The Cultivated Home

We all love finding a deal—whether it is at a retail store, a flea market, or a sample sale.  Scoring a great find can send a rush that we just can’t deny.  One of our favorite weekend activities is to find a deal or two at a local yard sale, but one of the hardest parts is actually finding the yard sale and even finding the right house!  Fortunately for us, the geniuses over at Apple have provided us with a solution by creating the “Yard Sale Mapper” application.  This app maps out listings of yard sales, garage sales, and tag sales from Craigslist.org and lets you search the map and explore and plan your treasure hunt.  The best part is this app is free, making the goods you find even sweeter!

Don’t have an iPhone?  Check out the site, YardSaleTreasureMap.com, print out your own paper directions and start hunting!

We love when technology meets design, and this is one beautiful example.  Swede Shop is an iPhone application that makes those crazy shopping experiences in IKEA so much smoother.  This brilliant little app allows you to ditch those tiny little pencils that always get lost and make your writing finally readable.  Not only can you write the names, sku’s, and aisle numbers into your phone into an organized form, but you can also attach photos so that when you are running around the warehouse you can remember your priority pieces rather then just staring at those brown boxes.  And no more confusion in the warehouse – this app will help you organize your path and create an “aisle” map, so you don’t have to crisscross and backtrack through the enormous amount of space.  Keep it real with Swede Shop, available here for 99 cents.