What we got at the seconds sale in the church after the service.
This is the first time we are getting any seconds stuff for the kids. I guess yard sales and junk clearance are not popular here but anyway we found it had lots of takers though most of the folks coming to the St. Peter's & Paul's church are very well-off. The proceeds from the sale went to an old age home.
We got these for the kids since I find it is a waste of money getting them anything new - the interest span in any toy is limited to an hour at the most, and the toys suffer the worst forms of persecution at their hands.
Ash loved them but Mira was frightened of the scorpion and chameleon.
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There was an Onam celebration at church but we came off before the games and the feast. The speeches by a Syrian Chrisitian IAS couple, the chief guests at the function, were good. It was also the church's first birthday as an independent entity - it was a chapel until then - so we were treated to idli-vada-sambar-chutney after the mass, sponsored by a parishioner.
The kids hadnt come with us, so we took the opportunity to go ring-shopping for V, since he wanted an old ring of his exchanged for a new one. We trudged half a dozen shops but V didnt find the ideal ring - from just a plain gold ring when we started our odyssey, he had narrrowed his search to a nav-ratna (9 semi-precious gems) ring.
Didnt realise men could be such fastidious shoppers. Thought only women would take 4 hours to hunt for a sari or a piece of jewellery!
3 comments:
I could not see the chameleon it musthave been blending in:) I like Garage sales I find some amazing things and when my kids were younger it was a good place for toys too.
Itis on the right behind the scorpion, yellow and green. It was the smallest of the beanie toys.
men can sure be so.
I remember my bro-in-law sniffing his nose when my cousin wanted to shop for her and two kids. She finished it in half a day....clothers, jewellery, and all things desi for a year-long stock up.
But he took three hours and four shops for a ring!!
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