Scenes from this weekend's tag sale

Aunt Bea, that is a genius idea! Not to mention, Deb, "if you can't fight 'em, join 'em." YOU become an antique dealer...except that the antiques will be your own.
 
Most of the rooms on the ground floor are already set up with tables of items. What's in the yard is the "overflow" that stored in the front parlor. It would be tough to have people in when all those things are piled up in there. These are some of the inside set-ups.2018m.jpg2018L.jpg2018n.jpg2018o.jpg2018b.jpg
 
$249. Most of it was just small items that don't make much difference in volume. I swear that when I packed up, there was more than when I started! However I did sell a twist-top table, the large landscape and the schnauzer painting which helped somewhat. I still have the rocking chair and the Eastlake chair. I had a crystal glass bell go missing. I saw a little girl walking around with it, then was distracted by customers. Afterwards I didn't see her or the bell.
 
There are 'professional' yard sale people in this area, probably like many places. They drive up in 4 or 5 cars all at once, and scatter around all the sale items (especially if it's in an outdoor area) and try to cause a distraction while they see what they can take while you aren't watching ...
it's always wise to have 3 or 4 people on your end to monitor what is going on .... and also keep an eye on the MONEY BOX. (it should be out of sight)
They usually show up very early in the day when they think you aren't totally alert to the situation. Bad dudes ...many looking for items to take for a yard sale of their own. They have one person haggle over an inexpensive item, while the others try to steal something of value.

Joke's on them ... people have spread the word and wised up to this practice.

Their scheme probably isn't as effective as it once was anyway, because so many people have just gone to selling on Craigslist.
 
It's a lot of work, but it's on my schedule. Another thing with have an estate seller do it is that you can't be home when the have the sale. I don't like that, people could be wandering all over.Plus I only have one good bathroom and it's upstairs.
 
OK, I may be remembering wrong, so forgive me, but in one of the pictures you have some green colored glassware. I seem to remember heaing there was something special about the green glass. Or am I having one of those "moments"?
 
Marie5656 said:
OK, I may be remembering wrong, so forgive me, but in one of the pictures you have some green colored glassware. I seem to remember heaing there was something special about the green glass. Or am I having one of those "moments"?
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Marie,
Are you thinking of the depression era glass that had a form of uranium added to the molten glass mixture..

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Keesha said:
So your home is one continuous indoor yard sale 24/7 all year round? 😧😬🤐
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No, I only have sales a few times a year. I try to have one when we have our commuity-wide garage sale weekend in May and than on Labor Day weekend because of the county fair nearby. Other wise it depends on the weather and my ambition lavel which have not been too cooperative this year.
 
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debodun said:
Most of the rooms on the ground floor are already set up with tables of items. What's in the yard is the "overflow" that stored in the front parlor. It would be tough to have people in when all those things are piled up in there. These are some of the inside set-ups.View attachment 75742View attachment 75743View attachment 75744View attachment 75745View attachment 75746
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Amazing the amount of stuff you have to sell. Do you go to other garage/yard sales to buy this stuff ? In 58 years of marriage we've never accumulated that much stuff. Along the way if we no longer needed whatever it was, we donated it to charity.
 
Knight said:
Do you go to other garage/yard sales to buy this stuff ?
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I don't. It's mostly inherited from my mom and some other relatives. However, my mom was a garage sale fanatic and spent her weekends going to them when she could. She liked Depression glass and Japanese lusterware, but she would buy just about anything.

One problem I have is that of debating whether to invest repairing things since nobody would buy broken applainces or frayed furniture, but I could never recoup what I'd spend fixing things. For instance, to fix a nice brass lamp, I'd need a socket and a wire - it would cost around $10 to fix it and I couldn't sell it for $3. To reupholster furniture is throughthe roof.
 

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