Have a Happy Thrifting Deal Day!!!

[floridarecycled]

The thrift stores are going to get hit hard this weekend!  We have literally 1000's of yard sales and multiple community sales today...plus a handful of estate sales too!  Honestly I've been checking the Orlando Craigslist for garage sales this week and there is so many I honestly don't know where to start first!

Hopefully the pickings are going to be good everywhere...and I hope all have a GREAT day....come back and tell us about the best deal you got today and also ---what was your favorite thing (heart thumper)!  I love it when I find that one thing that made the whole day worth it!!

Happy Thrifting!!!!

[goodaim]

Happy thrifting to you too! Please do report back on your finds after today!

You're lucky that the garage/estate sales are in full swing - I'm too far north (MI) for that to happen yet. I'm waiting though... there's a couple of local antique dealers who occasionally have sales throughout the warmer weather months - I've found neat stuff from them. Antique store items at thrift store prices!

Good luck to you and anyone else out on the hunt today!

goodaim

[Good Buddy]

We wish you a happy thrifting, we wish you a happy thrifting and a...blah blah blah blah.
I was helping out a Humane Society thrift near us by organizing their recorded media section (cassettes, vhs tapes, dvd's and records). There were thousands of classical records and many other 60's contemporary artists, nothing I was too interested in though. I did however find an English Beat record, Special Beat. I've always been a huge EB fan and am quite happy with that one album.

We might hit a couple thrifts yet today..

Let's hear everyone else's Saturday finds....

[Mattie]

 

I wandered around the neighborhood this morning expecting to find sale after sale after sale, but I only came across two.  The first one was nothing but fishing and camping gear.  The second was so sparse, I wondered why the family thought it was worth their time to sit there all day.

I had to run some errands and managed to hit one thrift.  I got a jumble of broken jewelry and chains for about $3.

Maybe next weekend will be better.   

[valleythriftshopper]

I was surprised by the lack of yard sales as well, too bad as the weather turned out better than predicted.  There was one church sale, but I got there too late to find anything good.   Also a strike out at the thrifts.  I can't be too bummed out though as I found that great planter yesterday.  Also I stopped back at one of the thrifts late yesterday & found this mod 1960 radio, it works great!

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/thriftshopper/radio4.jpg

[mccoysnina]

The week-end was no go for yard sales.  After nearly a week of sunny temps in the 70s yesterday was rainy and in the 30s.  But it had been forecast that way so I wasn't expecting yard sales.  It's still a litle early here for them anyway.  Maybe end of April things will start to pick up.
But yesterday at the thrift store I found a great pasta plate, still in the box, maybe a souvinier from Italy as everything was in Italian, marked $2.  That came home with me, as  did a bag with two bracelets of crystal beads for $.60. I also found a paint crackling kit for $1.50, perfect for a paint job I have in mind.  I also found a cake pan, heart shaped, of a nice heavy steel not some flimsy cheapo metal, also for $.60.  So for less than $5 I found some nice treasures.
Jeannie

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Thrifts were really crowded this weekend, without a whole lot of goodies to be had. I did find some really excellent "Shabby Chic" looking vintage sheets, and a porcelain doll with a great expressive face for a family friend who collects them.

[loveit]

I was thrilled to find 3 Kentucky Derby glasses at the GW for $1.55 each. My friend has a Kentuky Derby party every year, so when I saw them, I thought of her. She will be thrilled with them. They are authentic KD glasses.

I found them at the GW in a very upscale neighborhood in Atlanta. The people who live around there can afford to go to the Kentucky Derby!! That's also where I have found a few Georges Briard items (6 glasses and something else I can't remember now).

[Big Daddy Audio]

I did however find an English Beat record, Special Beat. I've always been a huge EB fan and am quite happy with that one album.

Let's hear everyone else's Saturday finds....

Special Beat Service is a great album.  I have a couple of copies, just having found a second, not too long ago.

Saturday Garage Sales:

As for Saturday finds, I scored a CD of Randy Newman's Greatest Hits for $2.00 and a Black and Decker rechargeable shear-type grass clipper for free (the guy just wanted to get rid of it).  The grass clipper works, and I've already trimmed around my small mesquite saplings in the back yard.

One thing that bugs me about people and garage sales is the slob who pulls up right in front of a yard sale/garage sale.  It makes it nigh-on impossible to quickly scan for things you're looking for.  Another thing that bugs me is the lack of prices.  I stopped by an estate sale on Saturday, and nothing was priced.  That ticks me off, because I always have the feeling that the seller is sizing you up before naming a price ("I wonder how much this guy will pay...").

Thrift stores have been a little lacking lately, but I still keep searching, because you never know what you're going to find next.

See you next time
bye for now 

[loveit]

Good Buddy wrote: I stopped by an estate sale on Saturday, and nothing was priced.  That ticks me off, because I always have the feeling that the seller is sizing you up before naming a price ("I wonder how much this guy will pay...").

Maybe we should dress way down for these estate sales and get a better price (ha ha).

I also feel that estate sale people size you up and decide what you can pay. I was at an estate sale about a month ago, and the guy running it kept pointing to things I was looking at and shouting "That sells on Ebay for XX." He was shouting out some pretty high prices. This was a sales tactic I don't care for.

Oh, another thing about estate sales - if you are really studying the vintage stuff (turning things upside down to look at marks), they spot you as somebody who knows what they are doing and try to raise prices on you. I do my looking when the seller isn't in the room. I also play dumb when they point out the vintage goodies they have and "name names."

[mccoysnina]

Good Buddy wrote: I stopped by an estate sale on Saturday, and nothing was priced.  That ticks me off, because I always have the feeling that the seller is sizing you up before naming a price ("I wonder how much this guy will pay...").

Maybe we should dress way down for these estate sales and get a better price (ha ha).

I also feel that estate sale people size you up and decide what you can pay. I was at an estate sale about a month ago, and the guy running it kept pointing to things I was looking at and shouting "That sells on Ebay for XX." He was shouting out some pretty high prices. This was a sales tactic I don't care for.

Oh, another thing about estate sales - if you are really studying the vintage stuff (turning things upside down to look at marks), they spot you as somebody who knows what they are doing and try to raise prices on you. I do my looking when the seller isn't in the room. I also play dumb when they point out the vintage goodies they have and "name names."

I thikn thrifters and yard salers learn early on to keep a poker face or just outright play dumb.  The  last thing you want to do is tip off someone that the item they have marked for $.50 is worth much more.  I have literally had to bite my lip to keep from going "OMG, look at this.  A ...(fill inthe blank) for $.25.  Are you crazy?"  I have found turquoise jewelry, Wedgewood, 1st editions of books, even a used mink stole that no one realized was the real thing.  I thik I paid $3 for it.  Doing my darnest not to jump for joy.  But I figure if someone is dumb enough to sell something valuable without checking it out first, I don't have to tell them. 
Well, I might if it were a little old lady or something like that but for everyone else, buyer or seller beware.
Jeannie

[Jay2TheRescue]

Good Buddy wrote: I stopped by an estate sale on Saturday, and nothing was priced.  That ticks me off, because I always have the feeling that the seller is sizing you up before naming a price ("I wonder how much this guy will pay...").

Maybe we should dress way down for these estate sales and get a better price (ha ha).

I also feel that estate sale people size you up and decide what you can pay. I was at an estate sale about a month ago, and the guy running it kept pointing to things I was looking at and shouting "That sells on Ebay for XX." He was shouting out some pretty high prices. This was a sales tactic I don't care for.

Oh, another thing about estate sales - if you are really studying the vintage stuff (turning things upside down to look at marks), they spot you as somebody who knows what they are doing and try to raise prices on you. I do my looking when the seller isn't in the room. I also play dumb when they point out the vintage goodies they have and "name names."

I thikn thrifters and yard salers learn early on to keep a poker face or just outright play dumb.  The  last thing you want to do is tip off someone that the item they have marked for $.50 is worth much more.  I have literally had to bite my lip to keep from going "OMG, look at this.  A ...(fill inthe blank) for $.25.  Are you crazy?"  I have found turquoise jewelry, Wedgewood, 1st editions of books, even a used mink stole that no one realized was the real thing.  I thik I paid $3 for it.  Doing my darnest not to jump for joy.  But I figure if someone is dumb enough to sell something valuable without checking it out first, I don't have to tell them. 
Well, I might if it were a little old lady or something like that but for everyone else, buyer or seller beware.
Jeannie

LOL, I used to leave the nice pickup truck at home, and drive my old 1981 Buick to yard sales.  The vinyl top peeled off years ago, and I confess I have not washed or waxed the car since about 1994 or 1995.  Great for going to yard sales.  We used to get the greatest deals when we drove that car.  Plus, being a Buick the A/C CRANKS!  I'm at my Dad's house today and tomorrow.  We're building the ultimate yard sale vehicle.  We are fixing my old 1986 Chevy C10 pickup.  It hasn't been driven in almost 3 years.  It will be perfect.  Its rusty, the paint is peeling, and one fender is the prerequisite primer grey. 

Anyway, from the seller's point of view you can tell when someone knows what they got.  Playing dumb doesn't work.  I've had people go to the most expensive mixing bowl set I have in the booth ($225) and offer me $20 for it because "They're just old bowls".  When I offered them a more common set of bowls in less than perfect condition for $20 and they turn it down I know what they were going for.  What I don't understand is why they try to offer $205 under the marked price, and act like I'm the crazy one for pricing it that high in the first place.  I'm sorry, I spent over $100 putting that set togeather.  You're not getting it for $20. 

In another instance someone offered me $10 for a very rare and highly desireable cannister set I had priced at $75.  When I offered them a different set for $10 they walked away.

-Jay

[dukek9]

I think in your typical sale or thrift store, there are going to be some items that the pricing person has no idea even waht it is, not to say any idea of a value.

What irritates me is those that have an idea that something may be worth a lot of money, but in reality it's worth not much.  for example, I have a collection of glass insluators.  There's one, in white or aqua blue that is very, very, very common.  I used to be able to pick up those very common insulators very cheaply.  They were kind of the quantity part of the collection while other pieces were the quality kind.

But I enjoyed those common insulators and the colored ones are ever so pretty lining a windowsill with the sun shining on them.  Now, however whenever I see them at the thrifts, it is always these very common insuators, but with prices of $10, $20, $30 for an insualtor that might be worth $1.

I understand that the thrifts, nor your typical yard sale person,  can know the value and reasonable price for everything. But geez, I wish they would realize that just because they once saw an item about an item  that sold for some high price, and their item resmbles that high priced item in some way, it doesn't mean that the item they are selling is worth a lot of money.

Dee

[Tammy]

Our sales in Central IL are just getting started this weekend.  Yipee!!  Now my only trouble is after cleaning out the house several months ago of tons of clutter I'm having a hard time convincing myself it's ok to go to sales to buy more. 

[floridarecycled]

Sorry it took so long to get back with everyone regarding the sales last weekend...life stuff + tax stuff...equals me finally getting to post some of my finds today!

Glass is one area I collect in...and this is one of the most interesting I've seen in a while...the pictures really don't do it justice...but it is just fantastic!  Picked it up in the final hours of an estate sale...

http://www.itaggit.com/Thing/107121-1/Lenoy-Glass-Bowl

Here's another glass bowl I came across at the Goodwill...

http://www.itaggit.com/Thing/107160-1/Blue-swirl-glass-bowl

This is my heart thumper though...I also collect vintage hangers - and I like the vintage clothes pin bags like my granny had and the old irons and washboards etc... - now most of the hangers are of course various styles of the wooden hangers (there's actually a lot of different styles with lots of different advertising and I have old travel fold up metal ones etc) ...so when I saw this I was like ahhhhhh!  - it is a wire hanger with advertising paper on it...showing victorian fashion...couches on sale for $4.95 etc...sewing machines for $14...etc - and the paper was pretty much in tact (just a little torn at the top).  I have a sheet of plexiglass that a friend is going to cut for me and I am going to put the hanger inbetween the plexiglass and bolt together with a chain to hang it.  Then you will be able to see both sides - the ads are on both sides - it is going to be a great addition to my collection!
***I know it's sad to get all excited about this...but I thought it was pretty cool that it has survived thus far so I can protect it!!!  I of course immediately thought it was aged to the advertising on it - but I'm not sure if they had these type hangers then...does anyone know?  Anyhoo...I love it!!  Also found at the very end of the estate sale I went to!

http://www.itaggit.com/Thing/107172-1/Vintage-hanger-advertising

NOTE:  I just wanted to say that I hope the "thrifting" picks up for everyone...I can't imaging having to go thru a "season" with no sales, etc....I think the build up of anticipation would cause me to become the "thrifty bandit" (said with an accent of course - LOL) ...we have sales here year 'round and I still need "willpower" to not go out every week...if anyone happens to see a jar of it at your local thrift let me know!!!  Or just go ahead and buy it - I'll send you the cash - with a finder's fee of course!!!