Dumpster Treasure

Blogging my last comments made me think of a time.......a long long time ago....when I was 15 or so...  My family went on vacation to the Hill Country of Texas.  Lots of sun, tubing, and trips to town.  Well the grown ups let us kids go to town by ourselves one day to get water balloons.  We decided dumpster hopping was a good use of our time to so we hit several hot spots behind some grocery stores.  We hit paydirt!!!!  Bags and bags of pork rinds, ruffles, and candy.  slightly expired but who cares.  We ate the candy and took our other finds back to camp.  We just sat the pork rinds on the counter and waited for the adults to dig in and they did.  Well we never told about where we got the pork rinds and they didnt get sick so cheers to us.

DUMPSTER DIVING FINDS YEAH

So got some cool dumpster finds lately.  Four bird feeders made of old fence boards, three nintendo systems complete with games(ebay all the way), two old lamps, and check out this story....

My friend, lets call her Martha, goes dumpster diving regularly.  She requests that I keep her hot spots a secret so I will however she found a stash of new chocolates in the box and everything.  They weren't even expired.  This is the good kind.  Homemade and sold at specialty stores.  There were about 100 of them all wraped individually still in date so I took them and sold them for her and she made $50 bucks.  One lady bought and ate some many she puked.  So trash to treasure comes in all shapes and sizes. 

 

Revival with Rhyme and Reason

Oh Glorious God!!!! Wonderful Jesus!!! Friday night started the Rhyme and Reason Revival at our church (Kenefick Southern Baptist Church). It was wonderful. Night one was about two mile christians. Wayne explained how most people only do what they have to and count their chickens hatched but we should push the limits of what we are suppose to do. We should always do all that we can do. In the Roman times Jews were made to carry loads for up to one mile if asked to by any Roman. S0 hence a one mile christian. A two mile christian is someone who is willing to carry the burden for two or more miles. Ok gotta go to work so I will blog latter about night two. May god bless your day.

My First Etsy Sell!!

Yesterday I sold my very first item on etsy.!!!! Yea Haw I am sooooooooo super excited. I listed it on saturday and it sold on sunday. This afternoon I am going to go Etsy crazy and list as many things as i possibly can!! Check out my pics to see what I sold. I painted the frames pink and then rubbed off some of the paint. Then I replaced the old pictures with small victorian reproduction cards of girls with flowers. I am going to make and list some more. Please check out my etsy shop to see all my great items! Ebay was so yesterday Etsy is the wave of the future!!! I can't wait to craft some more projects.

Whats worse than just wanting a garage sale. Dreaming you are at one. Last night I had two treasure related dreams. First I was at a garage sale and loading up on some great treasure only to be awaken by the cat (princess leia) curling up next to my head. Second I had a dream I caught one of my friends dumpster diving and she had so great loot! I was so jealous. This insanity has got to stop. I hit goodwill yesterday for 50cent clothes but it wasnt the same. I want variety. and that only comes with gsales. Well...ta ta for now.

Where have all the garage sales gone?

My family are avid garage salers. We stop at every sale we find. For the past couple of months there have been no sales. I have never seen a season like this one. I am so depressed. I WANT A GARAGE SALE!! Please dear lord oh please.

FAMILY JUNKY AUCTION NIGHT. YEE HAW

Every Wednesday is Family Junky Auction Night. We all pile into the local auction house to wage war on all the unsuspecting competition. They include the above left my sister Jennifer, my B-n-law Vernon aka Paul Bunyan, and my Niece Allison. And the top picture my daughter Hannah and my mom Marie. It's always an experience. Last night we only accidentally bid against each other once during the regular auction and then Vernon tried to steal some shabby chairs that I WON!!! How dare him. So on to the tables. Its like a game. There are about nine tables set up filled with all kinds of junk imaginable. New stuff and old. The auctioneer stands by a table and starts bids. The high bidder gets to pick one item off of the table. So one table had boxes of beanie babies. Yew Right? Well Hannah and Allison wanted some so I raised my hand to bid and one a box of 12 for $10. I almost had a panic attack. I actually bought beanie babies. Well Allison started throwing a fit so Vernon bought her a box but of course Hannah had the best box cause she picked first. So my idea was wait until we get home and divide them evenly. Wrong. The girls divided them and Hannah (to my minds eye) ended up with the junky ones. Of course I threw a hissy fit which caused a chain of hissy fits first Allison, then Jenny. Then Mom was embarrassed cause the whole auction heard us fighting over beenie babies. Laughable now but not then! Well no biggy they are used to our family drama. Usually its Jen and Vern fighting over some purchase he made that she crowned as JUNK. So I was thinking they should pay us for the entertainment we give them!! Mom didn't see it my way. Oh Well. Pictures soon of all my good junk. Kick your boots off and Take the road less traveled!