We know how lucky we around here to have yard and estate sales basically year round. Things slow up after Thanksgiving and dry up around Christmas, but pick back up a little in January and are pretty much back in full swing by March. I haven’t been to many lately, not because there aren’t any, but I just haven’t had a lot of time. Or money. Always a problem that.
Last weekend there was a sale that said in the ad to go around to the back. I get to the house and there are two signs on the mailbox. “Yard Sale” and “Inside”. Well…. I go to so many estate sales, I’m used to sales being in the house. I didn’t see any sign of anything outside and thought they’d changed their minds because it was so cold that morning. I walked up to the front door and would have walked in — if there’d been a door knob. We’ve heard about me walking on in before. Not always wise. Anyway, I knocked. A man opened the door a crack and said,
“You here for the sale? It’s around to the side.”
“Oh, the sign said inside. That’s why I came to the door.”
“Yeah. Inside, around to the side.”
“Oh, I didn’t see anything and when the sign said inside I just thought….”
“Yeah. Around the side.”
“Oh. OK”
I walked around the side and sure ’nuff. There was some stuff out there and inside. So I stepped in the door. Nobody’s there. I’m uncomfortable. Then a lady showed up. Did she just come out from behind plastic hanging between that room and the rest of the house? Hmmm. I asked, “Have people had been coming to the front door?” She looked at me funny. “Because the sign says ‘Inside’.” She looked funny still. “You can’t really see anything out on the side.” She said, “But the ad said to go around back.” And looked at me funny. It was all too weird for me. The more I talked the worse it got. And I couldn’t stop!! I looked at the junk and left.
Then yesterday I headed to Birmingham. Had three estate sales marked and one yard sale. Later added another yard sale. All sales were lack luster. The last sale I went to should have been the first sale. If I’d only known. It was advertised as an estate sale. Turned out to be some things from “Momma’s”. Just stuff. Boring stuff. Then I spied a box under a table with things wrapped in newspaper. Of course I looked. Whoa! They haven’t even put out the best stuff! Look at this lamp! That double, Depression Glass candlestick! This green Depression Glass creamer! I’m making a pile. It was just about then that the bubble was burst. I was told that “”all that is already sold. The lady had to go…..” In my disappointment I didn’t hear the rest. I wanted to cry. Such an unfruitful day.
Below is a picture, yes, “A” picture of the interesting things I’ve bought the past two weeks. I also found four glass, clock domes. Broke two, one of them thirty minutes after I paid five stinkin’ dollars for it. 
And some candle cups that work well for small cloches. Also got a few cookbooks and other piddly things. But here’s the fun stuff:
Had to put about 400 miles on the car for that itty bitty pile.
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Oh! I’ve got a sale going on the site! 10% off everything now through Christmas. Even the new stuff that’s added every week. And there will be special, after Thanksgiving sales to watch for. Keep an eye out!
I stopped at a sale once cause they had the neatest stuff piled on table outside in the front yard and lining the driveway (and it WAS Friday), and was pulling through stuff when the lady wholived there stuck her head out the front door and asked what I was doing. Turned out they just pile stuff all over their yard, and it wasn’t a yard sale at all. That house still looks that way today. the just cover the stuff with tarps in bad weather.