Boys in Black Dresses

Apparently the only thing I could think of to follow-up my last post (and your amazing comments, thank you!) is embarrassing my poor toddler son, now left alone with me every morning for four hours.

But it's for a good reason, you see, because I'm doing it to challenge you to do the same thing.

Okay, maybe not embarrass your son, but it's always nice to make sure you  have those embarrassing pictures in case they decide to win gold medals or go to Harvard and you can be that kooky mom who took pics of them wearing your $899 Carmen Mark Valvo dress that you got for $9.99.

Do you think he'll appreciate the amazing bargain?

So, go find your freaking best bargain ever. Write about it (or where you tend to find them), and/or take a picture, preferably of it on or with your kid because bargains are always better when they are displayed on cute spawn but it's certainly not required -- got a dog? a cat? a talking parrot?

Actually, no pics are required -- just make sure you follow the simple directions here (two links and an email to enter), and you'll be playing along in one of our blog blasts.

Yes, it's shameless promotion, but there are prizes involved (eight gift cards to be exact) and what else were you really going to post this weekend? The Olympics? C'mon. Seriously.

Plus, if you've got bleeding boobs, a sore crotch, or a sassy 4-year-old who has decided to act like she's 13 and is currently staring at the inside of a corner until she changes her attitude (does that work? I'm hoping!), then it's a great distraction.

Mir also wrote at BlogHer asking for your Back to School Bargain tips. No prizes, but Mr. Linky has been summoned and it's a great way to gain traffic and share your brilliance. But do the blog blast too!

Comments

[flower girl dress patterns]

It was nice reading your post. I needed to know such kind of information to update myself. I work in my friend’s boutique of flower girl dresses and also help in the online promotion.

[Laarni]

hehe cute but just don't do it everyday, okies? lol. take care!

[Mali]

I definitely did the picture-to-save-for-blackmail-and-embarrassment-later thing. Thanks to JCPenney portrait studio. They had a special pirate themed week, and so I took my then 10-month old, got him mostly naked, and plopped a pirate hat on him. It's ingenious, really.

[becoming-mommy]

My best deals?

An $1800 kerry blue, of excellent breeding (her littermates showed in Westminster) for free.

A Safeway.com posting error where all their whites were listed as 10 cents a bottle, and an additional percentage off for every 6 bottles.

I bought $12 worth and they honored it.

[CanCan (Mom Most Traveled)]

How cute! I want to put my sons in dresses, too!

[The Real Life Fairy Tale Princess]

I'm dying to know where you got the dress. I went to the coupon place and saw some good deals, but nothing THAT good. Please enlighten us :) I'm totally a bargain shopper. I think yesterday was the first time I've bought something full price and that was because the awesomely discounted shirt I bought really needed a tank top under it and I didn't want to go to another store. I told Mr. it was really great when you buy $70 worth of clothes and the most expensive item you bought was a $7 tank top!

[Jane]

My 7 year old daughter has often dressed up her little brother in various princess gowns. She loves it (and thinks its hilarious!). And he thinks that he's being included in the fun. It's a win win!

[susieshomemade]

That is the best! Kids are put here for our amusement.

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[mom, again]

well,I don't have a blog post in and link to, so:

A brand new pair of Enzo Angiolini loafers, with shoe trees, in my size (6.5 EE) for $3 at Goodwill.

usually, I can't even find my size in stores at all, much less the Goodwill! I've held on to them through all these years of platform shoes, and I recently read that loafers are coming back 'in' so, there.

[Issa]

Oh my god, he looks so freaking cute.

[Liza]

My toddler son prefers an amazingly ugly purple and turquoise 80s nightmare dress that someone donated to his day care.

[feefifoto]

When my son was very little I sometimes toyed with the idea of dressing him in girls' clothes, just briefly, just to see how he looked. I resisted, but mainly because, since he was my first, I didn't have any girls' clothes handy.

[Jamie E]

Does this count? Big red areolas, stinky preggo crotch, painful nights "sleeping", sassy and suddenly "stylish" newly five year old, sassy three year old and crabby one year old....at least the six year old is cuddling again.:D

[Writer Dad]

I don't have bleeding boobs or a sore crotch, but I do have a sassy six year old who thinks she's thirteen, and is currently staring at a corner until she decides to change her behavior (and no, it usually doesn't).