Deal of the Day!

The neighbors had a garage sale day. 3 of them. I hate to have the sale, but love to look around at them. You never know what you'll find.

As I looked down the block, I thought it would be a good opportunity to meet and greet on a first name basis these neighbors who have only been driving by and waving. . . always pleasantly. They are at the end of my block so I don't usually have a reason to venture there on foot.

Meeting them was so nice! We talked for 2 hours. None of them had met face to face before either , and it was happenstance that their sales were on the same day.

I spotted something wonderful at each of their sales, focusing on mid-century furniture in fair shape. One had a super heavy, solid birch dresser in need of refinishing and TLC. I don't really need another dresser but when she told me $10, who could pass? (Large mirror included).

I was really interested in her buffet piece, but it was too large for me to put in my house, and much too big to store in the garage which is already too full for comfort. I thought the buffet price was $200. The other neighbor had a smaller one in better condition for $250.  I bought the dresser and started texting potential co -owners. It was decided to go get the buffet and miraculous things could be done with it.

Excited to get a second largish piece of furniture, I walked back to the sale with cash. Getting ready to hand it over when the neighbor selling her own buffet pulled two drawers out of the piece and walked home with them. The seller said, "Oh, I thought you didn't want it and she decided she liked it better than the one she was selling herself so I sold it to her. " Ugh! Well, my own fault for not having cash in hand or reading the price tag correctly . . . the buffet sold for $20 not $200! Yee Gads!

Mr. Man was having a  fit telling me no furniture was going into HIS garage and something about asking him "permission" before buying anything larger than a shoe box. (cute that he thinks that I need to ask him first. I'll let him live with that delusional thought for a bit).

At first, he refused to be a part of  bearing  the dresser home.

Shrugged my shoulders and said I would do it with the men at the sale who already offered help.
"There is absolutely no room in the garage for it! No! "

Again, shrugged my shoulders and said it could sit outside on the patio and age a bit which would give it more character.

I pointed out that the dresser was solid, not veneered and constructed very well.  Repainted and cleaned up, it would be a great piece of furniture for the price of $10, adding that his eldest daughter was currently using her baby dresser with 3 drawers instead of a full sized one with 6 and most of her clothing is kept in piles surrounding the aforementioned baby unit. Wouldn't it be nice to give her something FULL sized and nice?

Reassurance that the buffet was lost to me, and would not be joining our garage collection, I walked down the block to retrieve my prize and Mr. Man followed, growling the entire way .

As we got to the sale, the other neighborhood men had gathered to tote their various pieces home and Mr. Man was handed a beer and welcomed into their lament club! He got a tour of the sellers recently redone flooring and kitchen remodel, met 4 new people and was actually cheerful as he was helped home with my new dresser!

All in all, not a bad day and we both benefited from it.

I don't even mind too much I lost the buffet to one of my other neighbors. If I'd gotten both pieces of furniture,  Mr. Man may have lost an entire gasket and start contemplating a serious crime upon my person!

Thank you neighbor. It was the best!

Eagle eyed for the next DEAL OF THE DAY! I'll be bringing the cash and wearing the glasses!