Yard Sale Obsession

I used to have an aversion to yard sales.  About a month ago I decided to try them.  I did research and made a game plan.  I chose 6 yards sales and decided what order to go to them according to where they were, when they started and ended, and what kinds of things they had for sale.  I dragged Shaun along and made him get up early on a Saturday morning.  Things I learned:

-You can't tell how good/disappointing one will be by the description in their ad.  You just have to go to as many as you can and see what you find.
-Yard sales are WAY cheaper than the DI
-I prefer yard sales to the DI because you can see and meet the previous owners of what you are buying
-If there is a coveted item listed in their ad you have to get there EARLY or it will be gone
-A lot of sales aren't advertised online, but you will find a TON just driving around Saturday morning looking for signs
-Some sales are several days long, starting on Thursday or Friday.  Sometimes it's good to go early, before the good stuff is gone, and sometimes it's good to go at the end when they're just trying to get rid of everything that's left.
-Moving sales are awesome, because people are just trying to get rid of stuff, and if they don't sell it they will end up giving it to the DI rather than move it, so you get stuff REALLY cheap!

Here are the things I got over the past few weekends:

Almost the whole Chronicles of Narnia set.  Missing #2 - $1

DVD - $1

Puzzle - $1

Unopened swimming rafts - 25 cents each

Backpacks - $2 each

4 hotdog roasters - $1

Blue glass vases - $1 each (not the best deal, but I really like them)

Each of these were 5 cents, except the smallest was free, so 20 cents total!

These varied from 5 cents to 50 cents, all together they were $2.40.  Most are scratched, but I will pay $2 at Hasting's to get them buffed out, and they will still only be about $2.10 per movie!

I got two of these - just couldn't find the other at the moment I took the picture.  They were 25 cents each!  Okay, that is crazy.  They are at least $8 new!  Shaun and I used to be obsessed, but we wore some of the colors off of ours.  What good is a rubik's cube without colors??  Now we each have our own, and they are really nice ones.  We have both recently remembered how to solve them.  Good times.