| | First a reminder / clarifier, "Date Day Friday's" are NOT a 'theme day' from blogland. They are just something Brian and I started doing several years back, to a) actually spend time together, and b) to help keep our marriage a marriage. And as I've said before, you are welcome to copy any and all of our ideas. ;-} A week ago Friday we were out of state due to the arrival of our grand-baby (have I mentioned that before? o:-} ). Friday morning we had gone back up to the hospital. Hospitals no longer have set "visitor hours" per say, but most maternity wards now have no visitor hours which they dub "Mommy and me time". Analyse was still in the nursery hooked up to the heart monitor, but Cyndi was looking mighty tired (let's see, labor induced at 6 a.m., builds into FULLY registering labor, but only dilates her to 3 by 6 p.m., they then make phone calls and do a C-section . . .reason she hadn't been dilating was due to the size of baby's head - and how it had been wedged in putting pressure on dilator so it couldn't work . . . yup, Cyndi was exhausted!!) so we chose to leave for awhile. We went out for lunch, and then while we were driving towards something we had wanted to check out "on one of our visits", when we drove past this estate sale sign. How did you guess that we decided to go have a look see? o;-p In one of the upstairs bedrooms I was ever so tempted to start nabbing things left and right. Scarfs, dresses, the (to me) funniest shoes, gloves, hats galore (very old to older fashions), 'old lady coats', all kinds of things which would be wonderful in a dress-up kit!!! And while their prices were not unreasonable, they were not conducive to that type of nabbing, especially in our current financial situation. Aw well. But we did walk out with a few good finds :-} #1 was a good size pot with a matching lid. Perfect height and roundness for big batches of spaghetti noodles, or pots of soup, or ... . And it's in really good shape - no rust or 'burnt on-ness'. The price - $3.00. #2 - I found hanging on the basement wall, sort of back behind the furnace. It's a (technical word just left :-/) metal "thingie-ma-bobber" to cook fish in over a fire pit. The price - $2.00. Brian bet you could also toast garlic bread in it. And #3 were two wall mountable metal coat hooks. The price - 50 cents (total). The next day when B2 & 4 (two of "our boys") got in the truck, they just shook their heads at us and our 'treasures'. :-b. 
This past Friday we were headed to the bank when we passed a hand made cardboard estate sale sign. But we really needed to get to the bank! However, after all of that was handled (but the cashier still not having done it right 8-/), we looped back to the estate sale before heading to our next errand stop. Turned out that it was day three of what seemed to be a family run estate sale, and they said that prices were half off, or make us an offer. Okay!
I found a very pretty, good sized oblong blue tablecloth, with eight matching napkins. Once I got them into a room with better lighting, I noticed that two of them were quite stained, and two more were lightly stained. Since I had seen no posted price for tablecloths, we decided to wait and see what price they quoted us. Brian said that we could always just make sure the two of us got the really stained ones, and if we needed to use all eight, serve the meal by candle light o;-p.
From the kitchen utensil box I nabbed a small sized icing spatula, a pie server, and what we call a long spatula (which by the way, in case you don't know, work GREAT for getting brownies out of the pan ;-}).
Then in the basement I found a wooden box. As many of you know, y-e-a-r-s ago, when I could not seem to keep young sons from driving their cars on end and coffee tables, etc. I returned them to my mother-in-law and replaced the end tables with wooden crates. Cars and trucks on them didn't matter, I could set my Pepsi down any 'ole where, and they worked wondrously as highly accessible book cases for children's books. (The coffee tables spot was filled by the old steamer trunk some friends of my family had gifted me.)
Now that "the boys" are grown, Brian has inquired if I would like to replace my crates. But I have become quite fond of them. They definitely fit in with a more 'casual country' look. And now "the boys" can set their pops down any 'ole where ;-}.
We wandered back through, but nothing else caught our fancy, so we went out to the porch to see what prices they would quote. She looked at everything, and said $3.50. For everything! DEAL!!! :-D !!!   
I am going to attempt to link this up to ~ "Today's Thrifty Treasures", which are hosted by Rhoda, at 'Southern Hospitality' (http://southernhospitality-rhoda.blogspot.com). While I listed how to do so via 'Mr. Linky', I have never actually done so myself . . . not to one particular post anyways . . . well see how it goes . . |
