FINDING BARGAINS

 

 

A recent trip to East Texas to visit relatives found me also visiting garage sales.  My sister in law knows how I love to go to garage sales and she always has a few on schedule for us to go to when I visit. On this particular visit there was a big garage sale going on in her neighborhood and just a short distance from her house.  The sale started the day after we arrived and since it was so close to her house we were about the first to go to it.  

I immediately spotted  this beautiful oak antique dresser.  When I saw the price tag on it I shouted, "I'll take it."  Everything about it was in perfect condition, even the mirror. The price was only $25.00.  The lady put a big "SOLD" sign on it before I knew what happened.  So I was now the proud owner of a huge piece of furniture and a long way from home and traveling in a small crossover.  My sister in law said I could keep it in her garage until I could find a way to get it home.  Some of the neighborhood men took the dresser apart.  It was now in three pieces.  They hauled it to my sister in law's garage where it sat the remainder of our visit. 

After three days of wondering how to get the dresser home I had to think of ways I could get it in our vehicle.  After some deep thinking about why the vehicle was called a crossover I did some investigating.  Well, I found out that the back seats folded down completely.  We measured the base of the dresser and decided it would fit in our car.  One problem though was we had Bella our doggie with us and she had to have a seat for the journey home.  Believe it or not my 88 year old sister in law, my 84 year old husband and myself 81 finally got the thing in the car.  We had to take the drawers out because of the weight but we did get it in the car.  We scooted it to one side so we could put one of the seats back up for Bella and slid the huge mirror on it's side right in there too. 

In addition to the dresser I had bought several other items at garage sales but we did get everything in including a climbing rose bush I had bought and headed home.

After arriving home we now had the problem of getting it out of the car by ourselves.  We took our vitamins and started on the task.  It sat in the garage a few days before our son in law and grandson moved it to the basement for us.  We put the three pieces back together and are enjoying the beauty of this beautiful antique oak dresser. 

JUST WONDERING HOW MANY FACES HAVE BEEN REFLECTED IN THAT OLD MIRROR ?