Those of you who know me, know that I am CRAZY for garage sales! The following pictures are from the opening weekend of the garage sale season. The buys were incredible. I usually limit myself to $20 max per excursion, unless there is a wonderful big-ticket item that I fall in love with, in which case I'll spend the next couple of week's allotment if I have to. (But then I have to stay home the next couple of weekends! Boo!) Well, the junk...er...treasures you see in this photo cost me no more than $20 TOTAL and I even came home with a bit of change in my pocket! (Click on any photo to enlarge.)
The priciest piece was the 3-tier what-not shelf at a whopping $5. There are 3 copper buckets that fit in 3 holes on the bottom shelf, for plants I think.
The old market scale was $3, lamp .50, tin toy $1, spool .10.
I
got 2 sets of vintage lemonade pitchers with matching glasses for $1.25 each. All the nic-nacks were .05-.25 each.
Vintage golf purse, $1. Pastel cottage painting, .25. Lot of vintage ribbons and hankies, .25.
Awesome leather cowgirl boots (a perfect fit!) $2.00! And a gorgeous, vintage plaid taffeta prom dress with crinoline, .50!
Large paint-by-number hunting scene, .50. Silver-toned floor lamp with marble base, $2. Large silverplate compote, .75. Rusted blue metal childs garden chair, .50.
A week of garage sale-ing with my beautiful mother.....
PRICELESS!!!!
I had a couple of undersized paintings that I kept swapping out on this main wall in my living room, but I have always felt that the wall needed something with more "weight" to it. Well, lookie here! An entire gallery of floral prints from the 40's, 50's & 60's! I got six of them at one garage sale last month for $5 and got the two on the far left today at another sale for .50 ea. It's a lovely "floral arrangement" for $6.
