Retail Therapy: “I’m a little teapot…”

by | Family, Living Well

I ran away to the mall a couple days ago.  Everything was coming at me from every direction and I was in need of some retail therapy.  Problem is, I have neither time nor money at the moment.  Then I somehow silenced the nagging “you don’t have time for this…” long enough to find myself at a part of the mall populated by baby stores.

I’ve been trying very hard to avoid spending my money on baby stuff.  I know the time will come when I have no choice, but now is not the time.  We’re moving and we’re broke.  If I’m going to spend any money I need to spend it on things we really need, like a stroller or diapers or one of those blue bulb thingies you shove up the baby’s nose to get the snot out.

This is not the kind of thing I need to be spending my money on:

teapot-lamp

I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this before, but I collect teapots – but a $79 teapot lamp…  It took my breath away.  I stopped to take a picture of it in the store and I don’t do that.  I just sat there and looked at it for quite a while.  It’s so impractical. But I love it.

Finally I tore myself away and poked around a little longer until I found the one thing that there was no way I would be able to leave the store without.

teapot-toy

A stuffed teapot.  On sale.  $5.

I foresee a future full of tea parties.

Textbooks

by | Book Love

School starts tomorrow, so we’re in the final phases of getting ready for that. We’ve been stressing quite a bit about the books, as we had about $200 total between us, and all of our books totaled over $450 at the school – and that included used where they were available. We spent a lot of time agonizing over which books to buy and which books to try to get through the semester without… But really, we need the books.

We went home without buying any of the books, and I hit the web, researching all the used books and used textbooks sites. I managed to find everything on Amazon.com for less than $200 – including shipping charges. They probably wont get here till late next week, but for that kind of savings, I think we can wait a week.