Great yard sale finds.

[ski diva]

I just started a thread in Ski Gear asking if anyone's ever found any great ski equipment at a yard sale for next to nothing Which made me wonder -- what about other stuff? People seem to do it all the time on Antiques Roadshow; someone'll show up with a vase they paid fifty cents for, only to learn it's worth five thou. (This would NEVER happen to me.) But when my daughter was little I got all sorts of kids stuff at yard sales, like those hard plastic toys that'll last forever, and kids books, too. Anyone else care to share their finds?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Funny, they were always referred to as "garage sales" from whence I came, because everyone had garages. Here in New England, it's "yard sale" because most people don't.

Baby clothes!! Hunting them down while preggers was a weekly walkathon for me. Good thing I stocked up, as the sizable baby never did fit in 3 month size and went through 6 more sizes by the age of 1!

 

[Kiragirl]

tons of baskets, I use them to decorate my kitchen wall, and they're functional (I call my design "early tag sale")

also, great beer glasses

sometimes fabric

 

[vanhoskier]

For GREAT finds, go to a yard sale in a high-rent community, i.e. Vail, CO. I went to a bunch of yard sales there one Saturday morning and bought a very nice, like new, Italian ski sweater for $2.

I was a poor graduate student so I also bought a complete set of dishes for $5.

You wouldn't have believed the ski equipment for sale!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gloria]

I used to go to yard sales alot more than I do now, but I got the radar one day late last summer, got pulled in off a sign on the highway and found something that I had been searching for, for 3 years. We have terrible terrible winds where we live and finding lawn furniture that won't blow away that doesn't cost a fortune is a battle. I alread had a wooden sofa and a table and really needed some chairs. I could never find just the chairs, only the whole set. Anyway I got pulled into this yard sale and found two cast iron chairs for $5.00. They needed a little paint, a couple dollars, and still need the cushions recovered, but it sounds like I can find some fabric at a yard sale also.

 

[Kiragirl]

not to come across as gross (or that I often do this)...I found a really nice wrought iron table on top of a garbage dumpster, people must have been moving and didn't take it. I scrubbed it, painted it and got a new round glass tabletop; it was great, I used it for my DR table.

 

[Gloria]

LOL you know, I think alot of us would have done the same if we liked the table. Good for you. I searched and searched for a set of chairs to match a custom made table. Like 7 years maybe. I was driving down the street one day, in a brand new car to boot, and saw 6 chairs sitting out next to a dumpster. Glad it was a wagon. I brought them home and painted them, worked great. The funny thing is, is I have had a number of people ask if I got the dining set from "Sundance". Which is hilarious, because the table was made from recycled wood too and DH made it. I think I have under $40.00
cash into it.