First of all, happy ALMOST Halloween!! This year it seems that everything is particularly Halloweeny...probably because I haven't had time or resources to celebrate it yet. Sort of like when you're NOT pregnant, everyone else in the world becomes pregnant. Anyway... I have these ADORABLE Halloween themed bag kits that I wanted to assemble and put candy in for the Young Women. So I go to Walgreens (hubbs and I are boycotting Wal-Mart...) and candy is FREAKING $7.99 per BAG!! What the HECK?? I'd need at least two bags to fill these things.
So I pretty much stormed out of there in anger. (After purchasing other over-priced items in my bitter anti-WalMart tirade.) I'm mostly mad that I've had these "bag kits" for over five years and finally got them out to use them, and now I can't! Grr! Just wait, I'll wait another 5 years and candy will be $14.99 per bag. It's a good thing I don't have kids yet - they'd be going as ghosts and baked potatoes in old sheets and tin foil.
Speaking of cheap stuff for the holidays, I forgot to include a sample card and custom illustration for you to see yesterday with the Custom Holiday Greeting Card post!!! Duhh! I made a bunch more, but of course they are all stuck on my external hard drive that doesn't want to work for me! (Doncha just love when electronics work for you?) The first one is the card I made for us last year. Then a sample of a family custom illustration.
So I pretty much stormed out of there in anger. (After purchasing other over-priced items in my bitter anti-WalMart tirade.) I'm mostly mad that I've had these "bag kits" for over five years and finally got them out to use them, and now I can't! Grr! Just wait, I'll wait another 5 years and candy will be $14.99 per bag. It's a good thing I don't have kids yet - they'd be going as ghosts and baked potatoes in old sheets and tin foil.
Speaking of cheap stuff for the holidays, I forgot to include a sample card and custom illustration for you to see yesterday with the Custom Holiday Greeting Card post!!! Duhh! I made a bunch more, but of course they are all stuck on my external hard drive that doesn't want to work for me! (Doncha just love when electronics work for you?) The first one is the card I made for us last year. Then a sample of a family custom illustration.
If you're print savvy, it's only $20 for a card design you can print yourself! And only $40 for an illustration like the one above...which is normally about $35 per person.
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6 really, really, ridiculously good looking comments:
Love your sample design! I hope to have some family pictures done soon so I can place an order! What I wouldn't give for an ounce of your creativity!
I know what you mean about the candy. I had to send some with 3 of my kids and I just picked the cheapest they had because it was so pricey... this is why I don't have a lot of chocolate in the house. My kids broke into my bag of chocolate chips last week because I never buy candybars!!
I know! Candy is ridiculously expensive. It's all because of the whole global-economy thing, but it's hard to get a chocolate fix when it costs 8 bucks for 30 Reese's cups.
I feel the same way! We were floored when we saw how much candy was, and to be honest, we're not handing any out this year. When we moved here last year (which was a year ago last week, lol) we bought one big bag of candy thinking that it'd be enough - we ran out in about 20 minutes, and still had kids going up and down the streets for an extra two hours or more! There'd be no way we could afford to to just give that much candy out this year. So I guess we're being the "grinches" of the street and not having our light on. *lol*
See this is precisely why we dont hand out candy... we take the kids out trick or treating instead and party at a friends... then by the time we get home the kids are all in bed anyway lol
Sounds like it was one of those days for us all.
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