Big, Big Spenders (A Load of Freebies!)

You know Spring is here when Garage Sales start popping up.

Today we went Garage Sale-ing. We went to a big community association garage sale, a big church garage sale, and a couple single-family garage sales.

We bought some barbeque tools in almost-new-condition, a little toy car, a monster truck, a "Princess House" handblown crystal oil lamp (never used, still in the box), a junior sized hockey stick, 2 styrofoam gliders in their packages, "The Worst Case Scenerio Survival Game", and about 60 back-packs and bags. Yes, I did say 60.

All told, we spent $2.00.

I don't know how we got all that stuff for $2.00.

The back-packs and bags were free. Nobody buys those things at garage sales. And 2 of the garage sales were just coming to a close and people were talking about throwing them in the dumpster. Cris said he would take as many as he could fit in the car, and the response of the garage sale makers was one of excitement and glee. "Yes! Yes! Take them! Take them all!" He recycles bags and back-packs. He takes all the clips and strapping off of them and uses them to make paintball gear...

He has been sewing these (and many other) custom drop-down leg holsters for paintball guns along with other paintball gear. A couple guys are even after him to make them a custom bag for their paintball guns and gear. Anyways, the clips and strapping are quite expensive to buy from a store, but they are free if you rob them from free back-packs.

We spent more money on 2 slurpees today than we did on a car load of garage sale gems!

Then we went out for supper since we were in Calgary and beginning to get that grumpy I-don't-care-about-anything-I'm-just-so-hungry-that-I-can't-think-and-I'm-getting-awfully-mad sort of hunger (I get that honestly from my dad).

While we were eating our meal, I said to Cris, "Wouldn't that be cool if our waiter came by and said 'Today we are having a special promotion and dessert is included with your meal at no extra charge.'?"
Literally 10 seconds later, our waiter came by to ask if everything was okay. It was at that exact second that Cris noticed one of his tomato slices still had the sticker on it. So he pointed it out to the waiter who responded very apologetically with a hint shock, disgust, and embarrasment. He left with the tomato and the manager came by about 2 minutes later and offered us a free dessert because Cris had a sticker on his tomato slice.

So we did get a free dessert. And boy oh boy was it ever so good. *smack*

It was a good day for freebies today.