Week 01 - April 24

Summary: Opening Week of the 2010 Garage Sailing
Circuit, on a predictably rainy Saturday morning. The options were slim, but it was good to warm up my negotiating muscles for the upcoming season.

The tally:

• Airwalk boots ($1)
• Flower-print cardboard drawers (25 cents)

Total: $1.25

Week 02 - May 1

Summary: Not a big selection this week, but I suddenly realized that garage sales are a great place to get puzzles, if you feel so inclined to do some puzzling. It's one of those activities that people often think would be a good idea at the time, but never get around to, and so perfectly good, perfectly pricey puzzles end up on the chopping block for next to nothing. This puzzle has since been assembled, to the tune of one-piece short, which the cat finally returned a week later.

The tally:

• Brand new, sealed in the box puzzle of San Franciso ($1)

Total: $1

Week 03 - May 15

Summary: This week was really when the Garage Sailing Season kicked into gear this year. First three books of the Twilight series for 50 cents each ... the library fines for forgetting to return them would probably cost more. A reasonable price to pay for seeing what all the hype is about, I think...

The tally:

• Coffee maker ($3) - Looks way nicer than our old one, and makes a decent cup of joe, other than the fact that three of the four cups of water that you fill the machine up with end up running down the side and across the counter ...
• Billabong zip-up hoody ($2)
• Dakine case (25 cents)
• Pumpkin pie plate (50 cents)
• Soy Sauce bottle (25 cents) - don't knock it ... there is a reason all the sushi places use this Kikoman Soy Sauce method of dispersal ... because it's pretty much awesome.
• Three Twilight books and The Namesake ($1.50)

Total: $7.50

Note: This doesn't include Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, which my friend Lanette bought for me and insisted that I read. Much to her credit ...

Week 04 - May 22

Summary: It was rainy and slim pickins' this week, but I did stock up on candles, which I burn through at questionnably quick rate. (Ha. Get it? Burn through? Get it?!)

The tally:

• Sweater ($1)
• Bag of votif candles ($1)
• Large espresso scented candle (50 cents)

Total: $2.50

Week 05 - June 5

Summary: My big find this week was a pile a great clothes - there is nothing like finding a garage sale where the person doing the selling happens to be the same size as you. Unless that person happens to be selling Hawaiin shirts which are the same size as your husband. My other gem was this yellow retro-looking case attaché, which is THE perfect computer case for Kate.

The tally:

• Laptop case, Lululemon skirt, Roxy beech coverup, Columbia long sleeve tee, Old Navy t-shirt dress, Banana Republic jacket and old navy cargo pants ($10)
• How to be Good, by Nick Hornby (50 cents)
• Lint brush roller (25 cents)
• Brand new Whistler ski map puzzle ($1)
• Simpsons Photomosaic puzzle (Free)
• Stack of legal sized hanging folders (Free)
• Bath bubbles that smell like Christmas (Free)
• Candles (50 cents)

Total: $12.25

Note: This doesn't include the box of Girl Guide cookies, which now go for a whopping four dollars. Yummy, minty, chocolaty four dollars ...

Week 06 - June 12

Summary: This week started off a little bland, but ended with a few good finds, most notably the SNL version of trivial pursuit which boasted a Mary Catherine Gallagher game piece, and my prized Tupperware veggie dish, which was hotly contested by this week's garage-sailing partner, The Husband.

The tally:

• Puzzle (50 cents)
• Apple Blosson scented candle (50 cents)
• SNL Trivial Pursuit ($1) - because five other versions of Trivial Pursuit just isn't enough ...
• Paper holder (25 cents)
• Tupperwear veggie container (Free)

Total: $2.25

Week 07 - June 19

Summary: This week was a freebie mine. The only thing I paid for for the knife. Even better, the pie plate was there a week ago, for a whopping five bucks, and I hmmm-ed and haaaa-ed about it, and finally decided against it. This week, she was begging me to take it.

The tally:

• Pie plate (Free)
• Body Shop White musk bath bubbles (Free)
• Aveeno Lavendar Body Wash (Free)
• The Gingerbread Man bath bubbles (Free)
• Serrated bread knife (50 cents)

Total: 50 cents