Friday Favorites and Happenings

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I am soooo happy that it is Friday. We have had a busy week and I am ready for the weekend. I have a busy couple weeks ahead of me and I am trying to mentally prepare myself for it. We have a family reunion, my birthday, a work trip to Phoenix and San Diego and then our second Graeagle trip. Then it is my 6th wedding anniversary. Seriously, so busy between now and mid August.

Onto Friday Favorites and Happenings.

ONE. Oh the joys of home ownership. Last year, we bought a new washer because ours basically stopped working, washing and smelled disgusting. We always use Affresh Washing Machine Tabs on it, but after 9 years, it just wasn't working anymore. Well then two weekends ago, my dryer decided to stop drying. The lights and the drum still worked, but the heating element did not. We cleaned out our lint traps (front and in the tubing/wall behind) and the piping to the outside, but it still didn't work. And it just happened to stop the day before Rory left to NYC for work. So the girls and I had to hang dry, put clothes on beds and furniture and do laundry basically daily. It sucked. And we are still in that boat. Ugh.

Last weekend, we ventured out to Home Depot and bought a new dryer. I was thinking we would spend $400 on it. Nope. We wanted ones with sanitizing features, athletic clothes drying and the steaming feature to get wrinkles out of things. So we dropped just over $800 and then with taxes and parts it was over $900. Ugh. Home ownership is rough. Ha. But this is the one we got if anyone is interested. And Home Depot has 30% off appliances.

LG 7.3 cu. ft. Electric Dryer with Turbo Steam

TWO. So I mentioned on Tuesday that I also ordered the Spanx Faux Leather Leggings from Nordstrom. I got them that night, tried them on and they were huge winners. I ordered a size medium even though the sizing said small for me. But I also read reviews saying they were too compressing when they were your correct size and they could roll down when you sat down. So I went with a medium and I am happy. They were comfy, long and held the tummy in.

Now I know they are sold out at Nordstrom, but you can get them on Spanx's website for the same price. And if you sign up for their emails, you can get another 10% off. That makes them $58.41 which is even less than I paid.

Once again, I am not a fashion blogger and laughed when I saw these photos because my face says it all. I have no idea what I am doing. Ha.

THREE. So J Crew got me again. Last time, I ordered a floral dress on clearance and it is a hit. I am wearing it right now as I type this. Well I bought another dress (mainly for my work trip) and I got it for $15.

J Crew Striped Off-the-Shoulder Dress

Then I ordered a pair of drawstring chambray shorts ($8) and a pair of the Gigi dress pants that I wear to work all the time.

J Crew Chambray Shorts

J Crew Gigi Pants

FOUR. This isn't sponsored or an affiliate link, but I wanted to share something with you all. We need a rental car for an upcoming trip and we both are Hertz members. Since we don't have many points left (we have used them on countless trips), we were going to just rent through them and pay for it. We have done that before several times. But then I remembered Costco does travel packages. So I went onto Costco's travel site to see how the rates compared to just booking through a rental company. The difference was insane. To get a car through Costco, it is costing me $300 and that includes all the fees and returning to a different airport location. When I checked Hertz, Enterprise and Alamo on their websites even with some coupons, it was over $500. Costco Travel for the win!

FIVE. Funnies for the week.

I am linking up with April, A Little Bit of Everything, Meet @ the Barre and Becky.

Have a great weekend!