Garage Sale Time!

The keepers - Italian hand painted bird mug .25 cents, 2 mexican wine glasses - $1

 Yesterday Mom and I went to a couple of garage sales - being the long weekend in Canada there weren't that many but we didn't let it stop us.  First - the keepers.  A cute large hand painted in Italy mug.  Super cute and I love the colours - and I could not pass it up for the cost of a quarter.  And of course, Mexican glass - two wine glasses for $1 total.  I love Mexican glass, each hand blown, slightly different shape.  In Mexico this stuff is quite costly but fortunately I seem to find a lot of it on the second hand market at dirt cheap prices.

4 unused Spring placemats - a grand total of .50 cents!

 I also found a couple of things for resale.  These 4 placemants have never been used and at .50 cents I was forced to buy them.  Then below, the 4 starbucks hand painted in Hungary mugs. Each was .25 cents - usually on Ebay these sell between $7-20 each.  I don't sell on Ebay so likely will try marketplace for $20 for the 4, probably will wait until October/November though.  Starbucks mugs are collected and the Starbucks faithful pay up.  I am not a Starbucks faithful (lean towards Timmies max 1 every 10 days).  I don't resell very often these days but these size items are easy to store.

4 Starbucks hand painted in Hungary mugs - .25 each = $1 total

 Of course I had to try out my new wine glass - here filled with my $4 a bottle brew your own Sauvingnon Blanc.

Priceless - a true livingrichonthecheap moment!

I had a lovely week filled with a visit from an old friend from Edmonton who was in town for a couple of days.  She and I used to work together but she is about the only friend I have that is addicted to thrifting like I am.  Hubby and I also had pizza with my BF out here - a fun night for all of us.

We start to take the house apart/move furniture tomorrow.  Our carpet is being installed on Thursday (2 rooms) and Friday (1 room).  Also then next weekend the place where I volunteer is having a grand opening that I need to work at - then a day later Mom finally has her first cataract surgery in one eye.  The second eye will be done a month or two later.  She is so happy that she is finally having surgery - her life will improve and she will get back to reading books like crazy.

We've had some news on our January trip to Zihuatanejo.  Unfortunately due to a crappy airline schedule change we've had to lose one of our nights so down to 7 from 8 - but - that should be enough for us to both relax and have lots of fun, especially since it is our second visit there we have our bearings - only 256 days to go (yes, I am counting down).

We've also made plans to spend 4 nights on an island off Vancouver Island called Malcolm island.  This is near North Vancouver Island in the Queen Charlotte Strait and an area we haven't explored much of.  It will be a 50th birthday celebration for me.  Buddy is coming on that trip as well as some celebratory cheese cake and wine.


Have a lovely rest of your weekend!