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September 11th, 2006 at 11:53 pm

Hiddy Ho There Neighbor

A big Hiddy Ho There Neighbor to My Corporate Sponsors Proctor & Gamble because in today's mail came $37 worth of their coupons for such items as Swiffers, Febreeze, Cascade, Mr. Clean, Dawn, and etc.! Thank you. Thank You!!! This will get my couponing back up and running. Don't know who turned me on to it, but thanks!!

Here's a link to P&G:
http://www.homemadesimple.com/common/languagejump.jsp

Earlier today went to the clothes resale shop with the dudes. I bought them their pick of clothes for Christmas - to put away till then - 3 pairs of jeans each, 2 shirts apiece, and each a pair of dress shoes.

So for six jeans, four shirts and 2 pairs of shoes I paid 90.87 total or 7.57 per item average. Not bad.

They will be styling come the New Year and will have forgotten by Christmas what we bought! NICE to have that out of the way.

This was budgeted gift money we spent, so nothing to wank the budget out of alignment! YEAH!!

Only thing left to buy for them is to fill their stocking...which usually has candy, batteries, shaving cream, shaving lotion, music CD, paperback and cologne in it...most of which can be taken care of inexpensively w/clearance, coupons, sales, or BOGOs!

This was definitely a spending day...

Just home from the Walmart where Frugal Son added $3.00 to his $25.00 Employee of The Month gift card he got from work and was able to get himself a new pocket watch, a pair of jeans and some new black socks. He did okay! The socks were already budgeted for in his Clothes Escrow.

CashHappySon bought himself some new black socks as well (they need them for the job) and it was his turn to buy the dog-food and I had a $1.00 off coupon. He also had budgeted back for Clothes and Dog Food so all on an even keel here.

Of course this is the child (I mean young man) that saw 3400 gazillion other things that he now HAS TO HAVE Moooommmmmmmmm! Right kid. No problem but sorry Charlie...save up your money because it isn't in your budget today, but you can allow for it on your next paycheck if there's enough left over after you pay your bills.

I'm such a killjoy! Big Grin


(photo credit: F. Pancake)

All this black sock talk reminds me of that childhood song we used to sing "Black socks they never get dirty, the longer you wear them the blacker they get!" Does anyone know if there are any additional verses? Those are the only ones I ever learned.

I bought file folders and paper for the printer which had gone up in price .62 cents since my last purchase. Uhhhh, price check on aisle 11, I think somebody forgot to roll back these prices!! These two items were already in the Office Supply Escrow budget so everybody got out under budget! YEAH US!!

CashHappySon went by work to see if the boy was there who was going to buy his guitar amplifier. No go on that deal, but both of them got offered some extra hours so home we ran to get their uniforms and now the house is all quiet again. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!! Silence - how I love ya, how I love ya silence!!

2 Responses to “Hiddy Ho There Neighbor”

  1. Bookie Says:
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    Here are the lyrics to your Black Socks song. Google is a wonderful thing.

    http://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs2/s2_1.htm

  2. debtfreeme Says:
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    With dancing moves to be done with the socks! I loved this song in Girl Sc

    Black Socks
    (source: "The World's Best Funny Songs", Esther J. Nelson, 1988; also in "The Worm Song and Other Tasty Tunes, Janet Wilson, 1993, and in "Campfire Activities", Girl Guides of Canada, 1993.)

    Black socks, they never get dirty,
    The longer you wear them the stronger they get!
    Sometimes I think I should wash them
    But something keeps telling me
    No, no, not yet!
    (not yet, not yet...)

    Thanks very much to Arlene, who sent me this second verse to the song.

    Knee socks, they never stay up,
    The more that you wear them the downer they get.
    Sometimes I think about anklets,
    But something inside me says, "Oh no, not yet."
    (not yet, not yet...)

    Thanks very much to Diana J., who sent me this extra verse.

    White socks, they always get dirty
    The longer you wear them; the weaker they get
    Sometimes, I think I shouldn't wash them
    But something inside me says "Do it right now!"
    (right now, right now...)

    Thanks to Megan Burns, who sent me this extra verse.

    Girl Scouts, they never are quiet
    The longer you're near them, the louder they get
    Sometimes I think about muzzles
    But something inside me says, "don’t do it yet!"
    Here's yet another version, sent to me by Carrie Arrington:

    Black socks, they never get dirty,
    The longer you wear them the blacker they get!
    Sometimes, I think about laundry
    But something inside me says don't do it yet!
    Wow! I had no idea that this song had actions! Thanks very much to Shannon Mulvihill, who e-mailed them to me! (and strangely enough, Shannon had never heard of this song done in a round!)

    Black (stomp left foot) socks (stomp right foot),
    They never (left hand to left thigh) get dirty (right hand to right thigh)
    The longer (left hand to right thigh) you wear them (right hand to left thigh)
    The blacker (left hand to right shoulder) they get (right hand to left shoulder)...
    (second half of the verse; repeat actions)

    During the "Not yet, not yet", snap your fingers on both hands. As you repeat the song, sing it faster and faster.

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