posted on May 25, 2001 10:51:00 PM
I just love these threads about what you all have found at yard sales....especially this weekend, it seems would be a good time to go scouting!! So ~ 'fess up, what are your finds for the weekend?
posted on May 26, 2001 12:13:00 AM
Only made a couple of stops today but we bought a Marlboro neon sign for $20.It will make a good night light in our new B&M and I'll get as much as if I put it on ebay and not have to worry about breakage in shipping.
A new sheet for 50 cents,a lacquered box for $1 and some old jewelry for 10 cents each and a Givenchy pin for 50 cents.
posted on May 26, 2001 03:59:19 AM
A 2" tall brass clock that only needed a new batterie for $1.00. (It was a pain in the neck to get it open, but that's what husbands are there for)
A personal cassette player for $1.00. I use mine all the time while working in the house, listening to audio books. Makes the work less boring and repetative.
posted on May 26, 2001 05:52:16 AM
it is pouring rain here so I slept in til 8:00 am and boy did it feel good. Then I got up for the cats. Since rocky is hunting I went back to bed turned on the Today show and had a wonderful morning. Did get any hot sales but everyone needs a morning like this every once and a while!
posted on May 26, 2001 08:54:09 AM
not much this weekend, it is rainy and the sales just weren't happening much this holiday weekend. The only prizes I came home with were two wood and cast iron pulleys. As I was walking away from the yard sale, the old guy calls out "You know they were used for lifiting dead people don't you?"
The guy was cracking jokes at everyone that was coming by, and they look like old barn pulley's, but still... they are starting to give me the creeps!
posted on May 26, 2001 10:26:30 AM
I went to one that was just starting to close down. They were putting things at the end of the driveway, maybe for garbage pickup, and everytime I inquired about the price they'd say, "you can have it for free." I took home a big box of old mags from the 50s-60s- Boys Life and Mad. My girlfriend, who can't pass up anything that is free, brought home a weird looking wooden duck wearing army fatigues, and a tie. Fortunately she plans on giving it to her sister who collects weird things.
posted on May 26, 2001 12:03:00 PM
I found 3 Iroquois daisy-patterned soup plates, 2 Pfaltzgraf cups, and some odds and ends of various cups in 1960s patterns.
El
"The customer may not always be right, but she is always the customer."
posted on May 26, 2001 12:52:03 PM
Well, it was supposed to rain. it didn't and the town next to ours was having their yearly garage sales. I'd say about 400 to 500 of them at once. I found for my son, not for resale:
large metal tonka truck almost new for $1.50
large metal tonka truck older for $1.50
large metal tonka bulldozer for $2.75
large metal tonka grader for $1.50
large metal tonka firetruck (missing ladders) but loooks very good $0.75
large metal tonka jeep for $1.50
12" inch metal John Deere tractor $2
12" inch metal International tractor with shovel for $4
medium size metal tonka blue pick up truck for $1
medium size metal and plastic remco mixer truck for $0.25
a fisher price medium size truck for $1
little tikes 14" tractor with shovel for $2.50
a playskool wooden tractor to ride on for $3. it only has a broken steering that needs fixing.
He hasn't stopped playing with them since we got home.
[ edited by AnonymousCoward on May 26, 2001 01:19 PM ]
posted on May 27, 2001 06:39:18 AM
Fri: Mostly the usual stuff, solid sellers, but nothing to jump up and down about.
Sat: Went to a yard sale that had started Friday, but late, so I'd forgotten to go, and bought two gorgeous nature/bird lithos for $25 each - they went right to consignment - which is cool because they don't even take up space in my home for a second.
Then, at the end of the day, I stopped at a sale that was a benefit for our town's very first art museum, and not only did I get half a truckload of books and textiles for about $3, but I met the great folks that put the museum together, then took a tour, and in general had terrific time.
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