Gresham Farmers Market

I live in Gresham Oregon, so this is my local farmers market. I didn't take too many pictures while there, but wanted to share the few i have and just my experience there.

I've been to the market plenty of times before. It's always exciting yet a little boring for me to go. If actually planning on buying produce, then it's a bit more fun. Most of what is there is produce and hand crafted things. I either don't like or don't have the money for most of the handmade things. And unless planning to buy produce, not much worth checking those out. There is also the food section, but i wasn't really interested in wanting to try most of the stuff, and now with my daughter at the age of not wanting to sit still too long, makes it hard to try them now.

On this trip, I went with my mom and daughter, we bought one zucchini for me to try something with, a bag of kettle corn, a small thing of strawberries, a bag of cherries, italian ice, pulled pork sliders, sweet potato pasta, and some cookies. I believe that was all that we bought.

The first picture in this post, there's a stand that sets these jams out for you to taste before buying, didn't actually buy any this time, but i love trying this. That picture was also the best one i took of the ones i took. I liked some of the pear ones they had.

 Just a small part of the market.

 My pina colada Italian ice i had. It was soooo good. The people who make it use real fruit for their flavoring.

 The place i got it. Only thought about getting it because we saw a coupon for getting one half off. So i got mine for $2. Should of been $2.50 but the lady said she didn't have enough quarters for the chance, so she gave it to me for $2 instead. I had $.50 on me and offered, but she said it was fine.

 Some black flowers we saw.

 My daughter riding in the wagon we brought with us.

and Last picture, a very large dog i saw there.

All in all, it was a good trip this go around. Will be going again next Saturday. Other than that, not sure how much i'll go. I would need to be walking into town to be able to go and with how my daughter has been sleeping, being able to get up and into town before they close down is a slight challenge.

Super Kids Resale

http://superkidsresale.com/

To start, i love consignment sales. You can find great things for great prices, same reason i like thrift stores. But it does sadden me a bit to say that i find this sale rather "eh". It's not horrible but it's not as good as others i have been to. 

The sale seems to just be a rather local consignment sale as it's listed to only be in Longview WA, Vancouver WA, and Gresham OR. I live in Gresham, so i can go to that one. I've only been to the sale twice now, i don't think it's been in the gresham area for much more than that, maybe one other time? Anyways, the two times i've gone, it's been located in the same place, in Gresham Town Fair by the Petsmart. Like other consignment sales, for buying or selling, it's a great way to get great deals and help clear out own items.

I'll start off with the goods i've seen about this sale. Biggest perk for me with this sale, location. I go to another consignment sale and that one is farther than this one is. It's close enough that i could walk to it if i really wanted to go, but also it's still opened after my mom gets off work, so with it being close that we could get there with time to spare and browse. She's my transportation and money right now lol. The prices seem to be decent. Most we spent this sale was $7 on a bundle of 2 pants, $6 was the next on a shirt and pants outfit. One thing i liked about this last sale i just went to, they had a little bake sale stand(not sure who was actually running it) that the profits from that was going to the Sandy Hook Playground memorial funds.

Sadly....Those are the only real good things i see about the sale. I may just be spoiled by the other sale i go to, but this one just has sooo many things that make me not like the sale. 

I said already that the prices seem decent...but a good bit of them seem way over priced. Someone wanted like $6.50 for a single pair of pants. I can't really say too much on the prices because i didn't pay close enough attention to it because i was put off by the quality of the items. I was horrified by the first time i went to the sale because things were just dirty and worn out and the people who run the sale told me they had quality control....didn't look like it to me. Things i remember from the first sale was outside toys(things to climb on) that looked straight out of the backyard and into the sale, no attempt in cleaning it up to make it look nicer. There was also a sleeper i saw that had a rather big hole on the bottom of the foot and i think they were asking $3 for it. And the shoes....Oh my god, the shoes. Me and my mom looked at a pair of boots and had no idea if it was dirt or dried poop on the bottom of it. almost none of the shoes looked like they should be sold. they were so worn out and dirty. 

At this last sale, didn't look too close at too many things, finally actually did look at the clothes and found some things to get(picture below). But i am still not impressed. Most of the clothes had a lot of washer fading to them. there's no season control, so with us getting into the warmer weather, we had to dig through the fall and winter clothing that were hung with the spring and fall clothing. Most of what we got is going to be used as play clothing, so condition is fine for how they are, which isn't what i'd really want for normal wear, but she can get these dirty and i won't get annoyed about it lol. And the shoes....the shoes were just as bad again. dirty worn out shoes that should of just been thrown out, not even donated. You know how when you wear sandals after having dirty feet and it leaves the foot prints on the shoes? That's what a lot of the shoes had. Wish i took a quick picture just to show on here how horrible it was. I did see a pair i thought was cute, they were black converse with green highlights on it....i wanted them for my daughter until i noticed that the toe protection part was getting detached from the shoe. 

A lot of people seem to love the sale, but i don't recommend it for people who care more about what their kids wear. I'll probably go to the next one again, one of those things of maybe it gets better with time or to find those random hidden gems. It's a decent sale for parents who are in need of clothes for their kids but don't have a lot of money to spend on new clothes. Or even toys and other kids related items. 

Here's a picture of what i did manage to find and buy at the sale. No where near what i find and love at the other sale i go to, but these look to be good play clothes. we spent $35 on these 13 items. 2 outfits, 5 shirts, 2 skirts, and 4 pants. i think one of the pants has a small stain on it, but it's for play wear, so oh well.

To wrap up

Pros: 

-Prices

-Location

Cons:

-Prices

-Quality of items

-No season control

Would i recommend this item to anyone: For people i know, no i wouldn't. 

The sale is great for those who love it, but i'm not going to speak too highly of it to people i personally know. Mostly because of the quality of clothing they accept into the sale. Maybe if that was better, then i'd be happier with the sale...but the shoes....something needs to be changed on what gets accepted.