Dinner and a movie

This week's Frugal Hacks column discusses tables--and why they are so important to the frugal family. If you're new to Like Merchant Ships, I've rounded up our table photos for inspiration.

Everything you see on these tables (and often, the tables themselves) came from a yard sale or thrift store!

• bird watching breakfast outdoors
• making a buffet table from a door
• the versatile round table
• folding bistro table set for two
• summer birthday table
• indoor July picnic
• painting a table antique black
• secondhand style for the table
• motorcycle-crate-turned-trestle-table
• skirted buffet table
• $10 hallway table