Let me tell you a little story about this workbench/tool chest. Choobie got this for Christmas last year. It was his BIG present. I found this website that listed all the black friday sales weeks before the day after thanksgiving. I reasearched dozens of stores and found this one at Toys R Us to be the best price. Dan and I went to Toys R Us three days before the sale and planned out the route I would take when me and 5 million other shoppers raced into the store at 6 am that morning.I arrived to the Toys R Us line at 4am thinking I would be the first in line and would for sure get the tool set. Boy was I wrong. I was like the 150th person in line. Two hours later when they opened up the doors, there were no shopping carts left by the time I got through. I raced through the store like a crazy woman, throwing elbows and plowing people down without stopping to say sorry, grabbed the beast of a tool set and then waited in the checkout line for another 30 minutes to purchase said tool set for a whopping 30 bucks, all the while dreaming of the excitement on my little boys face when he saw the tool set and all it's glory on Christmas morning. Boy the things you'll do when you're living on a tight budget.
It is now seven months after that glorious Christmas morn and he still hasn't touched the dang thing. He prefers to dump all the tools out and sit in THE BASKET I got to hold the tools from the 99cent store! ANYWAY...the moral of the story is this: This year, I am going Christmas shopping at a reasonable hour at the 99cent store.
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I seriously don't know why, as parents, we ever buy our kids toys! I can totally relate to your story. In our living room right now there is a big basket full of all kinds of little toys, there are big dump trucks, BMWs (hand me down), trains galore (again, hand me downs), hotwheels galore, books, you get the picture. Well, you wanna know what my kids played with today? An empty diaper box, a laundry basket, and a little empty pill container that my Nana gave to Evelyn! Craziness! I feel like we should just get rid of all the toys and leave out the baskets.
There's no way I could ever go shopping on Black Friday (or the day after Christmas, etc.) because I'm too much of a weeny. I'd be afraid of all the people like you, elbowing their way through the store. Nope, I just couldn't do it. You're brave (and obviously not a weeny like me!)!
I LOVE all your posts lately. Man that would be one thing to get me out of bed that early in the morning- to see you on a mission to get that toy! I can just picture it! I agree with the excitement over toys, I think I get more into them than Nathan. I think I secretly want them for myself and I try to force them on Nathan and make him like them, even if he wants to play with an empty cereal box all day!!!
That is so funny. Finn's favorite toy right now is Aaron's bottle of Imodium pills. Seriously. He swipes all of his toys away to get to that bottle. And I say "Aaron's bottle" because, c'mon, we all know it's his.
LOL! That's so classic! Funny, I was thinking of getting that exact tool bench for Carson because he has all these tools...but nothing to do with them :)!
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