Confession: Sometimes I like to garbage pick.  

There.  I said it.  In the past week, I have gotten two things out of two different people’s trash.  I don’t dig, don’t worry.  But if there is something obvious sticking out of someone’s pile of trash that catches my eye, I stop to look at it.  I saw this toy (my mom has the same toy, so I knew exactly what it was), did a u-turn and hopped out of my car.  My first thought was that it’s in the trash because it’s probably broken.  So I pressed the button that usually makes music turn on, and it actually worked.  Score.  I brought it home, and it sat outside in the rain all weekend.  This morning I brought it in to disinfect it, but figured that actually it wouldn’t work since it sat in the rain for three days. . . but again, the thing happily worked.  After a couple of rounds of disinfecting wipes, the boys were eager to finally play with it.  Nothing like a completely free new toy.