especially when it's a designer handbag. Isn't this the cutest little Kate Spade bag you have ever seen? Well, maybe not, but it's the cutest one I've found. And for twenty bucks, I snapped it up. I almost passed it by because I thought it was an animal print - not one of my favorite looks - but I realized the design is a large flower. I was not a fan of her original black Sam bags - too plain and sort of cheap looking - but her later work is cuter - especially the leather stuff, which sadly I cannot afford here at the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. I will also admit that I never stop at yard sales - they're not the same in Florida as they are up North; in Florida it's mostly the junk that's left after the people who moved down here sold the good stuff in Ohio or Michigan. Tim loved yard sales and I gradually disposed of the useless or tacky finds over the years. But on this particular day, the day of the Big Bargain Find, I was driving down the street and saw a pile of handbags on a table at a yard sale in front of a rather upscale home. I actually turned around and went back - for twenty well-spent dollars I brought home this cute purse that just needed vacuuming out and a little Febreze. Maybe I'll pay more attention to yard sales from now on...
