Every 2 Weeks

Sarah ~ We're going to have to start doing these by-weekly. It seems like we only find great things every other weekend. This past weekend it was raining so much we assumed most yard sales would be canceled, but we decided to go to one in particular.

Alex ~ I found an ad online that read something like "Garage Sale - Comics - DVDs" and it was only a block from our place.


Alex ~ Sometimes it pays off to do your research! I spent a little more than I would have liked but everything was nearly new and I had been looking for some of these titles for a while now.

Sarah ~ I didn't find anything at the sale and I was annoyed that they didn't price anything. The stuff seemed high quality but nothing I was interested in. Also when Alex bought PeeWee's Playhouse the guy kept saying it was rare and we knew it was not. As we were driving away from that sale to run some errands we ran into another sale down the street. It had a tarp to keep the rain out.

Alex ~ The second garage sale had a pile of stereo gear and they were asking $5 for each piece. I snatched up a Kenwood amplifier and a stereo graphic equalizer $10. I should have probably bought some of the tape decks but I ran out of money because of the previous sale.




Alex ~ Here's a picture of my stereo system. Everything has been purchased from a sale except for the turntables.


Sarah~ We did not spend much time garage sailing this week but it was time well spent. My only regret is that Alex bought another stupid lava lamp which he has already in a different colour. We wont be garage sailing this weekend because we are going to a cabin. See you in a few weeks!

2 weeks later

Alex ~ Sorry to keep you waiting, I took a vacation last weekend and the weekend before was a complete waste.

Sarah ~ This weekend we bought a lot of junk. Nothing useful but nothing expensive either. We spent less than $20.00 and we even had hot dogs for lunch! Stephen came with us and didn't buy anything!!


Sarah ~ The first garage sale we went to was the best one of the whole day. The man said he was moving and needed to get rid of his collection of neat stuff. We bought some games and musical instruments there.


Alex ~ We went to Wolseley for a book sale I found online. There were several street sales in the neighbourhood. Sarah bought a book. Street sales give homeowners an excuse to try to sell things they would otherwise throw out.


Sarah ~ Here is our haul this week, minus a soccer ball, plus a cat.


Alex ~ Here is our gem from this week. It is a Xylomatic! It works like a music box but you get to choose the notes!


Sarah ~ Alex has been looking for this glass for a while and even thought about it the morning before we bought it! It goes great with our Grimace glass.



Our Xylomatic in action!

See you next week!

Hi, welcome back! This was by far our most favourite weekend this season. We really found some great gems. There were tons of sales around the city, but we didn't venture too far from home.

Alex ~ We started off close to home just following signs. Our main goal this week was to hit some supposed large garage sales in the Charleswood area. The first house we went to turned out to be a property we had previously looked at for purchase. There we found some comics, a camping cup, a game, and some action figures all for $5. The next sign took us a few blocks over to a multi-family yard sale.


Sarah ~ There we bought a big ugly chair and some delicious brownies. They had several video game systems and I almost bought a VHS video camera, but held back. It was only $6.00...

Alex ~ I bought a brownie and ate it, while Sarah took a picture of the cute drawing. Turns out they were delicious and vegan.


There were also tons of un-manned lemonade and iced-tea stands. Kids can't handle the workload, I guess.

Sarah ~ We zig zagged our way through River Heights, stopping to buy several games, records, a receiver, books and even old sheets that were still in the package! Eventually we got to Charleswood, but were kind of disappointed in the quality of garage sales. Alex bought a record player for $5.00 and we both bought some records there but we had to search through a lot of junk.

This is everything we bought, minus the cat which was a previous purchase.


Whoa!


Alex ~ These are my most favourite! I can't wait until Christmas, so I can put them on the tree!

Hopefully next week will be as good as this one!

Sarah & Alex

Sorry!

The past two weekends have been a bust. We don't really have much to show for ourselves. We're going on a little vacation for May Long so maybe we'll try to have something for you when we get back.

In the mean time here's this.

Church Rummage Sale

Hi,

Welcome to the first installment of No More Good Buys. This is a blog dedicated to Winnipeg Garage/Yard/Rummage/Church Sales and Flea Markets written by Sarah and Alex.

Sarah ~ This weekend we went to look at a house for purchasing and we saw some signs on the way there. We went to two lame garage sales which had nothing more to offer than a $2.00 box of National Geographic magazines (which we bought to cut up). Luckily we were in the neighborhood, because Alex saw a sign for a church rummage sale! We went straight to the book section and found several cheap books and also some records. At the time we bought the books, everything was half price already and immediately afterward changed to a special deal where you fill a bag for a dollar. We found a table where some old ladies were selling mostly junk, but I saw a set of glasses that were interesting. The tag said 3 for 75 cents, but there were only two glasses. We asked the ladies where the third was and they replied by saying it would cost us a dollar to buy them, which did not answer our question. We spent the dollar on the plastic bag they forced us to buy and tried to find something to make it worth the dollar we spent on it. We took a set of flour/sugar/coffee canisters and shoved them in. We looked around the rest of the sale but found nothing else.


Alex ~ The big find at this church sale was the Seeds record, shown in the centre of the records. This is the third record by the Seeds and the only one I did not own. I spotted it right away by the top inch because of it's puzzle cover. The other two albums I own are re-issues, so it's nice to finally have an original, and for 10 cents no less.


Alex ~ I have a bad habit of buying glasses with cartoon characters on them. These two are by far my new favourites and my first frosted glasses. I couldn't find any information about them, but the drawings almost look like they were done by Chuck Jones or Carl Barks.

Even though Garage Sale season hasn't officially started we are eagerly anticipating this coming weekend. Check back next week for more of our great finds.

Sarah & Alex