Let's Backtrack

As I am preparing for this coming weekend's sales, I want to share with you what happened last weekend and note some interesting web sites.

I attended my first estate sale run by Evelyn Gordon of http://evelyngordonestatesales.com/. I didn't expect to find anything but furniture and china, so I was surprised when I walked down to the basement to find a nice collection of Jazz cd's (yes, a few of them came home with me for my husband). Apparently, the former owners also had a love of reel to reel tapes, because there were dozens of those as well. I couldn't believe when one man actually bought the reel to reel machine and all the tapes! I asked him why he wanted them and he said he was going to resell them. There you have it-people will buy items at these sales to sell them for a bigger profit.

Other shoppers also bought books, tablecloths, old cameras, and tools. Every room had something for sale in it-even the garage.

I spoke to the coordinators of the sale and was told that more and more house or estate sales are cropping up because people are downsizing and want to live a simpler life. I just think they want to sell their things to buy other things :) As I was researching more sales to explore, I happened upon this web site: http://www.estatesales.net/. I think it's pretty cool-and it even has photos of items at the estate sales.

I hit a few other garage sales over the weekend and picked up a few things for my kids. Many of the things I found were brand new, unopened.  I asked one woman why she didn't get to open these great things and she said she forgot about them because she was hiding them from her husband! I definitely could relate -especially when she added that he doesn't mind when she brings home Yankee tickets :) Now her kids were too old for many of those toys. She also told me she actually rents a storage facility. I thought she was talking about her garage, but it is an actual storage unit!  I guess she just wanted to downsize over the weekend  before her husband came home from the Yankee game;)

On the way back I got a flat and I'm still driving around with the spare. Haven't fixed it for various reasons but I need to soon because I have to make sure my ride holds up for my weekend expeditions.

Stay tuned.