I have to say that I usually have the best luck garage sale or rather rummage sale shopping with my sisters. Especially when I visit my sister in Wisconsin. It seems like a lot of the sales in my sisters area are called rummage sales.
Either way they have lots of great deals.
Maybe it is the two of use egging on each other to buy stuff but we always seem to come home with a car or in some cases a van load.
I didn’t think I could top my packing skills of last year.
Well I did this past weekend.
Who would have thought that you could pack 4 bird cages (2 jumbo, one tall and one smaller), a bust, frames, paper log roller, bridle, paper, stamps and 20 plants, most of them large, in one small car. We did it with a little bit of spare room, well the inside of one bird cage, in the rain to boot!
I didn’t think to take a picture before we started unloading. Here are some of the things we bought.
That bird cage is huge – I think 18” x 20” and probably 30” tall.
My sister may tell you that I pushed her out of the way, or rather held her in the car so I got to the round bird cage first. My story is that she stopped at the free pile grabbing a horse bridle giving me permission to get to the bird cages first.
Never fear, she went home with three bird cages while I only went home with one.
She did get even by making me dig up two trees from her yard so she could plant the new trees and shrubs we bought. I may have twisted her arm just a bit saying that I could pack them all in her car that was already full with four bird cages.
Oh, well, what are sisters for if not for encouraging you to do things you really want to do anyway…….
She did pay some ridiculously low price for this Twist-n-Shout hydrangea. I may have told her to buy each color they had but I’m sure she will thank me later when she is enjoying the blooms. :)
And just to show you how large the bird cages are – this one just about covers my patio table.
I’m not sure where this $2 beauty will end up but it is home for now.
Yep, you read that right. I snagged this two foot plus bird cage for $2 because they didn’t have clips for it so I’ll need to buy clips to hold the bottom on!!
Ok, don’t hate me too much. Seriously the country rummage sales in Wisconsin are rusty, gold mines with the greatest prices.
Now do you see why I might have held my sister in the car to give me a head start? To be fair, she was closer.
Who am I to begrudge her for stopping at the free pile to grab a horse bridle? She didn’t exactly loose on the deal. She went home with a lot more than I did.
I’m planning to show you more of my finds tomorrow.
I hope your treasure hunting went as well as ours did this past weekend.
June
I usually link to these fabulous parties:
I started with this carrier that was looking a bit bare. 
Not so bare now. 
I guess the coloring was a bit too much for the leaves and they were a bit wilted and soaked up too much color.
