The funniest shopping trip ever.

The funniest shopping trip ever.


Everything started yesterday at the Gap. Kevin decided that the requests for 50 dollar shirts and crazy amounts for jeans shorts and skirts had gone on long enough. By this point the girls basically had everything they “needed” so he went to the ATM and gave them each 100 bucks. He told them they had till Sunday night to spend their 100 on school clothes or what they had not spent went back to him. We walked around the mall for 5 hours and neither of them would part with their money. Finally Kenzie broke a 20 to buy a cookie because the excitement had dropped her blood sugar into the 50’s. So we got that handled and went back to shopping. I think they both bought two shirts after checking that they were on sale and rang up correctly.


We went back at it today. This time we drove over to Kohl’s. After a couple of hours we went to check out. CC went first she did good she got three shirts and still has 40 bucks left. Kenzie was up next. The man started ringing her stuff up and as she watched the total go from 20 to 50 to $73.08 the color in her face drained. She panicked and asked if she could put stuff back. We told her there was a line. She said ok and started counting her money. With each 20 she laid on the county she started wobbling. We ended up being seriously concerned that she was going to pass out. The man handed her receipt to her and told her that she had saved $94.92 She froze in shock. We handed her the huge bag and headed outside. By the time we got to the car she had tears running down her face. It was very sad. Kevin told her if we get home and you still want to bring some of it back we can do that tomorrow. With big tears she said “No I like it all and want to keep it.”


We decided that because both CC and Kenz did such a great job handling their money we would treat them to custard. As we checked out the menu the girls took notice of the prices for the first time in 4 years of going there. On the way back to the car Kenzie told us she was sorry for getting so upset that she just does not like to spend so much at once and that it might not hurt as bad to spend a little at a time. We giggled. Meanwhile CC got a little bit of her chocolate ice cream on her new Eddie Bauer T-Shirt. She stopped laughing at McKenzie long enough to have a cow about her shirt getting a stain and that it was on sale but it was still 10 dollars. Oh my Lord Kevin and I were laughing so hard. We got home and CC went and changed shirts to immediately try to get the stain out of her’s.


I love our girls so much. I have to say though it is a bunch more fun to go shopping with “their money”. I think they both learned a lot and hopefully will carry it with them forever. They didn’t only buy stuff that was on sale but they figured out they could offset the price of the stuff they were willing to pay full price for by shopping around for sale stuff also. Kevin did a great job and the girls are ready for school, well except that 40 bucks CC probably has stashed under her pillow as we speak. Ha ha.