Weekend garage sale check ins!

I haven't posted one of these for a while, though I do get out most weekends and always get something. No photos yet, as my desk top computer just died, and that's the one I use for uploading and editing photos.

Today was a community-wide sale in a nearby town. The day started off well, and I spent $7 at the first sale we stopped at, at a church along the way. I bought two beautiful, full, well made feather boas, one in green and black, and one in turquoise. I love boas for boudoir/glamour photography. I also got a pair of black, opera length gloves, a pair of black gloves with faux leopard cuffs, and a white and grey faux fur wrap. Lots of photo props.

I was lucky enough to find some of the things I have been on the look out for. One was a 20" leg lamp a la Christmas Story. That is dh's favourite Christmas movie. A couple of years ago I found a leg lamp night light that I gave him for a stocking stuffer and he loved it. If he hadn't been with me, I would have kept this lamp for him as a Christmas gift. I was happy to pay $4 for it and didn't even haggle on the price.

The same sale had fake designer purses, something else I'd specifically been looking for, for photo props (and to use). She had Prada, Chanel and LV, and was only asking $1 a piece. I bought all three, and they are decently made, for fakes.

I have been longing for a vintage vanity set for ages, but have never seen one offered for sale here. I was prepared to pay up to $20, should I ever happen to come across one. Today I found a beautiful set (brush and mirror, don't know if this one didn't have a comb, or if the comb was lost at some point) marked $5, that I got for $4. I am really thrilled with it, it is heavy and well made and in beautiful condition.

I bought a new in box set of three Nicholas Sparks novels that I will give to dd for Christmas, for fifty cents for the set. I bought her two more of his books for $1 that she can have now.

Just this past week I had been browsing Amazon, working on my Christmas wish list, and thinking that I'd like to start getting The Rockford Files on DVD. Lo and behold someone had the entire series, six box sets, asking $4 a season. I paid $20 for the complete set.

I paid $1 for half a dozen vintage handkerchiefs, and a vintage Italian silk gold and brown houndstooth pattern scarf.

I found an Eddie Bauer backpack for fifty cents, in good condition.

Dh had recently been looking for new sneakers in the stores. He found a pair of Reeboks for $1.50, in great shape.

I picked up four round, rusty red dinner plates for $2, and four square, sage green salad plates for $2. I already had larger white square plates for an earlier sale this season, and now have the three stacked as place settings on the dinner table.

Another thing I had thought I might keep an eye out for this season was cigar boxes, to use as photo props and decor items. They are usually priced more than I am willing to pay. Today I found some for twenty-five cents a box, and a couple had tubes in them as well. I bought six.

There were other things as well, but those the best deals, neatest things, and things I had specifically been hoping to find.

So, did anyone else get out this weekend? Visit the thrift store? Hold a sale of your own? Please share!