For the first time in many years, I went to some garage sales. Last weekend a friend of mine had one and I missed it because I was having lunch with another friend, but it reminded me to go. My Mom used to drag me to garage sales every weekend. If I remember correctly, both days of the weekend most of the time, although Sunday was less. Finally she got some friends who also went and thankfully went with them instead. They even started an estate sale business.
I didn’t much like going to garage sales then, mostly because it meant I had to get up early on the weekends. My Mom would also tell me the number of sales, but then if we saw signs we’d probably end up going to those too. I know how great they can be now, and yes we went to extra sales with the signs, although or max total was going to be five or six sales signs or not.
I really had fun today. I was telling Daniel that I had great memories of really good sales that my Mom had for her business. While the quality of today’s sales wasn’t that great, and I’m not that good at picking out the sales yet, it was fun, and I forgot how fun it is just to talk to people and get a closer look at neighborhoods and houses.
I bought a king sized comforter for when my mom comes to visit. It was very clean already and washing machine safe, so I can wash it. I may replace it because it is going on a twin bed (folded in half) but it was from the pottery barn and was only two dollars so I wouldn’t be losing much if I do find a replacement. I can use it on my bed too, I guess.
Daniel got a saddle stapler for a dollar and a painting of Jesus with some children for 75 cents. I think he’s going to use post-it notes to create text bubbles so we can all see the inspiring things Jesus would say.