The comments on the Doing Social Good with Money post were some of my favorite things ever. Such good ideas—but also, just talking about the ideas made me feel excited about doing them, like we were all in a club of people doing these things. If you like the idea of donating new underpants to the school nurse (smaller sizes in boy or girl styles to the elementary school, teen-girl sizes to the middle school), or of buying winter hats/gloves/scarves on clearance to donate to local welfare groups in the fall, my Target has 50-70% clearances on both right now. Kids’ winter hats, usually $4.00, marked down to $1.20; deluxe winter hats marked from $9.99 down to $2.98. Gloves and scarves were still only at 50% off, but some of the more deluxe mittens were marked from $9.99 down to $2.98. I forget the exact markdowns on the kid underpants, but the prices were in the $2.48, $2.98, $3.48, $4.98 range, depending on type and number of pairs.
I have discovered that our grocery store sells little pitiful-looking bunches of daffodil stems for $1.79. The first time I impulsively bought a bunch, I thought the chances were slim that I would be getting any flowers from those sad sticks. But I was so wrong! Now I buy another bunch almost every time I’m at the grocery store and add them to the jar, taking out old ones as they wilt. They are acting as the floral kitchen equivalent of the pretty patio lights I put up around the living room window: sustaining the mood until the sun can do it.
I love buying daffodil buds and watching them open up, but I haven’t done it in years. I actually peeked into a florist the other day to see if they had some but they didn’t.
I noticed earlier this week that my daffodils were up and open – definitely a sign that spring is on it’s way!
This is a big thing over here in. England , it is an exciting day when the sad sticks come out, quickly followed by tulips and before you know it it’s sunflowers time 😍
Our daffodils have to have a caution in as people kept eating either the bulb (highly dangerous!) Thinking it was an onion, or the sticks thinking there where spring onions… As the flowers and fruit are in the same spot… 😂 Anyone who’s seen a bulb or a spring onion will see they are not similar… And one clearly has daffodils written on the label.. but there we go!
I have seen those sad little bundles of daffodils at Trader Joe’s and always dismissed them — but now I am definitely going to buy some!
I buy like 3 bunches of those sad little sticks, so when they bloom it looks lush and full, but I think your method might be better!
What really caught my eye, though, was the shelving unit behind them, since I have the same one. I feel famous-adjacent!