So what have we found lately?

Yes, that is the question: What have we found lately?

Stuff?

Yeppers, stuff, that is.  The local volunteer fire department has put on the local garage sale at the community rink every weekend for the month of July, and know what?  I cannot say whether it was better from last year or it just stayed the same as usual.  But all I can say is that at least the items my family and I bought last year never returned to the garage sale as donations. 

This past weekend, once the garage sale opened to the public, my husband went there at once.  Within a half hour, he brought home a truckload for $25.  A couch, a recliner and a garden hose reel stand that we have been needing for a while since we brought out our garden hoses for flower gardening and filling up the pool (don't ask me about the water bill, because we have yet to know when the next bill comes out in September,........).  Because we live in the low income housing, we were NOT allowed to place the garden hose hanger onto the house because it would damage the renovated exterior of the house (on a cheap, cheap budget that involves cutting corners,...........I bet Mike Holmes will be shaking his head over this), the reel stand is perfect to keep the backyard clean and tidy, much easier to move it when cutting the lawn.  The couch and recliner is in the basement in the rec. area so that way my husband has a place to hide away from family stress.  After helping my husband unload the items off the truck, my 5-yr-old son and I went to the garage sale and I grabbed a big box ($5 dollars per box of things filled up) and started looking around.  My 5-yr-old decided he needed a box of his own to fill toys up for himself and his two little brother so I had to let him (no big deal, at least it is still $5 per box to fill up items).  While looking around, I could hear some other kids being picky about the condition of the toys.  They say that the toys are better at Walmart than here, but my 5-yr-old didn't care at all.  After all, toys are going to get tortured and broken, right?

For me, I found alot of items that I am happy to put them to use.  I picked up a framed corkboard, a letter/bills holder with a corkboard all in one piece (pinterest would love a pic of that!), a spice cabinet that I am going to use to store sewing thread and bobbins on it, a big bag of cotton yarn (oh gosh, my mom and I figured it had to be valued at $50-60 dollars for a few big balls of yarn in variegated colors, so I am going to knit and crochet a few washcloths and spa collection items), a shoe box of  crochet cotton, and that is pretty much it.  All for $5.  Yes, some of you are going to think,"you're bringing more junk home", but at least it didn't take up too much space at all.  After all, I have a crafting area, and it is organized.  The floors in the house has to be swept up to 5 times a day, thanks to the horror of watching "Hoarders".  And the laundry has to be put away, endlessly.

It doesn't end here at all.  This weekend, we are going back to the garage sale, as the volunteers have put out more items for the public to check out, so this should be fun.

Happy garage-sale-ing!