Cousin San kept me company this weekend as DH is still on a job site in Nova Scotia. She and the doggies have new digs and were in desperate need of new curtains. So the only reason we went yard saling on Saturday was to find fabric or curtains for San. Yeah right. San is just learning the ins and outs of yard sales so I had to show her a few tricks.
1. Bring money, especially change.
2. Bring a list of the yard sales.
3. Map out your route.
4. Hit the multi-family or community yard sales first.
5. Be sure to find a fund raising barbecue – hot dogs hot off the barbie are the fuel of all good yard salers.
6. If shopping for curtains or fabric, make sure you have the measurements, regardless of how small the piece of paper they are written on.
7. You can buy more if each time you have an arm load you take it back to the car.
8. The four letter `F`word all yard salers love to hear is FREE!
Here`s the loot we drug back to the house on Saturday. 
Together we spent the grand total of $22.00 for a morning of fun and laughter.
San found one signed limited edition Ducks Unlimited print, five original drawings from the local high school, one side table, 3 large pieces of fabric, one stuffed toy. I brought home two baskets (one free) a metal lunch box (free), a small Black and Decker crock pot, a glass ornament with hanger, a bag of clothes (free), and eight fat quarters.
At a community yard sale one lady was giving everything away for free. The stuff belonged to her sister who was too busy gabbing to look after it.
My best purchase was a counted cross print framed picture, `Families are like a patchwork quilt, bound together over time with smiles, tears, love and memories. Rather appropriate for the day.
The piece of paper with the all important measurements for the curtains was generously given to me by Diane. It was half of a notebook page, a small note book, maybe 2 inches by 3 inches. The rest of the day we kept losing, oops, misplacing this very tiny sheet and we must have referred to it a gizellion times. If you ask for a sheet of paper, bring your own!
Now I hope everybody reading this will make plains to come to our very large yard sale when we sell the house; because the basement is FULL of good buys from yards sales over the last 10 years. Trust me there be good bargains and bring nothing smaller than a half ton truck because what ever you buy you will get some free stuff, why you may get free stuff just for showing up or we will track you down and leave some of this good stuff at your front door.