Garage sailing!

It’s Saturday today and you know what that means – Garage Sales! We got up, had breakfast at our nice kitchen/camping table and headed off in search of garage sales! We grabbed a paper and punched the addresses into our GPS and we were on our way! About five hours later we had purchased, a microwave, a coffee maker, glasses, mugs, a book shelf, a side table, an ironing board, a garbage can, a PAMPERED CHEF pot, a large picture, a few other items and A FAN (thank you Jesus!) all for about $60! But we still didn’t have a couch…We had almost given up but thought we would check out the Salvation Army one more time to see if anything new had come in since the day before. Sure enough, we went in and saw a couch set that apparently someone had literally just dropped off! I asked the lady “how much?” and she looked the set over. I was expecting her to say maybe $150 if we were lucky and then she blurted out “I’d say $75”, I looked at Carl who nodded his head and I looked at the lady and said, “Consider it sold!”. For another $20 our beautiful baby blue, micro suede couches were delivered to our door! They are actually in pretty good shape, originally from Sears and very comfortable! Carl also found a couch side coffee table out by the garbage that was in bad shape but he brought it in. We figured out that the person that put it together obviously wasn’t familiar with the Ikea way of doing things and so Carl took the thing apart, put it back together the right way, and now we have a nice little coffee table! The day was a success! The weather has cooled down considerably! It rained a little last night and today there is a surprisingly cold breeze blowing about! We got our phone numbers changed so if you didn’t get the email with our new numbers and address, let me know! We also discovered calling cards! For $5 we get 125 minutes of long distance – 4cents a minute! I’m sold! Now we are just waiting to find a deal on Internet and get that hooked up so I can post these blogs on the day I write them!