The Best Kept Secret Blog - The Month Of Living Frugally Day 1 - Good Mothers Spend Money

Eldest daughter, an avid reader, is out of books, library is closed and unless I buy her a new novel immediately she will read vampire series Twilight for the seventh time.

Mentally debate which is the lesser of two evils: A) Being a bad, "not-exposing-child-to-enough-culture" kind of mother and risk creating undead-worshipping pre-teen goth girl; or B) Falling off the NO IMPULSE BUYING wagon on Day One and rushing to Chapters in search of uplifting reading material - hopefully Heidi or The Bobbsey Twins.

Decide allowing her to read the vampire series the six previous times alrady qualifies me as a bad mother. Cull closet for black clothes I can pass on to her and add "garlic" to my grocery list.

Lesson Learned: Kids don't have to have the latest and greatest.