High on Thrifting Thursday!

Ooh I haven't been thrifting in a while. Last time I went thrifting was a couple weeks and there wasn't any good stuff to be had. But last weekend, instead of hitting the deck running for garage sales, myself and a dear friend hosted a garage sale of our own. Man I never realized how many things **I** personally do while out g-saling that are annoying as all get out to the host of said g-sales!

1) Eye judging and not getting out. - Seriously people we had SO much awesome stuff people just passed up because we didn't haul it all out into the open. 

2) Going through personal NOT for sale stuff and asking us to make a price. This happened many times and was highly obnoxious. (I am not guilty of this. I usually err on the side of caution)

3) Throwing clothes that are displayed ON THE GROUND! WTF?

4) The talker - We've all been there but man we got some odd chatty kathies over the weekend. My friend, while awesome and sweet. Is also rather blunt and just got up and left on multiple occasions when randoms would walk in, share their life story and not actually buy anything. OR EVEN LOOK!

5) The Non-haggler - We lost so many sales over the weekend because people were just NOT haggling! What is up with that? At a G-sale you generally mark it up a little high so it gives the wiggle room. 

I hope this was fun! Add your favorite rules of thrifting and g-saling!  

High On Thrifting Thursday

I feel like its been ages since I wrote a thrifting post, I missed it. But I sure haven't been missing out on thrifting. 

Over the holiday my mom and I went out to buy chickens. Not chicken meat, or eggs. Live chickens. Chris cleared out their coop and we wanted some chicks for Carson. No luck finding baby chickens, normal sized chickens, or roosters (keep the roosters!)  But I did have some awesome furniture finds this week. 

We swung by a couple garages sales and I found this 

amazing roll top desk. 

Its got amazing little cabinets and really awesome old brass handles. I just love it. I bought it for 20$ and when I got home, I sold my old desk for 40$! So on this, I made 20$!! Granted we met the people in Costco's parking lot and that store is DANGEROUS!  We do have plans on painting it. But I would LOVE some opinions (leave a comment!) on what color. I'm always drawn to teal. But I also love the idea of a green, or maybe even a yellow (teal accents?) 

20$!! but really I made 20$$

Then over the holiday I was browsing Craigslist for Twin beds for Carson. We'd been talking about getting him a "Big kid bed" for his THIRD birthday (if you follow me on Pinterest) you'll know that I am starting to have a minor mental break and am PLANNING a party. Woah. 

But anyway, last week I came across this cute wooden bed frame + mattress on craigslist. I texted the woman if she could send me a picture and why she was getting rid of it. She was on vacation as well and couldn't get a pic to me until today.  I spent a whopping total of 48$ on a twin sized bed, mattress, sheets, frame! Target had Sean White sheets for 7.50! I was really excited to get him a big set of big boy sheets. He threw a pretty giant fit over an 80$ quilt set. That was....well....parenthood

48$

Happy thrifting! Hopefully as summer rolls on we should be able to find more good stuff!