Back to Yard Saling!

I am not quite as devoted to yard saling as I used to be 1) because the city I live in doesn't do a very good job with them and 2) because I like being home with my kids on Saturday morning.  So my recent plan has been to those only nearby and only with good-sounding ads.  Saturday, I was pretty happy with my spoils:

 1. Lots of little girl clothes. These were $1 each, but they were in excellent shape (some even had the tags still on) and Lucy is in desperate need of 9 month clothes.  I went ahead and picked up some 12 months stuff too, because our 7-month old is in 9 months and growing bigger by the minute.  You'd never know that girl was a premie!

 2. Little girl dresses. $2 each.  The front one is SO ADORABLE and will be what Lucy wears to our Fourth of July parade.  The back two were adorable and from the UK (the lady who was having the sale had a cute little British accent, and since I am obsessed with anything British, I probably would have bought these from here even if they weren't adorable.)

3. 4T Winter Coat. This was $2 and in good shape.  I'm putting it in Charlie's 4T winter clothes bin for next year. 

3. 4T shirts and bike helmet. The helmet was my main score here - $2!  We are hoping to get him a bike this summer, and helmets can be expensive!  The shirts were $.50 each and will also go in his 4T bin, though he can probably wear the polo this summer.  Being a tall boy, 4T shirts fit!

 4. Mixing bowl with a spout and Pampered Chef onion-chopper thing. $.10 and $.25, respectively.  I am particularly excited about the chopper!

 5. YELLOW filing crate! In the front of my classroom, I have five crates like this - one for each class I teach.  I color code them - 1st hour is red, 2nd hour is yellow, 3rd hour is green, 4th hour is blue, and 6th hour is purple.  I use these colors for all kinds of things, but the colored crates are to hold their ISNs.  After searching the stores far and wide to find a yellow one for my 2nd hour, I had to go with this:

It irked me that my crates didn't correspond with my color scheme.  The yellow crate above was actually being used to prop up a table and was not for sale, but I explained about my search for a yellow crate, and being kind, good-hearted people, they let me trade them my ugly black one for their beautiful (albeit a little dirty) yellow one.

A great success! TOTAL: About $22.