Friday Funnies! Thanksgiving Edition

I love Fridays. Ever since I started this Meme over a year ago it just made Friday's a bit more fun. I hope your getting a little more giggle for your buck on Friday's too.

I chose this Friday to be the Thanksgiving Edition because it's the last Friday before we give thanks for our blessings. Yours doesn't have to be Thanksgiving related but it would be fun if we all joined in and found the funnies Thanksgiving giggle on the internet.

So without further ado here's my contribution!

This is for all you that plan on deep frying that turkey!
USE EXTREME CAUTION! LOL!

And this one of course I posted last year but it's still one of my favorites and I laugh at it EVERY time I watch it so enjoy once again!

Have a FABULOUS weekend my friends!!

Pretend You're Going to Move!

This is a great motivator. You start organizing things, cleaning things (you needed to clean a long time ago but have put off), and getting rid of things.

Seriously, knowing that someone might be walking through your house really motivates you to make it look 100%. It's amazing what you'll do for a perfect stranger but not your own family. LOL!
I mean who we trying to kid? I think it would be more believable for someone to walk in and see socks on the floor, dishes in the sink and no toilet paper on the roll. Then they would feel more at home. Don't you agree? Or is it just me?

I declutter at least once a year. But I'm always amazed at the stuff I weed out each time. It's like the stuff seems to multiply right before your eyes.
You start asking yourself, do I need it? Usually the answer to that is, "No, BUT......"and I can fill the blank with a 100 excuses to why I need to keep something that's been in a box for over 8 years and I hardly ever look at. It's MY stuff. My box!

Anyway, I really think that if we all pretended that we were going to move every month or so, our houses would stay a lot more organized and cleaner. The same concept goes for inviting company over but I don't think I go to the same extent of cleaning as the whole pretending to move thing.
What do you all think? Is there something to this thought?

HUGS!

Never Say Never!

It's recently been put on our hearts to try to be debt free so we have been looking at selling our house and buying something else cash. Right now we live on a half acre on a barrier island right across the street from the ocean and we are trying to move to the mainland.
We bought this house as a fixer upper 11 years ago, but in return we got a REALLY good deal on it and it will come back 3 fold. But I swore (and one should never swear) that we would never buy another fixer upper. Weeeeeeeell, it may be tongue biting time. We found a house on a little over an acre in a beautiful neighborhood on the mainland for $195,000. It's a pre-foreclosure and it needs a little love. The structure is sound but it needs cleaning, some paint and a BRAND NEW KITCHEN (which I'm not complaining about). Down the road it will need a few more things done but nothing to major. I've seen my husband turn this fixer upper of ours into a little beachside paradise and I know he can do the same with that one. But I also know it takes time and that's the one thing he won't have a lot of. We aren't letting that discourage us because if we sell ours for market value we'll be able to pay for that one and have no mortgage. Hallelujah.

Here's what we need from you. Prayers and lots of them. We feel like we are getting the green light to move forward but would like prayers for our house to sell in a timely manner and without complication and for the whole transaction to go through smoothly.

Right now we are in our comfort zone and it's a hard place to leave but we would be gaining much much more by leaving it behind. And I know that before long we would find our comfort zone once again.
This is the house in question.

This is the front of the property.


Oh and if it does go through we would love for you all to come and give us a hand cleaning and painting. I know you all won't mind. Right? Right? I'll supply the coffee, chocolate and some jammin' tunes for the late nights! LOL! You know it'd be fun!
Love you my friends!

I'm done.....Well maybe....We'll see....

(WARNING: More of me and my Christmas Addiction! It could be a cry for help! LOL! )

I need to stop. I need to stop going to garage sales and walking down the Christmas aisle of the stores. "Just step away from the Christmas items Ma'am."
My office is over flowing with Christmas stuff that I've purchased within the last 2 months. Granted most of it has been from garage sales and I've spent very little money, but have you gone into the Dollar Stores lately? Oh have mercy, it's just wall to wall fun, bright, Christmasy things that suck me right in! I need intervention. Seriously! I have Thanksgiving to plan, for crying out loud!
I know I've posted about the last few garage sales I've gone too and the Christmas stuff I came home with. Well this past weekend I bought MORE! Okay I spent .30 on 3 boxes of pretty Christmas ornaments. Did I need them? Uh, NO! But for .30 I couldn't pass it up. Oy!

You want proof. I got your proof.
Here's my office!
These are the recent purchases piled onto of this plastic tub. The bag of stuff in the back? Yeah, it's filled with Christmas stuff.
Here are my .30 ornaments and underneath in the box is my 6 wooden reindeer that I got for $2.00.
Yes this whole plastic bin is full of little metal tins, perfect for gift giving.
My problem? I don't want to part with them! LOL! I like them. But I'm going to do it this year. I'm going to give them away with little goodies inside!
Oh and not pictured is the suitcase full of Christmas stuff that I bought at an estate sale that is in the office too!
Yup! It's going to be an interesting Christmas this year. I've never had it so bad!! LOL
Stay tuned....



Oh and a reminder for this fun week! Coming up faster than I want to admit.
And YES, it has to do with Christmas. Go figure!

You're Gonna Miss This!

I always enjoy reading my friends Mimi's posts on this and so I thought I'd join in once again.

I'm going to miss walking out my back door and seeing this....


.....and this. Then wondering what in the world it all is.


And then seeing this!The great lizard hunter. Yes, my son is the great inventor. He comes up with so many inventions. Mostly made out of paper but lately he's branched out into plastic containers and tubes. LOL! What you see above is quite an elaborate invention, though you can't tell from the picture. He waits quietly behind the stump with a string in hand to catch the non suspecting lizards. You gotta love that!!
I'm gonna miss seeing these things around and him hard at work making them.

What are you gonna miss?
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