Yesterday's Thrift Store Finds

I returned a couple of pairs of shoes to the thrift store yesterday, and here's what I got instead...

The skirt needs taken in, but I don't think it'll be too hard.  The little boys cap is going to be serving as a pattern, but hopefully I won't have to cut it apart to do so, since it's cute on it's own (and would be darling paired with the shoes!).

The most exciting part is the cash register, I think ($3.99).  It adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides... essentially it's a glorified calculator with a cash drawer.  I'm so excited to play store with the girls!

I can never see a toy cash register without remembering mine from when I was little.  It was my favorite toy.  One day I was sitting on top of the barrel that they put the newspapers into (for my brother's paper route), and the girl that I didn't like from across the street came over and was talking to me.  She wasn't even saying anything mean, but I couldn't stand her.  So in my rage of not standing her, I threw my cash register at her.  I don't think I hit her, but the toy busted all over the street.  It was devastating.

Similarly, I was in time-out in my room, and my brother came in to taunt me.  I threw my special Strawberry Shortcake lamp at him. (I can't find a picture of the lamp-- my sister had given it to me.  It was a ceramic strawberry, with holes where the seeds would be.  The light shone out of the holes.)

Can we say "Anger Management"?!