Filed under: Thifty
It’s pretty much a given that if you send me out on an errand on a Saturday (mission: go to Shopco and get outlet covers) that I will be gone for three times as long as I need to be, because damn - there are a lot of garage sales around here. I always tell myself I will just stop at one, but then there is another big pink sign (Baby stuff? I need baby stuff, awesome, I’ll just do a quick look around) and before I know it, Tom’s calling me because he is A) worried, and B) Ella has taken an interest in the 3 whole outlets we did not have plugged and is determined to stick something in one. So, I promise I will be home right away (just as soon as I pick up those outlet covers, can’t forget that…) and somehow end up a mile away from Shopco, sifting through an dead woman’s scarf drawer while her grandson sits in the living room smoking cigarettes and blowing smoke into the couch marked “Antique, $300″.
Which is to say, Hey I got some cool stuff today!
I generally limit what I will spend to less than $20, unless I find something amazing enough to send me to the cash machine. And since I am lazy and do not want to go find an ATM, $20 it is.
Birth ball, with stand, $5. I have been looking online at this exact brand and scoffed at paying $40 for it (Hi, I’m cheap.) I was going to ask to borrow one from a friend once birth is more imminent, since I loved the one at the birth center last time, but wha-la! Plus it has a stand, which will help us avoid that whole “Oops, Ivory fell off the ball again” thing that we went though last time.
This awesome lamp, $1. I about peed my pants when I found this, unmarked at a garage sale. I fully expected to pay at least $5 for it, and was not cool about it at all when they shrugged and said a buck. “No WAI!”
See it here in action. Mmm, I’m loving that lamp.
Super cute tin, .50 Cents. (where the H is the cents key on a keyboard? How have I never noticed that it is missing?) Because I need more places to keep my crafting crap.
Rainbow prints, $1.50. They are a trip up close (and have names like “All strung out”. ) Perfect for my kid’s room!
Cool wooden car, $1. Found at an estate sale where there were no other toys, just purses and vases.
Maisy Christmas Flap book, because it’s never to early to start celebrating getting presents, .25 cents.
These neat branches, $2. They are metal and just stick in the wall with posts like thumbtacks on the back. They are not placed exactly where I want them yet, but I was considering painting branches coming in, and this is SO MUCH EASIER.
Things that did not manage to get photographed before they were squirreled away:
Two great giraffe swizzle sticks that were confiscated by someone whose names rhymes with “Smella” - A nickel each (though now that I search online I see they care fairly common, and I want to buy a million and line them up on the window sills of my house.)
A couple shopping bags full of baby/toddler clothes (now in the washer): Both for Ella, Cricket and for a friend who is due soon - $5
A bead wreath thing that I did not being into the house because I knew Tom would roll his eyes and ask “Another?” because I have about 7 and have no real plans for them. But hot damn they are cool! - $1
A bright red purse, and a handful of costume jewelry - $1, also confiscated by Ella.
So that puts me at what, $18.35? Not a bad day’s work. There is always tomorrow for that last $1.65 - I’m sure it will be something I neeeed too, right?
