Our Town Wide Garage Sale

Last weekend the town I live in had their annual town wide garage sale. A few years back it seemed like all literal junk for sale but this year was much different. As I walked around I wished I had a lot more money to spend, there were many good items I wish I could have bought. I still think lawn/garage (or whatever you want to call them) are the best places to go shopping and save a hell of a lot of money.
Rule one is you have to be ready to be disappointed if the item you got for one or two dollars ends up being no good. But, if it is good you just won the lottery! My first great buy was a 16 jar spinning spice rack with all the jars and half of those jars still had the seals inside them. That cost me a whole $3. I did pick up a few tapes (Godzilla) just for me. The next 2 buys I smiled so much over. At I walked down the street my eyes widened when I could see hunting stuff at a house I was approaching. For less than $10 I picked up an ALICE pack, a range finder, a stealth cam and a scope. NOW! That's a deal!
Since I do not drive I hooked up with one of the local bus drivers who just happens to enjoy garage sales also and since the bus in normally empty on Saturday mornings, him and I stop by a lot of them as he makes his route. I have door to door service and a way to haul bigger items, can't beat that!

A New Storage Spot

Being in an apartment it is always a chalange to locate places to store items. As I was sitting watching tv the other night it dawned on me, my dvd shelves! A while back I purchased some of those nice Walmart 3 shelf bookshelves for books, dvd's and such. I have 2 of them stacked for 6 shelves of dvd storage and realized there was a lot of space there not used.
I got up and looked and the shelves are deep enough you could put other dvd's behind the ones already there. Well, that would be stupid, right? But, all that space was just perfect for storing all my extra medical supplies. After moving everything around it cleared up 2 shelves in one of the closets which gave me room for larger items to store.
My next quest is all that space setting under my bed, but I am not spending all the money these stores want for those storage units for that area. I will figure something a lot cheaper out. One thing I am looking at at those huge vacuum storage bags, I already found a few used and a lot cheaper than new.