Frigid Friday Finds...

It was 9 degrees when I headed out this morning!! The main sale that I was going to was almost an hour away. I had made up my mind months ago to never travel that far again for a sale, but when you need a vintage fix, and the pictures of the sale look amazing, and it is in an area you never even knew existed...sometimes you have to break your own rules!

I got to talk to my mom for almost the whole trip, so we got all caught up on what's been going on this week, and it made the ride go by really fast! The sale was on a quiet little street that was lined with cars when I pulled up. There was even a utility truck, that had a cone out in the road-just like they were working! I fell for it until I saw the guy making trips from the house to his work truck with boxes of stuff from the sale.

The house looked like it was about to fall down from the outside and was really rough on the inside. It was packed with stuff-dirty stuff. There was more glassware than I've seen at any other sale, maybe even the last 10 sales I've been to combined! It was a private sale (not run by an estate sale company). Those kind of sales are usually either way too high because they are selling "antiques", or really low because they don't know what they have. This sale was a little of both!

I didn't even make a dent! I wish it was closer, and I wish I wasn't tied up all day tomorrow-the last day! I think there probably be some great deals in the last hours.

It only got up to 16 degrees by the time I got home. I stopped at 3 more sales and 4 thrift stores, but nothing even came close to the first sale. It was bright and sunny for the first couple of hours, but then the clouds came in and now it is snowing.

 Any idea what this Pyrex pattern is? When it was made? I've never seen it before, and it was really cheap, so I picked it up.

Kevin is on his way home from work, we are going to a marriage conference at our church tonight at 7, for a couple of hours and then all day tomorrow-right up until volleyball time! Sunday I have to go to a meeting with Eric to find out what our Youth Group is doing for their summer mission trips-busy weekend!

Hope you are having a great start to your weekend! I can't wait to see what you've been finding!!

Look What Came Today!

A Riviera creamer, and plate and a Harlequin creamer!!!

Haven't seen any good sales lately-especially with the wonderful gas prices. Next week is another week...hopefully something good will show up!

The following week I'm doing an estate sale for my grandparents. They live in Cheboygan, and are now living in an assisted living facility. Grandpa will be 89 on the 23rd. Grandma is going to be 83 in December. Five years ago, I did a HUGE clean out/downsize sale for them, and a few months later, a quick moving forest fire burned their house down. They both have hoarding tendencies, so I thought they can't have gotten very much in the past few years...this sale is going to be a piece of cake-HA!

Just for starters...4 weed trimmers, 2 rice cookers, 6 bottles with oil and peppers, 900 million Precious Moments figurines, 3 cordless drills, tons of unused bottles of craft paint and tons of unused tools...I'm getting more and more overwhelmed as the sale gets closer! My Mom and Dad won't be there to help with the sale because they are leaving for a 3 week vacation to Alaska-to celebrate their 45th anniversary. My Aunt was supposed to be there to help, but she found another lump in her leg (she has been battling melanoma and it has spread twice now causing lumps in her leg), and she needs to get it removed (please pray for quick healing for her). Looks like it's going to be just me-YIKES!

I've been busy researching prices and planning my strategy. Now I just have to hope that people will actually show up and buy their junk-especially since it isn't old!