Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in milwaukee, WI

Playing Dress Up

by Amy Jo Jones

May 05, 2009

I think everyone would agree money doesn't grow on trees- especially these days. If you are looking for some new and interesting things for your family or some handy play clothes for getting down and dirty, you may want to look into your neighborhood gold mine: The thrift store.

Here's are some of Milwaukee's finest:

St. Vincent de Paul

2320 W. Lincoln Ave.
(414) 672-2040 or www.svdpmilw.org

Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

St Jude Thrift Shop 

734 Glenview Ave., Wauwatosa
(414) 259-0975

Open 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

Bargain Center - Affiliated with Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

8401 W. Lisbon Ave.
(414) 463-2595

5005 W. Howard Ave.
(414) 327-2529

St. Mary's Thrift Shop, St. Mary's Parish

13150 Juneau Blvd., Elm Grove
(262) 784-6644

Open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, noon-8 p.m. Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m.-noon Saturday.

American Council of the Blind Thrift Store

6731 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis
(414) 302-5123

Open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

Goodwill

Seven metro Milwaukee locations and Retique; see www.amazinggoodwill.com

Open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday.

Salvation Army

Five metro Milwaukee locations; www.usc.salvationarmy.org Hours vary.

What do you want to be?

by Amy Jo Jones

October 07, 2008

There is a photograph I can see clearly in my minds eye. It is of my sister and I dressed up for Halloween. She was a pumpkin and I was a bunny rabbit. My mom made both costumes. Only she wasn't exactly the Martha Stewart of the seventies. Both consisted of a small beanie-type hat and a huge sack-like middle stuffed with newspaper. Crumpled up newspaper! I remember the sound it made and the way  Read more...