Our 400 Mile Yard Sale Treasures

So its time to reveal how we spent our nickels and dimes over some 355 miles (more if you count the off road neighborhoods.)

My Treasures

His Treasures

Don't include the mower.

Breaking down my pile of "stuff."

I call this my most unusual buy. $1.

I'm a sucker for kids (I'm guessing brother/sister 10/11 years old) trying to start a business which means they haven't been too busy playing video games and watching TV but being creative.  These billfolds were made from duck tape.  The red was simple and cost 25¢ while the others, they said, had pockets and an ID holder and cost $2.25.  No, it wasn't worth it, only worth helping them to at least pay their costs and not get discouraged asap.

 

 

By Price

From "Free Stuff" boxes. 

10¢ for each item. 

I forgot to include 3 pairs of heavy black socks. that were 10¢ each.

25¢ each item.

50¢ each item/bag.  

7 bags of scrap fabrics.  Saw one box of books labeled, "EX-wife's Books."

$1.00 each/stack. 

Never could get this group together.  Below is a retake and still forgot to put in the vintage manicure set.  Yard sales are the best places to get good old fashion tools that were built to last and cost far less, if you look, than in the store.  One guy called his booth "Man Stuff."  The thread magazines were the only thing I "dickered" on and got my price.  Tried on 2 other things and didn't get them.  In some cases you can just stand still and think about it and they'll come down on the price which sometimes comes at me unexpected, happily.

$1.50 each.  

The rack was my only goof up because, 2 yards later I could have gotten it for a $1.00.  So I was "tricked" on this one.

$2.00 each. 

 Bucket has no holes but the sprinkler can has a hole with a cork in the center bottom.  The carpenter's folding ruler was a "treat" because, I had turned down some that were more expensive and not white. 

$3.00 from Goodwill on Monday after the 400 miles.

$10

 "I've marked it down from 40 to 20 but I'm ready to go home and you can take it for 10," the man said.

$15 each.

 The most expensive purchase, and rightly so, was from my teenaged Granddaughter that lives very close to HWY 68 and had set up a sale, that I didn't know about, to make money for her class trip to Europe next summer.  I had in mind to paint these closet shutter doors white and set them on my deck.  Since, I've had many other ideas. 

All in all, I think I was "treated" more than "tricked" on this "trick or treat" adventure.

Coming up on another post, I'll show you the first thing I bought.  More of a story to go with it.

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