Thursday

My message boards are currently down (they are doing some upgrade or whatever). Hopefully they will be back up shortly. Will post some pics of my upstate NY trip soon, along with some pictures of some garage sale buys. I don't have time to do it now, I need to get to sleep.

Wednesday

I am beat. I got back home this evening from upstate NY - drove 500 miles today and then unloaded my car. I should have packed lighter. I didn't use half the stuff I brought. Will write more (hopefully) tomorrow. My husband said he's invited people over to watch the Vikings on Friday so I need to unpack all my crap and find a home for the new stuff I bought. And clean the house. And catch up on sleep. Most nights I didn't go to bed til after 11pm and was up at 6am with Jacob.

Sunday

Last few days have been busy. On Friday my son Jacob (5 years old) had a bunch of dental work done - on baby teeth! Had to be at the hospital at 6:15 am, (he was put under general anesthesia). I am glad that is over with - he and I are leaving in a few days to visit my mom in upstate NY for about a week or so. School starts on the 23rd. I hope there are some good garage sales while I am there - I absolutely love the garage sales in my old hometown.

On Saturday I had a yardsale with a friend. I finally sold my Peg Perego stroller ($10). I bought it at a yardsale (for $20) when my son was a newborn. It was a very beautiful stroller, but it was an older model so it was bulky. The big drawback was the front wheels did not swivel - I guess it was made more for leisurely strolls down long and straight sidewalks than navigating thru the mall. I also finally sold a big remote control robot (called Emiglio) for $10. I was yardsailing with my mom when she bought it for $1 and made me take it back to Maryland with me. My son didn't really play with it so I was glad to get rid of it (and make a profit). That particular robot is pretty common, so I probably wouldn't have made more selling it on ebay, (and none of the hassles of trying to mail it).

My friend really wanted to declutter and towards the end of the yardsale, she kept telling me to take stuff. So I ended up taking an old pie tin (I have some others), a nice memoryfoam pillow and a 70's Playboy. She was embarrassed to even try to sell it, so when I told her I have the biggest porn collection of any woman I know, she made me take it. I have cases of vintage Playboys and other lesser known girlie magazines that I've bought at yardsales. I'm not into looking at naked women, but I bought them to put on ebay since "sex sells".

Oh and she even put a "free" sticker on a bookcase and no one wanted it. I'm glad, since after I looked at it, I realized it would be great for Jacob's books and computer games. So I took that too! Here's a picture - I think 99% of the stuff on the bookcase was bought at yardsales! The only thing that I know wasn't, was the Rolie Poly Ollie. And that's not even all of this books, he has a ton more.

Wed.

I started to freak out late last night when I started wondering if my free trial of Big Brother Live Feed was for 14 days or just 10. Not that paying $12.99 would bankrupt me, but I really didn't want to pay for it (in order to get the free trial I had to give them a credit card #.). Plus, my husband kept reminding me, "don't forget to cancel the Big Brother thing". And I didn't want to hear him say "I told you so". Long story short, I do have a 14 day trial and not 10 so I didn't go over. When I was talking to the Customer Service Rep she said she'd be happy to extend my free trial for a full month, just so I would have time to access all their features yadda yadda.

For those new to my blog, since my son is out of school for the summer, I haven't been thrift store shopping like I do the rest of the year.

I am planning on having a yardsale this Saturday with a friend. So I really have to get my crap together for that.

Tuesday

I am a big reality TV addict. For the past week or so I have been watching the live feed for Big Brother. I got a free 10 day trial - at least now I know for sure I would never pay to watch it. When Julie Chen says "watch the Live Feed 24/7" - that is such bullshit. Whenever they don't want you to see something, they just focus all the cameras on the fishtank with a "Be Right Back" message. Or even if the cameras are on, the cameras can be focused on an empty room. Or the opposite - they are all together talking over each other so you can't make out what they are saying. And on top of that one of them will be washing dishes, so all you hear is the water running.

My printer is out of ink (for the first time). I went to Walmart today. If I bought all 4 cartridges at Walmart, it would cost around $60. I checked eBay and bought 8 cartridges for about $16 including shipping. Of course it's a generic brand so I hope they work. Once school starts back up, I plan on doing a lot of ebay selling, so that means I'll be printing out a lot of shipping labels.

Also at Walmart I bought a ton of glue sticks for .20/pack. My son enjoys gluing little foam shapes to construction paper. I figure it's good for his eye-hand coordination. Well anyways, after he goes to bed, I soak the construction paper in water and all the foamies come right off. So then the next day, he's ready to glue them all over again. No, I'm not that cheap that save and dry the construction paper - I have a huge stack of construction paper (bought at a yardsale for a buck a while ago).

I forgot to mention my yardsale buys from last Saturday. Not much - for some reason there weren't many yardsales nearby but my thrift was having a half priced day. I bought: .25 Salad Shooter, .25 vintage Pappy Parker Chicken House advertising doll, .25 vintage Little Sprouts doll, .25 Gund Stumpy frog plush, .25 small cast iron pan.

First day of new blog

Well I decided to switch to a "real" blog instead of just updating my blog that I started at http://www.yardsalequeen.com/yardsalediary.htm Now if you have a comment, you can leave a comment. Eeek, I hope that will be a good thing.