Saturday

It's July already?  You've got to be kidding me.  

It's a little bit of a frenzy for me this time of year.  This is the time I organize our tax affairs, preparing everything for our accountant.  And not just any accountant for us!  We've been using a great accountant for over 5 years, that specializes in real estate.  They do a fantastic and thorough job, but I still get nervous.  I feel I need to check and double check everything that needs to be passed on and sometimes TRIPLE check everything - and let me tell you our paper work is usually a few inches thick!  This year it measures only 1.5 inches thick which actually relaxes me somewhat.  Not as bad as last years 2 inches thick - lol!

But I always think I've missed something, or haven given enough information.

This tax year was trying for us, as 2 of our investment properties were vandalized.  Thankfully our insurance came through and everything is fine again.

Our other 3 investment properties are much easier, thanks to the nicer location that they sit on.  WARNING: Always, but always get landlords insurance if you intend on investing in property.

Enough of my boring life.... and onto some goodies that I found a few months back.

Ok, so this HUGE sweater set me back $7, but I got over 1kg of yummy 100% wool after frogging.  I love it!

After frogging the whole thing, I made a swatch.  It knits up beautifully and is so lovely to work with.  I scored good with this.  :)

2 machine yarn cones found for $3 (for both).  Riverhart Summit 3ply....

This booklet has some daggy designs, but just as many nice ones so it was well priced at only 99 cents:

Wednesday

Yummy yarn, found for $1 per ball;

Acrylic, but surprisingly soft.

Mohair, or at least part mohair and feels lovely to the touch.

Pure cotton, it's nice, soft and not like those horrid stiff cottons.

And now for the obligatory let down. I didn't pay $1 for this next ball of pure wool, but rather 50 cents.  I really don't know why I did not carefully check it whilst at the op shop, I must have had brain mush at that particular moment (yes, it happens to the best of us).  After I got it home, this is what I found;

I think there must be about 10gm more or less, of short and long strands.  Thankfully the rest was ok.  Ugghh!  Please check your yarn thoroughly before purchasing at the op shop!

Thursday

Happiness is when you find your treasures for cheap!  Probably nothing very exciting, but they are valuable resources and information for me.  :)

Only 50 cents per book / magazine;

And circs for $1;

Monday

Monday, Monday.... so good to me.....  NOT.  

I dislike Mondays for no apparent reason.  Maybe it's society that has brainwashed me to think like that!

A boring assortment of free stuff today.  I'm guessing you can tell that I'm running out of interesting things to show you?   

 

Tuesday

A little sweet cabinet found for free.  Absolutely nothing was wrong with it - apart for those odd mismatching handles.  I did replace them with two of the same eventually.  I keep my little crafty bits and pieces in it - just perfect!

Free Childcraft books from the 1970's or 1980's.  I did see more of these (possibly the whole set) in the junk pile, but they were water damaged due to the fact that it had been lightly raining a few days before hand.  Oh well, four are better than none, right?

And lastly for today.... A free old top, turned into cute art.   As you can see, the top was stretched, a little faded and too ugly to wear so I salvaged and saved poor Winnie the Pooh in a frame.  How cute is that?

Saturday

After collecting yarn for a few years now... I still don't get bored of finding a bargain.  Sometimes I know what I'll use it for, sometimes I don't.  Either way, it's all good and I will probably keep collecting it until the day my eye sight is no more.  I say that because my eye sight has diminished rapidly this past year and I fear the worst.

I've started wearing glasses to knit at night - something I shouldn't be doing because I make more mistakes when I'm sleepy/tired.  Thankfully day time is ok (notice I wrote 'ok' and not 'good').  Oh well, nobody can stay whole forever, this is true.  In the meantime I will enjoy finding yarn!  Found for $1 each (the Faith was both for $1) ...

Friday

Dear fellow free pickers, junk collectors, op shop finders and all other sorts of thrifty people,

It's finally come to that crucial point.  I've less to show you these days, yes that's right!  This past year or so I had been showing you all the cool stuff that I had accumulated these past few years (some much older) and now that I've been 'collecting' less because of lack of space for it all in and outside of my home, I'll have to blog less than usual.  

But don't fret my fellow trashies and treasure finders, because there will be a time in the near future when I'll gather more.  But in the meantime...

A good assortment of freebies found:

Magazines passed onto dear hubby.

No attachments with this Kodak camera where found, but easy enough to find.

Tee shirt in new condition.  Not my style, but for some unknown reason I'm holding on to it for now.  The sleeves are a little tight and it has an odd fit.  Maybe that's why they trashed it.

Are you looking at me, punk?

 It's plastic and I love it.  My mother has one just like it and I like to think that I found it's twin.  I might change the plant to something more lush to hide the ugly brown pot inside though.

Simply 'a fish'.  Wooden and golden and ready to hang somewhere, like in my car.