It’s here!  Garage sale season has kicked off in the Twin Cities!

Although there are a few garage sales here and there to be found in Minnesota in April, things don’t really start in earnest until the first weekend in May.  Then we are spoiled for choice.  There were no fewer than 38 neighborhood sales to choose from last weekend.

I have to admit, I’m not as ambitious as I once was.  I used to do a three day marathon of garage sales, starting on Thursday and going through Saturday.  But these days I run out of steam after Thursday and Friday.

My friend opK and I stuck close to home on Thursday with the North St. Paul city-wide sales, and then on Friday we headed to one of our favorite neighborhoods, Tangletown.

I found a few fun items to bring home with me.

I found a couple of very reasonably priced metal toolboxes, well, technically one is a tackle box.

The toolbox is quite rusty and in need of some work.

But at only $2, I couldn’t pass it up.

The trio of frames was also a good bargain.

The white with gold highlights feels a little dated to me, but I think I can do something fun with these.

I found a lovely set of green books.

That’s only five of them, but there are 9 altogether.

One thing we noticed while shopping was that prices seem to have gone up once again.  Last year opK and I joked about how $5 seemed to be the go-to price at garage sales since Covid.  We used to find lots of things priced lower than $5, but over the last several years it seemed like everyone just put $5 (or more) on everything.  Maybe because anything less than $5 just isn’t worth bothering with?

But now it seems that $10 is the new $5.  We picked up so many things that were priced at $10, it was almost comical.  We’ll have to wait and see if that trend continues over the summer.

I did bring home some furniture, a pair of metal chairs with a mid-mod vibe and this cupboard.

I’m guessing it was originally intended for storing sheet music.

But with my handyman Ken’s help, I’m going to remove some of the shelves to make it a little more functional.  It also needs its joints reglued in general, and a couple of other repairs.  Of course, I also plan to give it a whole new look on the outside, so be sure to stay tuned for that.

I’m giving ‘Find of the Day’ status to this cute little dresser.

You know when you walk into a garage sale and some other shopper is holding up an item, trying to decide whether or not to buy it?  And you are just hoping they put it back down so you can buy it?  That was the case here.  I held my breath waiting for another woman to put this back down on the table, and she did!  As I snatched it up she said “that is really cute, but not the right color for me”.

Well … it’s not the right color for me either, but you know I can fix that!

So be sure to stay tuned to see what I end up doing with it.