Today was our local garage sale day. Its my favorite day of the year. Ask my family. I LOVE shopping garage sales. I don’t go ham or buy too spontaneously, but the same way I love thrift stores, I love garage sales. I also love the social aspect of them. I like running into people I know all day. I like hitting the same spots each year. I like the inevitable long leisurely walk through town that takes hours, and the sunburn (or windburn) we all have by the end of it. And we come home with a few treasures in the bottom of the stroller. I really enjoy garage sale day, if that was unclear.
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Today we were out the door shortly after 9am. My mom joined us, and we walked our way around our street. Right at the very beginning, we struck gold, and purchased a blackstone grill. We have a flat top griddle at camp, and we’ve wanted to get one for home as well, but we have a BBQ and thats been fine. Its hard to justify doubles of bigger items like that. But this appliance was in beautiful condition, and was only being sold because the family received a duplicate as a gift. And as I mentioned, it was only a few houses down from ours. So that was a BIG win to start off the day.
We ran into Rae partway through the morning and she joined the group! We continued on and hit the high school grad fundraiser for frozen yogurt. Ten froyos later, we moved further along, snagging a few small things but nothing too crazy. We looped around for fresh homemade donuts before we called it and headed back for lunch and naps. The babies were pooped, and we were all worn out from the sun. We hauled in our few little finds – a small handful of clothes for the babies, a puzzle, and a book or two – and plunked down in the living room. Well, some of us. Most of the kids went downstairs and played cards. My mom went home for a little bit. Babies napped, and Brady and I put in earbuds and watched a little Netflix. It was SO nice.
I’m excited to get the Blackstone going in the next little bit here. Might have to buy another propane tank rather than transferring ours between the two grills. It was a really, really successful shop, and lovely time spent with memories made.
Here’s to next garage sale day!! 🥳