More Garage Sale Purchases

Wooden based lamp .75 cents. Mirrored tray $3.The second photo contains the rest of the things I bought at the sale where we got the "Marbulous". Total spent at that garage sale was $2.20. ($1 of that was the marble game, the other $1.20 was this stuff). I think I should rename my blog to "Groceries, Garage Sales, and Guys". What do you think?

Find of the week...

We've already gotten our $1.00's worth out of it. It's called Marbulous. This shows most of the pieces, but not all of them. Another plus? It was at a neighbor's garage sale 1/4 mile away from home!

Community Sale Finds from Last Week

I really just bought this for the jar ($1.50), but the more I look at the nuts and little balls, the more I like them. I plan to force bulbs in the jar, possibly paperwhites. Hopefully the tallness of the jar will help them stand up better.

My favorite find of the day. This jar, not the fake flowers in it. I talked her down to $5 for it (OK, I only asked for $1 off, but still). Most disappointing thing...I dropped the lid on the jar while taking the picture and cracked a little chip off the star and a hairline crack in the jar. Ugh. Still usable, just disappointing. Outfit for Leeland. Possible luau outfit?

Shoes for the boys ($1 for one and .75 for the other). Pampered Chef foamer for soap .50. Model rocket materials for Matthew, $1 each.

2 plates for you know who, if she wants them. Like you wouldn't. Ha ha. Decorative only, not for food use.

A cute wreath to go around a candle, .25.

Little House DVD's $1 each. Lite Brite paper .25? A board book for Leeland, a tea towel, and a serving tray (?). Skipbo for kids, .25.

And the cutest little egg holder. $1, bought for me by my favorite cousin in law!

My new curtain for the kitchen $2. I finally found one that is long enough!

Community Sale Finds

This past weekend, my mom and I shopped a local community sale. This is what I was able to find! 2 shirts above, 10 cents each.
Shirts above 50 cents each. Shorts $1? (maybe less)

Pair of jeans for me 50 cents. Shirt for me $2.

Eddie Bauer jeans for Tim 50 cents. 2 pr. jeans and 1 pair jean Capris for me 1.00 each.

The clothes above were all 25 cents each. Including 2 matching but different colored sweaters for the boys.

If you attend the annual pirate party you'll understand this hat I picked up for .25!

Turtle footstool that I plan to recover and refinish, $1. Tupperware cupcake holder for 50 cents as well as a Rubbermaid holder for .50. Food processor for $2 (one of the 5 year olds had to show me how it worked). Faux apples (but very convincing) 50 cents for all.

The only 4 books I brought home for me! The Back to Basics one is one I've wanted for awhile. All books from the library sale were for a donation.

The rest of these books are going to Amanda's house. I plan to repaint the metal lid on the little glass jar. You can't really see it in the picture, but the images on the jar are really cute.

My last buy of the day was this bread machine. They were asking $15 and I paid $10 for it. I will be trying it out today as soon as I get it washed up.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my finds. I have some other finds from Friday's sales that I plan to post too.

More finds. I found this comforter for our bed. I have been looking at Kohls and every thing has been about $150 or so. Even on sale they were $60. I found this one for $10. I've since found out the other side is nicer, but of course I didn't find that out until after I took the picture. Two pairs of pajamas and a pair of Children's place overalls (for Leeland) for $1.75 total.

Here are all of my finds from the church rummage sale. The only thing I didn't buy there was the shoes hanging on the rack. I'm not even sure what that rack is for, but for .25 it will be a shoe holder at our house!

I love the candle holder with the rooster weather vane on top. It was a quarter also. I paid $4.50 for all of the things in the picture above.

Close up of the napkins. I envision using one of them in a basket of bread for Easter or spring in general.

I bought the boys marshmallow shooters. There are actually 4 shooters (I don't like guns, remember?). I bought one for Lochlyn. I'm sure the big boys (Tim and Matthew) will steal them and have some fun! I also found these neat scrubbers that someone had made. The marshmallow shooters were $2.50 a piece.

Garage Sale/ Rummage Sale finds

So far not a whole lot of garage sale action going on around here, but there seem to be a few more every week. This sale had all of their kids clothes for .50, unfortunately her kids were both younger than mine. I did score some cute things for Leeland though. Turns out the lady having this garage sale used to babysit Lochlyn ( I didn't recognize her). Also bought a cute Doug and Melissa puzzle for 1.00. I will be putting that away for Leeland for Christmas. I love the big chunky knobs on the pieces.

When we pulled into the sale, I noticed pine cones on the ground by our van. I decided I would ask the owner if they would mind if we took a few (this was before I knew she was a friend of Matthews). Anyways, she said to take as many as we wanted and the boys and I will be making bird feeders out of them next week.

I found this little bunny dish at a church rummage sale and fell in love with it. I couldn't really capture it well with the camera, I think you just have to see it in person. I love it's quirkiness and how the rabbits stick up above the bowl.

It just got even better after I filled it with the remaining jelly beans from Easter.

Garage Sale Goodies

Lately there have been a bunch of "teacher" sales. The one today was a teacher that was retiring after 35 years! Almost all of the books were 4 for $1. There were Mennonites there buying things for their one room schoolhouses (4 grades, 11 kids total). I have been to 3 teacher sales this year.

These little cut out things are laminated. She had tons of different games and things like this all 10 cents an envelope.

Cool vintage paint by number never used, 25 cents.

This is the best thing. A train that holds days of the week, months, or "first" "second" , etc. It was brand new and it was a quarter!!!
All kinds of fun vintage teaching books for 25 cents each.
A neat box of flash cards with maps on them. I think this was $2 but way cool.

My visit with JJT-D

This post is for the high school friends. A month or so ago when we had our garage sale at my mom's house, I got to visit with Jenny for a little bit. Even though we haven't seen each other for 8-10 years, it was nice to catch up and she got to meet my kids. She doesn't look a bit different! I warned her she would be blog material!