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Across the Fence:  WHATS ON YOUR GARAGE SALE LIST?  |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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 Posted - May 01 2006 : 3:49:34 PM
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I was thinking, I know, not an easy thing to do , however, I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if while garage saleing to come across some old hand written cook books, or old cookbooks with a lot of written side lines. I never thought to look through books for something like that, alot of history to be found in an old cookbook.
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rabbithorns
True Blue Farmgirl
544 Posts
Allison
Fort Scott
KS
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2006 : 4:16:19 PM
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| I'm always on the lookout for enamelware, but not just everything, just pieces I can actually use. I also like tins and trays. I look for cutter quilts to make hot water bottle covers and tea cozies for Christmas gifts. Vintage linens, of course, for crafts so very inexpensive or torn here and there so I'm not cutting up anything nice. I've been looking for cookie cutters lately to make pincushions inside them. I usually keep a list of what we need with me so I can actually shop the sales and not just wander for hours and come home with stuff I can't store! (guilty) I've stopped buying clothes for myself. But I have started buying rubber ducks for my daughter's collection. |
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Rusty pins
True Blue Farmgirl
91 Posts
Paula
Oelwein
Iowa
USA
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Posted - May 04 2006 : 07:29:59 AM
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FABRICS!!!!!!!! I LOVE old fabric!!!! I have stashes of the stuff...and hubby rolls his eyes everytime!!
Story for ya........took hubby to his first auction last spring. Boxes of fabrics came up that I wanted so I told hubby to keep an eye on them and bid. Off to the little girls room I went...and I hear that they've started the boxes of fabrics....I run out..no one is biddin'...i can't see hubby so I raise my hand. The biddin' war is on.....there was another person biddin' like mad against me, and the box just got to high, so I let it go. Hubby finally shows up with this grin...ear to ear and says...'Well honey, I was biddin' on that box of fabric for ya...and the biddin' went real high...but I got it." I just stared at him and then bonked him in the head as I said' you dummy........it was ME you was biddin' against'!!!LOL
We still laugh about that. I told him that if I take him again this year I'm tyin' his hands to his sides.LOL
"Life shall judge us harshly enough. Let us at least be gentle with each other."
http://www.rustypinsandoldlace.com/
'Antiques & HandMades for your heart and your home.' |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
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Posted - May 04 2006 : 09:33:42 AM
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Nancy,
Great buy on those metal chairs! I'm so bummed - last week when we were back east, we drove by a wicker settee and chair left out for the trash and I couldn't get them. Bummer. I was oohing and aahing but had no way to get them back home. My husband knows how much I love that stuff. I just should've taken them and figured it out later!!
Nancy - Is West Seneca anywhere near Auburn or Syracuse? We have some family out that way.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2006 : 10:18:08 AM
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Debbie
To bad about the wicker, should have tied it to the roof, I know sometimes when I am saleing I see a big item and have no way to get it home, happened with a rocking chair once.
West Seneca is about 2 hours from syracuse, about 10 miles outside of Buffalo.
NANCY JO |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2006 : 10:23:41 AM
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Nancy,
I have to think faster next time! We used to have friends in Hamburg. We went to their wedding in Orchard Park (?) a few years ago. It was at an Italian restaurant right by the football stadium. Of course, we had to make the trip to Niagra Falls!
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2006 : 10:31:16 AM
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We are right next to Orchard Park, my husband was brought up there, and Hambury is the next town over. You came along way for a wedding!
NANCY JO |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2006 : 10:38:09 AM
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Oh well, that was when we lived in NY. We used to live down in Westchester County, then in Putnam County. Then in CT until we decided to get out of the hustle and bustle.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
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Susie Q
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Susan
So. California
USA
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Posted - May 04 2006 : 6:04:39 PM
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I found a fancy tickler this past weekend. And it did send me to twittering!
It was a child's sized washboard, tub and clothes pins. All for 10.00! I don't think I ran over or pushed anybody when I saw it. But as soon as I did see it I thought "It's mine!" It was going home with me period.
It's now displayed on a shelf above my washing machine. The clothes pins for now are in a candy jar. Behind the washboard and tub I want to put up a mini clothesline hung with small antique garments. It's so cute.
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - May 13 2006 : 09:28:17 AM
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I think I might like to add a few bird cages to my list, maybe hang them outside and put a plant in them or put candles in when we are out in the evening, or they would look nice hanging there is I could find a nice pretend bird to put in it.
NANCY JO |
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Susie Q
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Susan
So. California
USA
122 Posts |
Posted - May 13 2006 : 9:16:01 PM
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A woman I once knew got one of those huge standing ones for parrots that had a larger than average door. It was new but it was a second. One of the legs needed to be rewelded.
She put a glass shelf in it midway and made it into a "sideboard" for her small patio. It leaves her table free to eat on. It was really sharp looking. |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - May 16 2006 : 9:10:32 PM
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well .. i can honestly say that i don't have too much on my garage sale list .. cuz' i am selling so much really great stuff .. most of which is better than what i'm finding even in antiques shoppes. i do still look for mid-1800's 'farm' type things .. but really UNUSUAL things .. for instance .. i love my 'civil war era' doctor's small stove that a Pulaski County, KY doctor would take with him in his buggy when he made mountain house calls ... and i really love al lthe old farm tools and garden tools that i have collected .. i have a very early hand-made bird-cage that i adore .. and i have several 'food dehydrators' that you would set on a wood stove .. those kinds of treasures are what i look for now ... OH .. and ALWAYS vintage homespun fabric! xo
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