We must've went to 12 places yesterday and about 8 today and we're still not through! Yesterday was clothes shopping, shoe and bookbag shopping for the kids. Today was toy shopping and grocery shopping.
I forgot to post that I found a (rented) house yesterday that we will be moving into in about a week. It already has a swingset, it only needs to have the outside painted and a gate put in. I'm looking for nice but inexpensive gate ideals because almost directly behind the house is the neighbor's house, so I want to separate us and to have a little privacy. But, the house looks really small from the outside and big inside. It'll be nice to be back into a house...my nieces and dd are TOO LOUD to be in an apartment, plus trying to bring playtoys etc. up and down the two flights of stairs isn't fun for either of us.
But, frugal today was stopping at 2 garage sales. The first one barely had anything and the one thing I wanted, a wicker couch, was already sold, but she did have some big shirts for free which the kids can sleep in as sleep shirts. The second one we fared better. I got 4 stackable clothes containers for $3, a basketball for $1, a big tub of crayons for $1.50, the kids got a few extra toys and books, and I also got one of those heavy duty kids wagons for $10.
We went back up to Walmart to get some extra things and went to the grocery store to refill the kitchen...these kids can eat! We still didn't get to go to the Dollar Store but we are going to the movies tonight and tomorrow there going swimming. I got myself a coffee maker, since I've been living without one for over a month and using a kettle-(and I really need it cause I've been going on just 4 hrs or less sleep a day), and I got a toaster today very cheaply and brand-new...now I just need furniture for the house because all of the furniture in this campus apartment belongs to the school except for a futon frame and a blow-up bed that my nieces have been sleeping on.
Well, off to sit still for a minute so my legs will stop aching and throbbing, and try to remember that tomorrow I can rest...I hope...of course I still have a book and paper to read/write.
Oh yeah...had to buy a book for class, a book I completely dislike but I had no choice. I did get away with not having to buy books this semester because the library had nearly all of them except this one and I wanted to buy it, read it for the 3 days we're assigned it and then return it but the only bookstore that had it was on campus and they are no longer accepting returns because they only do that at the beginning of each semester. So, I have a $14 book I hate for 3 days reading-
Oh well...