I found out about a garage sale yesterday at work that sounded pretty good. If I got my story right, there are a couple of sisters that go out and find treasures. They keep them in a barn until they have a bunch of stuff and then they have this garage sale. So I guess you can kind of call them Girl American Pickers.
So the alarm was set this morning and it had just started to snow, but I really wanted to go so I started the pickup and put my boots on. When I told Daryl that I needed to take the pickup this morning for a garage sale, he was wondering just what in the world did I want to buy? Well I knew that they had some old school lockers on it and I’ve been trying to buy lockers for at least 5 years now. I think they’d work good in the Roadhouse for the toys. So thinking how big the lockers are, I knew that I figured that I should be prepared.
This is an annual garage sale and it’s held in the Community Center in a town close to us. So when I pulled up with our pickup, there was about 10 cars with people waiting inside them just watching for the doors to open to the Center. Then it happened, people were starting to get out of their cars and the door was opened and they were ready for the sale. When I walked in the very first thing that I saw was the school lockers. I took the sign off and gave it to the people running the sale and said sold. Whew! Now to look around. My heart was just pounding just seeing all the cool old stuff that they had. But I knew that I wanted to be selective and after I swung my purse around to my back.. I went in to the crowd. It was AWESOME!! I ended up making a pile along the wall by the sales table and tried to keep a watch so no one would accidentally walk away with what I wanted. Now to my defense there was others who were making these same type of piles. But I did catch someone wanting to go through what not only my stuff but another ladies, so I tried to sound ‘nice’ and said that those are items that someone else was buying. I really wanted to say Back Off! After my first initial look around the room, I did walk around at least two more times in the hall to see if there was anything else that I just had to have. Then I checked out just what was on my pile and made the final decision if I should keep it or put it back. And guess how long this whole thing lasted? only about 30 minutes. I ended up putting a couple of record albums back because they were scratched. But that was about it. Either I was careful on how much I was going to buy or I was selfish and didn’t want to put anything back. My vote would probably be the second one. I laughed when some lady asked if I was going to trap rabbits. Now I wasn’t sure why in the world she was asking that and then she pointed to the cage that I bought and said, ‘you know rabbit cage’. Well, I didn’t really know what in the world this was. I just knew that it looked pretty cool and I’m sure that I just had to have it. I ended up only spending around $100 and came home with an old blanket from the 50’s, a very heavy old decorative mirror, a shelf for the craft room, 2 records for Daryl, 1 record for a friend, a Stop Sign for the Roadhouse, rabbit cage, an old milk can (I think?), a mission style wooden rocker, old Presidential pins for Kyle, and oh yea… 2 sweet lockers 🙂
Good thing that I had the truck this morning!
Pins for Kyle
The front of the cab was pretty full
Since I was still all juiced up about the garage sale and my good luck when I got home, I sure got a lot done today. I worked on some laundry and cleaning and then this afternoon we were invited to our first wedding of the year. Below are the cards that I made for it. We needed to have one and so did Kyle. 
