yard sale season 2012.

This past Saturday was the official kick off of the 2012 yard sale season with (duh) the Lakeland Hills community sales. I often joke that abomination-of-a-development has it's own government and armed forces and such - but one Saturday a year in May I brave beige-coloured-house-hell and we pile into Stuart to see what we may find.

And this year ... this year was all about supplies for my growing wood shop.

A couple of nice wood handscrew clamps ($5 each) and a couple different corner clamps ($3 each or something I think) - those will come in handy if I am going to be building drawers. Just sayin' ... And a table saw jig for joinery (more on that three-dollar find in a bit). Oh - and the big spend ... $35 for a Dewalt 18-volt drill driver and charger (I blew one-fifty on mine - but now I can keep one in the garage and another in the house I guess - yeah ... ).

And then some random stuff -

Yep - some game for $2 called Constellation Station! For three bucks - the base for a craftsman table lamp (now just to find an art glass square shade - sort of like this). A cast iron skillet for fifty cents or something and some miscellaneous piano books for J (good ol' John Thompson!).

Not a bad morning - after going to the farmer's market here in town and getting coffee of course. Yard sales rule - looking forward to many more finds.

ps - something I really would love to find would be a vintage, industrial wall-mounted task light (I know I said wall-mounted - but they're hard to find) - like a for-real one - not an over-priced Rejuvenation replication (or one their buyers have found likely at a yard sale and are selling for eight hundred bucks) ...