Goodwill 50% Off = My Favorite! (+ Garage Sales Finds!)

Saturdays are my favorite. But not for the reason most people think. Rather than being lazy or sleeping in, I love the Saturdays that I get up early and go hunt for bargains at the 50% off the ENTIRE store sales at Goodwills around town! Especially now that I am shopping for my classroom and future apartment, in addition to all the other fun things I typically hunt for, I had a blast today picking up some good finds!

 This was my favorite find of the day. A BRAND NEW (it was still in shrink wrap and not yet assembled) Chalkboard (Luns) from IKEA. $7.50 total

 More teacher things. Magazine caddies (bare wood right now...I'll get artsy and paint them soon), a brand new (it was still in its box) pop-up Post-It note desk weight. It's an apple for the teacher! =) Brand new word strip walls (great for word walls), and brand new star accents for bulletin boards. Also a binder with dividers and additional post-it stickies of all colors and sizes (let's be honest...I really bought it for the fun stickies inside).

Grand total for all: $6.25

 I know of a singing game I plan to do with my kiddos that involves a bowl for each person to slide on the floor. Rather than have a bunch of disposable Solo brand plastic bowls that I know would be destroyed after a few rounds, I saw these four colorful sets of hard plastic bowls and decided to pick them up at $1 a set.

 Best bargain of the day! There was no price on the box, so when I asked, he gave it to me for .49 cents, which really reduced down to .25 cents! I'm so excited to continue learning more guitar chords and scales with these awesome flashcard-style tools!

 Misc. fun! Two great movies ($2 each), a CD and information book about Classical Overtures ($1), and a brand new Cribbage board ($2) - I need to refresh my memory on how to play. I miss that game!

 Kitchen awesomeness. 100 new cookie cutters for $2 (I have an addiction to collecting cookie cutters. It's a problem!), and a wonderful, functioning kitchen scale to use for baking. I'm so thankful I found such a great one for only $2!

 The thing I'm always on the hunt for at thrift shops is good pictures books for the music classroom. I'm happy to say I found some great ones today! All kids books either end up being .50 cents or .25 cents, depending on hardback or paperback covers.

 It's hard to tell...but this is a HUGE bag of crayons that I got for $1. I'm excited to finally do some crafts with crayons this summer (hello melted crayon canvases!)

 Very cute hi-low green dress - $4.00

 Long sleeve Mossimo red sweater - $3.00

Blue cardigan sweater - $2.50

And here are my garage sale finds! I LOVE a good bargain! =)

A media storage bookshelf from $20.00

A really cool metal jazz silhouette for my music room - $10.00

Fake fruit - good for tonal recall games -$1.00

Musical story books and a brand new wall calendar (has two calendars in it).
Total for all: $2.35