Garage Sale Finds

We spent an entire Saturday garage sale-ing, and nearly all of our favourite finds came from one house, where we only actually spent $8. (We also bought a laptop bag for when Chris takes my old notebook computer to school, and a bunch of beautiful old maps.)

The sorts of things that we found at that One Magical Garage Sale were like the garage sales you find back home. (Seriously: no one else in this region knows how to put on a garage sale; they're all "we annually take a couple of unwanted items out of our basement, throw them on the lawn, overcharge you for them, and only keep the sale open for an hour and a half on a Saturday morning.") But here? At a sale on top of the magical-sounding Triangle Mountain? We found things like this:

Now we have a kitchen window that looks like my mother-in-law's

And this:

(I've always wanted to have a couple of old milk bottles of my own, because one Grandpa was a dairy farmer and the other was a milk man. Also, they make terrific vases.)

Plus piles and piles of board games, all for $1!

From 1956! And the game's name is in quotation marks!

I guess this is only one pile of board games. Note: we bought a second Clue board because the awesome 1956 one was missing the lead pipe and a couple of other things. And because it's pretty much my favourite game, right after Trivial Pursuit. I now have five different versions of Trivial Pursuit.

I've already played Clue twice, using the old-timey board, and won both times. Best day ever.