Wow… If only I could properly illustrate the extreme horrible-ness of the sales being offered these days. Erin and I had some time to go out on Friday. Erin didn’t have a sitter so baby Ev came with us, and so did our friend Jen. It was a horrible first sale-ing experience for both of them! We literally couldn’t find a single sale that seemed worth going to, so we decided to stay close to home and hit up a sale in Livonia. 

I took a picture of this to document how sad the offerings were. In retrospect, I should have purchased it to help get us through the day. 

I noticed these cool old mugs but… they weren’t worth $40. 

Now that I’m looking at this picture, that sticker says $40 for the 2 pieces! WTFFFFFF???

Basically, there was nothing remotely good to be found at this sale. Unless you wanted some old Drano or a really scary clown candle. 

In the words of Erin, “That clown hat looks like…something else." 

I did find one thing at this sale: A TON of oversized cash, yo. 

This is the result of Erin telling me to make a thug face (obvi I need to practice this, stat.) And yes, I did buy that giant money. In the car after we left, Jen asked me what I was going to do with it. I said it just seemed like something good to have. She said, "Good for hoarding?” DAMN, JEN. 

I actually knew Adam would be thrilled with this find. And he was. 

This was THE only thing any of us purchased that day, besides Mexican food. But before that, there is one more tale to tell. After leaving the sale, I scoured the listings for anything else nearby that seemed worth going to and came up empty. Erin also started looking and noticed a RePurpose warehouse sale. I immediately refused to go in but Jen was jonesin’ for some drama. In case you forgot or are new to this blog, we had quite the run-in with the Cash and Cari folk a few summers ago.

Anyway, Erin was really desperate for some good sale-ing and Jen was desperate for some action on her first trip out with us, so we went to the warehouse. Erin was acting all brave and ready to just go in there…until we pulled into the parking lot! At that point we decided that we needed to send Jen in as our lookout. She was to enter the warehouse and then come back out and let us know if the coast was clear. It’s worth noting that Jen had never seen an episode of Cash and Cari so she had no idea what Cari looked like. We showed her a picture and she went on her way. Erin and I anxiously sat in the car. 

That’s the view of the door from the car, where we both sat and stared. After about 5 minutes, Jen came out and did this: 

She jumped in the car and told us that public enemy #1 was inside the warehouse. MAAAAAAN!!! We were bummed. That was our last option so no other sales were visited, and we’re hoping that this weekend’s offerings are a bit better. In the end, we had some good Mexican food and Everett was a little angel the whole time. Until we got home. He was p*ssed about the sales that day. 

-Sarah