Memorial Day Sale Anyone??

Can you take a guess at what we purchased over the weekend?  It arrives TOMORROW!!!! 

After the movies this weekend, we drove to go get ice cream and within a 1 mile radius we saw about 4 different places having HUGE Mattress Sales!!  You know the type where they have people standing out by the traffic light holding huge signs pointing you in... 

We've only been complaining of back ACHE for, oh I don't know - the last year!!?:!??  and since we still have some of our tax return money we decided that there would never be a "perfect" time to mattress shop.  (meaning - never gonna be a time without the kids with us)

So we bit the bullet and just did it.  I feel like we came out with a good deal too! ;)

With our purchase of the King Size Set, we got a instant $250 rebate, also two FREE memory foam pillows, and FREE protector covers for the pillows, FREE mattress protector, and FREE 1000 count King sheet set - I've never had that high of a thread count of sheets before have you?  

We could have also taken home a FREE 32" flat screen TV - but instead, we told them we didn't want the TV and they took even more off of our price.  How's that for negotiations??? 

It was about this time last year we were shopping (with our tax money for a big flat screen for the den and cabinet when I negotiated a great deal and walked away with a $300 Best Buy gift card to use for purchasing our TV am I a hard sale or what... we were ready to walk away until they said - what if we give you a TV? --aka gift card)


So this time we rather have the price lowered than the TV - after all the one we have works fine. 

*knock*on*wood*

Now watch our old 27" dinosaur TV quit working next week...   I won't even notice b/c I'll be sleeping so sound in our new bed..... Zzzzzz...

***the mattress in the photos above is not the one we bought - but leave it to the twins to find the only one with a REMOTE CONTROL in the showroom of about 40 different sets!  :P

A new pool for the kids

We really didn't go shopping for a pool today... but were over in Pt. A and drove by Academy spots good store and saw these outside their entrance. The old purple plastic kiddy pool we use to have was cracked and I tossed it to the curbside about 2 weeks ago.

We also had a big blow up pool about 2 feet high by 8 foot long which was perfect... only last weekend Paul Thomas gathered up a bunch of rocks and shells when no one was looking and dumped into it and one of the rough edges punched a hole in the side... so no more big blow up pool....

Thought we could make it fit in the back - after all it's a small pool - one with a slide built in which I know they will love since Nora use to always beg me to inflate the old one by her swing set slide.... haha

but nope, putting it in the back was a no go. Instead the side door barely shut while I "straddled the motor" so to speak, on the passengers side with my seat pushed against the dash board. :P All the way home we heard, get your feet off PT, stop kicking it, are we home yet, I want to slide first....

yeah, they're gonna love it! ;)

Goodbye Old Dryer

Hum, they say bad things come in 3's... For January we... #1 had a tire blow out, #2 patio furniture stolen while away on vacation... and for #3 the Dryer is died last month.

Thankfully there was a sale going on at Sears and we were able to get another dryer close to the one we had only this new one is a little larger inside than my old one and also we opted to pay a little more for the gas hookup - which in the long run will save us money and also dry clothes in half the time! ;)

I'm loving the shine newness of it already!

I'm really thankful that we had the means to go out and get a replacement the same weekend... although we didn't have the extra cash on hand (uham, did you see that huge check I just recently wrote for the property taxes due in January??) I was however able to sign up for their 6 months 0% interest and purchase it on credit. I know it's not the Dave Ramsey thing to do - but paying it off will not be a problem for us.

David stayed home with the kids while I went to go shop... so I was the one to fill out the application...I don't even have a job! Don't ask me how that worked out but it did. :P

It is a blessing to have such great credit that I can do that in times like these. Many other people couldn't do the same. I'm so thankful I don't have to visit a laundry mat to do laundry! I can not imagine what it would be like now with 3 kids in tow.... I still have memories from 13 years ago when we were newlyweds and went - and they sometimes give me nightmares! LOL