recent deals

I'm a bit of a closet bargain shopper (aka cheap). I get a bit of a high finding things for good deals.

Leo is going to be home with me full time next week and I feel like I need to stock up on a few things but I don't want to pay a million to do it!

One thing I wanted to get him is a train table, but I know they are pretty expensive. I saw Lindsay's post about making one which was something I was considering, then I found saw a train table for sale on a Facebook mom-to-mom group I belong to and did a double take... it was $25!

I thought for sure it would be sold because I saw the post a few days after it was up, but it was still available.

Score! Or should I say: All aboard!

My friend C was at Chapters the other day and sent me a text: "Um do you know how much the train tables are here?" I said "Ya a lot!!!" thinking $150. Well turns out they're $800 or something crazy. Is that even possible? And that's without the trains??? Anyway I got a deal. I just need to get some tracks and trains and we'll be set!

Speaking of trains, I was getting my oil changed today and across the street is a Goodwill. I decided to check it out and saw a few cute books and a Thomas train for Leo. Not something that will go on the tracks on the table, but a train nonetheless. He seemed to like it. I got the books and the train for $7.

Now if I could just find a dresser for the baby's room. I've been scouring kijiji and have lost out on two dressers. People act fast when they see something good let me tell ya!

100 things

I think much of the blogger land is doing this and I'm going to jump on the bandwagon too: I'm going to get rid of (at least) 100 things. Is that the challenge? Now that I think about it, it might be to only keep 100 things. I dunno. I'll start with the former.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I'm not a big fan of clutter. I have a lot of it in my house and I hate it. I just stare at it and think about all the ways I can clean up the mess and organize the chaos. Well I'm taking 2011 to make a massive Goodwill run to get rid of anything I don't use. I have a box full of stuff and a pile of clothes that I've started with. Stay tuned for pics of the crap!!! (You've already seen a lot of the clutter in this post -- we'll get that all cleaned up!)