Saturday Yard Sale Finds

Joining the party over at Southern Hospitality! Everybody's talking about their yard sale finds from this weekend!

Another successful Saturday morning for Mom and I! We found 22 yard sale ads in the paper and made it to them all! We always start by looking in Friday's paper for the Saturday only sales. We don't like to waste our time on the sales that started on Friday. Mom highlights all the Saturday only ads and then she comes over and we start printing out maps. We print a page for each address, if we have several that are in the same area then we list them on the same paper. When we are done printing out all the maps then we plan our route! We start at 7:15 or so and go until around noon. We do have to stop and take a sausage biscuit break around 10 o'clock - you know, to keep our strength up!

I usually take around $20 in cash. This time I found some pretty cool things! I like to buy plates, candle holders, art, seasonal stuff, foliage and baskets! I also try to find something neat for the kids. I picked up a Star Wars Monopoly set for our son for $1. I got the cutest bowl and plate with colorful cats painted on them for $2.50. They already have a hanger on the back and I plan to hang them in my sunroom.

I also scored a glass Christmas cutting board for $2. I can just set it out on my kitchen counter out during the holidays in place of my current clear cutting board. I thought that was pretty neat. It is definitely something I wouldn't normally buy in a store.
I got these wire chicken shaped baskets filled with real eggs that I am going to use above my hutch. Not sure where that cute fat cat is going to go. I guess he is meant for the garden, but he is cute enough to live in the sunroom, too.
The fall mums are a matching pair. I will find a good use for them, maybe as a centerpiece on my dining room table.