Truck shopping and the rest of my day
@shaggin (72455)
United States
December 28, 2024 10:23pm CST
Today my husband, my little one and I went out truck shopping. It will be his vehicle so I left all the searching and decisions up to him. We visited 5 or so dealerships and decided on one he will pick up on Monday. It will be his first ever brand new truck.
I haven’t had much time to read this month so I enjoyed getting to read a bit on the ride.
A few months ago I won a gift certificate to a restaurant. Since we were in that area today we stopped in for dinner. None of us liked it very much unfortunately. Luckily it only cost us $20 which included the tip.
Right across the street was an easy to find geocache so I signed the log on that while my little one searched for mermaids in the freezing water below. That earned me a new souvenir on the app.
After we got home my little one and I undecorated the tree and my husband took it outside. I believe he and my stepson want to burn it tomorrow. It’s so dead I’ve never seen a tree so droopy and flat like that before. What a mess how much pine needles fell off. I got almost all my Christmas decor put away as well. I’m doing a Christmas in July event so I have to set some things aside for that.
Photo is unrelated to my post. It’s a beautiful pair of candles I saw at an antique shop months ago.
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
1 Jan
@much2say I can’t imagine anyone wanting to light the candles either they are just too nice.
I have almost everything from Christmas put away except for blankets and and a wreath. I simple can’t fit the blankets into the totes with all the new ornaments and decor I got so I have to figure out something to do soon.
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Right - the storage of Christmas decorations and such can be hard - takes up a lot of room - especially the bigger stuff. Somehow we find a way 
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@LindaOHio (183178)
• United States
29 Dec
Really cool candles. Sorry the restaurant was a disappointment. I hope your husband enjoys his truck. Have a good day.
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
2 Jan
@LindaOhio oh he is loving his new truck! So many fancy new features on it. But now he’s gotta but all these other things for it like getting a spray undercoating, front and back seat covers, plastic covers for inside the doors etc. the seat covers alone are $600. So if he mentions me wasting gas again I’ll loose my mind. My car gets like 30mpg on the highway. His truck gets 18.
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@LindaOHio (183178)
• United States
2 Jan
@shaggin Men! They're all the same, aren't they? But you've gotta love them!
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@BarBaraPrz (47846)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Dec
What a ducky candle that is. I'd cut the wick off so no one would be tempted to light it.
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
2 Jan
@BarbaraPrz that’s a pretty good idea. It would be so sad to see something so beautiful get burned.
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@snowy22315 (182873)
• United States
29 Dec
THose are nice candles. I am glad you enjoyed the day.
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
2 Jan
@snowy22315 they were so realistic and pretty I thought as well.
@allknowing (138409)
• India
29 Dec
You mean you kept a live tree inside It surely needed watering
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
31 Dec
@allknowing no it was cut by the tree farm and my husband brought it home in early December. Usually they suck up a ton of water daily but this didn’t.
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@DaddyEvil (138097)
• United States
29 Dec
Somebody did a really nice job with the candles. I thought they were carved from wood until you said they were candles. 
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
1 Jan
@Daddyevil I thought that at first too until I looked closer.
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@wolfgirl569 (108954)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Dec
Cute candles. We stopped doing a live tree because of the mess
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@shaggin (72455)
• United States
2 Jan
@wolfgirl569 if my husband was the one who had to sweep it up all day long maybe he would stop buying a live tree too.
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