Good Garage Sale Day!

Well, the drought has ended.  It seem like the last month was just terrible for garage sale-ing.  Rain, storms, lack of sales -- you name it.  Maddie picked up a few books, but that was the extent of it.  Today it all changed!  I stumbled across all this Frankoma at one sale.  The woman who was selling it was a Frankoma collector and said she had picked up pieces here and there -- mostly at thrift stores.  She was selling each piece for only $1.  So $5 got me this great haul -- a canister (without lid, but not a problem since I want it to hold craft tools in my office), two different creamers and a couple of mugs.  Sadly, one mug has a crack, but I still love them.

At the same house we found this little demitasse set -- Maddie had to have it and at $3 it was a pretty good deal.  They had it marked $5, but I could tell it wasn't old because of the box and they were willing to bargain (I love that).

Now this may be the deal of the day -- a big stack of old postcards and greeting cards for $2.  Quite a few of the postcards were actually mailed, so I have postmarks to date them by -- 1909, 1910, 1916!  It looks like whomever owned these was a collector because prices are written in pencil on the back of about 1/2 of them.  Considering they were purchased for for anywhere between $.25 and $3.50 each, I would say paying $2 for the stack was great luck!

Not too bad for one morning.  I'm so glad things are improving, I was starting to lose hope!

Comments

[Jennifer]

Ooh - what fun finds! Congrats.

[michelle]

Nothing makes me more happy than a good garage sale or thrift store find. A good thrifty find can make heart pitter-patter for days. :)

So what are you going to do with all those cards? That was a really great find.

[Pete]

I'm already eyeing one of the Frankoma mugs for my morning coffee.

[Julie]

Even the postcards on their own are a great find... I often see those in antique stores for about the range you mentioned - $.50 to $3.50. The cards for certain holidays (Say, St. Patrick's Day) seem to be priced higher.