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21 days to go - yay Ebay!!

April 22nd, 2005 at 02:08 am

Today was an okay day at school --- read --- the Music teacher was there!!! My new 2nd grade boy and my other second grade boy were really gettting on my last nerve today during Math. We were doing problem solving where they had to decide how to solve word problems -i.e. multiply, divide, add, subtract. We did the first two or three problems together, then my three girls took off after they got the idea. The two boys though -- they BOTH just kind of got stuck, and then REFUSED to even TRY. I really really tried to be patient. But finally I told them that if they wanted my help, that they had to at least ATTEMPT to solve the problem themself. My three girls were finished, and the two boys were still stuck on the SAME problem! It was time for the kids to go to Chimes. I told the boys they weren't going anywhere until their Math was done. Lo and behold, they all of a sudden decided that they were Unstuck, and ten minutes later, both of them were finished! ARGHHH!!!!

Before school this morning I decided to go ahead and list a number of items on Ebay. I listed five items, with four of them being Buy it Now. Well, one of the items was this six-book set of writing lesson books that cost me $160 plus shipping last summer (yes, I had thought LONG and HARD about that before buying them - they were worth it though). I listed them for a BIN price of $60 --- and someone bought it within about 20 minutes of my listing it!!!! Wowie!!! I have a bid on one of my other items too. Yay!

I had also bid on 5 different sets of Morningstar coupons, with a max price of $5. I got outbid on ALL of them! So I rebid up to $7 on two of them - and got outbid on one. So, rebid up to $8 on that one. I think the auction is over now, and hopefully I won those two auctions. The cpns are $1/one and good till December - so in other words, REALLY GOOD. Whoever had those coupons is making a killing!

I had TWO awesome awesome things happen when I got home from school today. First, in the mail I got the envelope of coupons I'd ordered from Ebay - just in time for Albie's big double dollar sale! Second, and even better, I had a message on my answering machine from Charity!!!!!!! She and I were bosom buddies my Junior year of high school, and kept in close contact up till about six years ago when I moved back to Texas. I'd tried to get in contact with her since then through her brother, and then again when I went to my 10-year reunion, but no luck. Well, this last weekend I decided to try classmates.com again - kind of on a whim. Her brother was still on there, so I decided to email him again about getting in contact with her. I guess he got ahold of her, and maybe she googled my phone number or something. Woo Hoo!!! I wonder if she knows anything about Alex, the other member of our Three Muskateers group?? Smile I just can't tell you how excited and happy this makes me!!! Maybe I can get her to come for my mom's wedding too, and then four of my favorite people in the whole wide world will all be in the same place at the same time!! That would be too awesome for words!!!!!! Maybe even get Alex there too -Wowsie!!!!

I really really wanted Pizza Hut tonight - and Soda -- but I resisted temptation. I'm holding out on all my spending for tomorrow's Albie's deal. Smile Smile

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

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