The Seniors Discover Estate Sales

It had been quite a week at the Seneca Retirement Home. Monday, the lost day, was spent by yours truly undergoing a 'surgical procedure', and then sleeping off the anesthesia. Tuesday am, more house cleaning (the threat of company ALWAYS produces results!), then off to an 18 hole Match Play Golf Tournament. Wednesday, final house cleaning for our Wednesday night gathering of the Ottawa Art League here for our Annual Art League Picnic. 40 some artists gathered, filling the street and each bringing specialty dishes to pass. A GREAT time was had by all. We hung out until 11 pm, well past our bedtimes! Thursday was back to the veggie garden (after party cleanup) to weed and harvest strawberries. (You know how the strawberry harvest goes: 1 for me, 2 for the basket, 1 for me....)

So today, we woke up ready to PLAY! Thanks to our thoughtful DIL, we had hooked onto a website for Estate Sales that notifies you of local homes 'selling out'. There was a sale in Ottawa, and the preview on the web looked good. We were off to our very first Estate Sale on Friday morning, taking the truck, just in case.

We are in the market for some furniture for the downstairs living area and for our Great Room upstairs. After looking at the prices for NEW furniture....yeeks! Hence the jump to Estate Sales.

We found the Estate Sale house easily enough, thanks to our Garmin and the 20 or so signs along the way. The neighborhood looked really promising. (After all, one does want NICE used stuff! )What fun it was walking through the house (with about 30 other bargain hunters), looking at everything (did not find that mislabled Renoir). And...a chair bonded to us begging to be taken back to our home. We could not resist: it was so needy and cute. We bought it! For $15.00.

Can't wait for the next sale. Why didn't we make time for this ages ago! Woo hoo!

Have truck, will shop!