GTIPOOMKM #2

In the next installment of Gross Things I Pulled Out of My Kid's Mouth (you'll remember that the first was a giant wad of cat fur), we have:

someone's chewed off fingernail!!!

Oh Em Gee, GROSSSSSSS!

Adventures in FreeCycle

I love FreeCycle.

I haven't been as great at purging stuff lately but I hope to get back into it. But oh, I have made a couple of good scores!

A few weeks ago I managed to score one of those plastic swings that you hang from a tree. It's definitely not in "brand new" shape but it looks like the ropes and seat are perfectly fine and it could just use a little cleaning. Awesome, because I want Punk to have a swing this spring/summer.

Today I managed to nab one of those bike seats you put on the back of your bicycle and strap your kid into it. I'm pretty sure Punk is too small for it this year but I can hold onto it until next year or the fall or whenever she is large enough. Then I have an excuse to get on my bike again! I'll pick that up tomorrow.

A funny FreeCycle story:
A while back this woman posted that she had a bunch of summer clothes/shorts and stuff to give away and I thought they might fit Jen so I went and picked them up. Well, there WERE some shorts in there but there were also a lot of dresses and skorts and frilly shirts and other things that are definitely not Jen. So she picked out the stuff she wanted and then put the rest in a bag with some other clothes she wasn't wearing anymore, and I decided to FreeCycle it back.

The day after I posted it, a woman was interested and came to pick up the stuff. When she got home, she dropped me an e-mail that basically said, "How funny, most of the clothes were clothes I gave to you." After dying from embarrassment, I laughed for a long time. I e-mailed her back and apologized for the boomerang clothes. Whoopsie!