notahappycamper
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Mama to Rascal the Pretty Pretty Princess and Honey The Big Black Blob
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Post by notahappycamper on May 6, 2012 12:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by dayeanu on May 6, 2012 12:57:07 GMT -5
You are doing GREAT!!!!
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Post by Sunshine on May 6, 2012 16:09:30 GMT -5
[this takes care of EVERYTHING in front of or piled on the washer and dryer!!! Whoa Nelly!!  You're going great! |
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Post by Ally on May 6, 2012 16:33:07 GMT -5
I just read through this thread and LOVE it!
I have plenty of monsters and bullies around here that need to be stood up to!
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Post by Ally on May 6, 2012 17:07:41 GMT -5
There is another monster I do battle with.
It is a very different type of beast than the other beasts mentioned on this thread. His name is the Hoarding Hooligan, and when he sees "bargains" at the store or online, he demands that I not miss this opportunity to feed his ravinous appitite. Feeding him leads to him overtaking my entire house with stuff I might need someday or someone might be able to use. I thought I had him under control, but yesterday my daughter told me that maybe we could find some jeans for her on ebay, since she gained some weight over the past year and none of her jeans fit anymore.
I bid on one pair and was outbid, so I bid on a "lot of 4", and thinking I'd be outbid, bid on another "lot of 4", AND a pair of shorts. Suddently I realize I bid on 9 pair of jeans.... this is just INSANE. It doesn't matter that these same jeans sold for $40-45 bucks a pair last year, and I am only paying a fraction of that. This has to stop! NOW!
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Post by Ally on May 6, 2012 17:19:08 GMT -5
Update... I just found out I "won" all 9 pair of jeans. Sigh...  I actually feel like I lost. I may have lost this battle... but will win the next! Where is that attack cat when I need him! The Hoarding Hooligan must be starved... so that he moves on and leaves me alone. Preparing for Battle!!!  |
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Post by dayeanu on May 6, 2012 17:20:08 GMT -5
There is another monster I do battle with. It is a very different type of beast than the other beasts mentioned on this thread. His name is the Hoarding Hooligan, and when he sees "bargains" at the store or online, he demands that I not miss this opportunity to feed his ravinous appitite. Feeding him leads to him overtaking my entire house with stuff I might need someday or someone might be able to use. I thought I had him under control, but yesterday my daughter told me that maybe we could find some jeans for her on ebay, since she gained some weight over the past year and none of her jeans fit anymore. I bid on one pair and was outbid, so I bid on a "lot of 4", and thinking I'd be outbid, bid on another "lot of 4". Suddently I realize I bid on 9 pair of jeans.... this is just INSANE. It doesn't matter that these same jeans sold for $40 bucks a pair last year, and I am only paying a fraction of that. This has to stop! NOW! Yep. The dangers of eBay. You are not alone. More than one loyalist here has been ambushed by the eBay troll hiding under the keyboard. I once found myself to have placed bids on a dozen porcelain black swans.  Fortunately, the Fates of war were with me, and I lost all bids but one - but it was a harrowingly close call. . . and still I did not learn the dangers of engaging the eBay troll alone! Be very careful in dealing with the monsters that lurk in your home. I am finding that rather than standing up to them in an all-out assault, I do better with little sneak attacks - just grabbing a bit here and there (guerilla warfare.) Good luck - and know that should force become necessary - Rambo Kitty has your back! |
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Post by dayeanu on May 6, 2012 17:26:02 GMT -5
GASP! Rambo Kitty must have been engaged on other fronts! Well, the up side to it is they are nice jeans. Probably you can sell the extras for a profit. (If they are big enough - which I doubt - but on the off chance they are - I'd buy a couple of pairs. My jeans are all at "barn-cleaning" stage. |
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Post by Di on May 6, 2012 17:29:41 GMT -5
Can RamboKitty please be posted at the doors of Thrift Stores to examine my purchases? I don't want to give them up and for now the Hooligan is under control, but I have to fight him. There ARE things that we do need that can be purchased at thrift stores for pennies on the dollar and I truly can't afford to purchase new. But he easily gets out of hand. I sometimes think that I should just avoid the temptation, but the reality is that I do need those stores. I just can't get "extras" because they are such good deals.
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Post by Sunshine on May 6, 2012 17:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by messymimi on May 6, 2012 17:43:44 GMT -5
Ally, may i suggest the one-in-two-out rule that Eagle uses? Tell your daughter that for every pair she keeps, she has to get rid of two pair of jeans or other items of clothing that don't fit any more.
Next time, go to the thrift or resale shop in town with her, instead. Let her pick the two or three pair she needs, and if you have to, stay in the car while she does! It helps.
messymimi
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Post by Di on May 6, 2012 17:50:18 GMT -5
The Good Deal Demon is a very hard critter to battle
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Post by TheCatsMother on May 6, 2012 17:54:29 GMT -5
Way to go Camper  is the Bully losing a bit of its Bluster after that onslaught, I do hope so!! |
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Post by Di on May 6, 2012 17:55:25 GMT -5
The Prolific Piler has been hard at work here P.I.L.E. is VERY Happy... GRRRRRRRR!
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Post by Ally on May 6, 2012 18:23:07 GMT -5
Thanks Everyone!
Mimi, DD's college has a clothing/item exchange room, and when she packed up at the end of the semester, she donated all of her clothing that didn't fit anymore. You are right, she wouldn't have bid on all of those clothes... Probably just a few. I should have left it up to her to take care of picking them out, bidding on them...
I am attempting to instill in her some of the values/lessons I am learning here, and she seems to be "getting it" more quickly than I am.
She does need a pair of sport sandals and instead of paying $50 to $100 for new ones, I am looking at some on ebay. I promise to only bid on one pair at a time. There is one pair that is closing soon, but I like some others better that will be closing tomorrow. I plan to wait until after work tomorrow to bid on the cless expensive of the two of them.
About the jeans, I will encourage her to donate any she doesn't love, to the school's clothing exchange, or to a thrift store.
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