It’s no secret that I am a lover of sales taking place in the yards and garages of others. June through August here can find lots of these events happening each and every Saturday.
Armed with my weekly stash of quarters, and accompanied by my side kick Rigel, I go in search of treasures spanning all sorts of exciting categories.
This Saturday we hit the jackpot in the Homeschooling category.
This board book is taller than Parker is. It set me back $1.00.
Guess how much I spent on each of these barely used board books? Just take a wild guess.
Aw, the heck with it. I’m too excited to make you guess.
TEN cents. TEN pennies each. Be still my heart. There were even several hardback books I purchased for TEN teeny, tiny little cents each. I was in luuuurve.
Rigel was pretending not to know who I was.
But that was just the tip of the ice berg folks. Guess how much EACH of the items below cost.
Ready?
This book came with little magnetic shapes which to match up to the shapes found inside the book.
This Baggie Maggie will come in handy as we teach Parker about getting dressed. Yeah, I looked but there weren’t any Baggie Boy Dolls. Eh, it’ll still work.
A wooden Domino game. Perfect condition. Pristine. The lady hosting the sale said that most of this stuff were toys that her kids just never got around to playing.
I was tempted to ask if this lady might send out a newsletter announcing the next time she would be hosting a yard sale. But I didn’t want to seem too tacky. Especially since I walked away with a HUGE bag filled of fantastic loot for the grand total of $4.00.
I was able to snatch up a bunch of great books for Kensley as well as Parker. I’m just too lazy to pull them all off the bookshelf, take pictures of them, and the put them all back.
What can I say? Lazy happens.
Oh, yeah. Those items pictured up above? They were each TEN cents too.
I was driving Reed nuts yesterday as I would pick up an item and then ask him to guess how much I had paid for it.
“TEN cents!” I would then shout out. I think I included a goofy little happy dance once or twice too.
After each of my exclamations, Reed would simply look at me and roll his eyes.
I, of course, took this as a sign of Reed’s undying love and gratitude for all the money I saved by shopping yard sales.
Or something like that.
So. Did anybody else score anything worth dancing about this weekend?
I love yard, garage, estate sales! We got a huge trash bag full of clothes in good shape for both my kids 2 weeks ago for $1.oo.
Congratulations!! You scored some incredible garage sale booty!! I only just started hitting up garage sales, but books are always on the top of my list too!!
wow, those are some great buys, I bet Parker will have a wonderful time with all his new books.
I LOVE YARD SALES! You sure found a great one. Seems like people have been pricing their stuff crazy high around here! It’s SO frustrating! It’s a YARD SALE people!!
I’m completely jealous of these fab finds! Good work!
That is certainly a GREAT deal! Unbelieveable! I think I would’ve been doing the happy dance too! It was so fun spending a bit of time with you and the family. Thanks for letting me stay so long and for making me feel special. Thanks again!
Don’t forget that you are also saving that shopping at tag sales is also very “green”. GREAT place to get kids book, you SCORED dude! Where can you get anything for 10 cents? I stay out of Barnes & Noble anymore cuz I spend too much. My daddy got me a big bag of paperback Dean Koontz’ that will be good beach reading. Great post, thanks mama!
I’m so tired I can’t type, meant to say that you are saving the earth, and that shopping at tag sales is very green. bah!
man, you find the best yardsales ever. I never find anything good. You’ll have to take me with you one time.
What amazes me is that there has been very little inflation in the garage sale business. I was paying those prices 20 years ago in OR for near 90% of all the books my children ever owned. Excellent haul, Tammy!
Wow..what a bargain.
Love this post! Congrats on all of your great finds!
I love yard sales but haven’t found any good ones since we moved to GA. I used to love going to them in TN. On Friday mornings Ben and I would head out when Olivia was at preschool
You got some good stuff! I used to love yard sales and estate sales in the small town we used to live up East but it is hard to know where to go in a large city where we live now.
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Major bargain. I see a book I just read with John Michael tonight — Time for Bed (with the sheep on the cover). The text is so lyrical. It’s been a favorite since my firstborn was little.
Yard sales are the best. I find most of my books from yard sales.
My friend just held one this past weekend and was going to get rid of this one book called, The Wolf Pack Classroom Management Plan, by Janis Gioia. I said I would gladly take it off her hands because my sister is going to be a teacher and I wanted to pick this up for her.
I ended up reading it and it is so great. I can’t believe she was finished with this book. She said she learned a lot and put it to use already with her kids she homeschools.
It’s a great idea and I hope others find it useful.
Your yard sales are WAY better than the sales by me! You rocked!! AWESOME finds!! Looks like a lot of great stuff for Parker.
love garage sales… toys and books are so expensive to buy new.
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