imple Vegetarian | Yard sale haul

We spent numerous hours the previous day and these days treasure looking on the town-large backyard sales. Because there are such a variety of income spread all across the town, we took a systematic method to try to hit as many of them as fairly viable. First we took the list and the paper map that the outdoor sale organizers (a close-by realtor) supplied and marked them as an awful lot as discover the areas with the very best recognition of sales. Then we would force to the ones areas (with a purpose to have the auto accessible if we picked up some thing big), park somewhere near a possible-searching sale, and begin roaming up and down the streets, finding out each sale we handed in turn. At first, it appeared like we had been going to have poor searching, because Saturday morning saved threatening to rain, and so a number of the scheduled profits hadn't materialized (and a number of folks who had installation brilliant and early had been unexpectedly trying to carry subjects again in or cowl up all their items with tarps). But in the long run the climate cleared up, although it became although so humid that we observed ourselves carrying out lengthy in advance than we'd exhausted the viable profits. Today became a lot nicer?Clear and not too warm?And we were in a position to test out all of the regions with Sunday-only income.

So how did we do? As you can see in the picture at right, we brought home a pretty good haul. Our best find was the kneeler chair, which we picked up for 10 bucks at the Reformed Church rummage sale. (We also got a back pillow there that can be used in a normal chair--that's the black square at the back of the pile.) This will allow Brian to sit in good spinal alignment at both work and home. But we also found some other great stuff at good prices, including:

• a bicycle pump that will work with Brian's new bike
• five board games—some to play at home by ourselves, some that can be played with a group
• four books, including an amusing little hardcover called Uppity Women of Medieval Times and a selection of short stories called English Country House Murders, which should be good for reading aloud in the car
• a set of computer speakers for a friend who needs some
• a nice pair of silver-and-paua-shell earrings for me
• various gift items, including some clothes and accessories for our nieces, some blocks for one of our nephews, and one other item that isn't in the picture because a certain reader of this blog is not allowed to see it yet

Altogether, we spent $32—pretty good considering that the chair alone would cost over $70 new and the various board games sell for anywhere from $22 to $75 at Amazon.com. Three of the four books were actually free; we came across a yard where there was just a tarp spread out, covered with books, and a sign saying, "FREE." People were stopping and saying things like, "Are these really all free?" and "Well, I can't say no to free!" But Brian said the chair alone was enough of a find to make him consider our weekend of yard-saling a success.

One extra note: those who read my closing put up could be conscious that our outdoor sale haul did now not consist of a suitable subject to apply for compost within the upstairs bath. However, the sales did offer us with an concept for such a container. At one sale, there has been a huge container whole of all forms of Tupperware and comparable boxes, which incorporates severa empty Blue Bunny ice cream cartons. Unlike maximum