Summer is my favorite season for like a bazillion reasons, but high among those reasons is the fact that garage sales pop up everywhere around town on the weekends. I’ll find myself innocently driving to the grocery store, and before I even know what is happening, I’m pulling into a stranger’s driveway…
It’s a scene that gets replayed over and over, and at 3 years old, Miss L. is already rolling her eyes and groaning when she sees a garage sale sign on the side of the road. I’m secretly afraid that I’m scarring her for life, and as an adult she’ll have an aversion to garage sales…wouldn’t that be a travesty?!
I can’t help myself. I just love finding fun new pieces for great prices to add into my decor. Oh! And for some reason I love to haggle. It’s weird. I don’t know why I care if I pay the extra $2 for the old picture frame, but I just do. I like to feel like I just got a deal…
I spied this beautiful blue lantern at a garage sale from halfway down the street earlier this summer. I’m sure I made some questionable driving choices, and it ended up in the back of my car within 2 minutes. I think I paid $15. The awesome window frame was somewhere in the neighborhood of $3. I didn’t do a thing to it, it was already gray and shabby. SCORE!
This coffee table (which I’ve talked about endlessly lately) was $30…haggled down from $50, thankyouverymuch. See how I made the coffee table over here.
My house is an ever-changing parade of garage sale goodies in the summer…which is just how I like it.
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Have a great day!
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Julie says
You have such a good eye for putting those garage sale bargains together to make beautiful spaces in your home! I’ll bet you little one will be a garage sale diva someday 😉
April Hoff says
Thank you so much, Julie! I hope she will be! 😉
Krista @ the happy housie says
My husband has banned me from bringing any more garage sale stuff home so I only stop when he is not in the car! My boys love them because I give them a quarter to choose something – and people often give stuff to them for free if they smile nicely. Lol
April Hoff says
Ha! I should start doing that! Good tip, Krista! 😉
Jen @ Migonis Home says
Mine is too but mostly consignment / side of the road finds.
Love that aqua vase on your coffee table!
April Hoff says
Thanks, Jen! I LOVE that lantern too!!! 😉
Sarah says
Gosh, you have gotten some great garage sale finds!! I’m jealous. Ever since we moved to the country last summer, I haven’t been going to many. Now you’ve inspired me to check some more out in town!
April Hoff says
Yay! So glad you were inspired, Sarah! xo
Lisa Mothersead says
Lovely home! A friend, who grew up very wealthy, once told me something about decorating I’ve always remembered. Buy what you like! She has very expensive wallpaper (imported…) in her formal dining room and wallpaper from a local, small hardwood store in her kitchen. Sometimes you find something from a garage sale to sit on top of your Restoration Hardware console table. That’s a good day. 🙂
April Hoff says
I love that, Lisa! So true! 😉