Shopping for Toys

We decided to do our Christmas shopping ahead of time. Usually, my mom and I are headed out with the 4am crowd on Black Friday. I would have waited for Black Friday but when I looked at Target's ad on Sunday, it was tempting just to get that part of it done. I can always use an extra day to sleep in.

This year, Christmas is going to be a little interesting. Our budget is incredibly small to where, Kevin and I aren't going to be giving each other presents this year. "It's going to be a hard candy Christmas." 

However, if anything, Christmas must come for all children. We're pretty lucky to have these cute nieces to buy presents for. 

Katelyn and Aiden

They're growing up so fast.

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So with what little money we have, we did make it to Target making the best of things. Like I said, it was a really great sale.

We started out by finding a favorite game of Katelyn's and mine:

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Then we found this for less than I thought we would (always a bonus):

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We are pretty lucky that Katelyn is a girl. The sale was so good that Target's shelves were close to empty. They had this game and a Tinkerbell game. Since Katelyn loved The Princess and the Frog, it was an easy choice.

Then I saw this:

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So cute for Aiden but above our budget. I played with it for a little bit and the sink sang about washing your hands.  Kevin found it really neat that it has a learn Spanish mode. We went to pay for Katelyn's toys and I moped over to the checkout line thinking about the little kitchen.

I then started thinking about the last Sunday's ad (I was holding it in my hand, we used it as a reference) and started looking through it again. Right in front of my face was a coupon! I did the math and we were still a little bit short. I then started thinking about where I could find a few extra bucks and come back.

Suddenly it occurred to me that from cleaning out my room, I left the pig in my car (I know, all this time, you can tell I don't clean out my car very often. Sorry, dad).

The pig.

The pig was originally my Uncle Paul's and somehow my dad had it. I then took it from him and it has always had a special place in my room (even as a little girl, I loved vintage things). I must have been about five when I found out it was my Uncle Paul's. I then put it in a box and told my dad that we needed it mail it to him. My dad told me that he would probably just throw it away, so I kept it.

It officially came in handy because it's filled with coins! We went out to the parking lot and shook the pig and out came some lovely quarters. Good times.

With the coupon and coins in hand, we were able to buy the singing kitchen for Aiden after all.

On top of all of that, I recently found an unused gift card from Kohl's. I had also looked at their ad and they have a really good special right now and it goes towards charity.

Kohl's Special that we picked up:

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For five dollars each, I couldn't beat that. I couldn't imagine a better way to use that gift card. I will soon be reading these before tucking little girls into bed. Plus, they also have a friend to sleep with.

SO yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus!

We're glad that Target and Kohl's had things we could afford.

Christmas is coming to these special little girls! Please, if you see them don't ruin the surprise. I'm also making a lot of other presents for family which I'll do a mini post about later but it won't be given in full detail since a few of them follow this blog.

Happy Holiday Shopping!!!