WOW!!!! A great week-end! (Long)

[mccoysnina]

Thrifting and yard saling has been bleak for a while.  Not much to find.  Saturday was different!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DD and I both off work so we left he house at 10 am (Wy early for us on a Saturday) armed with the local ads for sales.
First stop was amazing!!!!  An estate sale.  Turns out I knew the lady running it.  A local woman had died iwth no close relatives.  Her house was being sold but the contents had been left to the local women's club and they were selling the contents to benefit their scholarship fund.  I found first off a box of vintage buttons for $1!!!!!!!  Then a Madame Alexander baby doll, still in it's box for $3.  Necklaces, some vintage, some not, all gorgeous,for $.10 each. I found frogs for flower arrangements, a cookbook by a local author, a photo book for New Mexico, a stuffed bunny made of real fur (no hassle from the animal right folks, the bunny had been dead for years, I just bought to give it a home) a fabric duck decoy of what looks like quilt pieces, heavily embrodiered, cookie cutters, and a tote bag from the Delta Queen (a steam paddle wheeler that cruised the OHio/Mississippi rivers till 2008 when it was grounded becasue it's wooden hull no longer meets federal safety standards.)
My sister loves that boat and the tote bag is the perfect size to make into a pillow. 
DD found a bag of vintage Audrey Hepburnish long evening gloves, and a new with tags Ralpho Lauren full size flat sheet.  Since she is a design student that sheet is destined to be adress or skirt or something so she can say she has a Ralph Lauren outfit, complete with tag, for $1.  She also found jewelry, some beaded evening bags, and I am not sure what else.  We went to pay and hte lady looked at all our stuff and said to DD "HOw about $7?"  DD paid her, and she looked at all my stuff and said "HOw about $7.50?"  AS i was paying her I happened to look in the garage and saw this amazing vase/urn whatever adn I asked it if wasf or sale too.  The lasy said it had a lid but they had become seperated adn the lid was at her house.  They had put it out for sale since they wanted ot keep the things together but were reluctant to agree to try to get the lid to a stranger.  I pointed out I lived about a block form the lady in charge adn she said ""oh that's right.  How about $5?"  Fine with me.  HAven't found any marking on it to tell me where it was from but maybe the lid will have some.  The ladies even threw in some rolls of wrapping paper as we were leaving and helped carry everything to my car.  Good stop.
Second sale was nearby.  A moving sale.  Didn't find much till I was leaving and found a thingie, a magnifying tool of some kind with a grid for measuring attached.  Explaining it badly but DS, an engineer, knewwhat it was and happily took it.  As I waswaiting ot pay the lady I spied an unusual looking tray adn glass set.  Tole ware (painted tin) with an exotic scene on the tray and five mathcing cordial size glasses.  The lady said her mother had been a nurse at a long closed, local hospital and had bee nfriends iwth a doctor and his wife.  Dr had been from pre-Ayatollah Iran and that is where the set was from.  $5 for all.
Sale #3.  DD found a pink leather faux lizard overnight bag, $75 price tag from a VERY EXPENSIVE STORE, for $5.  She also found a cute leather purse for $1.  I found a vintage copper gingerbread boy cookie cutter for $.25 and a cake cookbook for another $.25.  Under a pile of toys though I hit real pay dirt.  An American Girl doll, Samantha to be exact, dressed only in soccer shoes, socks and shin guards for $5.  She came home with us (and is now primly dressed in a blue dress with a clean face adn hair adn smelling of Febreze not cigarette smoke.  Man when those dolls fall, they fall hard.)R unning out of room  Will continue next post.     Jeannie

[mccoysnina]

Chapter 2
Next sale not much, used tupperware and baby gear.  Don't need either. But the daughter of  the the house had a lemonade stand selling lemonade and sweet tea to raise money for a local animal shelter in memory of her cat who died.  Bought some tea (they knew how to make it) and made a donation to the shelter.
Next sale was also an estate sale.  But mostly guy stuff, and not particularly interesting guy stuff (piles of wood and rustry tools) but a pile of linens had some  promise.  I found an embrodiered table cloth and a linen souvinier type towel for $.50.  NO place name on the towel but it is 100%  Irish linen with a great duck design.  Had a price tage of $1.10 still on it, so no idea how old it must be.  DD found several 50s style embrodiered aprons.  All told I think we spent $2 there.
Last yard sale not much of interest, video games and VHS tapes mostly (don' t even know if the VCR even still works.)
Went home and DD went off with her friends and I had to go to the grocery store.  Decided to stop in at my favorite TS on the way.  And scored.  A vase I had my eye on wsa now 50% off for a whole $.75 (when did I get so cheap even $1.50 seems expensive) and another linen towel, this time it is marked Harrods, Knightbridge and has a great peacock design on it.  $1.22 total for both.
Went to the grocery store adn decided to call at the GW since I was out and it is a few doors from the grocery.  I usually don't shop there much as they seem way high on things but luck was with me adn they were having a 50% off everything sale.
I scored 2 pairs of circular knitting needles, new in packages, for $1.
DD knits and circular needles are anywhere from $5-6 up.  A card of heavy gold corded  trim for $.50, a beautiful Asian bowl for $1 and a reproduction tshirt, new with original tags, of 3 Days of Love, Peace adn Music at Woodstock.  GW tag of $3.39, I paid $1.65.  DD loved 60s stuff so she was thrilled to get it. I was going to  leave but decided to pay a visit to the jewlery counter.  They had an vintage money clip, with some kind of German insignia on it, for $4.  DS loved it.  And a grreat antique looking  necklace of opals and amethysts (prolly fake I know) but heck it was only a buck, so I can't complain.  So a great week-end.  Not even sure I listed everything we found so much. I am tired jsut writing about it.But it was a great day!  Hope y'all had great luck this weekend too.
Jeannie

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

*bowing to the great goddess of thrift*
holy moly what a weekend....you did GREAT!
I have opened my little antiquey-thrifty booth...am enjoying it...but now I feel like Im becoming one of THOSE ppl that I HATE at yard sales..lol...maybe not that bad..I hope!
post afew pics of your finds...again...AWESOME!!!

[mccoysnina]

I am still smiling at my luck.  Pics are a problems though, my camera is in Minn/Canada for a while (without me, I love tshopping and yard saling, camping not so much.)
Jeannie

[valleythriftshopper]

Good for you, I haven't had a yard sale day like that for quite while.  Those aprons & linens sound wonderful!

[iheartthrifting]

Wow!  I'm jealous!     You took in a good haul and had fun too it sounds like.

[Mattie]

I'm exhausted just from reading about your adventures!  What a fabulous day of thrifting!

[SplashsMom]

I too am in awe and thank you for sharing.
This past weekend,  well, yesterday, I hit library book sales - had to laugh at the signs that said "No scanners" - but donations were down.  Then I went to a town festival  and the best part was the grilled cheese sandwiches.  Trust me - for what we paid I could not have made a cheese sandwich that good.  My cholesterol level for the week was surpased.

There is a new thrift store in the county benefitting a high school but I can not find it.  So my thrift hunting was hunting for the store!