Garage Sale Hunting! Tips, Hints and Advice

[ajcorleone]

Picked this up for a quarter at a yard sale and turned it on Ebay for $14 already.

[andrewconnors9]

picked up a Singer Zig Zag Model 648 Sewing Machine with carrying case for 15$ on Friday, along with season 1-4 of Fringe (1-3 on DVD, 4 on blu ray) for 10$, and 3 xbox gen 1 games for myself for 5$. Total of 30$ for one sale, the Fringe is 35-40$ alone :)

Sewing Machine is mint and works perfectly, gonna go the Kijiji route with it first for sure.

[Wickabee]

I got a vintage Snap-On socket case for a quarter on Saturday. I'll make at least $40 on that easy.

[Star_Cards]

My picking weekend was very slow. Couldn't find much. I did hit one sale where I got most all of my big finds. Picked up a Cryocuff and another Cold therapy device that sells for around $40, about 12 PS2 games, a broken Nintendo DS, A roller coster K'nex set that sells for around $40, and a bag of around 8 pounds of bionicals for $22.

[ajcorleone]

Hey you guys going to add pictures of your finds?Love to see all the treasures

[Star_Cards]

I hit two estate sales this weekend. Saturday I picked up three typewriters, a vintage box fan, a wooden primitive toilet for a kid (clean) lol, and some other cool odd and ends. Had only a few hours to hit garage sales and didn't do too well, but did pick up some mid century custom speakers. I mainly got them for the cabinets. The speakers are maybe 10 or 12 inch and wasn't a brand that I knew. Picked them up for $10. I also got a few legos.

These are photos of what I picked up Sunday at an estate sale. They were pretty remote out in the country so I got a get of a deal on all of this stuff. Paid $70 for everything in the photos with a lot of stuff hidden in the buckets.

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[ajcorleone]

Sweet finds

[Wickabee]

Love that old stuff.

Here's the Snap On case I picked up for a quarter. Got $40 for it on ebay.
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And this I picked up for a quarter because I figured if couldn't get more I'd keep it. Currently have a bidding war going at $25 on the bay. If you see one in the packaging, grab it and sell it as jewelry, not a collectible.
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[Star_Cards]

what is that? a commemorative pin?

[Wickabee]

what is that? a commemorative pin?

Yeah. It's called "Canada Remembers". I forget when it was released, but it's a special Rememberance Day (Veterans Day in the US, I believe, Nov 11) pin of gold coloured Maple leaf beween two poppies. I got home and saw sales of $10 and was pretty happy. I'm really happy I went as jewelry. The $10 sales were all in collectibles; Political or Militariana.