Wheeling & Dealing with Nonni

Gaines's First Garage Sale adventure with Nonni written by Nonni:

I was so excited to take Gaines on his first Treasure Hunting trip!  The morning started at 6:30am, and Gaines was ready with his money, backpack and his special “Poppy” look alike shirt Nonni purchased on her last Treasure hunting adventure.  We had breakfast in the car, and within 10 minutes we found our first garage sale and it happened to be young man selling his stuff.  He was so excited to get out of the car, when we walked into the garage all the mom’s and grandmother’s just thought he was the cutest thing ever.  Especially his Nonni. 

The first item was a real skeleton sword that he bought (staying at Nonni’s).  I told him to ask the young guy how much he wanted for it, he did and proceeded to tell him he only had 5 dollars.  He took 2.00 for his first purchase and he counted his one’s and gave it to him.  He said, Nonni let’s get something else!!!!  So, he found the big box of cars for Will and purchased a Spiderman alarm clock (that we later found out didn’t work) we were disappointed.  When we left, he said “I love you, Nonni!”  Love it…… 

We got in the car, took our picture with our first purchase and he said “let’s go to some more!”  The next stop he was getting into talking to everyone (imagine that) and told the lady we would be back for a sleepover.  I thought she was going to fall out of her chair.  So, we found 4 others, went to McDonald’s and came home and had a picnic lunch and unloaded all of his treasures.  We spent 10.00 and he was loaded up, I need to bring him more often.   After lunch, Gaines decided to use all my curlers to create himself a skateboarding outfit.  Love his imagination, too cute!! 

We had a blast and can’t wait to take Will next time.

I went in to Gaines's room at 6:14am and he was sitting up in his bed waiting and said, "Mommy, I want to wear that blue shirt with the flowers on it that Nonni got me that looks like the beach."

His Haul
Seriously, this stuff better not end up at my house.

Gaines's Skate boarding gear