It pays to wait a day to go to the church sale...

Every year a local church has a MASSIVE yard sale, with everything kind of thrown out on their huge lawn. It's chaotic, but it's also cheap. I went by not expecting to find anything, and I was rewarded with what looked like acres of books. The books were tossed haphazardly in cardboard boxes. Yesterday it rained - and it looked like they'd thrown tarps over the boxes, but the ground was wet and some of the books were wet. As a result, all books were 2/$1 - a woman told me that yesterday they were $2/hardbacks.

I managed to look through the books while wearing my daughter in a front carry in an Ergo. I'd walk by the boxes, and if something caught my eye, I'd have to carefully lower us both down so I could see. This probably meant that I bought fewer books than I really could have - and since I walked to the sale and had to carry everything, I also had to deal with the weight of the books. And they were HEAVY.

Anyway, here's round one. I think I may go back tomorrow to see about round two...



Books for my daughter (and me). You may recall that I got her Brown Bear, Brown Bear at a recent yard sale. Yeah, she already has ripped a few of the pages. The board book will work much better.



I am VERY excited about the Laura Ingalls Wilder songbook. And I picked up and put down several ridiculous cookbooks but wound up only keeping the one that you see here. Gross diet food! Yes!



How Things Work is just neat. The book on the right is for chopping up for craft projects. They actually had several volumes at the sale, but this one intrigued me the most. If I go back, I may grab others.



I've been wanting to read Eat This, Not That for some time. It looks interesting. And the dog book is for a friend (who happens to be my thrifting partner in crime as well). Both are in perfect condition.



Best score of the sale. As far as I can tell this is complete - it has a book, a poster, and, well, letters (literal letters of the alphabet). The price tag on it is $20, and it's something I've wanted for a very long time. Hooray!

I also bought a shirt for a quarter, but by then my bag was too heavy to get anything else...