I love that bullseye so much I’m teary

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I got something wonderful today.  Something I’ve been wanting and thinking about for over a year.  I went to tarjay, for diapers to get out of the house, and there at the end of an aisle, marked down to $4.98 each!!!!!! were three boxes of you-assemble-it CUBBIES!!  My heart started beating really fast as I read over the measurements on the box.  16x16x16.  Would that be big enough, I wondered?  I opened up an already opened box and slid out one of the pieces and thought hard about the size of our backpacks and decided that YES BY GOD I FINALLY AM GOING TO HAVE CUBBIES AND FOR LESS THAN TWENY BUCKS!

You just don’t know how much I have thought about this.  I finally decided that I would go to home despot and get lumber and make them, but as D told me, I knew it would be expensive.  Several times, I have fallen asleep at night thinking about cubbies.  It was awful.  Now the problem is that I bought the only three they had, and didn’t have time to go to the other store for more (oh tomorrow, I will, I will go) and one of the three I bought has no hardware.  So I need to exchange one and buy as many more as I can find.  That moment, of seeing the cubbies there, in all their perfect cheapness, it was right up there with the other revelation I had this week: 

Next spring, if Willow is potty savvy, I can put both the girls in the preschool program that Nate and Sophie did at a local high school child development program.  It meets twice a week for about ten weeks, and only costs something like thirty bucks.  For three hours each time.  Oh wow.  If it works out, I can grocery shop, take care of van issues, sew, clean the house, go to costco.  And Tarjay, mustn’t ever forget Tarjay!

6 thoughts on “I love that bullseye so much I’m teary

  1. Daria

    Tarjey is the best! If we had one near us I would be blowing all my husbands money on cheap things. Hmmm maybe a trip to the Tarjey in MA is in order, three hours of driving for stuff, good stuff.
    BTW the little hairdresser looks adorable with the new haircut.

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  2. Dixie

    Now that sounds like a stellar day all around! I think I need to find cubbies on my own for my kitchen hallway. I have this goofy sort of hallway that leads to my new kitchen and it may need a little cubby action.

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  3. mamadaisy

    Oh how I would love to once again skip through the aisles at Target! I miss it so. I’m almost ready to dispose of my last shred of dignity and get a beepy cart so I can go shopping again.

    Now if only we had a Trader Joe’s in town, my consumer life would be complete.

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  4. David Mehrtens

    Why did I search Tarjey in google? I have no idea, school is obviously getting more boring than I ever imagined.

    Ahh yes another satisfied customer at Tarjey!
    (I’m a checkout ‘chick’ at Target hehe)

    Dave.

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