Rain came down all day
Why go out to garage sales?
All the more for us.
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The first neighborhood sale of the year was pretty good. It was indeed raining, but all the houses in this suburban neighborhood had garages, so it was business as usual.
Find of the day
The End of Silliness video
price - $2
no sale
All of the enjoyment we could have derived from this was captured by our camera. I love the horrified cucumber. Some kid will enjoy this.
Rusty cone top beers
price - 50 cents each
sold - the two on the left
When canned pop and beer first appeared, manufacturers didn't think the public would accept the packaging unless it was bottle shaped. They were wrong, so the age of cone top cans was brief. I bought a Falstaff and a Grain Belt. They're in lousy shape, but someone will want them.
Skull candle holder
price - 50 cents
sold
We already had the ghost, so the skull only added to our Halloween/Dia De Los Muertos decorations.
Bike alarm
price - $2
no sale
Imagine your annoyance if you jostle the bike next to yours in the bike rack and a little voice says, "I've been tampered with. Call the authorities! I've been tampered with. Call the authorities!" Sorry if you have and use one of these. All in fun.
5-gallon hydrogenated lard can
price - free
no sale
We just don't have room for it, but I just couldn't help but pass on the classic wording, "Clix. Ideal shortening. Refined Lard. Improved by hydrogenation." Hydrogenation, for the record is a way to make oil a solid at room temperature. Lard is already a solid at room temperature.
Tooled leather porta-bar
price - $2
no sale
Classic Mexican leather workmanship, and - yeahhh baby(!) - so 60s. Unfortunately, traveling and drinking went out of style a while back. We tend to stay at home for that.
Astroturf reindeer and swan
price - free
no sale
What my mother-in-law calls "arts and craps."
Two 5-lb ankle weights
price - $1 each
sold (both of course)
I need to get in shape for hiking this summer. I've heard these are bad for your ankles, but I'm wearing them now and I've already tried them on the stairs. It's like exercising without realizing it (my kind of exercise).
X-Large warm shirt
price - $5
Worth every penny, but that's what my mom sells them for. See Warm Shirts.
2 warm shirts
price - 50 cents each
sold (both)
An X-Large and a Large. This is exactly what we're looking for. Twenty-one shirts and counting, with plenty of weekends between now and when we need to haul them out to Colorado.
Two copper pots
price - $3 each
These require special care or they'll turn as green, but I like them because they distribute heat evenly. Even if I don't use them, they look like there's a chef around.
All you can eat fajitas
price - $11.99
no sale
Like with the lard bucket above, the wording "Per Person; Dine in only" just screamed out to be photographed.
Seriously, I could make any all-you-can-eat deal regret my existence, but I need to get in shape.
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To Buy or Not To Buy is a feature inspired by The Weekly Press Gathered Group. It appears every Sunday, and is a photo journal of what I did and didn't buy during the week.
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Comments: 19
"I'm being tampered with ..." indeed! I heard this pretentious alarm go off in a jag parked outside of a K-Mart. It's owner was mortified..
Shop on, Ron. There are many shirts waiting between here and there.
I got a am/fm radio hazzard light tool box combination (all in one) that was new in the box that I kept. I figured it will be great during huricane season. I paid $2 for it. Gotta love those sales!
i think that the alarm would make a great joke present. but the best joke present would be to leave the fake yard art in someone's yard. wake up, voila, you are arts and crapped.
great haul this weekend!! we got 5 books for $1. hardcovers, for lillie to read. everything else was awful. i should have had my camera - tht garage sale had over 500 pooh bears, stuffed. YIKES!
Jessie, what a hoot! I knew I didn't want it but how right I was, eh? Yes, even with the neighborhood sale in Fridley, the rain made it a bit hard. Janie and I like good neighborhood sales because we can take the wheelchair out and catch about 5 sales each time : )
Pam, it was so cool to see another yard sale journal posted! For those of you that may have missed it, there's more fun in Pam's post featured in Yard Sales & Stuff.
Pam, if your legislators are trying to raise money for a stadium, you could send them a small quantity of astroturf. Just kidding. Their usefullness to you and me has been exhausted.
The Astroturf reindeer and swan could have made some sort of holiday theme for the pato. I think I would have taken them for that price!
heh. your mother in law is a genius.