Oh happy day

Here is the artist of the below picture. What signage! Who would not be enticed to attend such a sale?

Doesn't this sign just make you happy? What a fun yard sale start to the day!

Nancy, showing off the most purplicious shoe ever at the church sale (more on this later).

Here is Chris, a fellow school parent, beating us to these excellent tins. This was at an estate sale, which was of course excellent, judging by the quality merchandise Chris is sneaking away with under our very noses.

Here is the lovely school secretary also at the estate sale. She makes a mean Texas sheet cake. Seriously. Pay this woman for her sheet cake. You will not be disappointed.

Here are blog followers, Kim and friends! Look at all their excellent loot and happy smiles!

Readers, it was a good day. We got started late, which was totally my fault. Here is Samantha, finding an excellent bargain on hairbrushes.

A little later we traveled to Calgary Lutheran Church, which held high promise, but disappointingly had a hands-off-the-bathroom policy, which we were desperate for. So that was a big negative in our book (the book that has yet to be written. Really, we are too busy spending our husbands' $6 to write. Yes. I brought $6 today. Pathetic, I know). Nancy got the best megaphone ever at this sale. Anyway, on the plus side, Calgary Lutheran did have this excellent indoor shuffle board court.

Here is a lovely estate sale and Jeff, who bought the metal tub I wanted. No hard feelings, Jeff. You somehow managed to spot it first. Ah, the thrill of the hunt.

This is how happy yard saling makes me. These pom poms were 75 cents and are the official pom poms of 7 of Nancy and my kids' school. (I realize, gramatically, the previous sentence makes no sense. Get your own blog if you are picky about sentence structure). Did either one of us buy them? Nope.

Here is Renee, a flight attendant who had the most excellent vintage toys ever. She played with them herself when she was a child. Samantha scored big time here.

My haul: 15 bakugans for $5. My boys are crazy in like with Bakugans. I scored 2 bags of free sports shorts for my oldest and bathings suits for me. 3 beanie babies for $2. (If you are keeping track, that is $7. I had $6 in paper money and about $2 in change). See, I had to somewhat bribe my very sad sons, who did not come with us today. They were sad they were not attending, but I convinced them hanging out with Dad is way better.

And then: Debbie. Debbie is having a sale July 9th. Readers, you simply must attend Debbie's sale. It will be excellent, that is, if there is anything left after Nancy and Sam and I have bought our fill. If you want to know where Debbie's sale is, leave a comment and I will post it. Anyway, I heard through the email grapevine Debbie had 15 years worth of stuff and she is moving. She graciously allowed us to roam through the most excellent basement ever (complete with rock wall!) and have our pick of the treasures. I purchased a food dehydrator for $1. And tomorrow my husband and I are somehow transporting a full-sized ping pong table along our street for $15. I will have to see if someone is available to snap our photo, as moving large items down the blvd. has become somewhat of a tradition for Nancy and I. We will see how it goes with replacing my husband with Nancy. He will probably want to do it properly, so we don't break anything or something, whereas Nancy and I have no plan or forethought. Like he might even insist we move it in the van. If you can imagine the practicality of such a thing. Stay tuned for the ping pong table update and Nancy's recounting of the day.