June 23rd 2012

This is crunch time! We are running out of time to find things at garage sales to decorate for this wedding. There is only 16 days left! I found a few crucial things this week.

I paid $5.00 dollars for this basket of glass votives. We will be using these in our center pieces for each table. There were 58 votives in this basket! Here is a website that sells a pack of 25 for $24.75. Thats just under $1 per votive. I bought mine for a little less than .10 cents a piece! 

We are also looking for decorative balls to fill vases. I bought this box full of decorative balls for $4 dollars.

I also bought a bunch of vases. My mom had been collecting vases for quite some time now. There is a florist near her house that has a vase recycling program. If you bring in your old vases she gives you credit to her shop. For generic vases like in the picture above she gives my mom $10 dollars for 3 vases.

For nicer vases like these she will inspect them and price them out individually for. My mom has been doing this for about a year. She likes to have the credit to be able to send a friend flowers when they are having a hard time or for special occasions like a wedding! This will open up our options when it comes to bridesmades bouques and bootiniers.  I paid a total of $3.50 for 14 vases. We usually only pay about .25 cents for a generic vase sometimes even less. For some of the nicer vases we will pay about .50 cents or $1 if it's really nice. My mom took these vases along with 39 other vases to the florist  and got a $125 credit! At .25 cents  a vase for 43 vases our cost was $10.75. Definitely a good pay out for the wedding. 

Here are some of the other things I bought this week.

I bought these two life vests for our boat for .50 cents a piece. 

 I bought this camera tripod for $5 dollars. 

 This pack of two lightbulds for our outdoor lights on the back patio was only $1

I bought these DVD's for $1 a piece. Jaysa just got the movie Cars for Christmas  from her Nana and Papa who paid about $20 dollars for it!

I have been wanting to get my girls some of these bikes. Kids LOVE these. I found the yellow one for $1. When I came home C.J. had gone out to a few and found a nicer one at a garage sale for $1. Now we have two and we only paid $2 dollars for them!

This would probably be my deal of the day. I love this chair. I only paid $5 dollars for it! I want to recover it one day but until then it makes a cute accent piece in my living room.

I also bought two more gallons of paint for $2 dollars a piece. These are a really light teal and a pale mint green. These will be perfect for the wedding since these are her colors!

I bought Paisley some winter boots and Champion tennis shoes. I only paid .25 cents a piece for these!!!

I got these three pillows for .50 cents. That's almost 17 cents a piece!

I also bought this decorative plant for .25 cents!

 I found more centers for bows! I bought these for .50 cents for all three.

I bought all of these bracelets for $1 dollar.

I bought all of these kids clothes for $10 dollars. It was more than I wanted to pay  but they were in really good condition. How do I always manage to loose one shoe!!!!! HA! I have found it since then. I promise!

 I bought this bag of  beads for $1. I have used beads like these as center pieces for bows before but what I really like to use them for is binky holders. They look so cute in a binky holder for a little boy. Here are some I just made for a friend.

OTHER AWESOME DEALS

This cute yellow and black LOVE sign was only $3 dollars.

 This pink twin headboard was only $25 dollars

 There are two lawn chairs stacked on top of each other in this picture the seller only wanted $10 dollars a piece on these teal chairs.

 This is where I picked out a few DVD's for my girls. They had some really good movies here but C.J. and I don't watch a lot of T.V. so I picked out a few for my girls and passed the rest up. The seller also went down to $1 a movie!

 

This wrought iron decor was $10 dollars.

This smaller one was only $5

This cute welcome sign was only $3.

$3 dollars for the set of 3 cowboy hat hooks. These would be so cute in a little western nursery!

These little brown sandals are from the GAP! they were only .50 cents per shoe.

 Here are some more cute kid shoes. I love the pink boots!

How stinking cute is this stapler! If I had an office job I would have definitely bought this! It was only $1.

 This bike was only $35.

 Here is a Swiffer with the pads for $3 dollars

 Plastic storage bins are another thing that I don't buy in stores. A bin like this is close to $20 dollars in the store. This one was only $3!

The seller onlly wanter $15 for this car seat

 Here is a stroller that was at another garage sale for $25!

These Laguna Beach skinnies were only $6 dollars! 

Here is a yellow lamp for $2 dollars! You could recover the shade and it would be so cute!

These fun dog bowls are only .25 cents a piece.

Here are a bunch of door handles. I totally forgot to ask on these but the seller had some good prices.

This is a large candle holder for $45

Decorative wall plates. These weren't real plates but they were made to look that way. They were $3 for the bunch of them. I almost bought these. This is the color scheme I am thinking I might want in my guest bedroom but I am not ready to tackle that job and I might change my mind by then!

This is such an AWESOME old trunk! I LOVE it and wanted to buy it really bad but the lady wanted $75. Thats not an outrageous price but still just more than I wanted to spend so I passed it up.

This pack n' play was only $3 dollars!!!!!!!

It had two small holes in it but for three dollars it would be nice to keep at grandma's house!

 I would love to feature you on my Show & Tell Saturday! You can post about a certain project you recently completed, your garage sale week, or just some of the amazing things you have found over time. Please email me at garagesalesrusblog@gmail.com if you want to guest post!