$52.50

Today was a great day for yard selling! We got in four good hours before the rain started and boy, did we get some AWESOME deals! Enjoy!



$4.00 - a soccer goal and a toy chest for B. B loves to play outside, and the soccer goal will be a great addition to our outdoor toys!



$3.00 - Four Barney books, two Sesame Street books, two James Patterson books (for hubby) and a cookbook for me. We are all about Barney and Play with Me, Sesame at our house these days! B loves the books already!



$2.50 - Seven DVD's, including We are Soldiers with Mel Gibson, a Baby Einstein DVD, a Mommy and Me DVD and four Baby Prodigy DVD's. 'Cause I'm raising a child prodigy, you know. :-)

$5.00 - A very nice mirror that needs no work at all. Just need to figure out where I am going to hang it!

$22.00 - A huge bag full of baby girl clothes and a few maternity things for me. Can I just tell you, baby girl clothes are so much harder to resist that baby boy clothes! All of the clothes I got were name-brand clothes like Gymboree, Carter's, Children's Place, etc. Quite frankly, places I've never shopped in my life - I can't stand to pay retail prices for kids clothes when I can get them at yard sales for next to nothing!

$1.00 - An entire box of like-new books for B. Wow! I counted, and there are 57 books in this box. They are all Disney (Mickey Mouse and friends, Winnie the Pooh) and a series called Child's World. All of those books are lessons about different things like colors, shapes, months of the year, etc. And I got the entire box for $1.00!! That equals out to 1.7 cents each!! And they are seriously like-new - no tears or markings in them or anything! I am stoked!!

And my very best deal of the day...

$15.00 - An entire Christmas Village. Seriously, you ask? Yes, seriously! There were 45 "big" pieces (houses, churches, schools, post offices, general stores, etc.) and two boxes of "little" pieces (decorational items like people, cars, etc). All of it for $15.00!! That could be the deal of the summer!! It equals out to 33 cents per "big" piece. Can you belive that?? It's craziness!!

All in all, not a bad day if I do say so myself!! If the weather holds out, we plan on having our annual yard sale at Mom's house next weekend, so come out and get some great deals!! We price it cheap and will most often negotiate!!

$33.55

Yard sale season it upon us, so it's time for me to start blogging about all my great finds! We've already been yard selling for a couple of weekends, but I forgot to write down/take pictures of what I bought. So we'll just start with this week! Here we go...


$1.80 - Seven picture frames. I always pick up cheap picture frames at yard sales - I usually paint the frames a different color (most always black), and I love to display pictures in my home.


$1.00 - a book for B, a Vince Flynn book for myself and a cookbook with recipes cakes, cookies and pastries. Yummy!


$2.25 - a Pier 1 mirror (it's supposed to be to put candles on, but I am planning on hanging it in my bathroom), two Christmas CD's and a new candle for the $0.25 outdoor candle holder I bought last week!


$5.00 - a like-new Little Tykes swing for B/the new baby. These things sell for $26.00 at Wal-Mart!

$1.50 - Two miniature Christmas trees for my front porch and another (not pictured) 4-foot Christmas tree with lights. The top part of it is slightly broken, but it's nothing a little JB Weld won't fix! :-)

$3.00 - A pair of Motherhood Maternity capris, a Duo Maternity shirt and a Motherhood Maternity shirt. Love getting maternity clothes for cheap!

$16.00 - A ton of clothes for our new yet-to-be-named baby girl that is due in October! The stash includes eight complete outfits, two long-sleeved shirts and 12 onesies. I love onesies - Brady lived in these while we were at home!

$3.00 - Four shirts and two pairs of shorts for B. For some reason, I neglected to buy him many 2T short-sleeved shirts during yard sale season last year. So I am making up for it this year!

After we finished yard selling, we stopped by a consignment sale in Knoxville that my friend Ashley told me about. We went during the half-price time, and I bought a ton of little girl clothes and a pair of Crocs for B for $20.75. My Mom also bought a bag full of girl clothes for $11.50. We really racked up!

That's it for my first yard sale post of the season! Look for many more to come!

$27.75

When we woke up this morning, we saw this:



This picture doesn't really do justice to what we are experiencing here in East Tennessee today. Rain. More rain. MUCH more rain. Being the dedicated yard sellers we are, we were determined to hit an annual neighborhood sale here in our town. Despite the torrential downpours we had, we came away with a few bargains!

$7.50 - Eight pairs of shorts, three shirts, a Tennessee hat and a sweater vest for B. I usually do better on clothes for him at this neighborhood sale, but the rain kept a lot of people from having a sale.


I didn't get a shot of the hat in the picture above because a certain toddler already had it on his head!

$5.00 - Six shirts for hubby. We scored this really nice Rockwood Tigers sweatshirt for him for $0.50! We've been going to some of their football games recently, so this was quite a find!

$3.50 - Two shirts, two scarves, a pair of Nine West shoes and a super cute skirt for me! Woo hoo!!

$0.50 - An assortment of gift bags. These are always useful, and I hate paying retail price for them. Most of them are Christmas bags, but a few will work for any occasion.

$7.00 - A lamp for C's room and three fish decorations for B's bathroom.

$4.25 - A handy Tupperware container, two candles (both brand new!), a candy thermometer, a coloring book, number flash cards and a picture collage that holds six pictures. One of the candles is a Christmas candle and the other one is from Kirkland's!

Fall is in the air. Football season is in full swing. Yard sale season will soon be coming to an end. Sigh...

$32.75

We were up at 6:30 this morning getting ready to head out to yard sales. Hubby said we probably should have stayed in bed! We didn't do great, but not terrible either. We hit four neighborhood sales in the big city, though, so I was expecting awesome deals. Oh, well - hopefully we'll have better luck next week at the annual neighborhood sale! On to our deals for this week!

$14.00 - A ton a clothes for me! I got three Old Navy collared pull-overs, a Ralph Lauren collared pull-over, two Limited short sleeved shirts, a Banana Republic long sleeved shirt, a pair of Limited blue jeans and two cute skirts. All for $14.00!! I love ritzy neighborhoods when they have clothes in my size for cheap!


$4.00 - A brand new Chicago Cubs t-shirt for B. Okay, this one was a splurge, more than I usually spend, but we have been looking at these online and they are $13.00 new.


$4.00 - Two stay-cold bowls and two barely used candles. I love candles and I really love them when I get them for next to nothing!

$1.75 - Two cookbooks and a basket of golf tees for hubby. The basket also had a golf ball in it. There are really cool tees, too. Hubby was happy!

$3.00 - A Kolcraft stroller for B. I have a stroller this size that I use when we go yard saling, but the wheels were really out of whack and hard to turn. I scored this like new one for $3.00!

$6.00 - A Little Tykes tunnel and a Hop-a-Roo for B. He'll have a lot of fun with both of these!

$33.70

Tomorrow is Ladies Day at our church and I won't be able to go yard "sale"ing, so Mom and I decided to go today instead to get our weekly fix! I thought I'd share my deals for the day! We went to a neighborhood sale in our town and then headed to the big city and hit some up there.

$9.00 - Three shirts for hubby. One is Gap, the other two are Izod. Nice brand name clothes, bargain prices!


$2.25 - Four candles. The orange one in the middle has never been used! One is almost 1/2 used and the other two are barely used. They have good life left in them!


$2.75 - A trash can for C's room, a size 4T pair of short overalls from Old Navy for B (hey, he'll grow into them!), a pair of Naturalizer shoes and three packs of blank note cards.


$2.20 - Tons of books for B. I even got a couple of teaching books to get ideas from for when he gets older.

$2.50 - A small Little Tykes tool bench, a Fisher Price car that makes noise, a sand bucket and a huge bag of HUGE blocks for B.

$15.00 - A 5-gallon bucket FULL of golf balls for hubby. And I got the bucket, too! :-)

I hope to make this a weekly post with all my good deals. I got the idea from Raechel at http://www.raechelmyers.blogspot.com/. Hop on over to her blog and check her out!

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