My Favourite Season Has Officially Arrived!

My favourite season has officially arrived...Yard Sale Season!

This morning I went to my first yard sales of the season. It is another dreary Saturday, so luckily they were both inside. One was at a church - I always like going to these yard sales because they have so much stuff - you never know what you will find. Although a lot of it is junk, there can be some really great stuff for really great prices. Especially at the end, they just usually want to get rid of the stuff that is left over.

The second yard sale was a moving sale. The great thing about Halifax is that there are SO many university students. Every April, thousands of students head back home, and many of them need to get rid of a lot of the stuff they have accumulated over the year/years. Every year, there is an annual yard sale called the "Dump and Run" where students can get rid of the things they no longer want or need. The money that is made is donated to charity, and it also helps eliminate the amount of stuff being sent to landfills. It really is a win-win situation. Unfortunately that is next weekend, and I will have to miss it since we are heading home for the weekend.

Here are some of our finds from the yard sales:

 

 

• Clue board game - never been opened - 4$
• Risk board game - 4$ (Have I mentioned we love board games?)
• French onion soup bowls - 25 cents each
• Forrest Gump and Jurrasic Park - 25 cents each
• Wooden severs - 1$
• Painting - 1$ (It doesn't look very attractive in this picture, but it will fit in with the decoration of our living room perfectly)

Next we went to a book sale at a church. I refuse to buy books from a bookstore for the most part. I keep a list of books that I want to buy and I look for them at thrift stores or yard sales. Often people buy a book to read it once, and then want to get rid of it. Usually you can find books for anywhere from 50 cents to two dollars. The books I bought today were: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Choice by Nicholas Sparks.

Then we went to the market for a light lunch. We got some samosas - they were delicious! I saw these fresh herbs for sale, and I had to get them. I have been meaning to buy some fresh herbs for a while. We often buy freshly cut herbs from the market, but we often do not end up eating them fast enough since there is only two of us. By having our own fresh herbs, we can just cut off what we need.

 

Now I am looking for some old tin cans to put the herbs in. I saw this example on Pintrest and I loved the idea http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/inspiration-gallery-container-145324. I will be looking for some in the coming weeks at yard sales!