I’ve never thought of myself as a messy eater, a person prone to staining her clothes or a clutzy girl who breaks things easily.  I have noticed though in the last few years my wardrobe has taken some heavy hits.  I currently do not own one T shirt that isn’t stained.  Since my wardrobe consists of only T shirts (and scrubs when I’m working as a nurse) this is not good.

I have resorted to buying cheap T shirts and if I get more than a couple of weeks wear out of them I’m doing well.

So what happened you ask. What made this formerly someone neat and non-stained person a messy looking looking frump?  While children of course.  I got through the baby years pretty well, since breast milk doesn’t stain and my kids were not spitty and had few diaper blow outs.  Now that they are 5, 8, 10 and 10.5 though the culprit tends to be LIPGLOSS.   Yes, innocent lip gloss that my girls have by the galloons.  They love to run up to me and hug me with sparkly, shiney lips….then the greasy mixtures of pinks and browns get on my shirts and I have a hard time getting the stains out.  If any of you know of a way to save my shirts I would appreciate the help.

Then there is the sunglasses issue. Never one for fancy shades, I usually would have at least one pair that looked decent.  This year I have been through four pairs of sunglasses. Yes FOUR!  I do admit that they were all from the Dollar Store, but I got so tired of throwing away money on glasses that the $ store just had to do.

The kids like to find my glasses, wear my glasses, drop my glasses, step on my glasses, use my glasses as a boogy board and I’m pretty sure that one time they were used in a breaking and entering… I cannot prove that though.

This week I bought new sunglasses. I had to as my old ones barely made it through Girl Scout camp.  The frames were broken in two pieces and the eye pieces would fall out randomly.  I must have looked like a “be prepared” Girl Scout to the other moms!  LOL.  Oh well.

Here are my new shades….the ones that FireMom made me buy for our upcoming BlogHer10 trip to NYC.  We had to get the biggest black glasses we could find.  Sadly the Dollar Store did not have any and I had to fork over $10 for these babies: 

I will not wear them until I get to NY and I will keep them under lock and key from my girls until that day comes. Then I will wear them. They will break them and together my family alone will keep the cheap sunglass factories in business. It is the least we can do for a lagging economy!

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