A Sunday Yard Sale Trail

On Sunday, I ventured out to a local Yard Sale Trail, that was being held to raise funds for a local primary school. LB had told me about it and sent me a link. She was out with friends, so couldn't come along, but I decided to go anyway. I was mainly looking for plants for the back garden and a couple of cucumber plants for the allotment, but as you might guess, I bought quite a few other things, but they were all very useful and practical and will get used.

It was a lovely sunny day, which made it perfect for walking around all of the stalls. At the first stall I came to, they were selling these three 10ml bottles of essential oils from Neals Yard. They were £5 for the three, which was a good price, as they are a good quality brand and they will always come in useful for homemade household and beauty products.

The bottles weren't full, probably half to two thirds full, but two of them were organic and cost at least £20 each and the third, non-organic costs £12, so I consider this a win.

Next, I bought three handmade natural soap bars, made by the householder themselves, for £5. I bought one of each scent: lavender and rosemary, tea tree and eucalyptus and mandarin and lime. I use bar soaps in the shower, so these I will happily use and I'm looking to change to using natural soaps in the near future after reading about some of the nasty chemicals that are used in shop bought soaps, so I was very happy with these. They also beautifully wrapped them in paper and string, which was very thoughtful.

I bought this sweet little fabric patch for 50p, which I will attach to something.

My next purchase wasn't strictly needed, but I thought it looked beautiful and very interesting. It was this Around the World in 50 Trees 1000 piece jigsaw. It includes a poster too, which tells you about all the different trees.. I look forward to actually doing this at some point, hopefully all the pieces are there. I paid £1.50 for this.

I bought OH two cucumber plants from a stall raising funds for the church, for £1.80 each. He'd been wanting to find some for the allotment.

I bought a couple of other items for the garden. One was this set of 4 recyclable seed trays for 20p each. These always come in useful when you have an allotment.

The second item was this tin of garden odds & sods, which cost 50p. I couldn't leave it behind for this price. It contains quite a few useful little bits for the garden. I will probably use the strings for wrapping gifts and the snips are perfect for sewing. The wire and plant labels we can use in the garden and the tin is a good size for keeping seeds in or I may just recycle it.

My last couple of purchases included this bar of Czeck dark chocolate for OH for £1, two word search books for 50p each and a seahorse mosaic kit for 50p.

I also bought a gift for LB, who loves Miffy, namely this Miffy tote from the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam with tags still attached. This cost £4 and will be a small stocking filler for Xmas.

I picked up a couple of freebies on route. The oasis were given to me by a stallholder whose neighbour was going to throw them out. These might be useful for Xmas floral displays.  In addition, on the way home, I cut a couple of bags of comfrey leaves from the hedgerows to use to make plant fertiliser. My favourite patch had been completely cut down, but luckily, I still managed to find some growing elsewhere. Who doesn't love free fertiliser these days?

In all, I think I did okay and had a lovely couple of hours mooching around helping to raise money for the local community.