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Trip to a Garage Sale

August 30th, 2010 at 08:07 pm

Finding things that I can afford to buy in charity op shops now days is rare as they have put up their prices up to nearly new or prices you would pay on Ebay or Antique stores, in fact some Antiques store are cheaper than some of our charity shops for the same things. I don’t buy that much collectible but I do look at them. Now I have started to go back to looking at Garage/Yard Sales. Just last weekend I went to one, the lady was quite nice and had the prices at reasonable inexpensive level.

I did buy from her as she was planning to leave the unsold stuff for the taking next day, I bought a black handbag hardly used, two money wallets in black hardly used, Gold Gomesh Keyring never used that I will put in my gift box for the future, tartan scarf, two teaspoons, one a collector item that will go with my collection of stuff from my old job. What else oh! Black & silver rolled neck jumper classic style that I can wear out at some time, Pair of cargo shorts in my size for summer, cookbook, and small brown ramekin dish as brown is not in at the moment. For me colour doesn’t count but size and what I can use it for does. I have a got a lot of bit & pieces in the way brown dishes so it will match anyway. This is how I can get things a lot cheaper as I don’t worry about matching colours nor get rid of things because the colour doesn’t match. It’s just a Rustic country style. Well anyway I just paid $7.00 for all the above and the real retail cost new would have been around $150 mark.

4 Responses to “Trip to a Garage Sale ”

  1. My English Castle Says:
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    nice buy!

  2. whitestripe Says:
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    yeah - sometimes when i am in op-shops, i will see one of the ladies at the counter actually ON EBAY looking up how much things are selling for and then pricing items they have in store. soooo annoying. DF and I have seen it several times.

  3. Single Guy Says:
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    Goodwill now sells things on their own online auction site. I looked a few times and things sold for more than ebay. So yeah, I almost never go to thrift stores anymore, they're a total waste of time. Once a week to yard sales, then no more shopping for the week if I can help it. I know thrift stores want to make money, but when they are multiples more than the same things at many yard sales... I know where I'm headed.

  4. Jerry Says:
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    I have seen that at some of my favorite second hand stores... they start bumping up prices so it leads to not even being worth the trip. One of my favorite resale stores in the Boston area actually started hiring a consultant so they would have some insurance that they maximized profits, and it ruined the place. People stopped going and they went out of business.
    Jerry

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