A Decade of Shining Moments

Wednesday, April 22, 2009, by Sherra

Retail value of 5 shirts and 1 pair of sweatpants at JCPenney

$135.94

Price we paid because I kept telling Scary Baby the only rack she was allowed to choose from was the one that said “Final Clearance $3.97″

$25.25

Note on my bed with tags and receipts after PhilBillPaul and I got home from the FREE movie…

Priceless

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Disclaimer: Scanned note has been altered to use her blog code name. She does not sign her notes “Scary Baby” or “Scary” for short. I just loved that she signed it twice otherwise we wouldn’t have known who it was from.

I didn’t check her math until I was writing this, so for you math lovers out there who already know what I’m about to say…because when you see numbers, your mind is like a calculator and you added it up as you read it and know that…she’s off by $45 bucks. Which should be added to our total and brings our grand total savings to $155.19 if we had paid full retail!

Shining Moment #1

Teaching your kids how to find the sale racks, bargain shop and save money is worth the time investment. In today’s instant gratification world, it’s good to show them how to watch and wait for something to go on sale. And it doubles as a great real life, fun math review!

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Shining Moment #2

Scary Baby is now officially in the home stretch of her first decade here on earth.

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Here she is wearing one of her bargain shirts in honor of her birthday and Earth Day.

I can hardly believe that it was 10 years ago today that I brought that giant last baby home.

Happy Birthday monkey!

You have always shined and made our family brighter.

We all love you as big as the whole world.

Life Lesson (LL): Bargain shopping can be fun and does count as math review!

Share a Life Lesson (SALL): What are some ways you are saving money in these hard times?

P.S. Happy Birthday to my *oldest* friend Kerri! and Happy 18th Birthday to Rebecca

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6 Responses to “A Decade of Shining Moments”

Happy Birthday Scary Baby!!

Wonderful life lesson about money and its handling! Glad you got to see a movie too!

Since you called me out……. The receipt shows it would have been $139.94 and there would have been the tax of $8.40, so I get $123.09 saved! But hey, I’m just sitting here waiting for my checking account statement to arrive.

Happy Earth Day!

@Karen–It would be an even better life lesson if the adult mother could do math. Bottom line, we saved A LOT!!! ROFL! Thanks for doing the math for us and hope your checking account statement arrives soon!

Thanks for laughing!

i love scary baby

Happy Birthday Scary Baby! My husband and daughter both share birthdays today. My daughter turned 6 and she’s SO BIG now. She told me so. My husband’s great-aunt turned 96 today too! He says all the best people are born on this day!

My friends and I have always swapped our kids clothes however, we now get together more frequently with the clothes our kids have either outgrown or swear they don’t like anymore. They all get so excited when a new bag of clothes arrives. That’s when the fashion show begins.

We also have the same meals (for the most part) each week. It makes it easier on my husband to make dinner since I’m not home in time to do it. It also saves us money on groceries because the shopping list is the same and I can stock up on certain items when they are on sale.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Sounds like I am in very good company.

My favorite way to save money these days is to take advantage of all the dinner deals our local restaurants are featuring. Not only does it mean that I don’t have to cook, but it is truly cheaper (and much less frustrating) than ME trying to make it at home.

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