#thosesmithchildren

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The people person’s paper people🖤

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180.

Thats how many Halloween, chocolate covered pretzels I made for my husband and his colleagues.

There’s not even 12 of them in the whole department. 😂

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My Dirt Cheap adventures today lead to me buying 300 (yes, THREE HUNDRED) trick-or-great buckets and I spent a grand total of (wait for it)........... EIGHT DOLLARS!!!

I was originally going to grab buckets for 5 classrooms (myself, my sister, her friend) needing only like 100 buckets total, I originally grabbed like 120 for safe measure. Then I got to thinking....

Aiden’s school is small, they teach ONLY pre-k and kindergarten and have not even 120 students. This is my 3rd year with them and they try so hard to do fun things for the kids, but often turn outs aren’t great or they can’t do things at all because of not enough volunteer participation (they’ve even canceled events bc of it 😕) and they’ll be doing a big fall event during school on Halloween day for the kids. Trick-or-treat buckets would be PERFECT for them, its literally nothing but 4 and 5 year olds.😂🖤

So, here I am, with 299 trick-or-treat buckets (I overlooked some broken ones, but that’s why you always buy extra!) for my 5 year old’s entire school (and then some) and what sounded like really excited office staff.😂

I’d also like to do a shout out to the lady patiently waiting in line behind me, as we counted out my 1st trip of buckets. I forgot my wallet in the car and she paid for 140 of these buckets!! I can guarantee a whole horde of small children thank you!!🖤🖤🖤🖤

(They’re doing daily Halloween deals on dollar store Halloween items. Thursdays are 20/$1, which is how I got so many!)

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Did a trial run of baked donuts tonight with some from-scratch pumpkin spice donuts with a maple syrup-cinnamon glaze!

They came out a bit dense, but I’m lacking in small measuring instruments, so I had to eyeball anything below a tablespoon. That aside, they taste pretty good! Trying out a from-scratch chocolate recipe tomorrow and boxed cake mix recipe at some point after that. I cannot wait!

Sending these to the hair salon my sister works at. Fingers crossed that everyone else likes them, too! 🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Spending the Wednesday evening drinking Four Loko out of a Halloween glass while making sight word worksheets and watching Shameless.

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Even local, volunteer-based sports are expensive af

Almost, if not more than $200 for a single season of basketball.

Christ. No wonder jocks in school always came from the privileged families.

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Made Aiden’s bow tie for his first day of school!

It took 4 hours... I have no room for a sewing machine, so I hand stitched the whole thing!🤪 (That neck band is today’s Bane Of Lexiee’s Existence) I also had to remeasure, cut, and stitch the actual bow 3x and the bow hoop twice.

So, due to these facts, everyone gets this bow tie shoved in their face.