School sales - Two Weekends in a Row!!!!!!!

A week ago my husband went with me to a school sale.  This past weekend was another school sale, this time the elementary. (Last weekend was the High School)

This time I went with a friend.  She made me bid for her too!  I had a total blast!  I do believe I'm becoming addicted to auctions.  Which is not good because my husband said that was enough auctions for awhile.  AND he went on to say that included garage sales.  Spoil Sport.  I was having so much fun:)  Oh well, I guess there is a limit to how much cool old junk one can haul home before hubby says 'enough'.  Especially when said hubby is dubious about the 'cool' part of the 'cool old junk'.

 Part of Saturday's haul.  How could I pass up old yard/meter sticks?  And old metal trash cans?  Vintage stool?  Old Map?  Be still my heart!!

 I have a thing for old carts.  Especially if they are metal.  And when they are painted a neat color it just adds to the sweetness.

 Seriously would you have left that stool there?  There were 3, I claimed 'em all.  Three times the money:)  Yes sir, it's fun to get the bid and have your pick or 'take 'em all!  Gina took the yellow one, Trisha nabbed the reddish one and I got my blue one.  Sorry to my hubby that mine ended up being the one missing a wheel and the rubber bumper from around the bottom.  Good thing my hubby is so good at researching and fixing things up.  It'll roll like new in no time.

 Since the Village of Covington now recycles, these oldest trash cans will find their new home on my kitchen porch to hold the 'glass' and 'plastics' that have been making an unsightly pile as they wait for 'trash day'.  Need a little paint at least on the inside first and I might actually give them some fun colors.  Or they might get bathed in white like everything else around here:)  The newer, grey trash cans will find their new home in my sewing room, girls bedroom, laundry room, kitchen....

 You can't see the lines on this paper but it is a large pad of wide lined kindergarten paper.  A friend got a huge pile of these for $1.  ALL of them for $1.  Those are the really fun bids to win:)

 My $12.50 microscope!  YIPPEEEE!!!  I'll take 'em all.  All 5!  I had 3 other friends wanting them so I only had one left over and it was taken before they were even on my pile of goodies.  I could have had my own little auction and made some money on these babies.  But I didn't.  I just collected $12.50 from the four lucky ones and smugly carried mine home with me.

 I like maps.  This was my last purchase of the day.

 Circa 1965.  Isn't it beautiful?  I'm still deciding if I'm gonna keep it or give it to my nephew.

Not as old as the map but still kind of cool.  And I got this cheap cause no one else wanted it.  The map I had to fight for.  Well, not really, but it didn't go cheap.  Not outrageous but not cheap cheap.

I have some fun garage sale finds to show you too.  You might start to understand my husband saying 'enough'!!!!!  But man it was fun while it lasted!

School Sales are the Bomb!!

 Band Hats.  I bought 3.  Aren't they cute?!

2 boxes of 'junk'

 Auctioneer said there were shears in the box and no one was bidding past $3.  So I did.  Got the whole lot for $6.  And yes, I know these aren't dressmakers shears but aren't they cute?  They fit in quite well with my collection of scissors.

 Box of cute paper clips.  Big Sister promptly confiscated them.

 Stainless measuring scoop.  I know I will find a fun use for this!

 Large old beaker.  Love this.  Can't wait to put some LONG stemmed plants in here:)

 Pyrex.  Made in the USA!!!!!!!!

 Old, BIG, glass funnel.  And the crack the auctioneer thought was in this??  Not a crack at all but a line from the mold. 

 Very cool old wood and metal school chairs.  Awesome.  Love these!  Thanks to my hubby who nabbed them from the buyer who only wanted the plastic ones in the lot he bought.  $3 for 4 chairs.  You know what these things would cost new????

 Hubby bought the band saw for $35.  He was rather pleased to put it mildly:)

 Lockers.  I am so in love with lockers.  They are just so cool!  Vintage, metal, cute, practical, organize, storage.... How can you go wrong??

 Interesting to load.  Praise God for kind people willing and ready to help.

 Loaded and ready to head home.

 Ahhhhh.  Now that is better.  You doubt?  Let me show you...

 This is after.  I know the room is not finished yet but this is still SO much better.  Just look at this before pic...

 See that jumbled up pile of coats, toys, buckets, etc....  Some of the toys went into the IKEA organization system in Middle and Little Sister's room.  And now I don't have to look at the coats, boots, hats, jackets, etc. that I tried to organize neatly with just an open shelf and hooks.  Now to just finish drywall and floor and get that cool sink installed!  Add some open shelving above the sink and fill the selves with cool storage bottles and I will be in laundry heaven!!

 Little Sister was so excited to have more lockers!  She tried to put her purse in as soon as she saw them but I made her wait till I had washed them out.  Once they were in place though, this was the first thing to reside in our 'new' lockers:)

Brass stencils and all the white letters below, thanks to Andrea who nabbed them in the nick of time!  She got the table and all the stuff on it for $17.50.  We split the stuff.  Fun fun!!