Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The $300 Question - Answered

So, yes, I did suddnely come into a vast fortune of $300. And because it came out of the blue and wasn't part of my budget, I wanted to make sure to blow it on something fun, something I'd never usually spend money on. Something I'd get major guilt for if I ever spent $300 of my monthly stipend on it. So here's what I did...


1) I bought a new guitar for our Rock Band. I discovered a guitar online that will work with both the Wii Rock Band and Wii Guitar Hero. No, I don't actually HAVE Guitar Hero. I am going to have to wait for another windfall for that. I'm planning ahead. So this guitar will be the bass guitar to complete my band (The Mollies and Peters) when I play Rock Band, and, should I ever actually get Guitar Hero, I won't have to buy a new guitar.

2) I bought more soap making supplies. I was clean out of soap base, I was NOT satisfied with my Robert's crafts soap dyes, which bleed like a....well, I'll leave out the gross analogies and just say that they bleed a lot. And I wanted to beef up my selection of both molds and scents. So I got.

1) a leaf mold with 5 small and various leaf designs
2) a mold made of oval shaped "stones" with chinese symbols
3) a mold with little animal heads-- monkey, pig, etc.
4) pumkin pie scent (which actually smells more like hot buttered rum or something)
5) Goergoe Peach scent
6) Honey Bear scent, which unfortunately smells a lot more like baby powder than honey or bears
7) Grapefruit scent, since the one I had dumped all over my bag.
8) Pink Sugar scent. Mmmmm....
9) Chamomile scent, which I am NOT pleased with. Unless it changes drastically when it is in soap, it doesn't smell anything like chamomile.
10) 8 new liquid soap dyes
11) 3 blocks of shea butter soap base and 2 blocks of goats milk, plus a tub of clear glycerin soap base





Blowing money sure feels good. Soap making party, anyone?

7 comments:

Kay said...

Wow. Lucky! If that happened to me... I'd pay bills I'm having trouble with right now and get Ted a birthday present. He turned 5 yesterday. Can you believe it? Seems like yesterday E had him.

I love your soaps. How do you make them?

Hildie said...

How about using that money for, oh I don't know, CAR REPAIRS?

Christie said...

I'm totally up for another soap making party! I even have some of my own limited supplies to contribute!

Anonymous said...

Soap making? Boy, you sure know how to party!

tiburon said...

I am ALLL over a soap making party. You tell me when and where

Judi said...

I would love to learn to make soap!
Can I come?!

Notme said...

I am such a cheap wad. If I got 300 bucks I would usually be like " what can I pay off, or buy that we need"
I always figure that at least if I can put this extra money down on it, I wont have to pay for it later. My grandpa gave me 1200 bucks this summer, guess what I bought? A New baby!
ya. I felt I had to be responsible and pay Chayces hospital bills. Man what I WISH I could have done with that though...

Do you like Rockband? Guitar Hero is fun but we dont have it for the Wii.