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TGIF! Have an awesome weekend everyone! I spent the morning visiting yard sales and toted home some very good finds. Since we are trying to green our birthdays and Christmas this year by doing second hand gifts I am off to a good start!
My finds this morning all for under $20:
20 children’s books, 5 NEW homeschool workbooks, a never used Chemistry set, a box of modeling clay, 3 unopened kites, two electronic ABCs toys, a Barbie on a Jet Ski, an unopened costume for Barbie dolls, and a rug for a girl’s bedroom. I am set for my son’s upcoming birthday now!
Okay links for today:
5 Good Reasons NOT to shop at Walmart - a great article. Although admittedly I do still shop at Wal-Mart on occasion. That is pretty much all we have in this town other than a Kohls.
A blog I am LOVING recently all about educating your toddlers called Tot School. This mom is amazing with all the activities she plans for her kids.
A new green blog has just gone live called 5 Minutes for Going Green. I am one of the writers there so be sure to check it out.
Over at Goddess of the Garden I wrote about Raw Food Weight Loss. If you want to find out how one gentleman lost nearly 200 pounds by going raw check that out.
One of my all time FAVE blogs, Crafting Daisies, has an awesome tutorial this morning for making your own story booklets.
Oh and did you see that The Environmental Working Group released their safe sunscreen report. I wrote about safe sunscreens awhile back and I picked 3 of the EWG’s top five!! Here they are again:
California Baby SPF 30 + Sunblock Stick - No Fragrance
Badger Face & Body Sunblock SPF 30
Lastly, a mama at Diaperswappers is selling some awesome cloth diapering and breastfeeding advocate patches. The cloth diapering one would be perfect to sew on diapers, clothing, canvas bags, ect. Very cool!
Have an awesome weekend!!!
Carrie said,
July 11, 2008 at 2:11 pm:
I am unsure where I stand on the WalMart issue. I know some of the things said about them, but I’m unsure how verifiable any of it is. And they seem to be one of the greenest big box stores out there right now… damned if you do, damned if you don’t?
melinda s said,
July 11, 2008 at 3:03 pm:
We love garage sales!!! That is the only way we go school shopping for clothes!!
Kristen's Raw said,
July 11, 2008 at 3:22 pm:
Great links
Have a great weekend!
Carisa said,
July 11, 2008 at 8:36 pm:
Hi!!! I found your blog in my feedburner and checked in and saw you linked to me, thanks! Thank you for your kind compliment about our Tot School!!
Carisa
Sommer said,
July 11, 2008 at 10:10 pm:
Thanks for directing me towards Tot School. As a preschool teacher and these two expensive degrees and tubs and tubs of teaching supplies I need some motivation to start doing educational/play activities at home. My son, probably won’t want to participate or listen but I just have to get more creative, darn it. This mom is inspiring but so are you.
Glad to know about the sunblock update. Perfect! Thanks Tiffany, have a great weekend.
Addicted To Bags said,
July 12, 2008 at 9:05 am:
I love garage sales. In the today’s world of recession , garage sales help to save some $$$
Summer said,
July 12, 2008 at 9:51 am:
Great set of links! And a great garage sale find. My luck has been down lately in finding good stuff, maybe some of your’s will rub off on me.
Rapunzel said,
July 12, 2008 at 11:36 am:
Great links, thank you!
WTG on that thrifty shopping, look forward to reading more about your greener gift-giving.
Steven said,
July 13, 2008 at 9:59 pm:
Wal-Mart sells “everything”, so those ma and pa businesses go out of business because they cannot compete with their prices, thus Wal-Mart becomes one of the only close shopping options for many people. Buy from your local merchants and keep the money in your community.
Momma said,
July 13, 2008 at 11:00 pm:
you did awesome with your garage sale buys!! it makes me want to get up early next weekend to see what I can find.
I love the walmart article. I am with Carrie though. I am not sure where I stand on whether to shop there or not. I would love to be able to shop at small local farms or stores, but the one income budget just sometimes does not allow that. In a way I am very thankful for walmart because there are times that we wouldn’t be able to eat if it weren’t for their cheap food, but on the other hand I would love to be able to support more local businesses. Any thoughts on get local stuff cheap?
Hannah said,
July 15, 2008 at 12:39 am:
I tried the link for the advocacy patches and it sent me to Creating Daisy’s. Where can I find these?
Thank you!!!
Simone said,
July 16, 2008 at 9:04 am:
Thanks for including us. Bobbi-lee of tomandjasmine.wordpress.com graciously contributed the storybook tutorial to our blog.