Wow! Hooray for you, that is fantastic!

We recently bought a nice new cabinet for our LR/DR area, to store just about everything. That includes wine bottles, since now that ds is crawling we don't want them out on display anymore. I figured that instead of buying a customized wine rack for the inside of the cupboard, I could just get more shelves from the furniture store and have 5 shelves for storing wine bottles.

so I went back to the store we got the cabinet from and asked how much the shelves would be... 22 Euro each - that would be 66 Euro for my "custom wine rack". Not worth it! Next time I'm at the hardware store I'll have the guys working in the sawing-service go through the scraps and cut a few to fit. And I'll stain them to match by myself. Shouldn't cost me more than 10 Euro.

(and yesterday I also had a bit of a free splurge: a family at my school was moving away and had many things for sale and a few free items. I stopped by and picked up a bookshelf, a standing lamp and a very sweet little cabinet for the laundry room. ALL FREE!)

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~ mama abroad

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l was at Walmart on Sunday, looking at the shoes. I saw these really cute sandals that I could use for work or casual that were only $8. They had red, taupe, black and brown. Well, black and brown are my colors to have since I wear alot of those colors. I immediately was going to get both of those plus I really liked the red shoes. I have a skirt and top that have red in them and would look fabulous with them. I started thinking that I already have 3 pairs of black sandals, 2 pairs of brown sandals. I decided I would get the taupe and brown. Well, I carted them around the store with me and when I got up to the cash register, I told the lady that I did not want the brown ones and only got the taupe ones. I felt really good.

I have one already. Today, I was shopping for our summer pool supplies. The goggles my kids want were 'staring' me in the face. I even picked up three pair, but didn't buy any! Yay for me!

Today we were at the lib. To sign my dd up for reading challage. There was boxes of book that you could get for .25 I started going threw them a found alot I wanted. my dd came up to me and said mommy we just got books. I tell you out of the mouth of babes!

Today the Schwan man came and I didn't buy anything from him (which is rare!) OK I don't go crazy on Schwan foods, but I do spend about $60 a month (mostly on Pizza's, ice cream or his specials of the week). He comes every other Tuesday, and I wanted to get some more pizza's and things, but I resisted!

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One happy wife and mommy!!!

I was seriously tempted today with two things.

A Landsend swimsuit for dd and a sun-dress for me. We do not need these. I found my mind thinking about them, how cool it would feel, how good I would feel in it, what shoes I had to wear with it. DD already has one swimsuit which dries fast enough. She doesn't need two.

Then I thought I won't buy them and I'll celebrate not buying them by posting here.

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I went to DSW over the weekend and didn't buy all five pairs I picked up. I cut the stack down to two pair that were on sale that would get the most use. Only $40 for the two pair! I can't remember the last time I spent so little there!

I am so inspired by you guys!

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Blessings, Susan

We went to Kohls last night and they had a ton of winter clothing maternity clearance. So I did buy some things- 3 shirts 2 pairs of jeans and a dress (all for under $35!). I really, really wanted to buy some baby cloths too, but I didn't! There weren't any clearance items for winter left- just regular/sale priced items that weren't really that great of a deal...

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One happy wife and mommy!!!