30 Days of Me: Day 22 & 23

Sorry I have been slacking... busy, busy, busy... trying to get things ready for this weekend. I think tomorrow I will be caught up for a little bit. I'm also incredibly sore! Last Thursday hubs and I started going to the gym together and well, now its all starting to catch up with me... I'm sore all over from my head to my toes... yeah... seriously. I keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end. I need to lose a little weight, I went in to the doctor last Tuesday and my blood pressure is up... I keep telling her its just stress but she wants me to monitor it and lose a few pounds, if not its probably gonna be meds for me. Which does NOT make me happy... I know I'm gonna be 30 soon but damn! So I am working hard at getting back into shape and being a little more stress free :D

Anyway... lets see what did I miss...30 days of me... Day 22: A website and Day 23: A You Tube video.

A website I have been in love with lately is www.ThredUp.com I have found soooooo many awesome clothes for the kiddo. I have even gotten things with tags on it. For those of you that don't know Thred Up is a clothing swap for infants, toddlers, kids, and teens. I've sent off 4 boxes of the munchkins clothes and Ive gotten a total of 2 so far... I have 3 more boxes I can get before I have to start sending again (I'm saving up till spring) Still have baby clothes piled up and don't know what to do with them? Why no trade them in for some cool new to you clothes for your kiddo. These days I'm all about collaborative consumption.

Another awesome website I love is www.SwapTree.com which is where you can swap out cd's, dvd's, video games and books. This place ROCKS and is one of my faves! Ive been on these websites a little over 3 months now and I can assure you they are well worth a glance :)

And I owe you a you tube video...

This ones all about the great-ever-growing world of collaborative consumption. Whats mine is yours and whats yours is mine... its a good thing :)





And this is Orbital's Halcyon my favorite song to relax to and its from one of my favorite movies... Hackers! Enjoy and Hack the Planet :)

The Bad Reviewer

(Warning: Kind of a Rant)

Ive been doing ThredUp for a while now and today is the first day Ive gotten a "bad review" on a box I've sent, and I am pissed! Here's what the reviewer said : "Most of the items had stains on them and were pretty worn. Also one of the items was a 3t and in description said 4. However one item was a very pretty velvet red dress which I will be able to get use out of."

Here's my explanation... First of all this is a clothing swap website. Things that you are going to get are not going to be "brand new" looking they will be "gently used" items and that's what I expect. That's what I think EVERYONE should expect... Its just as if you were to go to a consignment shop, a thrift store or goodwill. I pack every box and think "can this person use this?" and "is this an item I would like to receive" and if I answer those 2 questions with a yes, then it gets packed in a box. I have NEVER and will never send a box that is packed with clothes that are stained! That really pissed me off because I make sure the majority of my daughters clothing is not stained. I use oxi-clean in EVERY wash and I have an abundancey of stain stick removers for that very purpose! She has some clothes that are strictly for play or getting messy but those clothes (after they no longer fit) meet their doom with the trash can.

I take pride in the way my daughter dresses and I like to think that her clothes are nice. I don't always have the money to buy Ralph Lauren or Tommy Hilfiger (like Mrs. Reviewer) in fact most of my daughters clothing comes from JC Penny, Target, Justice, Limited Too, Old Navy and Kohls. I think its insane to buy her top name brands like RL or TH at full price when she grows out of them so quickly, don't get me wrong when I come across a good bargain of course I will buy, but even then its just a few things verses a whole wardrobe... my point? Why buy $150 worth in those brands when Im only gonna get a shirt and maybe a skirt or pair of pants when I can take that same amount to Penny's or Justice and buy a bunch of clothes that look just as good. I dont honestly care what the label in the shirt says, I care if its neat and clean looking, I care if its something shes gonna want to wear. As for the 3t comment, it was a item that was labeled 3/4t . So to "Mrs. Reviewer" if your honestly looking for those brands, you need to shop elsewhere and not on a clothing swap website!

GRRRRRR!!!

And just for the record Ive sent off 4 other boxes and everyone has love the clothes I sent.
Ok I'm done now... :P

Just a Few

There is typically nothing going on as of lately. Hubs had his 3 week follow up with the doc for his surgery stuff about a week ago and all seems to be well, they wanted to do a few more tests while he was there but he just wasn’t up to it. Have no fear the doc will have his way when we go back for his 1 month visit. ;) As far we know operation baby is going very smoothly… and I cant lie… it has been fun ;) lol.

So seeing how baby has been on the brain, I cant help myself when I go into my fav. thrift stores and see the cutest little things… I reason with myself that its ok to buy it when its only .99 cents or $1.00… I try to refrain from buying much of anything, I don’t want to count my eggs before they hatch.

But… I did come across these little cuties when I was at the thrift store the other day.

I washed them and since there were only 3 I figured why waste the electricity and run the dryer when I have a nice little laundry line in back yard courtesy of my porch poles. ;) As I hung them up on the line I was reminded of my mother. I remember the times where I would often play in the back yard while she hung up the wash… yes there was quite a few years where we didn’t have a dryer. And since dad worked full time and most often had the only car we had trips to the laundry mat were not convenient. So with love I dedicate this photo to my Momma… for giving me a great childhood, and now that Im an adult and a mother I finally understand it all mom. Thanks.

Other than that Im just counting down the days mom and dad will be here to visit for their vacation. Tomorrow were headed to NOLA for the day, probably taking the kiddo to the Aquarium and hanging out around the French Quarter. Ill probably pick up some postcards as usual and Im gonna try to press a few pennies as well.

Speaking of postcards I got a few recently in the mail (I’ll post them at some point) 4 were from a trade I did with a girl from Virginia and then I got one Today from the Ukraine.

And speaking of mail my new addiction should be here soon (probably tomorrow) its my package of clothes! I have been doing some “Thred Up’ing” with www.thredup.com its an awesome website where you can pick out clothes that people want to trade and you can trade yours to get more boxes sent to you. I also have been looking into www.swaptree.com where you can trade books for movies, movies for cds and cds for books or any which 3 sequences you want. Im all for Collaborative Consumption if you couldn’t tell already. Whats mine is yours and whats yours is mine… its a good thing!