I am still attempting to find a non pleated style all cotton mask that is not too expensive (under $12) that I don't black out and almost hit the floor if there is not a rack, my DH or my teenager to grab onto as I am going down. This is in an air conditioned building. While masks are now required in my area there are medical exemptions and the stores I have blacked out in have all told me to please go ahead and remove my mask. I am using grocery pick up where possible, sending DH to do shopping, using curbside for places that have it that are not grocery stores, and if necessary I provide the driving and I send teenager into the store to pick things up.
I am wanting to find one that works for the rare times I would need to go into a place and if at all possible my kids 4-H non livestock interview judging day. While we have a time slot set during hours that DH could go he has no experience other than he did bring one item that did not get placed in the boxes down to us last year. We are limited to those exhibiting items and one parent to accompany this year.
I have tried a pleated cotton one from JoAnns Fabric that my teenager picked up for me, a fitted style that I got at Michaels crafts before we had a mandate in place and disposible ones. My budget is extremely limited (even more so now as we had some unexpected expenses last week that I had to put on a credit card so now we are having to pay that off or at least down a bit-sadly the card is about maxed out again due to this expense) so I can't afford to try a bunch of different ones to see what works.
To give you an idea on how tight our budget is we have not had a family vacation that we paid for everything ourselves for the entire trip since March 2011 when we went to another town in our state so that our kids could participate in a pinewood derby type race with our church denomination. We drove up checked into our hotel, went to get something to eat (did get told that an anonymous person paid for our meal because our kids were being so polite) did a little swimming, went to bed got up the next morning loaded everything back up, took advantage of the free expanded contiental breakfast, went to the race, paid for a $5 lunch plate at the host church (choice of hot dog, polish, hamburger, or taco with chips and a water bottle type meals) for each of us, at at a Chinese resturant similiar to Panda Express but locally owned in that town and then drove home. Total cost for the trip even taking a truck that only got an an average of around 17 MPG was about $200 though we only spent about $145 thanks to our surprise someone paid for your dinner meal.
All other trips have been a couple of family reunions where we paid less than $100 for our share of the lodging for the week, paid maybe $50 tops to get something in the auction that is used to raise money for the next one, and some money for gas total running us between $200-400 for 5 days each time with the higher priced one being about 7 hours away so we did rent a car instead of driving our truck.
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We paid our popcorn ‘forward’ to the next guests so had a perfectly clean bucket ~ now used to store my clean masks and hang 1 from Mickey’s hand!
