Growing up my mother used to always take me and my siblings to a nearby thrift store to purchase clothing. As a young child I remember my brother always being so mad when my mom said we were going shopping, because he knew exactly where we were headed. My sister was always a slight embarrassed, but for me, never. I never had a problem with bargain hunting. Till this day I will look and look for a good deal. Today was no exception. After lunch I put the girls in the car and went hunting.
As you know we have 3 kids. We are always needing shoes laces, but as with everything else I hate to buy them at full price, even if they are only $1.00 a piece. Our big catch today was 82 shoelaces for 25 cents! My husband thinks we could wrapped a circle around the earth with our 82 shoelaces. Yeah so I know we will not use all of them anytime soon, but when we need them, they will be there. Now when I see a pair of shoes at a yard sale for 50 cents, that are cute, but have no laces, I will have no fear, because I have shoe laces near!!!
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You can use some of them for craft projects and/or teaching the girls new skills! I remember when Son was little we got him a "toy" which consisted of very large plastic "buttons" as well as a few other things and string. He'd pretend he was sewing and work on his motor skills at the same time. For as rambunctious as he was, this kept him amazingly busy. It was also one of those things we included in the "church activity bag" to keep him quietly busy when he was in the service with us. Just a suggestion. :0)
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