~Summer Shelf Decor~

Summer is here and it is time for new decorations for our shelf!  I went with soft and sophisticated for now…the flowers shown here I have drooled over at Micheals many a times but I’m just too cheap to spend $11.99 a stem!  So the other day at Goodwill on one of my Deal shopping trips I found a pot stuffed with a flower arrangement.  It was full of the EXACT flowers I had drooled over at Micheals…even the same colors!  It’s price?  $2.99.  I got 8 of the big stems and lots of little flowers and greenery as well, not to mention the actual pot and the foam inside.  It was a smoking deal!  So I tore it apart the other day and made my own arrangement in my own little vases and it looks great!!!  I’m so happy with how it turned out!

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I also got the Canvas print I had made of Ethan put up on the wall.  It is perfect and looks great!  I wish they weren’t so much or I would get more made!  It is a picture that we will love for many years…

I know I’ve said it before but I sure love having a house and being able to make it our own!  I’m super excited to get started on decorating the basement, I’ve got my ideas planned out and things ready to go, I just need to get the last coat of mud and the painting done so I can order my carpet!  So it’s going to be a couple months yet…argghhh!  I’m hoping that it doesn’t take all summer to get done but at the same time I don’t want to be in the house working all summer either…so it will get done around our fun time outside playing!  Which reminds me, I should take some pictures of the progress to share!  It is looking great down there, Randy is doing a great job!  But that’s it for now, hope everyone is loving the sunshine!

~Garage Sales etc Deals!~

Well we have had incredible luck with garage sales, Goodwill and Value Village this summer!  Every time I go out I set a goal of what I want to find…so far we have bought:

Electric Pressure Washer $25 – sell for $175 in store

Whirly Bird (Air thingy for roof) $25 – sell for $75 in store

Tupperware Jel-Ring Mini Molds – 6 Molds FREE w/ purchase of Whirly Bird – going for $37.50 on tupperware.ca

Scotts Spreader $30 – sell for $55 in store

Step2 Art Desk $25 – sell for $150 in store

Electric Paint Sprayer $10 – sell for $60 in store

Metal Sawhorse $5 – sell in store for $50

Foam Craft Sticker supplies $4 – sell in store for over $30

Picture Frames x 4 Wood frames $3 – sell in store for $40 at least

Cars themed table, picture frame $5 – probably $30 in store

Antique Wooden Airplane & Metal Farm Tractor $2 – going for around $200 on ebay

Tupperware Veggie Divider Dish (Value village) $6.99 – going for $50.75 on tupperware.ca

Various Flash Cards for Ethan $1.50 – going for like $10 each in store

LeapPad Learning System plus 2 cartridges $10 – going for around $75 for all

Leappad Cartridges x13 (Goodwill find) $9.99 – going for around $130

Tonka truck for Backyard $1.00 – going for around $20

Ikea Sun Light for wall (Thrift Store) $2.00 – going for $10

Huge Bag of Felt $3.50 – around $10 worth from a dollar store!

2-3”Binders + Portfolio(GoodWill) $2.97 – probably $25 at Walmart

Lawn Easter Decoration (Goodwill new in box) $3.00 – Reg Price $19.99 on box

VCR for a friend FREE – Reg Price $20 new maybe???

3 Chairs that match our Kitchen Table $9 – at Zellers they are $55 each!

That’s not all but a good portion of our deals..

Our Total Spent = $183.95

Store Cost = $1458.24

OUR SAVINGS = $1274.29

What did it cost us?  A little bit of gas, some money spent at Starbucks but we got to spend family time together, met some people, enjoyed the sunshine and in the case of the Value Village etc; we donated to a good cause!  A HUGE win overall!

What will we be doing for the rest of the summer on Friday night or Saturday morning?  Searching for deals!