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Another Post About My Craigslist Obsession

Man, it is absolutely beautiful outside.  Hard to have a bad day on a day like today.  I'm absolutely exhausted this morning, but I feel like I got a lot accomplished.  Besides being exhausted, I am in a great mood.  & despite it being a ponytail day, still in a good mood.  I'm ready to take on the day.

Haley is already in 18m clothing.  Yes, she is a thick girl, but she is also very long (go figure).  But she had officially gone through her stash of clothing we had for her and had just a small handful of 12m and 18m stuff that fit her.  I was going to go shopping and pick her up a few pieces but was quickly discouraged after facing some sticker shock.  To be honest, I haven't really bought her much clothes from store.  We were lucky enough to receive a large amount of handy-me-downs from my cousin that basically had us covered so far.  

So what did we do...Craigslist.  I know....reallll shocker.  

I was kinda hesitate to buy her a bunch of clothing from Craigslist, because what if you show up and the clothing is dumpy?   I would feel bad to waste that persons time and be like, no thanks, your stuff isn't good enough for me kid.    Despite this fear,  we decided to roll the dice anyway and take the gamble.  We found someone that had a HUGE lot of 18m, 24m, and 2T clothing that was in the right seasons of clothing for her estimated sizes.  

Long story short, we show up and find out that not only is the clothing cheap and in great shape (I mean literally, I can't find a single stain or sign of wear on ANY of it; in fact a lot of it still had tags), but this stuff was like.... name brand baby stuff.  Gap, London Fog, and other expensive sounding names that I would never pay for brand new.

She threw in all the hangers too.   Here is about half of the stuff we got.  It averaged out to be about 25 cents per piece.

It is just craazzyy.  I still can't believe how much money we saved!!  Ohh what would I do without Craigslist. 

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