Amazes me the things I look for now, especially after reading all the helpful posts and doing some research. Hopefully, I've returned the favor along the way and helped someone else out in their quests? If not now, maybe someday.
So my tale (true) for today or rather yesterday since its 1a.m. here now.
At a thrift store the wife and I run into a fellow Garage Sale traveller and ask him if he went to the sale listed on CL. He says that he was going to, but that he had got a call from his friend, who said that it was a waste of a trip. Funny part is we saw his friend walking out empty handed as we arrived. Rewinding to our earlier day....
The wife and I rolled-out of bed early this morning, just so we can travel to the only sale I could find, some 30 miles away.
As I was driving, I was very much wondering if we should have slept in. The garage sale Ad seemed a little unclear. "Mens cloths, more mens cloths, cars, ect..." Turns out to be a house clearing. They wanted everything sold over the weekend, so they could list the house for sale starting the next week. Must have been 30 cars there when we arrived (note to self, "drag your butt out of bed earlier"). All these cars/people for a small ranch garage sale..fully of cloths??, eeekkk.
At first all we saw were cloths, cloths, cloths..... Big shock! Not!!
Nothing worth taking a chance on for a resale. But as we worked our way around, we slowly got a large box filled of nice items (carefully guarding it from other GS'ers). First thing I had noticed was a box of various types of men's Cologne. Recalling that "Women's perfume" was a good find, I grabbed it (a good 50 people must have pasted by it before I stuffed them in our collecting box). I quickly got the "What the heck are you going to do with that" from the wife. Seems she says that alot.
For a "Jackson" we ended up scoring many other nice items too, even some vintage calculators. Most items I will be Ebaying, but did get some nice scrap(cash) and a few keeps for the house. Turns out the "What the heck are you going to do with that" colognes are vintage, 30-40 years old, for most of them. A quick Ebay search found all having been sold for VERY nice $$, even opened ones.
Looking forward to turning Jackson into many Ben's.
Wonder when I'll run into that fellow GS'er again...
Below is the Cologne Photo.
Happy hunting, and keep an open eye.
Seano
I am going on a 150 mile road trip starting today, and I will be hitting thrift store on the way. * Crosses fingers for another Aurora *
Anyhow good luck with your sales. Over here in the UK we call them charity shops, but whatever they are called they are fun to walk around.
