COME SALE AWAY, COME SALE AWAY WITH ME

Sale, sale, everywhere's a sale!  Tis the season!  Yard, garage, barn, estate, tag, rummage, they're all in full swing.  I did a little yard "saling" this past Saturday in Southern Illinois.  I've posted some photos below of my finds!  The best find was a chipped blue paint bench I scored, thanks to my friend Stephanie who asked me if I saw the bench . . . and I hadn't somehow . . . it was covered with a sheet of plywood and had yard sale goods all over it.  So I inquired and was told she didn't think it was for sale but then that gal asked her friend (who's bench it was) and she said she would sell it!  BINGO!

But this post is more about upcoming SALE opportunities and sharing the ones I know about, so here goes:

This Saturday is the Columbia (IL) After Prom Committee Rummage Sale from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Also this weekend, on  Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Midas Touch Estate Sales is holding a sale in Columbia.  The sale starts Friday at 10 a.m.  The address of the sale will be released at 9 a.m. on Thursday on their website at http://www.midastouchestatesale.com/Upcoming-Sales.

Side note, to keep track of upcoming estate sales in this area and others check out the website EstateSales.net and sign up to get notifications!

The following Friday and Saturday, April 20th and 21st Columbia (IL) has their city-wide yard sale event.

The last weekend of the month, on Saturday, April 28th there's a flea market on the parking lot of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Then the first week of May there's an explosion of sales:  Citywide Yard Sales in Millstadt (IL) and down in Southern Illinois in Cobden on Saturday, May 5th.  Cornbread from WIL92 holds his World's Largest Garage Sale at the Family Arena in St. Charles (MO), also on the 5th.  I believe there is also a flea market sale at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Waterloo (IL) that day, followed by the Fruehlingfest in Maeystown on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The next Friday and Saturday, May 10th and 11th is the Big Barn Bonanza in rural Millstadt (IL).  That's the barn sale my friend and I do a couple of times a year.  Mark your calendars and plan to attend, the sale is from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.  I'll be posting photos and more details in the coming weeks!

If you know of any great sales in the area, please share them in the comments below!  If I come across any others of note I'll post them in the comments and on my Debbie's Bargain Basement facebook page, so keep an eye out!

And SALE away!

The blue bench with all my finds on it, along with some plants I got at the nursery.  On the far left, back are 4 fun, retro small tv trays.

This was just too funny to pass up!  It's a chopper hopper.  What's that you ask?  I didn't know either but then I noticed he's holding a tube of toothpaste in one hand and a toothbrush in the other, and it occurred to me - HE'S A DENTURE HOLDER for your FALSE TEETH!

A great turquoise green vintage pyrex casserole and a large baking powder tin.  You'll also catch a glimpse in the front right corner of a white plate.  But that's just not any old white plate, that's an antique Meakin Ironstone plate!  Ad those tv trays are peeking out at the back of the photo.

Hard to tell from the photo, but that's a tall beautiful purple glass bottle/vase in the back, along with a vintage 6-sided Swan's Down Cake Flour pan and an Arts and Crafts hand-painted plate from France.

A better photo of the Arts and Crafts plate.  I bought it for my friend Stephanie, its the least I could do after she pointed out the vintage chipped paint bench to me!

ANOTHER FABULOUS FRIDAY (I HOPE)

You haven't heard much from me this week.  I haven't done much shopping this week and when I have, I haven't had much luck.  I must of used it all up with my buys last weekend!  Well, I hope that luck comes back for tomorrow.  I'm headed with my antiquing friend back up to the O'Fallon, Illinois area to shop the shops there and then head over to Mascoutah to check out Popsy's Trading Post for the first time.  We went to The Painted Horse a couple weeks ago, but it was just before they opened their carriage house for the spring, so we're headed back to check it out!  I'm hoping we find a yard sale or two along the way too!  Oooh, or maybe a rummage sale!  I've got to get on craigslist and do some checking.  I also have an app for my phone, Garage Sale Rover, you should check out.  The Belleville News Democrat also has an app for garage sales.  I'm like a girl scout, prepared!

Front Window of The Painted Horse a couple weeks ago

I did make it to ZUMBA three times this week!  And that's two weeks in a row that I've made it to three classes, but who's keeping track (I am actually).  I LOVE getting my dance on!  I spent a lot of time in dance spots in my early 20's, maybe some of you from the area remember Mr. A's and The Elevator in Belleville.  Anyway, what fun getting my exercise and reliving my disco days, both at the same time!  And actually, I think my zumba deal is quite the bargain!  I go to Curves for Zumba class, but I am not a member.  They have this great deal where non-members can purchase a punch card for $20 and take 6 classes with it.  I like this pay-as-you-go option.  My life is anything but routine where I know I can go to a class at a specific time week after week or that I will even make it to class every week.  And I hate when I'm paying for something that I'm not using.  Ugh, the guilt.  So I think its a great buy that I only pay when I go, and if I don't go, I don't pay.


For instance, I usually go on Monday and Friday mornings at 9 a.m. (and on Tuesday evenings at 6 p.m.) but I can't go tomorrow morning (hellooo, I'm shopping!) so I went at noon today instead.  So, off shopping I go tomorrow with no guilt, I got my 3 days in baby!  Classes are held at a variety of times with a variety of instructors.  I was worried about catching on to the songs and dance moves and yet, also afraid of getting bored by the repetition of songs and steps.  But they do a great job of repeating enough of the steps and songs as for it not to be hard to learn but they mix it up and change the tunes often enough that you don't become bored either.  Hey, I've found out that "I'm Sexy and I Know It" (the song, not me, really)  It's been a LONG time since I've done any exercise on this regular of a basis.  Get this, I actually look forward to it!  Ok, not quite as much as I look forward to shopping but its a close second!