Free Hangers! Free Cats!

OK--I'm a little up-in-the-air about calculating points this week, because we bought many "exceptions": some car parts, materials for building a birthday gift (more on this to come :-), all of hubby's required DPT textbooks and required *laptop*. We don't have a point designation for when we buy new items that are on the exception list! I think  I will just score them as bronzes.

So: 

Week 5 Points: 5 points (new car parts) - 5 points (we salvaged some needed hangers from a box full of old hangers while visiting my parents...is that resourceful?? Or just stealing???) = 0 points!!!

Week 6 points:  38! (7 textbooks (3 used (1 point each), 4 new), a computer, wood to build a desk, wood to build a gymnastics beam)

(we only took the "good" ones, or in this case, the plastic ones :-)

In other NNY news, as an alternative to buying a new pet, you can just borrow your neighbor's pet (or have him borrow you). 

Weeks 2, 3, 4...

When push comes to shove, I guess I'm not motivated to update a blog that only I read (maybe Jenny reads it? Jenny? Jenny??), but NNY is AWESOME. It streamlines the decision making process ("Should we buy that?" "No.")  It saves tons of time (walking through Target to get school supplies was my fastest-ever Target trip, because there was no point in looking at anything but school supplies). It even helps with keeping the 10th commandment--what's the point of wanting other people's cool stuff if I'm not going to buy it?

Here's points:

Week 2: 5 points

Week 3: 0!!!!!! Woohoo! (though it's easy not to buy anything at a family reunion in the boonies)

Week 4: 32. Yep. Not because we bought anything new! 32 items of school clothes at a great consignment store.  Kids clothes shopping is the whole reason that this couldn't be a nothing AT ALL new year. Stockpiling a years worth of clothes for 5 growing kids in order to not by anything is a little silly, and wouldn't have been in the true spirit of NNY. 

We're at the family cabin for Labor Day, but at a different point maybe I'll write a love letter to consignment stores (for Jenny to read. Jenny??)