Showing posts with label yard sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yard sales. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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) ...