GARAGE SALES

Stu and I decided to go to garage sales this weekend to try and find some things we still needed for the baby’s room. Our adventure was interesting to say the least. In New Orleans most houses do not have garages, which is interesting considering crime is so high you would think you would want to lock your car up somewhere instead of leaving it in your driveway….anyway so back to these “garage” sales...I searched craigslist and came up with about 10 different sales around where we live.

Garage Sale #1: The first garage sale we went to consisted of one old man and one box of things (I remember seeing knives in this box) in his back yard…yes I did say one box of things. We found this to be creepy and left quickly.

Garage Sale #2: This one said HUGE SALE so we were definitely excited about this. The garage sale had more people sitting in lawn chairs with beer (remind you it is 8AM) in the driveway then it did items for sale. We are now laughing.

Garage Sale #3: Junk…I’ve never seen so many bird cages for sale in my life…all their birds must have just died because the cages still had poop and feathers and feed in them. Other than bird cages there were tons of doors and shoes. ???

At this point we are questioning our efforts…

We drive to another one…and it was like the heavens split open and sun shined down on us. Finally…a garage sale that wasn’t creepy and was selling items other than shoes and dirty bird cages. We bought a dresser and a bookcase. Stu was having fun haggling for better prices. We ended up with a dresser and bookcase for $46.

So we packed up the Sequoia…drove to Lowe’s for some black spray paint and hardware. Here’s how they turned out: