Yard sale season has sprung in NC!!!

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

LOTSA ppl fighting over stuff already this season....its gonna be brutal
But I have managed to find a few treasures already
at one yard sale I scored a full sized quilt topper, partially hand sewed, 29 vintage sewing patterns, a wooden rolling pin and a pink piece of Roseville all for $5.00.
a blue ball glass jar for .25
7 summer shirts <for work> 4 were brand new...all for $ 3.50
actually lotsa other stuff, but those were my best treasures, its SO great looking forwards to saturday mornings again!!! Happy yardsaling everyone!

[valleythriftshopper]

Wow!  Great finds!  Post a picture of your quilt topper if you get a chance, I'd love to see it & the patterns too.  I bought a cute twin size vintage quilt topper at the SA several years ago & still haven't sewn it to a piece of batting & backing, even though I have those materials handy.  I am determined to get it done for the summer though as the quilt top has nice summer colors.  I know what you mean about Saturdays, I can hardly wait to look at the paper every Friday to see what sales are going on.   The yard sales here have been civilized so far, actually seems like the real crowds have not come out yet.

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

Had a pretty good weekend yardsaling and thrifting. Am definately noticing more ppl and nicer cars. Pppl seem to be selling more junk and having yard sales over and over again I see the same addresses every week in the paper.
I had a couple good finds I found a Ben Seibel divided veggie bowl with a little chip .50 a Russel Wright pottery piece with an even smaller chip for .10 a pair of yellow fiesta salt & pepper for .20 saw em on ebay for 25 bucks
afew other items including a flattened glass bottle in a free basket Im making a wine bottle tree and am trying to figure out how to incorporate this bottle into it! Any ideas???

[valleythriftshopper]

Great pottery finds!  I don't have any advise for the wine tree cause I don't know what that is.   

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

http://www.bottle-tree.com
you can look at wine bottle trees here, we are making our own though, there are tons of plans all over the internet.
We have a friend who lives on a farm, and SWEARS the piles of wines bottles by his barn appeared miraculously so we are trying to help him recycle afew dozen for some wine trees..:}

[mccoysnina]

a few other items including a flattened glass bottle in a free basket Im making a wine bottle tree and am trying to figure out how to incorporate this bottle into it! Any ideas???

Could you use the flattened bottle for the tree trunk and wrap armature  wire around it for  the other wine bottle branches?
Jeannie

[SplashsMom]

Even with all the rain WI has finally ventured out for yard sales. The last 2 weekends I have been busily attacking more than 50 homes a day 2 or 3 days at least per week and this weekend I have more than 150 on my "list" for Sat alone. I have not been home enough to take pictures to post of my finds, but they are coming.

It dawned on me yesterday that even if I could check out all the homes having sales (a small village so door to door)  I can not afford to spend even $1 at each one!
So am thinking out my priorities, but I never shop with a list.
For me this is exercise entertainment.

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

lol Splashsmom I feel your pain..I try and stick to a budget..my yardsaling stash is my tip money...so if I have a bad night at bar I cant thrift as much...my worse problem is the time though...as fast as I buzz thru a yardsale I still usually have to drive to the next one...<our town is very spread out> and Im not so much into sub division yard sales <unless its an older subdivision> as I am old house in the county yard sales..ya'll know what I mean... I do love a list though and hubby and I bought each other a tomtom for xmas <it somehow stays in my car *blink blink*> it was the best 100 bucks we've ever spent... oh yea its good at directions out of town for a real trip too..

[anastasiabeaverhausen]

Wow..lotsa yard sales this past weekend. I found some vintage xmas wrapping paper and some vintage silver tinsel, a couple of 50's planters long oval shaped plastic great atomic design on one
but the best was FREEEEEE!!!
I spotted a blue tub, toilet and two sinks at this house afew weeks ago close to a yard sale, I knocked on the door but noone answered, so I left a note with my number <noone called> well there was another one close this weekend to that house, and the guy was in his yard mowing..so I walked up and asked what he was doing with the sinks, he said going to the dump!!!!!!! I told him I had left a note..he laughed said they never used the front door..and had just found the note that morning when he was mowing..lol..so he helped me load up two blue cast iron sinks..woohooo..they will go in my little shed full of my kitsch...am sooooo excited think Im gonna try and build a potters bench....any other ideas?

[valleythriftshopper]

I love vintage wrapping paper-good for you for all your finds!

[SplashsMom]

I spotted a blue tub, toilet and two sinks at this house afew weeks ago close to a yard sale... so I walked up and asked what he was doing with the sinks, he said going to the dump!!!!!!! ...so he helped me load up two blue cast iron sinks..woohooo..they will go in my little shed full of my kitsch...am sooooo excited think Im gonna try and build a potters bench....any other ideas?

I would have tried to figure out how to take the tub too for the garden.  Last week I bought a round small red sink at a sale for $3 with Kohler faucets. It had come from an office building. I have no use for it yet but could not pass it up. It spoke to me.
There was a blue one as well but it did not speak as loud.

[Mattie]

I went to the annual Cottage Park community yard sale today.  Last year there were sales everywhere in the neighborhood.  Today, some streets had only had one or two yard sales; some had none at all.   

Most of the sales were just a small pile of junk in the driveway.  One house had several tables of nice stuff but the prices were crazy.  It was depressing.  I was well-prepared with a shoulder bag containing shopping bags, hand sanitizer, a Clif bar, a bottle of water, and a map of the neighborhood.  I needed the water because it was over 90 degrees, but the rest was unnecessary.  I ended up buying three books and a tiny set of ceramic dishes - total, four dollars. 

I walked around that neighborhood for nearly three hours.  Oh, but I found a crumpled dollar in the street.  Whoopee.

[valleythriftshopper]

I have encountered alot of "junk" yard sales this season too.  Seems like more people are having sales to get rid of their well used or dollar store crap.  The better sales have been the church or benefit sales.  In the spring & fall there are quite a few "Relay for Life" American Cancer Soc. benefit sales.  People donate some decent stuff for those.   You might want to check out some auctions in your area.  Sometimes the mid-week ones are less attended & you can get some good deals & interesting box lots.

[Mattie]

I have encountered alot of "junk" yard sales this season too.  Seems like more people are having sales to get rid of their well used or dollar store crap.  The better sales have been the church or benefit sales.  In the spring & fall there are quite a few "Relay for Life" American Cancer Soc. benefit sales.  People donate some decent stuff for those.   You might want to check out some auctions in your area.  Sometimes the mid-week ones are less attended & you can get some good deals & interesting box lots.

I'm on the e-mail lists for several estate liquidators.  The problem with midweek sales is, I don't have a car and most buses don't run in the evening.  It's so frustrating to read about a great sale that I can't get to! 

I used to go to a monthly Saturday morning auction downtown - got my sofa there, plus some other goodies - but I think the company went out of business. 

There's a semi-annual church rummage sale in my 'hood and in the past I've found good stuff there.  I missed the most recent one (I went on an all-day motorcycle ride, one of the few things that are better than thrifting!) but a friend who went told me it was dismal.  Are people holding on to their stuff because of the economy? 

[valleythriftshopper]

You have to get to these sales early to find anything good.  One church sale was going on here on Friday & I didn't know about it.  It started at 9:00 and I went in around 11:30.  There wasn't much.  When I was in line waiting for another church sale on Saturday I heard people talking about that sale & how much stuff there was at the opening (I guess it was mobbed at 9:00).  So if you are not there within the first 1/2 hour it is like you missed it. 

With the regular yard sales, I think more people who didn't have them before are having them to see if they can make some money off their old junk!