I live three miles away from the best Goodwill in town, and they know me there. Which really comes in handy when your toddler seeks to destroy.
You know how people in movies and TV shows get really upset and just take their arm and rake it across a table full of items?
And everything just crashes. I bet that feels so good. I, of course, feel the urge to do this (or flip a table Teresa Giudice-style) at least once a month, but I couldn’t do that because then I’d have to pick all that stuff on the floor up.
My toddler, though, who is me, but tiny and privileged in myriads of ways, goes for the arm swipe (or the hammer-throw most often) a lot.
And we’re at that stage where I’m like…should I do something about this that’s spicier than a time-out?
Anyway, the arm swipe and hammer-throw tendencies make Goodwill shopping a little dicey at times, so we mostly avoid the glassware shelves.
But a few weeks ago, I had given her a cookie immediately upon sitting her in the cart and figured that bought me at least 30 min of browsing the glassware shelves.
TODDLER ARMS ARE SWIFT.
How did she even snag that snow globe with a fist full of cookie?!
She gets the coordination and dexterity from her mama (I’m deft at snatching a bargain from a shelf or a hanger, guys!).
Luckily, they know me at Goodwill, so all was forgiven quickly and I even got a discount on a plant pot.
Here are some of my thrift finds from the past few weeks:
A snow globe hates to see my toddler coming.
This is my hobby. 