all that work and...

$55 got me SO MUCH STUFF!!!!
so, this time of year, at least where i live, it's consignment-sale time!!!  every weekend a church or school or organization holds a HUGE consignment sale and each and every one is packed with crazy mothers (i being one of the craziest) and fathers and grandparents, and stuff goes fast!  cheep and fast!
the biggest one of these sales is tomorrow morning.  doors open at 8a.m.; the line starts forming outside the door around 6:30a.m.  stuff is gone by noon, when the half priced sale begins.  in my three years of consignment saling experience, i have learned that the good stuff goes during the preview sale.  the preview sale is reserved for the volunteers (who the sale could not run without) and the consignors (again, no sale without stuff!)
i have volunteered the last couple years to ensure getting in to the preview sale, but with my life being as hectic as its been, i opted for consigning this year!  and... it wasn't that bad.  i had to come up with at least 20 items (i could have easily quadrupled that) and price my items, enter them into a computer program, print labels and attach them to the items via safety pins.  it seemed a very daunting task.  but then i started.  it wasn't so bad.  it took some thought to price my stuff.  too high, and no one will buy; too low and i get nothing out of the deal... so, the happy middle was where i needed to be.  i think i succeeded!  had the baby not cried from 8-10 the night i planned to sit down and do all of the work, and had my printer not broken as i finally tried to print labels at 11p.m., it really wouldn't have been that bad at all.  i finished entering and labeling my 34 items by 1:00 the other morning and i dropped my pile off today!  granting me admission into one of the most coveted preview sales of the year!  
so, what did my $55 get me?!?  inquiring minds want to know!
for $55, i got: a double-jogging stroller, a board game, a puzzle, phonics books for the leap pad, a star wars activity book, some baby toys, a bag of dress-up fun, and clothing-wise for M: four polo shirts, a pair of mary-janes, a skirt, a pair of madras shorts, two beautiful dresses, two fun dresses, a pair of pajamas and pink seersucker's pants that will look amazing on her!  All of that was actually $54- i opted to donate $1 to charity to bring my total up to a whopping $55!  the stroller alone would have cost me hundreds of dollars! 
i'm on a complete shoppers high!
YAY!