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Thrifting my way to knowledge
Posted on: March 21, 2010
A while ago I was raving about our reuse centre and all of the great crafting supplies we have gotten from there. We have gotten everything from sewing patterns to plaster to paper plates to envelopes for my home made cards to zippers to plastic egg cartons (which I use for mixing paint).
And today I am wanting to rave about our thrift store. Aside from some wonderful resource books I have also found science kits and glasses for my kids. I wanted some glass cups (since I hate plastic so much) for my boys to use now that they are older and have gotten over the butter fingers part of childhood. But I wanted glasses that I wouldn’t mind if they got broken accidentally. They had a piles of glasses at $0.49 a piece. So I bought a matching set of eight and now I can store some of the plastic cups. Also, the plastic cups don’t clean well in my dishwasher and having my boys using glass cups will mean I can clean their cups in the dishwasher. And that saves me time!
One of the science kits we bought was a plant growing kit. Everything was still in the original packaging. It came with “hot house” tubes and peat moss pellets and even plaster for doing demonstrations about how seeds can crack through hard mediums like concrete. There was more to it than just that and it was worth every penny of that $2.99 I spent on it.
You can see a seed in peat above and the picture on the side is the pinto that we started many weeks ago and the other is one of the “hot house” seed things we have growing.
It’s hard to see as it’s in the background but it’ll be the same kind of idea as the time I grew seeds in a ziploc bag.
The other set I picked up was a large chemistry set for five bucks. It has many, many different experiments to try. Everything from basic chemical reactions to testing pH to creating reactions using electricity etc.
I also found three boxes of prepared slides for a microscope. The slides contain bits of plants and bugs. I don’t have a microscope yet but I didn’t want to pass on those slides.
Busy bee.
Posted on: October 25, 2009
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Oh don’t get me wrong I am still sick as a all get out but I am one of those people who can’t stand not being productive. So after a relatively decent sleep last night I was ready to get back to doing something…anything.
So I started sewing. These four projects cost me a whole $4.
They were altered from patterns I already owned and made with fabric that was obtained at no cost. The corduroy came from the reuse centre (which charges a fee but the sheer volume of stuff I came home with made the price of this fabric virtually nothing). The Penguin material was given to me from L and the patches were bought months ago and were about $2 a piece. Enough jibber jabber though. Here are the pics:
Thrifting…uh oh
Posted on: April 2, 2009
OK. I am having too much fun now. And even though items at thrift stores are less expensive a big bag of stuff still adds up to more money than I have for spending right now.
As you have probably guessed the boys and I headed out today. The weather was nicer than the weathermen said it would be. How nice that is is that for a change?
Here is what today’s thrifting excursion got me:
There seems to be all the pieces in that Amazing Bodybook and the two prints up are pretty decent lenghts of fabric.
I also picked up an emergency blanket for the car, a couple necklaces, a sweater for Trey, a skirt and shirt for Anna as well as a baby swimming suit, a bag (that is missing its closure (not sure how to fix that)) and a little outfit for my Annabelle.
Adventures in Unschooling 