Frugal Friday

First of all, apparently, the baby blue blanket on our bed is a gold mine.

 Back story:  I've wanted a little play table that encourages James to stand and play for about 2 months now.  When James was 5-6 months old, we wanted a bouncy chair for him and saved up to buy him a brand new one.  80 bucks later, the kid wouldn't use it for the first month, played in it for about 2 weeks, and then went back to hating it.  (He never got the hang of actually bouncing in it). Lesson learned. 

I put a table just like this in my amazon shopping cart a while ago and have literally gone to check out 2-3 times.  Right before it's time to enter in your payment info, I've canceled it every time, feeling guilty that we don't really have extra money to be spending on toys.  About a month ago, I found a woman on Craigslist who would sell me one for 20 bucks.  I contacted her and told her we wanted it.  She responded back asking if that Saturday would work.  Grey's mom was supposed to come over that day so I told her no but that ANY OTHER day that next week would work.  She never emailed me back. 

Thus: Today's Frugal Friday addition!

 I SCREAMED (inside) for joy when I saw it...$5.50!

The best part was that I had a $4.25 credit for buying a shirt for Grey that ended up (ahem) being a woman's shirt that (obviously) didn't fit correctly. So!  Our total purchase was....$1.25!!  What a blessing!  With some soap, clorox wipes, and new batteries, it is good as new!  HE LOVES IT!

J: Hmm.  What exactly does this thing do?