Making money

I am so thankful for the day I found Twice Around the Block Consignment Sale and the world of selling/consigning my kids outgrown stuff.  I had most of my stuff ready to go awhile ago, I just had one or two piles of things I've gathered last minute.  I did recruit a friend (Maureen) to consign her stuff, so I was helping her along the way.  And my friend Kristin puts in one box of stuff along with mine.

Maureen found herself in a time crunch so I offered to tag her stuff. Also her drop off was the day before mine.  Well as I was finishing up her boy stuff, the needle on my tagging gun broke.  Luckily it was only about 9:30 in the morning.  So I found a stopping spot and heading into Portland to get a replacement needle and a few extras.  After picking up Owen at school and putting Tommy down for a nap, I got back to work on her girl stuff.  As I was on the last items, the tagging gun broke again!  This time the trigger part. Bummer!!

The next day I asked Kelly the owner of the sale if I could borrow one of hers.  She saved me!!!!  I got all of the tagging done, loaded up the truck and made it to my drop off on time.  Boy it was a busy morning!!!

The truck is packed and ready to go.  I even had to put two big items in the backseat.

I worked most of the weekend!  It was exhausting but I felt a since of purpose.  Plus I love working the sale with Kelly and all of the other volunteers/moms!

I did get to shop first and spent about $110.  My big win (at least in my eyes) was keen sandals for the boys for $25 that's 2 pairs!!! Which is a steal, they go for about $30 each at the store.  I also got these little figure animals that Tommy loves.

Tommy cleaning his new animals.

One negative to working all weekend is the opportunity to shop.  So my total was probably $125 at the end of the weekend.
Oh wait...there are also vendors at the sale like Scentsy, Miche purses, and...Thirty-one gifts.  I fell in love with Thirty-one gifts.  It's these cute practical bags and storage items.  I got a small wristlit purse to go from my miche purse to the baby bag, a cute bag for snacks and water bottles, and the blanket for the park or baseball games.  And I ordered this wall organizer.  I can't wait for it all to come in!

I was happy to bring home half of what I took including ZERO toys (those are popular)!
Total items sold 166 and Total Sales $663.00!   Now I'm just waiting on my check!

The whole process had me thinking about tagging as a business.  With my organization skills I think it'd be a good stay-at-home job for me.  Josh see's it as a write off, I see it as helping moms.  We did some research and I think it may work.  So I'll be praying about it and we'll see what happens.

Baseball and Grandpa

First I have to gripe about how expensive sports are and he's only 6!  What is it going to be like in 3 or 4 more years?  Registration fees, equipment, snacks, a coach's gift, a trophy, and then over priced pizza at the local pizza joint. Josh and I have decided to start saving now.
On that not we asked Josh's dad for a "scholarship."  He so kindly offered to pitch in $50.  Plus he offered to meet us at the store in Beaverton then take us to lunch.  "Okay!"  You don't have to ask me twice!  Plus it was at Spaghetti factory, yum.
Owen had fun making music with the bats.  I found this very interesting that he tolerated the racket.  But I guess when it is his racket he takes it differently than when it is someone else making the racket.

Sorry I don't have a picture of Owen in his baseball gear yet.  Maybe on the first game day.

At lunch, I put on a weighted vest I have on loan for Tommy.  Hoping that it would make the restaurant experience better for Tommy and us.  Guess what, it did!  After we left Josh and I talked about how shocked we were with Tommy's calm behavior.  Now we really need to invest in one of these.  Well God bless Gary and Linda (Grandpa & Gma)!  The next day they called Josh and offered to buy Tommy a weighted compression vest.  They bought Owen baseball equipment and wanted to be fair.  Yea!

March in Review

I didn't do as many pictures of the day this month.  I don't have an excuse.

Highlights of March
Owen finished up playing basketball.
Owen had a singing performance at school.
Owen's parent/teacher conference: He's doing great!
We went camping at the coast during spring break and visited the cheese factory
Tommy enjoyed playing, discovering, and being cute!