Today, business. Tomorrow, pleasure.

Got a late start this morning. I had to take JoJo to Cardinal Glennon for a follow-up appointment following the last follow-up appointment for her then-broken arm. I don't know how much my insurance company will have to pay for today's visit, but after, "Yeah. She looks fine." I think anything would probably be too much.

Yardsaling didn't start until 9:30. This is midday in yardsale-time. I was accompanied by the incoming 6th graders again: Donny, Devin, and Bob (previously known as "Bobby"). Devin read last week's blog and is thrilled with his new fame. He is also enjoying his papasan chair. He only had $11 this week, so he had to be rather choosy. As I mentioned last week, I love spending time with these kids. Today, however, they spent a little too much time nagging me about things like "speeding" and "traffic laws". Don't forget who has the license, Boys. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.

It was all about the stuff today. There were no wild characters, no wacky items, not even any owls. Just good stuff at great prices. I will attempt to recall and list my many purchases:

• Southern Living at Home Hemingway Hurricane, list price $34.96, today's price, $2.
• Another SL@H hurricane with a fancy name that I couldn't find in the catalog. Same list, same $2.
• SL@H Renaissance Hurricane, list price $79.95. Today's price, $2.
• Table top size chest of drawers for Oscar's YuGiOh card collection which currently covers every inch of carpet in his room. It is a YuGiOh-card-carpet.
• Medium box full of raw wood items suitable for painting and crafting.
• One black visor with red flames and "Universal Studios" on the brim, for Oscar.
• Some unused honey-almond bath accessories
• One PlayHut pop-up tent, approximately 6 feet x 6 feet x 6 feet, presently occupying my whole living room.
• One Nintendo DS Littlest Pet Shop video game, for JoJo on the plane to California next week. $5.
• Five lidded Tupperware containers, 20 cents each.
• Two paperback books.
• New-in-Box Mary Kay mascara, black. $1.
• Two new nail care sets which include polishes, creams, utensils, and myriad other mani-pedi related stuff that I know nothing about but am giving to Louie's friend for her 14th birthday tonight. Have no fear, first I called her to make sure she wouldn't be squeamish about a garage sale gift. She's on board the yardsale adventure train! Toot toot!
• Sketchers flip flops with rainbow straps. $1.
• Seriously awesome leather man-bag. 50 cents.
• Small puppet theater for my little friend Art. $1.
• One box of high quality beads and jewelry making supplies for my friend Nita. $6.
• One large plant.
• 200 Pokemon cards. For Oscar's table top bureau. See above.
• Dancing Cookie Monster stuffed animal. For Henry.
• Four boxes of things-that-pop-loudly-when-you-throw-them-on-the-ground for Louie, because he is a teenage boy and they like that sort of thing.
• Stuffed beagle for Louie, because he is still a little guy deep inside.
• New-With-Tags Thermos brand cooler with retractable pull handle and wheels. $5.

Donny bought a S'More making kit.

Bob (previously known as "Bobby") bought a ping pong paddle.

Devin bought a Nerf gun and also a lava lamp.

I should mention that Nerf weaponry is the most highly coveted of all yardsale merchandise. Devin was the lucky buyer simply because he got to it first. It was only $1. Bobby instantly offered 2. Donny countered with 5. The proprietor was already in the midst of the $1 transaction and could not legitimately raise his price, but boy did he undervalue that gun!

We were all business today. There was a brief QT stop for taquitos, of course, but I also had to buy gas.

I got to take a picture of a random stranger, but only because I left my camera at a sale and when I went back to retrieve it I discovered that this guy had tried to buy it.

But tomorrow will be just for fun!

As you know, because you are a faithful follower of the YSA blog, we will have a reunion of sorts tomorrow. Laura, Samantha, and I are going back to our YSA roots, back to a simpler time when we were young and carefree, a time when we could yardsale unrecognized, before our fame and popularity became so powerful that fellow salers would ask for our autographs... no one has actually asked for our autographs yet, but if you read this and then you see us yardsaling and then you ask me for my autograph, I will pay you one dollar! (This does not apply to people I may be yardsaling with at the time of the autograph. Nice try, Devin.) We have been plotting all week how to ditch the kids. Will Laura be able to sneak out before 7AM without her boys? Tune in tomorrow and see! Samantha's husband is finally home from like 16 years in Qatar or something so I think she has some comp-time built up. As for me, I have to be home by 11AM so we can leave for an overnight at a friend's lake house. This friend is Pam (refer to "Save the World, Help the Klekners" of Nov. 3, 2009), a faithful YSA follower and original owner of Laura's beautiful stripped cabinet (refer to "Moving Memories and Mice" of June 10, 2010). If the YSA gods smile on us, Pam might just get a special hostess gift hot off the lawn of some yardsale proprietor!