Over the years, me and ebay.com have had a love/hate kind of relationship. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. It just all depends on the season, the time, the day. I think I’ve fallen back in love again. Since opening my own crafty business, Craftique, and with my paypal account rollin’ [ok, not really rollin’ but I finally have some money in there for once instead of just cobwebs], I decided to check ebay to see if I could find some much needed things for my sons potty training and some xmas gifts for myself as a reward for a job well done on my new business.

At the top of my list were some potty training equipment. I wanted a potty seat that goes on the “big” potty with elmo or sesame street characters on it. Found it! Plus a book for boys on potty training!!!
Some training underpants for pnut that have the extra padding in the front and back in case of an accident [no store around here has them]. Found! Lot of 12!!! Woo-hoo!!!

I wanted to try out some of the Models Prefer line of makeup. So I got the Aquavit Perfect Prep Brush On Face Primer and the yellow neutralizing powder.

I went back to my trusty Revlon Skinlights concealer, which is the only concealer that I’ve found works to hide my raccoon eyes, after I got outbid at the last minute for the Models Prefer Aquavit concealer.

I got a prenatal yoga video to do during my pregnancy called, Crunch: Yoga Mama.  It came yesterday, I will be looking at it after I finish this post.

What started my whole journey on ebay was my search for a 4 to 4 pin firewire.  I needed a firewire to connect my laptop and camcorder together so that I can upload videos of pnut on the net for my family and friends to see.  I went to Best Buy and the Geek squad told me what kind of firewire I needed but their’s was close to $40.00!  Rediculous.  So I headed to walmart and they had firewire but it was the 6 to 4 pin kind not the 4 to 4 pin.  Theirs was significantly lower in price from Best Buy coming in at $25.00 but since they didn’t have the kind that I needed I had to go find it somewhere else.  So to ebay, I turned.  I found exactly what I needed and get this….it only cost…. $5.00!!!!  that includes shipping.  The firewire was $1.00 and the shipping $4.00.  Talk about a deal.  I just saved $35.00-$20.00 depending on how you look at it.  And if you want to see the videos that I’ve uploades so far go here.

There is one more thing that I want to get for christmas.  I told the hubby that I wanted this to use as my post-pregnancy workout so I can get my sexyback!  ha!  It is yoga booty ballet.  I don’t know if any of ya’ll have seen the info-mercial but it looks pretty good and the before/after photos are pretty convincing. Whenever I get one at a decent price and have a chance to try it out, I will definately tell you guys if it is worth the money or not.

I rarely get to do any shopping, so this is a very exciting post for myself.  Being on a SAHM’s budget you just can’t go blowing money on stuff like “normal” people.  But every once in a while I get to have a much needed spree where I usually am able to get the much needed things.

So that is what I’ve been doing lately, patiently waiting for auctions to end and then peer out my window every 5 mins to see if the mail man has arrived and if so if he has packages!