Day Sixty-One

Actual Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010Are these shoes not the funniest thing ever? Couldn't resist.

On this day we visited one of my favorite stores ever, The Children's Orchard. If you haven't been there yet, get there! It's a children's resale shop. You can take in your "gently used" items and they will give you either cash or store credit for them. I always take store credit because I ALWAYS find something we need (or can't live without).

I love this store. The owners, Howard and Patty are super sweet. At this point in my trip I think I had been to the store at least twice already. The first time we bought a Pack N Play to keep at my Mom's house for when Parker takes naps there, a activity time sitting thing for Parker since he wasn't quite sitting up on his own yet, and a stroller since we could not fit ours in our car when we drove here. All that stuff added up to somewhere around $100.00 bucks which is amazing because it was all quality name brand stuff that looked like it had never even been used!

The prices are always reasonable, and it seems like there is always a sale, or at least one coming up. The fill the bag sale is my favorite, it only happens twice a year I think, but last time I got 27 items for $10.00! Now they have these reusable bags, if you buy one and use it on a Tuesday, you get 10% of your purchase. So that worked out good for me! You know me I love a deal.

So today I was on a mission to find some warm clothing for the kids because it kept getting colder and colder and they were freezing in the warm weather clothes I had brought for them. A few weeks before we had arrived in California it had been warm and sunny, go figure. Anyways, I got a ton of cute stuff. Including a pair of size 5 Roxy pants for $6.99! They look brand new! They have a lot of brand names and good quality stuff I just love it. I am sad though because I have been to a few children's resale shops here in Texas and none of them hold a candle to The Children's Orchard in Apple Valley. I have a balance of money waiting to be used at the Texas resale shop and that never happens when I'm at The Children's Orchard because of their great selection and prices. I keep trying to convince Howard and Patty to move here but so far their not taking the bait...