Garage Sale Madness

This past weekend The Payne family (J.'s dad T.J., step-mom Meg, sister Devon, b.i.l Kevin) and a hand full of other awesome people who volunteered a Saturday morning, helped with a giant garage sale to benefit Jessica's Children Foundation.

Jessica's Children Foundation is an organization who offers aid for housing, school supplies, medical bills and financial assistance support to the children or murdered parents. It's heart breaking to read the stories on the foundations site that tell of the struggle these family and children go through, but it's also really encouraging to see that there are individuals and organizations out there that really do care and are making giant efforts to help.


Not only was the garage sale a great success for a great cause, there were some great deals to be had!!

Here we have a (really bad) picture of all the loot I scored!!

4 dresses @ .25 c each.

long flower printed maxi dress in the middle.

short black and white polka dots (Black and White Party dress......maybe?!?!)

short black bathing suit cover up/ long black skirt (blob on the right)

short black sun dress (blob on the left)

aluminum lantern for the back yard , also .25 c

2 books @ .25 c each

giant back of mixed yarn, craft odds & ends, and a new set of knitting needles for some undisclosed donation

and the most exciting of all.....

A brand new (unopened) chess set for $1.00 and the book "Learn to play Chess in 30 min" for a dime!!!

I was super stoked about this purchase because a.) HELLO.....it was a dollar!!!! and b.) it's # 17 on "The List".

I'll be sure to post up-dates on how the lessons go!