Yard Sales and Thrift Shops....

I am addicted to good yard sales and thrift shops. We have many of both in our area (although yard sale season isn't year-round here due to cold weather November - March). This past weekend, though, there was an indoor yard sale at one of the nearby senior centers and it was a very good one. A friend and I visited that and got some good buys and then managed to find our way to one of the many area thrift shops. Look at this felted purse (zipper closure on top). Isn't it terrific? AND....it cost just $1. Since I know, and appreciate, the amount of work that went into making this, I realize I got a VERY good buy on this. I've decided I will share my bargains from yard sales and thrift shops on this blog periodically....because I have come to believe that many of you love finding such bargains, too! Tell me about one of the best thrift shop or yard sale buys you've ever made, okay? (And if you've never gone to either type of sale, you need to give it a try.....lots of fun to hunt out treasures there!)

Thrift shop goodies....

I just love, love, LOVE bargains...don't you? And...I love to check out thrift shops and yard sales and things like that. A few posts back, I told you about the neat, computerized light display my husband did here for the holidays. We have a food-collection bin out front each night. Today I took two full bags of the donated food to the food pantry, which is right by a thrift shop. SOOO...like a magnet, I was pulled into the thrift shop.

For Christmas Eve when I play bells at church, I had been looking for a white or cream-colored sweater (since we have to wear black and white). You'd think it was easy to find such a sweater, but it's not, I have discovered! (And...the few I found were horribly expensive...a purchase I can't justify since I won't wear it that often.) Well...lucky day for me....I found one at the thrift shop....very nice knit....extremely soft...great quality...with a pretty cowl neck AND it was only $1 as part of a buy one/get one special. What a FIND!!! Can you imagine??? I was a happy camper...for sure. I also got a two-piece sweater set (in mauve).

AND...I got two older (but nice) quilting books. That's them in the picture in this post today. The patterns in them are what attracted me...especially the patterns in the machine applique book. There are nearly 80 pages of patterns in that one book alone!!! WOW....fun times ahead for me!

So...I got all those goodies (the sweaters AND the books) for a total of just $4.75 today. I sure am glad I decided to go in there after making that food drop-off!!! :)