August 27, 2004

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  GOOD DEALs      Face it. Keeping a child in clothing is an expensive. And if you have a girl *or girls* they LOVE cool clothes. Whether they are into grunge style, girlie girl, or lives for , , or , one could easily go broke putting clothing on a child's back * and tush, legs and feet, .*. Its a blessing to be able to buy inexpensive clothes, but truth be told, nothing wears as nice as well made clothing. After multiple washings, and sometimes several children, well made clothing shows itself well worth the money that is involved in the initial investment. I have passed and clothing onto children after Brenna has outgrown them, and the clothes are on the 3rd or 4th child and still look almost brand new! Gotta love that!    In order to afford for my child to dress in the cute, trendy clothes that she likes, we hit the local thrift stores. I LOVE thrift stores! Let me amend that, I love GOOD thrift stores. We have a couple of good thrift stores local to us that we frequent. Today was a RED BANNER day for thrift store shopping.     Today's thrift store run just about finished my winter shopping for Brenna, save a few winter dresses, which I am bet my my mother-in-law will buy her a couple, which she does every year. Look at all the goodies I got today:    Orange Limited, Too hoodie and Aeropostale tshirt.          Thirteen shirts which included 3 Limited, Too, 2 Aeropostale, a Danskin leotard, a white dress shirt from Macy's, 2 GAP shirts, 3 Old Navy shirts, and 1 shirt that was of less well known brands.   2 Dresses from Target, 3 skorts *2 from Limited, Too, one from Old Navy*, and a pair of Old Navy shorts.                Eleven pair of pants, brands included are Lee, Levi's, Limited, Too, Old Navy, *there is a black Limited, Too shirt in here too*,             9 puzzles that were from 50c to $1.50 each.             8 books for Brenna and a phone *$2 for a brand new phone*.                This is not a thrift store item, but I wanted to show this. Brenna REALLY liked this jacket when we saw it at Good's in Quarryville in Lancaster County. I bought it for her and it was only $17.          So Brenna is set for winter! The puzzles and books are not clothes of course, but they were stuff we were looking for. I needed that phone...and of course books are always needed!    The grand total for all these items, plus 4 pair of pants for Michael in a Joe Boxer style: $104 *less the $17 jacket*. 32 pieces of clothing for Brenna in name brands!   Did I mention that I LOVE THRIFT STORES!!!                             Blessings...                                                   Kathie

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