Free is My Favorite Word

So, of course I don't have any pictures accompanying this post because it's pouring down rain outside right now. Go figure. But, I can always add some later.

I LOVE a good deal. If I can't make it myself, I better have a coupon or it better be on sale. That's just the in's and out's of it. UNLESS it is something that I place an high value on. Photography, cloth diapers, music equipment, those are things I will pay full price for and gladly. But $2 for a can of tuna fish - I think not.

All of that said to say that we now have a subdivision in our backyard. Backstory: when Auds was about a year and a half, I saw a playhouse and a slide outside of a thrift store. You know the large plastic playhouses that cost upwards of $300, right? One of those. How much did I end up paying for it? $10. And I got a sprinkler slide for another $10. $400 worth of outside play equipment for $20. Amen.

Fast forward two years and another kid.

We had to run a few errands in town yesterday and decided to drive through the oldest subdivision just to look around. The most beautiful houses are in there. It's so secluded, it doesn't even seem like it's in town. Huge lots with lots of trees and it's just gorgeous - especially to architecture lovers like my husband and myself. The land was originally owned by Henri Bendel. Like the store in New York.

Anyway, as we're driving along, I spy one of those same playhouses out by the side of the road. I made my husband pull over and ask if it was available. The owner, who was outside working in her garden, said that it was. Her kids had knocked it into the pool and it came apart and she didn't feel like putting it back together again. So, we further disassembled it, shoved it into the back of the van, and brought it home.

In our backyard we now have two of these big playhouses - one for the boy(s) and one for the girl(s), a car, and a slide next to our back patio. It's too cute. Auds and T will go in their separate houses and talk to each other through the windows.

Thank you, lady, for not wanting to put the house together again and allowing us to take it. I will post pictures of all of their fun in their subdivision when they can play outside. :)