I can't wait til wednesday our local garbage day, after xmas is the best time to find treasures in the garbage..it seems this is the time people start doing their early spring cleaning..i started spring cleaning yesterday but my items don't make it to the trash heap..i keep them til the summer and have a yard sale..the land lord lets you have two yard sales a year and he pays for the permit..so it doesnt cost any thing to set up and its a great way to earn a little extra money.. actually most of the garbage i pick thru out the year ends up in that garage sale or ends up on ebay..last year i was making $50.00 to $100.00 a week at a local flea market on the weekends selling the goodies from the garbage that i had been picking..i like to refer to it as recycling less in the landfills i suppose..

i guess i am an odd ball i have been this way all my life..cheap i was happy to find this site..have picked up a few good ideas on here for saving money..my boyfriend is like me cheap to and he never went to a yard sale before he met me and he sure never picked trash before but now he brings over all kinds of things he finds by his house in the trash..its great that he has a truck also..recently he brought over a nice wood dresser i put it in my bed room..spring time is nice for finding decent furniture..i will be happy when the cold weather is over and i can get out and go to yard sales and picking..

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we had an ice storm here in michigan..but that didn't keep us away from out favorite thrift store today..we just waited til the temperature was warmer and the ice melted so we could head out for the sales..i had a 50 percent off coupon for the local thrift store and i was amazed to find out after i arrived at the store that the coupon was for 50 percent off every thing in the store..i was delighted..so was my friend we shared the coupon at the check out she charged the items and i paid her with a check..it was fun..my boyfriend found a comfy chair and sat down he knew two women loose in a thrift store would be a long wait but he didnt mind..indeed it was a rat race in there..i managed to find some outfits for summer and jeans and dress pants and a new skillet for 1.00..my friend found blankets and clothes for her husband mother and son..two hours later when we arrived at the check out with three buggies full of stuff and my boyfriend wanted the comfy computer chair we waited  eagerly wondering what the total would be and to our surprise it was just under 60 dollars..even the sales clerk was amazed and a few of the items i had bought still had the original store tags still on them..the stock boy had to help us to my boyfriends truck as the side walk was still a bit slippery from the ice storm..after that we were off to michaels to use our 50 percent off coupons..i bought paint brushes there and my friend used her coupon to buy paint brushes and she gave them to me as part of my xmas present so it was liking buying one and getting one free...even tho the weather wasnt the greatest all in all it was fun..we exchanged gifts at her house.. i made her a woodburned clock for her dining room it cost 2.00 for the wood and 4.00 for the clock kit  and she loved it...i buy all my wood at the lumbar yard for woodburning crafts it so much cheaper and you can have the wood cut down to any size you want for free..i wrapped it in recycled gift wrap and but it in one of those xmas bags that i bought last summer at a garage sale 20 bags for a quarter..

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i love garbage the best freebies are found digging thru someones trash..i live in a mobile home park and i find the best items in my neighbors trash..i get up early in the morning on garbage day. i borrow my boyfriends truck and i drive thru the park..on one occassion i found a set of old records i am a record collector and i sold two of the records on ebay that i found and made one hundred dollars..the rest i am keeping for a while..i couldnt believe it this person threw out about 40 records all early 60s and 70s rock and yes some beatles those are worth something so i am keeping them for awhile til i  find  their value .. on another time out i found an old clock that i have hanging on my wall.. i also found crown molding  two nice pieces that i used as as a shelf mantle above my dining room on the wall i have a bottle collection there that i also found in the trash..i have been a picker for quiet sometime..but people throw away good stuff....my home is furnished with items found in the trash..my living room furniture was resecued before it made it to the trash heap..my boyfriends brother who is well off decided he wanted new furniture and my boyfriend brought offer his brothers stuff and its beautiful a couch that makes into a slepper and another smaller couch..nothing wrong with it..and i love it..they are the type of people who buy new furniture every year and just toss what they had to the curb..you have to be thrifty to survive in this world today or your not going to make it

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