You may be an adult and from seeing this title believe that I’m a big baby. Okay so maybe I am and I tend to get over excited when I see rubber duckies in a store. So much that my daughter is the one telling me “no!”. My collection is small right now. Simply because of my self control and not buying all of the duckies that I see in the Oriental Trading catalog.
Bargain ducky shopping is the greatest though. I found a large ducky at Bath and Body Works that was on sale for $3. My daughter just rolled her eyes at me, mainly because she was jealous. We saw a similar ducky at a toy store at Grove City Outlets that was $24.50 so this was a bargain. I added my discount ducky to my collection and I’ve recently added two “groovy” duckies also from Bath and Body Works. One with flowers and the other with peace signs. My other duckies are smaller and came from my husband who helps to feed my ducky addiction. This causes my daughter to roll her eyes so much that they almost roll out of her ears.
My newest idea is to create a “Ducky Goes” blog (my daughter will probably put herself up for adoption at that point). I would take the larger ducky to various places and take photos of the ducky at these places and then write a little info about the place that ducky visited. I’ll need some inspiration to do that though. For it will be more than just my daughter rolling their eyes at me. I’m one to say “who cares”. Being silly is more fun than being serious all of the time.
This would be especially interesting as my daughter gets older. Most teenagers are embarrassed by their parents but they probably don’t have a mother who takes a rubber ducky everywhere like an insecure 5 year old with a “blanky”. He, he!
Holiday duckies are so darn adorable. There are Halloween duckies, Valentine duckies, and Easter duckies in my collection. There is a machine at our local Kmart that vends little duckies (and stickers) for 50 cents. Woo, hoo! Of course, we also have the quacking key chain ducky with a blue light and one with blinking lights.
Yes this is a silly little hobby that won’t amount to much in the end but maybe a smile on my face.
