Yard Sales and Shopping Galore

[mandysee_mandydo]

It's been a wonderful and interesting and fantastic and expensive day, but it's all worth it.

First we slept in (and by that I mean we woke up at 9:30 am which is sleeping in these days). We realized we had forgotten that today was the Town Wide Yard Sales in Plymouth so we immediately got dressed and scurried off without showers or breakfast. We limited ourselves to $100 and spent nearly all of it. We got a bunch of cool stuff like a couple games (one unopened and still in the shrink-wrap!), a scanner an artistic photo of a squirrel from one of painted_wolf's former art professors, a photo frame, a wooden sword (PW insisted she needed it *sigh*), wooden display shelves for PW's fossils and rocks, music (Cyndi Lauper and Sarah Brightman, yay!), movies and a couple other random things. We also bought some homemade pickles and salsa from a local farm at one of the yard sales held by a church. I ended up spending $10 buying a bunch of microphone cables, mic stand, camera bag and printer/scanner/copier for work.

Toward the end it started raining, then more rain, then more and within minutes it was a downpour, so it brought our yard sale spree to a halt very quick. So we went to WalMart to buy new shelves for our massive CD and DVD collection so we could get rid of the ugly old white cabinet. We also picked up a couple movies there that we've been wanting and got PW a backpack/bag-on-wheels so she can either carry her heavy books on her back or wheel them around like luggage (the more likely option).

Then we went grocery shopping, but first stopped at Radio Shack to check prices on laptops and the great deal presented itself and, even though I cringe at it being a Compaq, it was a great price and brand new with a warranty and didn't involve replacing parts or software on a used laptop so... we bought it. So PW has a new laptop for school which is wonderful. It's something we were planning to do but now it's done and she can start using it.

So we bought groceries for the week with some extra to store away in the freezer. We also stopped at our favorite farm stand for all our produce. Tonight will likely involve PW playing with her new lappy and us installing OpenOffice. And a shower. I definitely need a shower. Oh wordywordword do I need a shower.

Comments

[ciliandis.livejournal.com]

My Compaq actually served me very, very well until its sad death, and it lasted about six years. It probably caught some sort of nasty bug that I wasn't able to root out, from having been on a somewhat lax college firewall in its first couple of years, before I got wise. So, huzzah, a laptop AND a scanner! And shelves and shinies. Sounds like you had a great day!

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

It was an awesome day! We got the shelves set up and loaded with all of our CDs and DVDs, as well as some of the VHS. I can't wait to rearrange and get all of the books out into the living room after we get rid of that monstrous white cabinet! :D