Village-Wide Yard Sale

Grandma DJ was in town this weekend, so we took her to our village-wide yard sale on Saturday. My Sweets and I never yard sale, but this annual community event is a prime opportunity to teach the wee ones about affording, choosing, spending.


We gave Buby and Bleu their wallets after breakfast, and they could not wait to get out. They walked and walked, and at the end of the day spent just $11 between them. Bleu chose a small Madame Alexander doll, a fairy puzzle, a tie-dye shirt, a seersucker dress she'll have to wait two years to wear, a Hess truck and one book. Buby chose the same Hess truck, a similar tie-dye shirt, 11 books, a construction vehicle, a random superhero figurine, and a stuffed Hulk {which I washed this evening}.


It's difficult for me to watch all of this stuff come into the house, since I'm of the we-already-have-too-much mindset. But one look at their happy faces... and good lessons were learned.


Here's a list of the dusty hardcovers we adopted from our dear neighbors:


The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
More Friends and Neighbors, The New Basic Reader, 1956 edition
Go Away, Dog by Joan L. Nodset, Copyright 1963
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin, copyright 1971
How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky by Mirra Ginsburg, copyright 1975
Thunderhoof by Syd Hoff, copyright 1971
Mr. Yowder and the Giant Bull Snake by Glen Rounds, copyright 1906
Meet Babar and His Family by Laurent de Brunhoff, copyright 1973
Babar Visits Another Planet by Laurent de Brunhoff, copyright 1972
Raymond Briggs' The Snowman, copyright 1999
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble, copyright 1980
Happy-Go-Hoppy by Myna Lockwood, copyright 1972




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