Sunday, September 18, 2011

My Kind of Saturday Shopping

Randy and Denise (Nathan's parents) came to visit this weekend. The four of us left early Saturday morning to eat breakfast at Red Door Cafe (think country...rural...homeade sausage...homeade biscuits). Nathan and his dad went home and rode horses. Denise and I drove to Peachtree City to participate in my fairly new found hobby...yardsales.

When Nathan and I moved to Peachtree City, there were several pieces of furniture that we wanted for our home but we didn't want to spend money on furniture store prices. Thankfully we met Berry and Doris across the street. During our first conversation, I risked seeing their potential reaction and popped the question: "Do y'all ever see any yardsales in this area?" To my penny-pinching-delight, they smiled and replied "If you like yardsales then you should know this is the yardsale capital of the world!" I can forever thank Berry and Doris for teaching me the ins and outs of Peachtree City yardsaling. What a fun game!

  • Peachtree City yardsales are EVERYWHERE on the weekends.
  • Around Thursday you begin to see uniform signs pop up. Citizens have to buy the signs at City Hall. All yardsales are advertised uniformly. This keeps the town attractive, and also helps train my eyes to find these little treasure chests!
  • The sales usually begin at 8:00...and that means 8:00!
  • You can almost always count on finding great stuff.
We found
  • an elaborate iron hose holder
  • two natural looking topiaries
  • a box full of Christmas red berries. (I have to share the price on this one because I ended up keeping most of them...the whole box was $3.00!)
  • a little antique purse
A little later we visited the Junkin Junction...a flea market near home. We found three nice books for 25 cents a piece. But my favorite treasure of the day...

  • My Cedar Arbor for an extremely little amount of money. I can't wait to transplant my climbing roses beside it.
We found some really good deals and came home very happy; I learned how to bargain from Denise; and we made a fun memory...My kind of Saturday shopping.

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