Good Deals

I love a good deal! I especially love garage sales, trash pick-up day (yup, you can laugh!), and clearance racks at Target and Kohls. Check out a couple of the good deals that I've found lately:

I found this in somebody's trash a couple of weeks ago on trash pick-up day. It's a huge toy so it's a great one to stay outside. Also, on trash pick-up day I got a little tricycle out of the trash for Samuel and an adorable little red table (that I'm in love with!) for the kids to sit at. The tricycle was the one that Samuel learned how to pedal on. He got a lot of good use out of it until the other night when he was riding it around the driveway and the front wheel fell off. Oh well, I guess that's what happens when you get your kid a tricycle out of the trash!! We put it in the trash and now Samuel tell us that the stinky truck took his tricycle away. Now he rides his pink tricycle from his cousin Jordyn. He loves it! Phew. :)

This was my Mom's big find on trash pick-up day. It was so big that it didn't fit in her van! She had to have the people whose trash it was in put it in their truck and drive it to my house! They were an older couple and they were both thrilled to see Samuel and Hope so excited over their new playhouse. It was filthy but it cleaned up quite nicely and is a great little house for the kids to play in!

Garage sales are definitely my favorite place to find good bargains. So far this year I've found a lot of books and some clothes for the kids and other odds and ends. But my best find of the year so far was this tonka loader. It was priced at $10 but they took $5 for it. When I brought it home and showed it to Samuel he gasped and went "wow!" It didn't even take him a day before he learned how to work it all by himself. It goes perfectly with his tonka dump truck that my Mom found last year for a crazy steal of only 50 cents!!