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Post by heartcat on Aug 17, 2014 10:31:30 GMT
The summer season is quite slow here and will be for the next couple of weeks til there is that last burst in the fall. My friend, who lives locally, went out with her mom and they ended up not finding a single thing. There was a lot of just plain junk, and there were some very over priced sales. But I did manage to get a few things.
My favourite find was a couple of large pictures, black and white foggy landscapes, which is something I have always liked. They are nicely matted in a neutral colour so go with any colour scheme. There was only one outside, and I jumped out of the van and beelined for it. I asked how much it was and was pleased when she said $5. I was even more pleased when she said that there was another one, and that it was $5 for both. I couldn't even haggle on that price.
At the same sale I bought a cast iron statue of the Eiffel Tower, about 8" high, for $1. It sits on my dresser (we have a somewhat abstract painting of the Eiffel Tower in our room and some other Parisienne influences). And they had a large box of black velvet flocked hangers for $2 (65 in total). So I can switch out the mismatched plastic and wire hangers in my bedroom closet.
I found a carpet runner for the hallway for $3. I bought four nice turtlenecks in neutral colours, and a pair of Santana jeans for $5. I got an extra long strand of faux pearls for $1. A couple weekends ago I found the vintage silver vanity set I had been craving, and yesterday I found a vintage vanity brush, in gold and faux mother of pearl. That was $2. The pearls and brush will be used as photo props.
I picked up a brand new bottle of Giorgio Armani foundation, and a nice scarf, for $1 total.
At one of the last sales I bought a couple of glasses from Mother's Pizza, which used to be a restaurant chain here, for nostalgia's sake. They were fifty cents a piece.
So all in all I did pretty good considering the number and quality of sales we had here this weekend.
Did anyone else get out yard saling this weekend? Or to the thrift store? Perhaps you found a deal on a local on line buy and sell site? If so, please share!
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 17, 2014 11:15:08 GMT
Wow! You found some good stuff! No sales that I saw this weekend. I did sell a bunch of my dd's clothes. I had a HUGE bin of clothes in size 7s and 8s that have been hanging around for more than 6 months. I put it up on the yard sale site for our town and a woman asked if she could come and look through stuff. I said sure and when she got here she offered me $40 for all of it and I snatched it up! I really hate selling things individual because it takes so long and I have to keep lugging the bin up and down the stairs. The woman that purchased the stuff made out like a bandit. She got no less than 11 or 12 pairs of jeans (at least 5 from American Eagle Kids when they were around) and 20-30 shirts all name brand stuff. I was SO happy to see that stuff go!
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Post by miss_lizzie on Aug 17, 2014 12:02:22 GMT
Heartcat, you always find the best things! I wish I could go saling with you.  |
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Post by melanell on Aug 17, 2014 12:12:48 GMT
That's awesome, Heartcat. It was a slow week here, too. Far less sales than usual. I did buy the smallest size Sterilite desktop drawers set that I am aware of for $1.00. My son likes to keep his little play table covered with Lego minifigures that he has created that he doesn't want to be put back into general circulation. So I told him this was only his and he could put all of the Lego pieces he was currently playing with in there and no one would bother them. I also found 2 unopened packages of cloth napkins that have good colors for our dishes/kitchen. They were $2.50 each, which beats what I would pay even with a sale at a store. I bought a vintage large Santa cooky cutter in the box for 50 cents. And I bought a whole box of kids paperbacks for 25 cents each. |
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Post by luanne on Aug 17, 2014 12:34:08 GMT
Went to goodwill and found a butter yellow soft sweater. That was it. I love reading this thread. I enjoy hearing about all of everyone's treasures.
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Post by heartcat on Aug 17, 2014 12:39:58 GMT
Brandy, I would have done the same thing! I agree about it being better to sell clothing as a lot, rather than pieces. You might be able to get more per piece for some pieces, but you usually end up with leftovers. And not only do you have the hassle of meeting multiple potential buyers and spending all that time, but you usually end up making a run to the thrift store to donate stuff that doesn't sell. I always think about that at garage sales too. Price it low and sell more, and make the same amount of money or more than selling a few things for higher prices. Good for you for making some money and I always like giving someone else a deal at the same time and making their day. Miss_lizzie, thanks. And it would be fun to have Pea pals to go yard saling with.  As long as we weren't looking for the same things and 'competing', lol. Melanell, good buy on the drawers, and a great idea for ds's Lego guys. My ds loves Lego still (he's 17) and has creations he likes to keep assembled and separate from the bulk pieces. I think people who don't yard sale would be surprised how much new in package stuff you can find. I am envious of the cookie cutter, I love vintage things! Will you use it or display it? I might be tempted to hang it on my Christmas tree! Thanks for sharing, ladies. |
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Post by heartcat on Aug 17, 2014 12:43:06 GMT
Luanne, I love soft sweaters and how good they feel against the skin. I don't want to rush summer, but I found myself looking forward to getting out my fall wardrobe after I came home and tried on the turtlenecks, lol.
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Post by melanell on Aug 17, 2014 12:58:44 GMT
I haven't decided what i will do with it yet. I just saw the box and thought "Yep, I want that." |
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 17, 2014 14:02:56 GMT
Heartcat, you always find the best things! I wish I could go saling with you. I've thought that too. |
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 17, 2014 14:07:15 GMT
Brandy, I would have done the same thing! I agree about it being better to sell clothing as a lot, rather than pieces. You might be able to get more per piece for some pieces, but you usually end up with leftovers. And not only do you have the hassle of meeting multiple potential buyers and spending all that time, but you usually end up making a run to the thrift store to donate stuff that doesn't sell. I always think about that at garage sales too. Price it low and sell more, and make the same amount of money or more than selling a few things for higher prices. Good for you for making some money and I always like giving someone else a deal at the same time and making their day. Miss_lizzie, thanks. And it would be fun to have Pea pals to go yard saling with. As long as we weren't looking for the same things and 'competing', lol. Melanell, good buy on the drawers, and a great idea for ds's Lego guys. My ds loves Lego still (he's 17) and has creations he likes to keep assembled and separate from the bulk pieces. I think people who don't yard sale would be surprised how much new in package stuff you can find. I am envious of the cookie cutter, I love vintage things! Will you use it or display it? I might be tempted to hang it on my Christmas tree! Thanks for sharing, ladies. I agree with you about the "competing." There are several things all of my siblings collect so it can sometimes cause some tension when we go out tag saling. |
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Post by k8smom on Aug 17, 2014 16:51:47 GMT
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 17, 2014 17:00:30 GMT
Brandy, I would have done the same thing! I agree about it being better to sell clothing as a lot, rather than pieces. You might be able to get more per piece for some pieces, but you usually end up with leftovers. And not only do you have the hassle of meeting multiple potential buyers and spending all that time, but you usually end up making a run to the thrift store to donate stuff that doesn't sell. I always think about that at garage sales too. Price it low and sell more, and make the same amount of money or more than selling a few things for higher prices. Good for you for making some money and I always like giving someone else a deal at the same time and making their day. Miss_lizzie, thanks. And it would be fun to have Pea pals to go yard saling with. As long as we weren't looking for the same things and 'competing', lol. Melanell, good buy on the drawers, and a great idea for ds's Lego guys. My ds loves Lego still (he's 17) and has creations he likes to keep assembled and separate from the bulk pieces. I think people who don't yard sale would be surprised how much new in package stuff you can find. I am envious of the cookie cutter, I love vintage things! Will you use it or display it? I might be tempted to hang it on my Christmas tree! Thanks for sharing, ladies. That's exactly how I feel! I chatted with the woman for a few mins and she said that her sister is not very well off so her parents buy her sister's kids clothes but none for them. She seemed very sympathetic to her sister but you could tell it kind of bummed her out that she didn't get the same treatment. When she started looking through the clothes, she LOVED everything and was very excited to get so many things for such a good price. She easily got $500 worth of clothes all in great shape. We have a yard sale about every 2-3 years and we had one this spring. We had nothing priced over $5 and what was left over at the end of the day all fit in like 2 boxes. I got rid of tons of stuff we were done with and people got what they wanted at a good price. Win-win. I really dislike going to yard sales where everything is overpriced and they're unwilling to negotiate. |
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Post by gotranch on Aug 17, 2014 17:03:56 GMT
Some awesome deals! My best recent buy was on a local facebook rummage sale site. I got a cargo carrier for vehicles with all the bells and whistles in perfect condition. They were asking $50 for it. It sells for $550. They dropped the price to $25 because they couldn't find the key for it when we went to pick it up. Not a deal breaker for us - just made the deal sweeter!
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Post by irisheyes on Aug 17, 2014 17:09:52 GMT
K8smom - you found a treasure.
I bought a bag of baby clothing (boys and girls) for my grandkids for $4. She let me fill a bag with anything I could stuff in it.
My son bought one video game for $2 and one for $6.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 17, 2014 17:32:30 GMT
I didn't go to any sales yesterday, but I did buy something from Craigslist again. Nothing too exciting, but it will be super useful for me. I bought a utility cart that will be helpful for me in moving things from my car to the back yard. It is about 3 ft long and 2 1/2 ft wide with a nice strong thick metal platform. It has a handle that is just the right height for me too. I buy things like sacks of bark topper for the yard.
The front yard sacks are no problem to just dump from the car and use out front, but I buy about 15 or more big sacks for the back yard every year and I just can't lug them back there like I used to. In fact, I bought some this year, and my roommate ended up hauling them back for me. That was nice! I am sure he will appreciate the cart too. And I can put a few on the cart to move them to the location I need to just shop from there instead of lugging them around the yard a sack at a time.
I figure it will also be handy in the garage, even if it is just to put heavy things to keep them off the garage floor. And as wimpy as it sounds, I can't carry those 45lb boxes of cat litter around very easily either. I can see putting those on the cart to just pull them in the garage. My process now is to take an empty plastic container out to the car to fill with about 1/3 of the litter at a time and carry it in. I never imagined I would be too decrepit to carry cat litter!
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 17, 2014 17:44:43 GMT
i found 6 pairs of American Eagle jeans in my sons size - $5 a piece
he wears a 30/34 and it's a difficult size to find - even in stores...we usually have to order his pants
they were all dark wash in GREAT condition
i was really thrilled to find them
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Post by ladypop on Aug 17, 2014 17:44:46 GMT
I got two wooden candle holders on stakes for the garden. $8. Brand new with the original prices on ($20 each). A tiny little tea set for my fairy garden ($3). Some dishes for my garden bed border ($3) A flannel backed tablecloth that I cut up and used to make covers for my strawberry pots. ($2) Two cast iron tealight holders and a purple glass holder that looks like a genie's bottle....that one's going to hang on my bottle tree to help keep bad humours out of my garden. 4 wine boxes that I'm going to convert into planters. $5. Not a bad day!!
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Post by cindosha on Aug 17, 2014 19:14:42 GMT
my son wears that size too, gina....i thought i was doing good when i found jeans on clearance at hollister for $20 in that size for my son. great buy!!!
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Post by Lexica on Aug 17, 2014 19:16:17 GMT
I got two wooden candle holders on stakes for the garden. $8. Brand new with the original prices on ($20 each). A tiny little tea set for my fairy garden ($3). Some dishes for my garden bed border ($3) A flannel backed tablecloth that I cut up and used to make covers for my strawberry pots. ($2) Two cast iron tealight holders and a purple glass holder that looks like a genie's bottle....that one's going to hang on my bottle tree to help keep bad humours out of my garden. 4 wine boxes that I'm going to convert into planters. $5. Not a bad day!! You must have an amazing garden! I'm quite curious about the dishes for your garden bed border. Can you elaborate on how you use dishes? Are you upending them to line the border? I would love see a picture of that if you have one! |
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Post by melanell on Aug 17, 2014 19:25:00 GMT
Nice! Are you going to keep it or sell it? I'd be happy with 600 extra dollars right now, but I really love that, so i don't know if I'd want to part with it. |
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Post by melanell on Aug 17, 2014 19:33:57 GMT
Sweet find, Gina. I love finding something I was going to have to buy anyway. Ladypop, your garden sounds so wonderful. |
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Post by heartcat on Aug 17, 2014 20:27:53 GMT
Yes, I know that feeling, melanell!
Eastcoastpea, the one friend that I sometimes garage sale with has very different tastes from me, so we don't have to worry about wanting the same things if we come across anything good.
K8smom, what an amazing find! That is so cool and you got it for a steal.
Brandy, I know what you mean. I often think they've probably never gone to a yard sale and have no idea that the same things are usually so much cheaper.
Gotranch, nice buy. Those look like they'd be so useful. They'd be great for putting yard sale finds into if they vehicle gets filled up, lol!
Irisheyes, clothing bag sales are always fantastic deals. I bet it was fun buying things for your grandchildren. My oldest is 30 and has been married for two years now, so before too long I might be out looking for things for a grand child too.
Lexica, that sounds like a useful buy. And 45 lbs. of cat litter? That is heavy! I wouldn't want to be lugging that around either.
Gina, ds used to wear that size too, though he's filled out in the last year, and they were a hard to find size. So I can imagine how pleased you are.
Ladypop, I agree that your garden sounds wonderful. I hope you can share photos some time.
Good finds everyone, it's always nice to get a bargain, and I love reading these posts. There is always something very cool and out of the ordinary and/or someone got a killer deal.
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Post by Sam on Aug 17, 2014 20:30:10 GMT
I do like reading these threads and the bargains you have bagged. However, to be honest, it's just not that interesting without photos!!! So...............................  |
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Post by heartcat on Aug 17, 2014 20:48:50 GMT
I agree with you about the photos, Sam! I usually post some, but my desk top computer died  and that's the one with the CF card slot and my editing software. I've been checking out kijiji for a replacement, but haven't found one yet. |
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Post by ladypop on Aug 17, 2014 21:45:13 GMT
I got two wooden candle holders on stakes for the garden. $8. Brand new with the original prices on ($20 each). A tiny little tea set for my fairy garden ($3). Some dishes for my garden bed border ($3) A flannel backed tablecloth that I cut up and used to make covers for my strawberry pots. ($2) Two cast iron tealight holders and a purple glass holder that looks like a genie's bottle....that one's going to hang on my bottle tree to help keep bad humours out of my garden. 4 wine boxes that I'm going to convert into planters. $5. Not a bad day!! You must have an amazing garden! I'm quite curious about the dishes for your garden bed border. Can you elaborate on how you use dishes? Are you upending them to line the border? I would love see a picture of that if you have one! I have them half buried in the ground as a border edging. I started with all the chipped ones in my house, lol. I'm slowly replacing them with more vintage flowery ones as I pick them up from flea markets, garage sales, etc..... it's still a work in progress. There are some awesome gardens with plate borders on interest, which is where I get most of my ideas. I WILL post some pix, as soon as I get my latest addition completed....my husband is building me a grotto under the garden stairs....it's dedicated to St Gertrude, who is the patron saint of Cats and Gardeners. My garden is long and narrow...it's the side yard of my house, which we enclosed for the cats. I googled a bunch of pages on long narrow gardens and got some awesome ideas. I WISH I got a little more sun, though....next door's $&@!! palm trees have blocked most of my sun, so all my flowering plants have to be in pots on the staircase. |
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Post by Lexica on Aug 17, 2014 21:52:04 GMT
You must have an amazing garden! I'm quite curious about the dishes for your garden bed border. Can you elaborate on how you use dishes? Are you upending them to line the border? I would love see a picture of that if you have one! I have them half buried in the ground as a border edging. I started with all the chipped ones in my house, lol. I'm slowly replacing them with more vintage flowery ones as I pick them up from flea markets, garage sales, etc..... it's still a work in progress. There are some awesome gardens with plate borders on interest, which is where I get most of my ideas. I WILL post some pix, as soon as I get my latest addition completed....my husband is building me a grotto under the garden stairs....it's dedicated to St Gertrude, who is the patron saint of Cats and Gardeners. My garden is long and narrow...it's the side yard of my house, which we enclosed for the cats. I googled a bunch of pages on long narrow gardens and got some awesome ideas. I WISH I got a little more sun, though....next door's $&@!! palm trees have blocked most of my sun, so all my flowering plants have to be in pots on the staircase. You have an enclosed garden for your kitties?? Now I really must see a picture! I wish I could do something like that. My kitties would love it. Although, they seem pretty happy sprawled out on my bed. I look forward to your post when you get it finished. Although, you could post pictures now...and then post the after pictures when you finish your grotto area. |
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As long as we weren't looking for the same things and 'competing', lol.
and that's the one with the CF card slot and my editing software. I've been checking out kijiji for a replacement, but haven't found one yet.