The Mills Fam - Thrifty shopping!

• 10.4.2007 - Thrifty shopping!

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I am learning to become a thrifty shopper. With having a single income household and a growing family, you kinda have to. Today we hit the local children's consignment store and found tons of goodies! Here are some of the things we found:

(1) magnadoodle (a favorite around here)

(1) My first leap pad

A set of play tools

Dishes/fruits/play food (3 bags worth)

1 zip up sweatshirt and leggings set for C3

4 pairs of comfy pants for the boys

1 Devotional book for circle time

All for $60! The magnandoodle and the leap pad retail together for $45 new.

Here are the children playing with the *free* toy kitchen from a neighbor across the street and all the kitchen stuff for it from the consignment store.

I try to go to Goodwill or Value Village atleast once every 1-2 months. I have found some awsome homeschool 'curriculm' there. We have really expanded our book collection from Goodwill. A lot of our games and puzzles come from there as well. My kids and I call it 'treasure hunting'.

• 10.5.2007 - good will

Posted by msack

I love goodwill! Can't beat .39 for picture books!

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• 10.5.2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

We've been super thrifty lately, also.
Garage sales, consignment, thrift stores; you name it!
It's so much fun.
My sister that homeschools also finds lots of homeschooling books that she uses at the thrift store.

Tracy
(robby and kate)

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• 10.6.2007 - Nice shopping!

Posted by mamabear2003

I totally agree! Living on one income means thrifty shopping. Nice work!

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Hi, we are the Mills Fam. We're a home schooling family of six soon to be seven. All our children have a "C" name, so I have CI, C2 and C3 and C4. We are excited about our homeschool journey and feel so blessed that we can educate and disciple our children at home. We live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.