Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Sisters Can Be Cruel

One nice thing about my oldest daughter is that she has a highly developed sense of How Much Things Cost. In other words, she can be very, very cheap. For example, when she started working, she opened a bank account and her pay checks were duly deposited semi-weekly. But did she spend ANY of that money? No, she was saving for her Japan trip. She didn’t blow her every paycheck at the Mall (or in her case, the local Barnes & Noble or comic book shop). Nope, she just left it all alone.

And she has a great tradition of going thrift shopping with Reha. They go romp through every thrift store in the valley and she comes home with cool stuff and essentially a whole new wardrobe, having spent all of $20. Best quote: “Why should I spend way too much money at the Mall on new clothes? These are totally fine. And they are awesome. And they were cheap.”

It’s the kind of thing a father can really get behind. A teenage daughter who only really splurges on books. Where do I sign up for that?

However!

She sometimes has a slightly twisted and mean sense of humor.

For example:

On a recent Thrift Store Splurge (where probably all of $35 dollars was spent on 6-7 new outfits), she bought a shirt, specifically with her younger brother in mind. And when she got home, she announced that she’d purchased it FOR HIM, and the he had to try it on, RIGHT NOW.

So this is the shirt she bought him and psychologically tortured him until he tried it on and posed for pictures. Bring on the pink! What all the thirteen year old boys are wearing this season. Or perhaps not.

And of course, Ellis is completely incapable of staying out of the frame.

It’s an Officially Licensed Shirt from the musical Wicked. And don’t you think the sparkles in the wand really set off his soft and squishy blue eyes? It reminds me that once upon a time, he was indeed obsessed with that musical.

And again, Ellis, not realizing that she actually is NOT the focus of the picture, turning around and taking stage direction when we said, “turn around, let’s get a shot of the back.”

I can’t WAIT to see what revenge he’ll extract from her.

1. That’s hysterical.. I love that he put it on. And Ellis? Whatta cutie, how the focus *not* be on her?

   Posted by Woman with Kids  on  08/01/07  at  12:31 PM

2. Yeah, just tryand get her out of the frame.

   The howls. The screaming. The pain!

   Posted by jon  on  08/01/07  at  02:56 PM

3. His best revenge is that he put it on! 

   I have a co-worker that does the thrift store thing and gets all sorts of cool stuff, like brand new $90 Keen shoes for 10 buck.  When ever I go all I find is junk.

   Posted by michael  on  08/01/07  at  04:31 PM

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