The $1 bike...$11 investment...PRICELESS!

At city-wide garage sales earlier this month, I was on the hunt for a bike for Cooper. He still enjoys his "big wheel", but I knew by next summer, that would be Carver's and thought if we could get some practice with Cooper on a bigger bike yet this year, the transition next summer would be easier. I went through the ads and went to two sales right as they started to get first dibs on the bikes advertised. I went with a $10 budget.

The first sale had a red boy's bike, EXACTLY what I thought I was looking for...$10!! I was sold, but another lady was already looking at it. She had already browsed the sale and was paying for her items and I heard her say, "I'll take the bike, too." COOPER WAS ALREADY RIDING IT! I didn't tackle her, although I would've liked to.

The second sale had a John Deere kid's bike advertised. It was small and $30...AT A GARAGE SALE!? No thanks! I was super bummed.

I picked the kids up from daycare and we decided to hit a couple sales that were within walking distance from the house, not really looking for anything specific. The last sale we went to before heading home had a bike laying on the ground right as we walked up the driveway. The sign on it read, "$1 OBO". I turned to the owner and said, "ONE DOLLAR?!?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!" She confirmed and said they just wanted to get rid of everything. There were no training wheels and the back tire needed some air, but I was SOLD!! Cooper was thrilled!

Proud as a peacock on his "new" bike!

Grandpa Tom took car of the air issue.

(Don't tell my dad I put his crack on my blog!)

I had a sore back after doing this for two days!

The Monday after we got the bike we went to Walmart and spent $10 on training wheels. After I read directions and installed them myself, he was set. He's been tearing up the school parking lot every since!