The Scavengers Return...

It's council pick-up week here in Coburg. Which means, it's that glorious time of year when poor-newlyweds can raid their neighbours 'junk' without appearing too odd or desperate. Timmy and I set off in his red ute Sheila, working our way up and down the northern streets of Coburg. This is where we grow to absolutely love the neighbours who can afford to buy a brand new couch and toss out a perfectly good last season one. We were absolutely flawed with our finds.
By the end of the day we had managed to snaffle and walk away with;
** A pair of matching arm chairs - as yet we've been unable to locate any sort of flaw, they were easily the score of the day





** A near new [still in it's original sealed plastic] double bed 'sleep eze' inner coil mattress. Which means that together with the entire bed frame we scored about a month ago we now have ourselves set up for a comfortable stay should anyone come stay at our little happy home.





** A 3 seater brown velvet lounge. I got a kick out of it reminding me of the couch in 'friends'





** A black leather recliner, which has become timmys new pride and joy during his XBox time.






and last but not least,

**A plastic clam shell pool for Jester. Apparantly melbourne is in a bit of a heat wave and a husky's favourite way for dealing with heat is to immerse their feet in water. We've set up the little pool under a tree in the backyard and Jesters been running in and out of it as he sees fit. His idea of heaven on earth is taking his bones into the pool and just laying there in the cool, wet chewing to his hearts content.




















So all in all, it's a happy house. We returned from the hunt, stinky and sweaty from moving couches all over town, but we couldn't wipe the smiles off our faces and keep the giggles from escaping...a combination of dehydration and ridiculous luck will do that to a person ;)


















Money's still tight, but yesterday we experienced a whole heap of fun on a shoestring, walked away with some cool stuff and all it cost us was the cost of the petrol to potter around for the afternoon.
Who said you can't have a saturdays worth of fun for less than 5 bucks these days?!!