Category: Yard Sale Adventures
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Second Hand Buying: The Chess Set Continued
Tweet So after my little rant the other day, I thought I’d update you on my little craig’s list adventure. Mr. Chess set guy did come back to me with a price that was $5 lower than his original offer. Due to sheer laziness (he was in town and the others were a drive), I…
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Little Discoveries while cleaning at Babci’s
Tweet I can’t believe 2 months have gone by so fast. Babci is coming home from Poland this Saturday and we’re all looking forward to her return. She may even come home to a bathroom that doesn’t have rotten+moldy shower walls, a tub that drains and a new non-stained toilet that has a toilet seat…
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Dumpster Diving: Babci the Golfer?
Tweet It’s exciting times on Babci’s Street. You see, one of her neighbors is moving out of town and has made a gigantic “free” pile in front of their house. To Babci, this is like Christmas. To my husband and I, we cringe and hope she shows some restraint. You see, Tuesday is garbage day…
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Favorites 9/14/10 + article Shabby Really is Chic
Tweet I noticed an amazing thing this weekend in my area. As you may have recalled from my Dumpster Dilemma post, I was contemplating manually gutting without a dumpster. Well, majority ruled in that case and dumpster it is. Now, that doesn’t mean that I can’t start my scrap metal salvage plan a little early. …
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Yard Sales – Haggling Nickles
Tweet My mother doesn’t ask for much. One thing she asks me for all the time is to go to tag sales. It’s something I enjoy as well, but with our summers being so short, there are many competing activities that we like to do on Saturday mornings. But this Saturday the stars aligned, the…