Apparently there are a bunch of important football games on tv this weekend…Translation: The boys are hunkered down in front of the T.V. like a bunch of tortilla chip eating zombies watching every stinkin game to see who’s gonna make it to the world series…
Since The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I aren’t big fans of Doritos’s, the smell of little smokies or football… we decided to get out of Dodge… and head to the nearest mall.
Now… I don’t want you thinking I hang out at the mall… because I don’t… but it was either take The Girl and her peeps to the mall to shop for party dresses or stay home listening to the boys hoop & holler at the t.v. every 2 minutes.
The mall seemed the lesser of the two evils.
I’m happy to report…
The trip was a success…
It was exhausting… but they all found dresses…
I can’t believe they actually fell asleep on the ride home…
Who said nap time was for toddlers?
After we got home… I headed down to Mrs. Hillbillys to see if she had anything good to barter for… because we all know I’m a little heavy on dish soap and nuts this week. The Special K Cereal didn’t make the cut… it has high fructose corn syrup in it… who knew?
But look.e.here…. look at what was cooking on the stove…
Mussels in cream sauce…
Major Score!
She was interested in some of my coffee filters, Motrin pm and toothpaste…
And in exchange she wanted to trade some high quality Christmas reject items…
A bubble wand, some sort of electronic gizzomo that you plug in to keep your beverage cold… and some sort of magnet thing.
And lucky for me… Mrs. Hillbilly’s friend the Busty Brit was over… and had just gone to Costco… and was EXTREMELY interested in trading for some dish soap and toothpaste…
I started to ask her if she had anything good to trade and before I could finish my sentence she had ran out to her car and ran back in with 3 Meyer lemons, 3 sparkling waters and a sack of avocados… HOLY GUACAMOLE!!! I nearly fainted.
I told her she could have anything she wanted (Mrs. Hillbilly must have told her I have a weakness for avocados).
Then… in the excitement of it all… Mrs. Hillbilly ran back into her kitchen and grabbed a handful of clementines.
And her copy of people magazine…
(I told her I didn’t read those trashy stalkerazzi magazines… and said no deal on the magazine… but I was interested in the clementines.
I figured they were worth 2 bottles of dish soap.
Would you get a look at this kid…
She was so proud of her Mom for scoring a tube of pocket pals toothpaste she could barely contain her excitement.
All in all… I’d say it was a good afternoon of trading…
I know The Handsome Husband was sure surprised when I walked thru the door with a steaming hot bowl of mussels for dinner.
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Denise says
I know this is a way old post, but are these people just your neighbors? Did you just ask them if they wanted to trade anything? I coupon too (not as much lately) and it would be fabulous to barter some of that stuff.
Mavis says
Yes and Yes! 🙂
rockinrfarm says
You scored pretty good with the mussle soup. Its been 23 years sense I have had some real good fresh seafood. I moved to Texas 23 years ago from Mass. I used to go to the warf all the time and get all sorts of fresh seafood when it came off the boats.
In my county we started a face book page where we barter for things or trade for things its a lot of fun.
Example- a lady needed help getting some grow boxes together to start her garden in exchange to come and help you with yours.
We have people posting for fresh eggs in exchanged for canned veggies, fruits ect.
Good way to meat others and even learn a thing or 2.