We haven’t had much time for curb shopping lately, but sometimes the curb piles just find you. That was certainly the case last week, when we cut through a neighborhood to avoid traffic, and came across a huge pile of landscaping rock. [Read more…]

Here’s our first big yard sale find of the season. This 20-quart Hobart mixer normally sells for around $5,300 new, or $1,200 used, but we got it for $200!

It was at the last stop on our yard sale route [Read more…]

While out for a walk the other day, my husband and I spotted a huge curb pile. We stopped to take a look; and it was full of so many good things, my husband went home for the car. Here are some highlights from our haul.

This Kindle Fire charger is one of the first things that I spotted. With two teenagers in the house, mine had mysteriously gone missing. I could have ordered another one off of Amazon for $19.99, but I decided to take advantage of Curb Mart’s deal instead. Hopefully, I can do a better job of hiding this one. [Read more…]

Get ready for some more progress at the cabin. This week yielded some pretty sweet curb treasure.

My husband spotted these two basement windows (turned sideways in the picture) while he was taking the kids to school. I’m thinking they’ll work well in the bath house, if we position them at the top of the wall. They even had their screens with them. Score! [Read more…]

A few weeks ago my husband spotted this range hood at Habitat. It was 36-inches wide – the perfect size for our 1957 stove! When we started renovating our kitchen a few years ago, we had wiring and a vent installed for a range hood, but we hadn’t gotten around to installing one yet. We were going to build our own, but when we came across this one for $50, we knew we couldn’t build one for any less; so we snatched it up.

Dark stained wood doesn’t really fit the look of our kitchen, so we gave it a quick sanding and a new paint job. [Read more…]