It’s warming up a little here. It was eighty degrees this weekend (despite it being February), and there were a couple of yard sales in my area. I went to one on Friday and found some great clothes and an iPad Mini for $5! The screen is shattered, but I ordered a $12 screen protector from Mercari to protect my hands while using it. When I got it charged up, it was activation locked. I was so glad it was Friday and I was able to go back to the yard sale on Saturday and ask the lady to unlock it. She was very nice about it and even helped make sure I could log into it and it would have no further problems. She also had brought more clothes out and I was able to pick up some more pieces.
This was a great find and I am so lucky to have gotten it. I’ve been wanting to try out an iPad for cross-posting and Poshmark sharing for a while to see if it is easier/faster, but haven’t yet been willing to drop a ton of money on it. This way, I’ll be able to try it and see if I like it and if I do, I can pay to have the screen replaced. If not, it doesn’t hurt to have a spare device around when a laptop or phone goes down.
The clothes I got from this yard sale were really good also. She was charging only $1 a piece for them, and I was getting great brands, such as, LuLaRoe, Ann Taylor LOFT, and Lucky Brand. I’ve already sold three of the LuLaRoe pieces and pulled a profit on the entire haul, including the iPad! Many resellers on YouTube are saying that LuLaRoe is dying fast, and after some of the articles I’ve read about them I tend to agree, but these pieces were really good and $1 isn’t too much of a gamble.
I finished The Great Gatsby for my Modern American Literature class. The ending was not at all what I was expecting. I knew a little bit about the characters from watching the movie in highschool, but I missed the second day of that, so I didn’t know everything that happened. I was sad by the fact that Daisy ended up not being a very good character. I thought she was one of the good guys, but I realized at the end that she was very shallow and this was disappointing. I’m glad to have it read though and all of the assignments on it are finished. My Lit class hasn’t even officially started yet, so I’m ahead of the game.
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I had to take my cats to the vet this week. We are fixing the boys so that they will stop tripling the population. I decided that it would be easier to take them on different days rather than trying to transport them together. So on Monday, I loaded up Polka Dot into a pet carrier that I either got at a yard sale or a thrift store, I don’t remember now. He was relatively calm as I was putting him in the car. Mom bought this calming spray on Amazon that I had doused the carrier in prior to putting him in it. About halfway out of my driveway (It’s about a half mile long), Polka Dot managed to UNZIP the carrier and climb out. The drive to the vet was about thirty minutes long, and I really didn’t want the cat to wander around my car in that time, so I was able to put the cat back in the carrier and make sure that he couldn’t unzip it again. I was talking to him and trying to keep him calm. It was evident at this point that the calming spray was doing nothing for him.
About a third of the way to the vet, Polka Dot began ripping through the mesh on the side of the carrier. I was able to get him to stop this, but he quickly began doing it on the other side and broke free. I pulled over to the side of the road (I’m sure all the people behind me were very happy), and petted him to calm him down. I was going to go back home, afraid that he wouldn’t calm down and might run out of the car at the vet, but he was fine once he was out of the carrier and curled up in my passenger floor board (as far away from me as possible) (I told him I was sorry). Once I arrived at the vet, I went inside and asked for a carrier as my cat had Houdinied out of his and managed to get him inside. I was going to just carry him inside at this point, but there were large dogs barking all around the parking lot.
Monday afternoon, I went to Petco to look at new cat carriers as the thrifted one was rendered useless by Houdini (Polka Dot’s official new nickname). As I still had to bring our other male cat, Dirty Nose (Mom named this bunch of cats), into the vet the next morning. I found this one for $35. It was the smallest they had which is perfect since we don’t cart our cats around very often, and I don’t want to have to store a large carrier. Plus it was pink!
Tuesday morning, I put Dirty Nose in the new, hopefully Houdini proof, cat carrier. He was not happy, but this carrier was much sturdier and was able to withstand his abuse. I got him to the vet with little struggle. He did manage to destroy the table cloth I had placed under the cage in my passenger seat floor board by clawing it inside through the bars of the carrier. I had purchased the tablecloth this weekend, at the same yard sale with the iPad, for $1. I pick these up when I find them cheap enough for events such as this. I would much rather the cat destroy a $1 table cloth than the floorboard of my car.
The moral of this story is to maybe not trust mesh cat carriers or at least ones from thrift stores.
This week's victims:
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I’m going to be spending the rest of this week and this weekend dog-sitting for a friend. She lives in a larger city than me, so I’m excited to thrift and yard sale in her area. I would normally have to drive an hour to get to her area on weekends to yard sale, so it’s nice to be that close for a change.
Until next time.
Over and Out.
This was a great find and I am so lucky to have gotten it. I’ve been wanting to try out an iPad for cross-posting and Poshmark sharing for a while to see if it is easier/faster, but haven’t yet been willing to drop a ton of money on it. This way, I’ll be able to try it and see if I like it and if I do, I can pay to have the screen replaced. If not, it doesn’t hurt to have a spare device around when a laptop or phone goes down.
The clothes I got from this yard sale were really good also. She was charging only $1 a piece for them, and I was getting great brands, such as, LuLaRoe, Ann Taylor LOFT, and Lucky Brand. I’ve already sold three of the LuLaRoe pieces and pulled a profit on the entire haul, including the iPad! Many resellers on YouTube are saying that LuLaRoe is dying fast, and after some of the articles I’ve read about them I tend to agree, but these pieces were really good and $1 isn’t too much of a gamble.
~*~
I finished The Great Gatsby for my Modern American Literature class. The ending was not at all what I was expecting. I knew a little bit about the characters from watching the movie in highschool, but I missed the second day of that, so I didn’t know everything that happened. I was sad by the fact that Daisy ended up not being a very good character. I thought she was one of the good guys, but I realized at the end that she was very shallow and this was disappointing. I’m glad to have it read though and all of the assignments on it are finished. My Lit class hasn’t even officially started yet, so I’m ahead of the game.
~*~
I had to take my cats to the vet this week. We are fixing the boys so that they will stop tripling the population. I decided that it would be easier to take them on different days rather than trying to transport them together. So on Monday, I loaded up Polka Dot into a pet carrier that I either got at a yard sale or a thrift store, I don’t remember now. He was relatively calm as I was putting him in the car. Mom bought this calming spray on Amazon that I had doused the carrier in prior to putting him in it. About halfway out of my driveway (It’s about a half mile long), Polka Dot managed to UNZIP the carrier and climb out. The drive to the vet was about thirty minutes long, and I really didn’t want the cat to wander around my car in that time, so I was able to put the cat back in the carrier and make sure that he couldn’t unzip it again. I was talking to him and trying to keep him calm. It was evident at this point that the calming spray was doing nothing for him.
About a third of the way to the vet, Polka Dot began ripping through the mesh on the side of the carrier. I was able to get him to stop this, but he quickly began doing it on the other side and broke free. I pulled over to the side of the road (I’m sure all the people behind me were very happy), and petted him to calm him down. I was going to go back home, afraid that he wouldn’t calm down and might run out of the car at the vet, but he was fine once he was out of the carrier and curled up in my passenger floor board (as far away from me as possible) (I told him I was sorry). Once I arrived at the vet, I went inside and asked for a carrier as my cat had Houdinied out of his and managed to get him inside. I was going to just carry him inside at this point, but there were large dogs barking all around the parking lot.
Monday afternoon, I went to Petco to look at new cat carriers as the thrifted one was rendered useless by Houdini (Polka Dot’s official new nickname). As I still had to bring our other male cat, Dirty Nose (Mom named this bunch of cats), into the vet the next morning. I found this one for $35. It was the smallest they had which is perfect since we don’t cart our cats around very often, and I don’t want to have to store a large carrier. Plus it was pink!
Tuesday morning, I put Dirty Nose in the new, hopefully Houdini proof, cat carrier. He was not happy, but this carrier was much sturdier and was able to withstand his abuse. I got him to the vet with little struggle. He did manage to destroy the table cloth I had placed under the cage in my passenger seat floor board by clawing it inside through the bars of the carrier. I had purchased the tablecloth this weekend, at the same yard sale with the iPad, for $1. I pick these up when I find them cheap enough for events such as this. I would much rather the cat destroy a $1 table cloth than the floorboard of my car.
The moral of this story is to maybe not trust mesh cat carriers or at least ones from thrift stores.
This week's victims:
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| RIP $5 Thrifted Cat Carrier |
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| RIP $1 Yard Sale Table Cloth |
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I’m going to be spending the rest of this week and this weekend dog-sitting for a friend. She lives in a larger city than me, so I’m excited to thrift and yard sale in her area. I would normally have to drive an hour to get to her area on weekends to yard sale, so it’s nice to be that close for a change.
Until next time.
Over and Out.
