Aldi + Goodwill = Hanging Baskets
I've told you before that I'm no master gardener. But, I do like to try my hand at growing food and beautifying the outside of our house with plants, and this year I decided I wanted to put up some hanging baskets.
Weis carries hanging baskets, but the cheapest, smallest ones they carry are $12-$15. I wanted to put up 5, and the idea of forking over $60 was less than appealing to me. I'm not positive how much these cost at Home Depot or Lowe's, though the prices there are probably better than the grocery store prices.
Happily, I haven't even had to check at a garden/home improvement store because Aldi has intermittently carried these lovely (empty) hanging baskets over the summer for the appealing price of $3.99.
I even got 2 of my baskets at the reduced price of $2.99. Yay! So, my 5 baskets have only run me $18, which is not much more than the price of a single basket at Weis.
I had a old black wrought iron hook for the first basket, and we bought one from Lowe's for my second basket.
I found these two packages of white hooks at Goodwill for $1 apiece (they're from Caldor and were made in 1980!). I didn't want white, but I knew I could fix that, so I bought them.
After some primer and spray paint, they're now as black as my other hooks.
(please excuse our obviously unfinished deck staining job. We've got the deck, railings, and posts stained, but we haven't tackle the beams and other underside pieces yet...it's been above the recommended temperature for days!)
I thought you might like to see that one of my baskets is hanging right by my retractable clothesline. 😉
The baskets in these pictures have baby marigold plants in them (and nasturtium seeds, which will be popping up soon), and one of the upper deck baskets has geraniums from Aldi in it.
My baskets make me all happy when I look at them, and I'm especially happy that they didn't cost an arm and a leg. Yay for Aldi and Goodwill!
Yay! foryou! How you find all these deals is so great a read!!! THanks for sharing! Our family just watched the DVD Miss Potter this weekend for the first time. MY husband loved it and watched it twice. Th reason I mention it, is for the scenes of the English porch gardens. WE call them lanais in FLorida. I just love them with containers of flowers everywhere and bistro tables snuggled in amongst them.
love them. we had hanging baskets at our old house. i miss them here. maybe i need to figure out how to make them work again.
your good will must be one heck of a store.
I have been to the one that is close to me a few time. Sometimes seems kinda junkie. I have found a few things. And one thing I hemed and hawed about, was gone by the time I made up my mind. From what I can see in your pictures from there, they seem to have alot.
I guess really I need time, to sift threw things there...
The hanging plants look lovely, and you will have them forever now... (or at least close to it! ) 🙂
Thrift stores are a gold mine of misc. hardware bits. I always keep an eye open for that stuff when I go!
Your baskets look lovely! The best part is next year and the year after, etc. the only cost will be seeds or plants.
i love those baskets.
Picked up four of them at Dollar Tree
for only $2 each (for the basket and lining)
Great baskets!! Where did you find the retractable clothes line?
I go to the same goodwill and Aldi that you do (recognized them from the interview clip) and I loooove it. They always have the best deals of any others we've been to.
Very pretty!
Could you do regular updates on the enemal cookware. I've seen it at aldi before but i've always been a little nervous about buying because enamel cookware is ment to be almost multigenerational and I wanted to get a quality product