that stuff! I don't use any of those products!" And to that, I just would like to say, "Okay, but would you also not know what to do with five extra dollars?" hehe. I jest. It really does require time and energy so I can understand why people don't do it even when they do know about it. It's great for me because I can be actively engaged in saving money while actually spending money and buying fun new things that I would otherwise have never tried.
Oh, one more sidenote on the subject of what I do with all of this stuff I'm bringing home. Last week, I bought five bottles of Softsoap body wash, along with a pile of other stuff. They worked out to approximately free. I think my order came to a slight profit again, actually. Honestly, we are running over on the body wash and shampoo because you often get sales on those items that make them free. (It isn't helping that we actually had a couple of bottles hanging around from before I started this!) However, one thing that I haven't seen on super-sale yet is liquid hand soap. So... as soon as I run out of the bottle we have, those five bottles of body wash are earmarked for the hand soap dispenser. I mean, it's all soap, right? I'm trying to come up with alternate uses for some of this stuff beyond just using it, storing it and giving it away. :) Though I'm not sure I can call "using it as soap" an alternate usage for... soap.
Last night, M was reading to Evelyn from an obnoxious alphabet book. (Several of her books are obnoxious, but that's another story.) He pointed at E, and said "E is for--" and before he could say "elephant", Evelyn said, "Ebbie!" (Evie) *blink* We did not teach her that. She is awesome, our little baby.
Yeah, me too. It was a semi-local number so I'm assuming wrong number but it could have been someone we know, I suppose. I lost my saved phone numbers during the washing machine incident so I couldn't say for sure.
E and I had a busy day, involving a morning trip to Walmart and an afternoon trip to the drug stores, and JoAnn's (though I didn't buy anything there.) Total profit of almost five dollars on the day, and merchandise purchased includes: three Glade Wisp flameless candles (the big moneymakers), five Glade plugins, one Glade candle, one Vitamin Water, two trial sized baby shampoos, two trial-sized Aquafresh toothpastes and one Scrubbing Bubbles Action Scrubber. I am still having so much fun with my professional shopping. Evelyn is getting big enough to kind of be fun to take places. She's my little shopping buddy. :) I don't know what the deal was today but three different people asked me how old she is. Anyway, people say things like, "I wouldn't know what to do with all that stuff! I don't use any of those products!" And to that, I just would like to say, "Okay, but would you also not know what to do with five extra dollars?" hehe. I jest. It really does require time and energy so I can understand why people don't do it even when they do know about it. It's great for me because I can be actively engaged in saving money while actually spending money and buying fun new things that I would otherwise have never tried.
Oh, one more sidenote on the subject of what I do with all of this stuff I'm bringing home. Last week, I bought five bottles of Softsoap body wash, along with a pile of other stuff. They worked out to approximately free. I think my order came to a slight profit again, actually. Honestly, we are running over on the body wash and shampoo because you often get sales on those items that make them free. (It isn't helping that we actually had a couple of bottles hanging around from before I started this!) However, one thing that I haven't seen on super-sale yet is liquid hand soap. So... as soon as I run out of the bottle we have, those five bottles of body wash are earmarked for the hand soap dispenser. I mean, it's all soap, right? I'm trying to come up with alternate uses for some of this stuff beyond just using it, storing it and giving it away. :) Though I'm not sure I can call "using it as soap" an alternate usage for... soap.
Last night, M was reading to Evelyn from an obnoxious alphabet book. (Several of her books are obnoxious, but that's another story.) He pointed at E, and said "E is for--" and before he could say "elephant", Evelyn said, "Ebbie!" (Evie) *blink* We did not teach her that. She is awesome, our little baby.
