6-25-11

8:20pm

Mom, me, Tony and the boys went

to the church and neighborhood sale

this morning from 9-12:00pm.

I got 4 bags of clothes $1.00 for all.

.25 cents a bag!!

I ended up with in 4 Kroger bags:

for the boys- 

10 polo & t-shirts,

1 sweatshirt,

1 pair sweatpants

Tony-

2 polo shirts 

For myself-

1 pair of pants,

5 pairs of shorts,

1 sweater &

1 top.

2 baseball caps .10 cents each

9 pairs of socks .10 cents each

Mom got me a Yankee rose scented

candle at the church sale for .25 cents

and another cinnamon apple candle

at a yard sale for $1.00.

Avon Clearskin .25 cents.

I found one bottle on Ebay for $9.97!

Found at yard sale.

A bag of foam stamp snowflakes.

I looked all over the place last Christmas

for stamps just like these to make

my cookies with and couldn't find any.

.25 cents for the whole bag at a yard sale.

I was a happy camper!

Laundry hamper $2.00

found at church sale. 

Has a removable inner bag.

I also got a body pillow with case

at the church sale.  It didn't have a price

so when I was checking out the cashier

said $5.00.  I said, hmmm, I don't think so!

She quickly came down to $2.00.

Pool ladder found at yard sale.

Was $5 talked down to $4.

VERY good deal.

These Intex ladders sell for $40 to $50!!

 I find really good deals at yard sales.

Even though I think something is

an excellent price I ask if they would take less.

It never hurts to ask is my saying.

I'd say 95%

of the time it's worked for me

to get something lower

than their asking price.

And that was all for the sales today.

The rest of the afternoon we spent

mowing and weed whipping grass,

cleaning stuff off the carport and 

weeding out some of the shed.

And oh yeah, I crawled up on the roof

to blow off branches and helicopter

seeds that's been laying up there.

Also blew out the gutters again

because squirrels are chewing off

small branches and leaves to make

nests out of and they are making a mess.

Made a run to Tony's work

to dump a truckload.

 

It's also good to know steel scrappers

in the neighborhood because

they will come haul off anything

like fridges, microwaves, grills and so on

instead of waiting on bulk pickup. 

About 8:30-9:00pm this evening

some of the kids friends came over

wanting to jump in the pool after

probably playing basketball.

I warned them that the water had

gotten very chilly.

I haven't let our kids in it

in the past week or so because of it.

They didn't believe me and jumped in, lol.

Well let's just say they froze their 

woo hoo's off!!