Yard Sale Season Is Almost Upon Us

What are you hoping to find this year?

Personally I'm hoping to be able to attend more yard sales this year. Last year was really busy for me and I wasn't able to stop at many. I hope to find some yard sales that have some older stuff at them, I've found some nice stuff cheap at those with older accumulations. I also may have a yard sale of my own for some stuff that I've accumulated. Nothing great, just some odds and ends that I've gotten in box lots from auctions including some kitchen wares, a few hundred cds, and some lesser art pottery that I got years ago when I collected junkier stuff.

 

Used to go to sales regularly but not so much lately. Have found a few very good things over the years but such are few and far between. Good places to buy furniture cheap. Hate to get up early so really have to be dedicated to go. May hit some this year but the real plan is to have one or two myself.

 

Hit my first one on Saturday. The "old stuff" was from the late 80s.(sigh) Total bust, but I'm hoping it's on the order of a bad dress rehearsal.

 

I generally miss most of the good stuff at yard sales because they start on Fridays, or even Thursdays -- and I work all week so can only make it on Saturdays. Everything is picked over by then.

That said, they are still fun to attend and occasionally I get something. It's also usually possible even on Saturdays to pick up usable kitchen items.

 

I don't tend to stop at many sales any more either. I have a B&M so a lot of stuff just comes to me.
Have way too much stuff to sort now.
Will occasionally go to an estate sale, but never try to be the first there.

 

I gave up on yard sales years ago . Here in n. fla they mostly consist of clothes,toys and dollar store junk .

 

Yard SMELL Season is...already here !!!!!

Peeee.....Yewwww !!!!!!!

 

I'm resigned to hit some more affluent area's , and look for smalls where the seller has totally missed the 925..10K, 14K & 18K !!!!!

 

Hi Johnnie,
You all would have liked my yard sales. My posting in the newspapers always started with: NO clothes, NO Tupperware, NO kids stuff. Only china, glass, silver, linens etc from 17th Century to 1950. I had people travel 200 miles to attend. I would have it on Fri, Sat and Sun. I added more stuff every couple of hours. I had people come back 3 or 4 times. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed the people except for the classic 4 or 5. I loved throwing these huge yard sales, and they all loved me. The least I made on a sale was 2 grand usually between 4 and 8 grand over the week end. I miss those days.
greg

 

I'll be looking for Edward Lear's Natural History octavos, old/antique painting stuff (easels, brushes, palettes, palette knives, maybe frames), and anything old and Mexican and kitsch-y. Oh, and... wine corks with bird-related-themes/logos... hey, I collect 'em!
Great idea for a thread, Joe.
I'm stoked!

 

I do like to go yard sale-ing but I don't usually find much for all the running around so most of the time I just stop as I pass a sale. I do much better at thrifts and auctions around here. Always hopeful though.....the next great thing might be just around the next corner sitting right on someone's lawn

 

Greg , I went to a town wide yard sale in Castleton new York in the early 90s and about had a coronary . A stack of majolica plates $10 , string of real amber beads $2 , beveled glass mirror $4 , 2 Stevengraphs $5 , it went on and on and on . My partner and his mother and I were all literally sitting on stuff and the station wagon was full to bursting WITH a mission oak recliner and an early American tea table strapped to the top ! I figure after that , what yard sale wouldn't disappoint ?
That was a GOOD day .

 

Usually you find iffy deals, sterling chains of no great worth, older pottery, clothes, toys etc, but every once in a while... whoops! You find that piece guaranteed to make you want to go hunting again the next week. I have a hot date Friday morning with the first church rummage sale of the year. It's in a church where I never find an awful lot, but the money goes to their Missions efforts, so it's worth a shot. Besides, once I scored a drilled 1793 Mexican silver coin there...for two bucks.

 

I've already started!
But...... I need to back off...................uh-huh.....sure.........right.......
I just KNOW that major find is at the next place.................
Isn't it????

 

I like the village sales we have here in uk. Lots of people have a garage sale on the same day, usually to raise some money for themselves and the local church or school, you can buy a map from the village shop showing all the houses participating and off you go. It's pretty tiring haring about, the cars are like the wacky races, often parking dangerously as everyone wants to be first, some people take their bikes in their cars to save on petrol. Same old kids toys but often you can find some decent vinyl and overlooked gems.
Best buys for me, victorian gold and three amethyst brooch and ..coppola e Toppo vintage costume jewellery faux pearl and crystal necklace. £6 and £2 respectively. I know I have to sell them but not just yet........it's my pension plan.

 

Speaking of -------------- hoarders and yard sales. I'm trying to figure this one out.

https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Fairfield/06825/1142964?utm_source=aol.com&utm_

Is it a house? A condo? Or just a storage unit?

It does have a sitting area and maybe an eating area. Not sure.

I'm fairly familiar with the area, based on the parking instructions only. As common, no address until day before it starts. What I find hard to accept is the immediate neighborhood home values range from $350,000, through $700,000, and up.

What the heck is this place, which to be honest, does have a basement, a garage and an attic? Maybe they couldn't get to any other rooms.

My recently cleaned up and reconfigured computer system is operating nicely BUT I am not attuned to the LINKS. Try clicking on the above. Or try copying and pasting.
I'll double check after posted and offer an alternative if a problem, I hope.
CHECKED. LINK WORKS FINE FOR ME.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING THERE YOU NEED, LET ME KNOW.

 

I'm guessing house, basement and detached garage. It looks like one of those barely post-WWII cape houses with two bedrooms upstairs in what ought to be the attic. Usually one or two downstairs. Maybe 1200 square feet all in? I'm guessing someone bought it when they got married right after WWII and never moved. My aunt's house was like that. She had two bedrooms downstairs, but one was literally a bed room; it had room for a twin bed and that was it. No dresser, no nothing.

 

Is that FiestaWare in #44?
Other than, that, not much jumped out at me...

 

evelyb, might very well be as you described. I receive those estate sale notices every day and never saw one so full that you can't make out what's a bedroom and what's a kitchen. Actually none of those rooms are in those pics. Upstairs, attic?, appears unfinished. See pic 59.

Gila, could be fiesta. I'm really kidding about wanting something. I don't plan to go. Did not see anything at all that was even slightly interesting. Also very unusual for that particular estate company. They aren't my favorite, but normally don't have sales in anything under 5,000 sq. ft. and loaded with antiques and art work.

 

The typewriter I went through college with is in #26 and I see a restoration job in #49 that's begging for Brad to find it. Other than that, it looks like the same random accumulation of junk that happened to a lot of people who never moved. Watch out for sewing stuff though; I've heard of more precious metal jewelry turning up in sewing supplies.... Happened to me once too - an 18k gold charm hanging from a pincushion. Can't say I minded.