Well, $21.40, but who’s counting? I needed a way to focus my energy today, and I did that by hitting some garage sales. I went way out of my way for the first one, which specifically listed “home school books” but found when I got there that the very Christian family had homeschooled starting in 6th grade, so nothing they had fit our family. Here’s what I did find today:
$7:
National Geographic Global Pursuit game - this has an unusual game mechanic: you must correctly place a pentagonal map piece to align at least one side with the existing map you’re all building on the table in order to answer a trivia question. After you’ve correctly placed a map piece from your hand, you answer a trivia question in the category the piece represents (ecology, politics, etc.).
Scrabble Sentence game - similar to Scrabble for Juniors, this has a dual-sided board: one side is printed for beginners to play a matching type game, and the other side is blank for a free-form game. I was a little surprised when JediBoy begged to buy it. The beginners’ side turns out to be at exactly his level - he can sight-read about half the words and puzzle out the rest, and we had a very gleeful game when we got home.
The third item is an alphabet puzzle board from Melissa & Doug. You slide the (self-contained, can’t-lose-em) pieces around the maze-like rows until each piece is with its matching picture (N is for Nuts, O is for Octopus, although JediBoy chose “Orca” to go there).
$2.50:
Two sleeveless t-shirts (size 5/6), two pairs of reversible soccer shorts (size 5/6), one pair of striped jean shorts (size 6) and a pair of new-with-tags dress shoes (size 12).
$4:
A pair of new snowpants (I can’t resist the pink) in size 2T, four Disney cookie cutters, a Cinderella toy from the quarter box at a sale where I was taking a particularly long time, a small cooler perfect for one independent five-year-old, and a rattle that JediBoy picked out for GuateGirl.
$3.90:
Books like crazy! 25 of them, now that I count. JediBoy was most pleased by the Frank Asch, Kevin Henkes, and Marc Brown books, as well as Uncle Lester’s Hat, Mouse Mess and Wombat Stew.
And, la piece de la resistance:
The tag read:
$4.00 Home made Harry Potter cape
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