Yellow fairy dress, $10.25

After spending an afternoon at a suburban ballet academy my three year-old announced that she wanted a yellow tutu, and I told her she could have one when I found one in an op shop. In an attempt to stem the tide of pink that was flooding my world, I’d told my second-born from a very early age that her favourite colour was in fact yellow, not pink like her sister. Well, it’s now almost eleven months since that first dance lesson and all I can say is, Thank God for Salvos Stores.