But I have to say that being a stay-at-home mom and living on what this country calls a "poverty-level" income (which is indicative of how blessed we are in this country), has made me much more creative in my use of anything. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong generation. I've always been a pack-rat and my mom, who is much more like me than she sometimes thinks, used to tell me "The Great Depression is over!" I call it "vision." It sounds funny maybe, but a little vision goes a long way.
Our neighbor lives alone, is a little bit mentally handicapped, and really likes our kids. He brought over 5 pounds of candy yesterday...literally. 5 pounds of candy! So today I was cleaning out the "candy cupboard" and found a whole Ziploc bag of hard tootsie rolls...from the 5 pound bag our neighbor brought over 2 years ago that didn't get eaten. So, obviously, I thought I would just throw them out...but I wanted to make sure I didn't have a different use for them. But I did...
Sprinkled on it is a little bit of glitter from my branches in the vase, (which I got for $1 for the entire bunch two and a half weeks after Christmas) which I thought would be a deterrent from my kids trying to eat them, but Captain Chaos did try to take a bite out of one of them before he took his nap. My husband laughs at my crazy thinking, but this is far cuter than any "filler" you can buy in the store for a vase. It's also more creative and an original! AND he doesn't have to put the money up for it so he's happy! So, instead of letting that bag of candy in your cupboard tempt you to eat it...decorate with it! It has enough preservatives to last forever and it's way better for you if you put it in a vase instead of your body...so think outside the box! The possibilities are endless...old coffee beans, NERDS, hard gumdrops, Mike and Ikes (in many different color schemes), Hot Tamales, what fun! Happy decorating!
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