Greetings from Ohio!

[peacock]

Hey all.  I'm not a new thrift store shopper -- been doing it for about two decades and a good percentage of my belongings are thrift store or yard sale discoveries. 

What I am new to, however, is the reselling game.  I just got myself a booth in the local "Flea 'n Tique."  Main motivation was to declutter my house, garage and storage barn, which is full of inherited items I'll never use and also those thrift store finds accumulated throughout the years.  But also I would like to build a business selling nifty vintage items.

So I'm learning how to do that.  I figure I'll concentrate on useful things.  I've never been into collecting just for its own sake, but I do enjoy vintage & antique decor and housewares.  For example, I have some gorgeous vintage Pyrex bowls that make me really happy when I mix up brownies or meatloaf in them.

Especially now that the economy is in sad shape, I figure most people aren't using disposable income to expand frivolous collections, but still get excited about pretty items that are practical. 

And also there's the psychological connection to the 30s and 40s, as we reminisce about how Grandma handled those lean years, right?  At least that's where it hits me.

So that's my thoughts on the matter, and the direction I'm going.  Tomorrow is my big yard sale day - hope I find some great stuff to supplement the miscellaneous clutter in that flea market booth

[Jay2TheRescue]

I was selling vintage items at a local upscale flea market that meets once every 2 months.  Did it for years until the market collapsed.  People just stopped buying the Pyrex and such.  I still buy though, but my standards are higher.  The item has to be really nice, and a really good price.

[Big Daddy Audio]

I have to agree that this is NOT the time to sell.  In a few years, you'll be able to sell for a lot more.

[Jay2TheRescue]

Yes!  Now is the time to hoard!!!! 

[stewardmmj]

Thanks for the confirmation on hoarding not selling :-)  I've been frustrated lately that sales for me are not as good.   

[Jay2TheRescue]

Like!

[stewardmmj]

"And also there's the psychological connection to the 30s and 40s, as we reminisce about how Grandma handled those lean years, right?  At least that's where it hits me".

Peacock, when we return to a stronger economy I will continue to thrift.  Like the saying goes "if I would have know then, what I know now".  The tight economy has made me so much smarter with my spending & saving habits.  Now I understand why some of those who lived during the Depression are so frugal.   

[Big Daddy Audio]

"And also there's the psychological connection to the 30s and 40s, as we reminisce about how Grandma handled those lean years, right?  Now I understand why some of those who lived during the Depression are so frugal.

Some hoarded to a ridiculous level.  

We recently cleaned out Father-In-Law's apartment.  He grew up during the depression and was a WW2 vet (Battle of the Bulge, to be specific).  He had a tendency to hoard.  We found no less than 6 phones (none of which worked) and a Hefty garbage bag full of plastic Preparation H Wipes/Sheets boxes (washed out and clean, but a garbage bag full??  In his closet???)

Sometimes you just have to throw something away.

[mccoysnina]

MIL also came of age during the Depression and WW2.  When we cleaned out her house we found bags full of ...bags.  She kept every plastic grocery bag, every paper bag, heck she even had a giant hoard of used Christmas paper and Christmas and birthday cards.  I suppose I could understand using the bags for garbage or wastbasket bags but to hoard?  And we found about 7-8 boxes of trash bags for trash.  It was a couple of years before we had to buy trash bags.  Saving is one thing, hoarding another.  We pitched all the trash.
Jeannie