So, what did I buy at the garage sales?

This is why I need to stay far away from garage sales: I always buy "bargains" and then once I get them home, I ask myself, "Will I ever use this?"

Let's face it, I already have plenty of junk without going after more.

Sometimes I could use just one more burner than my stove provides, and that's why I bought this. It was $5; online, I see new ones cost $39. We shall see.

Even Cliff liked this. I think it was $3. Did I need it? Nope.

I already had a big canner like this, but sometimes you just want to cold pack a few pints of something, so I thought this smaller one might come in handy. $2.50 isn't a bad price.

This is another thing that simply caught my eye, and Cliff's also. For now, it's in my computer room.

Cliff saw this and told me he remembered his Aunt Margaret putting her husband to work with an apple peeler like this. It's a White Mountain, so it ought to be good. I hope I can figure out how to use it when it's apple harvest time. I found a discussion about apple peelers on Homesteading Today, a discussion forum I sometimes frequent. It appears that Pampered Chef makes a peeler that people seem to love.

The one item I was looking for at garage sales yesterday: books! I found lots of them but so many of them were romantic drivel that I only came home with two. Cliff has become quite the avid reader, and he isn't really into romantic books. I passed up some John Grisham books because I wasn't sure which ones we've read. So I only came home with two books.

Cliff spent a couple of bucks on other stuff. You know, "guy stuff" that he took out to the shop as soon as we got home. I'm still thinking we might have done better just staying home.