Oooops. I did it again.

Saturday I went back to the "Loop" sales, but there was only one more sale than the day before, so that was a let down. I didn't get out there until after 1:00, so that might hve been part of the problem. I found some HUGE fundraising sales in town first. The first sale was a bust - lots of girls clothes and shoes and not much else plus the 5th and 6th grade girls had priced things too high in the first place. DS bought a Beanie Baby for 25¢ and we were on our way. The next sale was in the Tractor Supply Parking Lot and was a fundraiser for the Cub Scouts. It was one of the biggest sales I have ever seen! It was huge. A lady approached me and said it was a fundraiser and to just gather up what you want and make an offer. Well, I hate sales like that because I am cheap, but I don't want to look cheap or offend anyone. Then she said that they would name a price and if we didn't like it we could make an offer. So, that gave me a starting point to work with - then she said, "Trust me, it will be cheap." All righty then. So, I gathered up some items that I knew I wanted or I could use. I had a cardboard box full plus DS had an armload of things (including one of his items - a set of Medical Reference Books). They quoted a price of $4.00 for it all. All righty then - that's cheap - let's go around again I told DS. That time I gathered up a big cardboard box full of items, a Wal-Mart bag full and an entire set of 1950's Golden Book Encyclopedias and the total was $5.00. I filled the back of my car for $9.00. Yikes.

Pictured here are some of my favorites. A lot of the stuff had been donated buy a lady that had a sale last weekend that I had gone to and got a lot of good stuff. I didn't buy some things last weekend because they were priced higher than I wanted to pay. But, this time I got it all. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not...

The big blue thing in the corner is a very old retractable clothesline. I've never seen one of those at a sale before. I think I'm actually going to use it. The most interesting thing I found was a stack of pieces of cardbaord like large business cards that say "Thank you for your business" from a dry cleaners and they had a sample piece of silk hankie attached to the top so you can put it in your suit pocket and have a hankie showing. I think I got about 20 of those. It's funny when you've never seen an item before and then you get twenty at once. I could have sworn I took a picture of those, but I guess I didn't.

This is my favorite find - an old pink metal trivet with the ceramic tile - I am totally in the pink mood now, much to DH's chagrin.


And this, a vintage Paris Souvenir - totally not my taste, but I think it will do well on ebay.


We're off to Toys R Us again today. I mentioned the Aspalt Fuzion Scooter that DS bought last week for $69.99. Well, it ws in the Ad yesterday for $49.99 so we are going to get a Price Adjustment for the $20.00. I'm teaching that boy right!