GARAGE SALE SATURDAY WITH A VENGEANCE!

Hola!

Let me preface this post by telling you that today's garage sale experience was a rare one.  One where we met some totally great garage sale hosts AND the finds were spectacular-ish. 

So after a quick glance through the Garage Sale postings on Craigslist my eyes fall on these words:

"MAN'S GARAGE SALE" - To be clear - this equals my gateway drug for getting the hubby to accompany me on yet another treasure hunt.  This WAS quite possibly the garage sale from what my husband would consider heaven.  Two words:  Dirtbike stuff. 

So we mapquest the location and head to Destination Dirtbike.  We get there and the guy having the sale is quite possibly one of the coolest guys we've ever met.  He buys and resells repossessed dirtbikes and also has a huge selection of brand new dirtbike supplies/apparel.  AND he's hilarious.  Needless to say hubmeister bought a tail light thing for his bike and some pipe thing for his friends bike.  Both were new with price tags so I can confidently say that we got $110 worth of stuff for $45.  What?!

Ok enough about HIS finds.  On to me because, well, I'm cooler.

So we moved on to a garage sale held by two of the nicest gay guys I've ever met.  .  You could totally tell that these guys host some sweet parties and probably have some equally sweet friends.  They had SO much awesome barware that they have apparently received as gifts.  I even shared with them that I'd be writing about my finds on my blog and thanked them for helping me out.  This is what I found:

Totally sweet long stem champage glasses.  THESE suckers are having a coming out party for sure! 

SO EXCITED!

THEN because I'm awesome they gave me all of these nice glass candle holders for nada.  Sidenote: The two silver ones in the front have little stars etched in the silver so the light shines through them - totally perfect for Christmas.

We checked out approximately 2.7 million garage sales between a couple different subdivisions.  We even witnessed some garage sale/subdivision road rage.  Quick reenactment:

Scene:  Cars lining narrow street

Scene:  Man driving down street

Scene:  Lady driving towards man cannot get through

Man:  Sheepishly looks at lady

Lady:  Waits until they're right next to each other to roll down her window and casually says "Asshole" as she proceeds about her business

Now I am not one to buy clothes from a garage sale.   I think of a lot of dirty reasons why that is not a good idea.  But I happened to come across a couple cute shirts and decided what the hell.  At least if I can't get beyond my preconceived thoughts of dirty-ness, I can just take them to the thrift store since I'm only paying like 75 cents apiece.  Do enjoy...

This says "Staring won't get you anywhere."  I had to reassure the hub that this did not pertain to him because hey, after putting up with treasure hunting for almost FIVE HOURS... who I am to deny?

Then at some point I came across these little guys to add to my Halloween collection because I LOVE me some October 31st!

And then...  gotta add to the DVD collection since, ya know, I have time for that crap. 

(INSERT SARCASM)

And th-th-th-th-th-th-th-thats all folks!  Aside from the hub's dirtbike purchases, I got all of it for a solid $26.  Mission. Accomplished.

I hope you all are having a great weekend.  Its definitely nice to have some sunshine around these parts since its been nothing but rain, storms and wind this past week.  Get out and enjoy it!  Later lovers!