Spending time together around this beautiful lake always makes us smile!
The last weekend of August gave us one sale of interest and one opportunity, close to home, to hit a "garage sale day" in a neighborhood that boasted of eight garage sales over a three block span. We hoped to at least find something at one of the houses.
Our main sale was run by a tag sale company that we have known for years and with whom we have had some great success. This sale was described as having "unique collectibles" and "vintage baseball cards". Rob was very interested in the vintage baseball cards. There wasn't much to look at in the house. One room was filled with jewelry, one room was filled with baseball cards and there were a few rooms of miscellaneous items. The baseball cards were really good and Rob would have liked to take home all of them but we have to be reasonable. Rob picked out the ones he wanted most that also carried a small price tag. We found some Christmas things, too. We left happy.
Unfortunately, the "garage sale day" was a bust. These were some of the worst garage sales of all time and we came home with nothing from these sales at all but Rob was happy with what he got earlier. Here is what we brought home:
Unfortunately, the "garage sale day" was a bust. These were some of the worst garage sales of all time and we came home with nothing from these sales at all but Rob was happy with what he got earlier. Here is what we brought home:
A 1972 New York Mets Program
A 2002 Topps Supper Teams Relic Card of Ed Kranepool (with a piece of his game worn uniform)
A 1994 souvenir postcard set commemorating the 25th anniversary of the New York Mets 1969 World Series Championship
A complete set of 1974 Kelloggs 3-D baseball cards
Some Christmas things...all made in Japan
It was a great weekend but not one that ended on Sunday as this was Labor Day weekend and we celebrated with a barbecue at Monica's sister and brother-in-law's house. Lenny was Grill Master Extraordinaire.
Rob contributed his world famous Shish Ke-Robs
They are always a crowd pleaser!
The next weekend, the first full one of September, 2019, found us with lots of sales on our list and we were pretty excited. We had four selected for Saturday and one selected for Sunday and, spoiler alert, we made it to all of them!
Our first one on Saturday was run by a tag sale company that is one of the most prolific tag sale companies in our area; running at least two sales very weekend. We chose this one first because the sale was described as having "lots of great retro furniture", "vintage Christmas" and "bric-a-brac".
There were a few Christmas items on this picture but none were of great interest to us.
We liked this angel but she was very badly broken in the back and unsalvageable.
This fireplace in the living room was cool. The spaghetti light at its base held a price tag that was too high for us.
These cabinets were really cool as was the hardware.
We were really tempted by this typewriter but it did not come home with us.
The bathroom still had its original blue toilet
This vintage china set (and there were more pieces) was nice but some of the pieces were chipped and broken. We enjoyed going to the sale but we walked away with nothing which was disappointing. We had three more sales on Saturday so our fingers were crossed that we would have better luck the remainder of the day.
After getting some breakfast, we went to our second sale and Monica was ready to spring into action. This sale was an estate sale with no pictures in the ad. The house looked like it had potential for old things so it was worth a shot!
The front door was so cool with that doorknob in the center but, of course, it was not for sale.
The pattern on this chair was so cool and, to be honest, we were tempted to bring it home but it was damaged.
Groovy 70's wallpaper! The house was fun to walk through but we didn't find too much for us. We did manage to find two vintage squeak toys in a crawl space and they came home with us.
Sale #3 was another low profile, privately run sale without any pictures in the ad. What caught our eye was the description in the ad which included "records", "holiday decorations" and "antiques". While there were not a lot of pictures to take as most of the items were in the garage, we did pretty well at this sale. We came home with some Christmas things, a pair of records, some cookbooks and some salt and pepper shakers.
Sale #4 was run by a tag sale company we know and we were late for this sale. It had some cool furniture in the pictures in the ad but it didn't look like was was much else. We decided to go because it was in Monica's hometown and only a few blocks away from Monica's dad's house who we like to visit on Saturdays.
If you collect roosters, this was a good sale.
If you collect weird heads and tribal art, this was a good sale.
This was a really cool looking couch but we don't have room for such things. We left with only a pair of stirrers.
On Sunday, we had one more sale. It was local and described as a "massive pickers diggers estate sale" and "sitting abandoned 50 years". It also described the garage and basement as being packed. We had a suspicion of who might be running this sale as this fit the types of sales they run. We were right.
Shortly before the doors were opened, most of the garage stuff was dragged out to the lawn and the driveway.
The house was packed, too, with boxes everywhere!
The basement was a mess but not unsearchable so search we did! We spent about two hours here because there was that much to search! When we left, it was with lots of vintage trading cards, some Christmas things and much more! After we got home, we had plenty of look through and this is what we saw:
Some records
A gift book and two cookbooks
Some cocktail stirrers, a Greyhound map, a vintage greeting card and two vintage cookbooks. The How Long cookbook is from 1924. The La Choy cookbook is from 1925.
A vintage Krug's Bread button (probably from the 1940's)
Various baseball cards
Star Wars and Mork and Mindy cards
Various vintage trading cards
More vintage trading cards
Placemats from the 1964 New York World's Fair
Christmas seals from the 1930-s through 1950's
Universal Monsters cards from the post office (companion cards to the postage stamp release of 1997) and some Kiss trading card wrappers.
"Rare and Endangered Birds" cards from Gregg's Jelly (1977) and Happy Days trading cards.
Monster Laffs trading cards (1963)
Times Confectionery Roy Rogers trading cards (1955)
1964-1965 New York World's Fair Trading Cards
Two old squeak toys and two sets of salt and pepper shakers (both marked Japan)
Two ceramic Valentine's Day decorations (both marked Japan), a vintage noisemaker and a honeycomb turkey for Thanksgiving.
Red reindeer
A creepy Santa (marked Japan)
Christmas stuff: Ceramic Santas, a vintage blow up Santa, some Gurley candles, a ceramic Christmas dog and a ceramic angel. All the ceramic pieces are marked Japan.
Lots of vintage Christmas things!
It was a weekend filled with estate sales and filled with time spent together and that always makes it special. We'll be back soon to catch up some more!
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