If you're like my husband, along about February you start getting itchy fingers to get out there and dig in the dirt planting a garden. It's easy to get spring gardening fever after being cooped up indoors during the winter months. He'll pull out the old gardening tools and try to clean them and get them ready to go. That's when he'll remember that the rake head falls off every time he uses the rake or the handle broke on the spade. All of a sudden, he's in the market for new tools, but the prices can come as a shock.
If you've been to your local gardening center in February or March, you've noticed that they already have their garden tools on display just getting ready for all the people who are working themselves into a gardening frenzy. However, as excited as they are about gardening, the prices of the tools can be a little over budget. What you need to do is find a way to buy the affordable garden tools you need.
Start out by shopping at your usual stores, even if they haven't advertised any bargains. Ask a store manager if there are going to be any upcoming sales on the items you're looking for. You could find out that the tools you want will be marked down next week. If you don't ask, you could end up buying tools today that will be much cheaper next week. Doesn't it just burn you when that happens!
Try the Discount Stores
Even if you don't make a habit of shopping at stores like discount houses, dollar stores, and outlets, you should give them a try. A lot of times they will have new merchandise that was left over from last gardening season, but at a lot better prices than "new" merchandise. Who's going to know or care if you're using last season's garden tools?
Used items can also be a good buy. Do a little looking around and see what you can find. So what if they're a little dirty? You can always clean them up, and, who knows, you may have found a treasure in the rough.
You can have a lot of fun shopping at garage sales and flea markets. Not only will they have a lot of unique items for sale, you can also find the garden tools you need at exceptional prices. Most often if you find something you like, the seller will be willing to bargain a little bit. You never know what kind of deal you could end up.
If you can find a sale at a home where a shopaholic lives, you may well have hit pay dirt. Some people are compulsive shoppers that will buy something just because it's a good deal, even though they already have three more at home. Eventually they will have a sale of their excess because they've run out of room. You can find affordable garden tools in their castoffs.
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