More awesome thrift store finds...

If you haven't heard me say it yet, I'll say it now: the thrift stores here are amazing. AMAZING. I am a proud card-carrying member of a couple of the thrift stores here, which means that I get 25% off on Thursdays. (Membership is free too). The 25% makes the deals even that much more amazing. My first really great find here was a child carrier. We had been looking at getting one for Lucy since she has outgrown all the baby ones, and sometimes they are just really great to have when you are out and about (hiking, fairs, farmer's markets, etc). The cheapest one I could find was $100. I found a barely used one in a thrift store for $4.04. Since then, I have found all kinds of good things: sippy cups not even taken out of their original package, clothes, a crockpot... My most recent finds are some toys for Lucy. I'd been hoping to find a little shopping cart for her, as she seems to be in that "put stuff in something and carry/push it around" stage. I finally found it last week at a great price. She kept gesturing toward it desperately in the check-out aisle until she finally burst into tears (she thought the check out lady was taking it away). We got home, and I gave it to her with a couple of cans of food and other sturdy non-perishables. I expected much pushing and laughing to ensue. Instead this is what happened.


She refuses to sit in one at the store, but of course, it's all she wanted to do with this toy one. Luckily, this only lasted a few hours and then she realized that it was more fun for her bear to ride in it. I'm hoping that this purchase is helping her to learn how to deal with frustration. Almost every time she's pushing it, she runs into some kind of obstacle and subsequently has a melt down. I'm trying to teach her how to say "Help, please!" We'll see how it goes...