Fantabulous Find of the Week *June 19 -Mini Wooden Croquet Set

Nothing terrible big, in fact quite small. This super cute wooden croquet set to play indoors. The wickets have little wooden feet so it can stand up on the carpet. The little mallets have matching balls. Totally awesome set for a mere $1 and no missing pieces.

Fantabulous Find of the Week *June 12 - Pottery Barn Sandbox

Fantabulous find of the week.
It has got to be the Pottery Barn teak sandbox boat.

With Delivery $10
The joy it will give my littlest munchkin - priceless.

The Return of the Yard Sale Season

Actually we have been yard saling for over a month or more, but since school is almost out it feels like the season is in full bloom. The competition has increased and the variety of stuff seems a bit more expensive and perhaps not as varied. Now I am not sure if that is a reflection on what interests me when I am out shopping or that I am just in a different phase of my life. Oh and a teenager who shops with me. She perhaps tempers my impulsivity and I encourage her to take a chance more often. I have seen her contemplate $28 shoes in the store when she wouldn't give them a second chance at a consignment store for $4 dollars. Today I had to encourage her to consider a cute shirt that came from London. It seems a woman in town wanted a souvenir while she was in London and bought the shirt. When she returned home to the west coast the shirt wasn't a good fit and ended in her yard sale box. It is now my daughters favorite shirt. All the way from London via a local yard sale for $2, matched with the Citizen of Humanity jeans for $3 and she picked up a cute outfit for the price of a Starbucks Venti something or other.

The End of the Yard Sale Season

For all practical purposes the yard sale season is over. Though I may still hit a few here and there until Christmas, most folks don't have yard sales when it is chilly or even down right cold. It has been a great season. I do a weird thing, I always take a pic of the yard sale stuff I get, that way when it a dry spell for finding anything I can look back and understand that the 'finding' of stuff ebbs and flows. Some weeks I feel like it may have been a waste of gas. But most of the time it is good. I am amazed at the way God will direct my path to finding and providing not only what I am searching for, but what others are searching for also. I get 'want lists' from folks who want the bargains but don't want to do the searching themselves.


So here is a collage of most of the yard sale finds that we have drug home for ourselves and even for others.