Yard Sales!

Eric and I have started to develop a hobby in finding things for our apartment at a cheap prices--mostly through going to yard sales. We seem to be developing an appreciation for shopping due to our proximity to dozens of tempting local stores, especially Goodwill. The only thing which can beat the deals at Goodwill is the yard sales. Every weekend in Tucson signs are at all the intersections pointing to yard sales in the various neighborhoods around here. We don't have to go outside of a 5 miles radius and can hit 6 or 8 yard sales in one day. (One time we hit 15 yard sales on a Saturday!)

However, we found out that the early bird truly does get the worm and the early birds to compete with in this case are Mexicans who come over the border with trucks. They will literally offer a price for the whole sale and load their truck with everything! In the beginning, we didn't have the energy to get up on the weekends but this past Saturday our alarm went off at 6 AM and we managed to hit a mega church yard sale when it started at 6:30 AM.

The church yard sale was loaded with cars the moment we showed up. People were everywhere and I hardly felt like the early bird at that mega church sale. I felt more like I was part of a migrating flock or a swarm of chickens fighting for feed. Our goal for the day was two shelves to organize our small apartment. Sadly we did not find anything at that first yard sale. We did find a humorous game to entertain you in moments of deepest privacy. It was discussed in one of our recent meetings that in GAP your only private moments are on the toilet if the door has a lock. So this item looked like it would be a very fun present to buy for a friend - toilet golf!

We ended up getting one shelf at a yard sale and a second larger shelf at Home Depot-- a store I (Eric) am growing in appreciation for as I start trying to build things around the house. It seems almost everything in our apartment is taken care of except art for the walls.

Praises: It is a good feeling to have filled our apartment with furniture and have it organized. Praise God for the ways He has provided in neat ways even with such a temporal thing as furniture.

Prayers: May God continue to grow us in delighting first and foremost in our knowledge of Him and His kingdom.