Yard Sailing

Tis the Season - the Yard Sailors are out!

Today I just got a few cheap books and some "decorative apple gifts" for my neighbor who has the last name of an apple. She collects that kind of stuff and sad to say, I help her hoard it. I am an enabler to her addiction. So I will wrap it all up and give it to her for Mother's Day. I got 4 new and wrapped shaped apple candles (for her screened in porch), two wooden carved apple cores, two wooden apple salt and pepper shakers and a wooden apple welcome plaque. Total spent $4.00.

Bonus in one of the books I got, a crazy note -- evidently two very young girls (tell by the handwriting and language) were mad at one another and asking why?, I love you stuff.

We also saw some people we have not seen in a very long time, so that was nice to run into them and catch up.

My husband got a FREE stool for his train layout. Yes, the layout is getting bigger than I would like it to be. But not only that, half the cellar (14 x 30 feet) and the entire third floor are his trains. He has mostly Lionel O and HO trains. He spends hours with them, fixing, painting, rewiring. (Last week we got him a nice Yield House pine work table/desk with shelves ($25.)) We got a nice clamp on snake lamp for $1.50 for his new work area this week.

I have Z scale trains. LOL -- I found a very expensive German Marklin set at a yard sale (upscale/posh/tony neighborhood) and when I asked how much the man said $10.. I said OK without hesitation! So I have a very nice small running set. I could put it in a glass case coffee table. I fell over at the price of a new engine at a recent train show but I am happy with my little Z set I got a few years ago. Z scale is great for someone who lives in a small space or just wants to take them out and play once in a while. They are big on detail it is amazing.

I also got a few wooden boxes I am going to "alter".

Funny thing I saw:
An elaborate 1990's reproduction Victorian Memory book -- while flipping through the lavish ornate artistic pages, it seemed empty till I came to a page with a small picture of "Billy" who looked about 5 or 6 still stuck in the album.

Desperate Sale
A young boy, about 9 or 10, marked down his wooden desk to $1.00 from $2.00 while we were looking at it trying to convince us to buy it like he was doing an infomercial.

But the laugh of the day.
At one sale there was a craft box filled with various supplies. I got some scrap card stock and found a set of artist brushes still wrapped from the store. Brushes are good for crafting or trains. So I asked how much. The gal said well, those brushes were expensive, $20. originally so I guess for everything $2.00. I pointed out the price on the brushes says they were $2.99 and showed her the price then laughed. So she laughs then says OK a dollar for everything will be fine.

This is the third week we went out sailing, but we have our list of what we are looking for.
Seems lots of people are going because after heating oil, gas, electricity prices and taxes went up -- people are looking for more second hand stuff than ever before.
All the furniture (lots of top quality named stuff) we saw was marked sold before we got to any sale.