I grew up going to yard sales with my grandma and brother. My grandma is a professional yard-saler. But then I got too cool and I would sit in the car and read (told you I was cool) while they stopped at the houses.
This summer I asked my grandma if I could start going with her again because, hello, cheap stuff! After learning from my grandma I have even been able to venture off on my own...Although I am still not up to her level.
One thing about yard sales is that you have to go to a LOT and have to look at a lot of other peoples
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I only spent 50 cents so my husband thought that was a good weekend but still it was kind of sad...So I decided to make up for it by working on a yard sale find I got a couple of weeks ago. I found this awesome old soap powder crate at a yard sale for $4!!!
I knew it would be great for storage and it sat in our extra bedroom for a while...Then I pinned this project from the Thrifty Decor Chick and decided to put it on wheels.
I bought these wheels from Home Depot for $5 bringing my project total to $9.
My first step was cleaning the crate...it was really dirty. I stuck it in my bathtub and ran the shower over it. Probablyyy would have been better to do this outside with a hose but it was 10 pm so I stuck with the shower...
After that I cleaned it MORE with Clorox wipes.
I sanded it lightly just on the rougher spots and coated the whole crate with Poly just to seal and protect the wood and to bring out the color a little better.
My husband attached the wheels for me so I won't take credit for that. This was such a quick and easy project and I love that the box is for soap powder so it is perfect for laundry. I put it in the bedroom for dirty laundry...Its a little smaller than our regular basket so if it gets annoying I will put it in the laundry room for storage. Maybe its small size will make me do more laundry...?
Love it! What a great yard sale find and upgrade. :) To me, it screams laundry room. If you have the room, this is what I would do: Make the homemade laundry detergent powder that I make and store it in a 5 gallon bucket. Put the 5 gallon bucket in this and also put a smaller bucket next to it to throw lint, trash out of pockets, etc into. Then put it close to the washer and dryer. The powder I make would last you guys for the whole year. I put it on my blog, but never updated it because I'm lame. However, for us...I did over 350 loads before it was gone. (I can't remember the exact total offhand) I really should go and find my calculations and update. Here's the link if you're curious. http://www.momofjstk.blogspot.com/2013/01/pinterest-project-post.html
ReplyDeleteAlso, you store the bulk of the detergent in the 5 gallon bucket and I keep the oxyclean container up next to my washer with a small scoop. You really only use 1 Tablespoon per load...or a little more if it's super dirty/stinky. ;)
Great idea!
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