Patrolia Yardsaling
Yesterday I went yardsaling with my mom and my two sisters. My sisters are much younger than me, I am 27 and they are 13 and 15. It was so fun. Patrolia is around an hour away but a lady at work told me they have great yardsales and it is the first townwide yardsale for me this year. It turned out that it was well worth the drive for me, I found such great stuff at great prices! I couldn't believe it. Now I need to make it clear that I NEVER find amazing things when I go yardsaling or to thrift shops. I mean I do sometimes find some nice things but never do I find a ton of great things that are exactly what I was hoping to find. So I think I am excusably excited over my finds yesterday! At one of the first yardsales we stopped at I found a lovely old dresser for only $10! It was in quite rough shape, the finish has been almost totally worn of the top, it was missing the mirror and the bottoms of the drawers were warped, likely from being stored in a shed or a basement. Though I didn't think there was anything I could do about replacing the mirror, I don't mind refinishing furniture and I could replace the bottoms of the drawers, it's not really difficult, just time consuming. We wander down the street and guess what we found?! We found a mirror that is supposed to go on a dresser similar to the one I just bought! Can you believe that! I was so excited, I never find such great things! The lady was asking $20 but I got it for $10. I will also have to refinish the mirror, someone painted it a horrible shade of blue! But for $20 for the dresser and the mirror it's well worth the effort to make it beautiful again. As we carried on I found some old books for $1 each, I ended up with 6, I just love books of all types! I found a set of old dishes for $5! They are lovely old English ones with a floral print, so pretty! I also found two adorable old bone china tea cups for $0.25 each! Wow! Usually they are $5-10. One was a cute pink and the other had a cute little bee on it. I found a cute set of 4 glasses with cows on them, now I'm not sure how old they are but since we live on a dairy farm I just had to buy them, it was only $1 for the set. I found some lovely vintage lace/trimming at another yardsale and my mom got a record player there, the poor lady, her mother had passed away and she was having the yardsale to get rid of a bunch of things she didn't want after cleaning out her mothers belongings. There were 3 large ziploc freezer bags of the lace and trimming, two of the bags were $1 each and the other was $0.50. Then across the street I got a whole box of lace and ribbon scraps for $1, since I love crafting it's great to have that kind of stuff around. I also found a cute sign I got for my father, it said "a bad day hunting is better than a bad day working". At the very last yardsale we stopped at you will never guess what I found! It was so great, I found another dresser with mirror that was almost the same as the first one I purchased! The lady was asking $50, but she let me have it for $30, probably because it was after 12pm, starting to rain and she likely didn't want to have to drag it back in the house. Someone had painted this one pink at some point and replaced the handles with ugly ones but it was in excellent shape. I can have it back down to the lovely wood under the paint with a bit of elbow grease, I love the look of wood furniture! As for the handles, I'm sure that if I hunt around the Re-Stores and Antique stores I can find something, and if not, I'm sure I can find something new that will look pretty. My mom told me that I looked like the cat that got the cream I was so happy. I thought I would be lucky to find one dresser in my budget, I never dreamed I would find two plus all the other stuff I got. I only brought $80 dollars with me and I spent around $70. I will have to thank the lady at work for letting me know about those yardsales! Now I should be off to continue stripping of the pink paint from that dresser!
Yesterday I went yardsaling with my mom and my two sisters. My sisters are much younger than me, I am 27 and they are 13 and 15. It was so fun. Patrolia is around an hour away but a lady at work told me they have great yardsales and it is the first townwide yardsale for me this year. It turned out that it was well worth the drive for me, I found such great stuff at great prices! I couldn't believe it. Now I need to make it clear that I NEVER find amazing things when I go yardsaling or to thrift shops. I mean I do sometimes find some nice things but never do I find a ton of great things that are exactly what I was hoping to find. So I think I am excusably excited over my finds yesterday! At one of the first yardsales we stopped at I found a lovely old dresser for only $10! It was in quite rough shape, the finish has been almost totally worn of the top, it was missing the mirror and the bottoms of the drawers were warped, likely from being stored in a shed or a basement. Though I didn't think there was anything I could do about replacing the mirror, I don't mind refinishing furniture and I could replace the bottoms of the drawers, it's not really difficult, just time consuming. We wander down the street and guess what we found?! We found a mirror that is supposed to go on a dresser similar to the one I just bought! Can you believe that! I was so excited, I never find such great things! The lady was asking $20 but I got it for $10. I will also have to refinish the mirror, someone painted it a horrible shade of blue! But for $20 for the dresser and the mirror it's well worth the effort to make it beautiful again. As we carried on I found some old books for $1 each, I ended up with 6, I just love books of all types! I found a set of old dishes for $5! They are lovely old English ones with a floral print, so pretty! I also found two adorable old bone china tea cups for $0.25 each! Wow! Usually they are $5-10. One was a cute pink and the other had a cute little bee on it. I found a cute set of 4 glasses with cows on them, now I'm not sure how old they are but since we live on a dairy farm I just had to buy them, it was only $1 for the set. I found some lovely vintage lace/trimming at another yardsale and my mom got a record player there, the poor lady, her mother had passed away and she was having the yardsale to get rid of a bunch of things she didn't want after cleaning out her mothers belongings. There were 3 large ziploc freezer bags of the lace and trimming, two of the bags were $1 each and the other was $0.50. Then across the street I got a whole box of lace and ribbon scraps for $1, since I love crafting it's great to have that kind of stuff around. I also found a cute sign I got for my father, it said "a bad day hunting is better than a bad day working". At the very last yardsale we stopped at you will never guess what I found! It was so great, I found another dresser with mirror that was almost the same as the first one I purchased! The lady was asking $50, but she let me have it for $30, probably because it was after 12pm, starting to rain and she likely didn't want to have to drag it back in the house. Someone had painted this one pink at some point and replaced the handles with ugly ones but it was in excellent shape. I can have it back down to the lovely wood under the paint with a bit of elbow grease, I love the look of wood furniture! As for the handles, I'm sure that if I hunt around the Re-Stores and Antique stores I can find something, and if not, I'm sure I can find something new that will look pretty. My mom told me that I looked like the cat that got the cream I was so happy. I thought I would be lucky to find one dresser in my budget, I never dreamed I would find two plus all the other stuff I got. I only brought $80 dollars with me and I spent around $70. I will have to thank the lady at work for letting me know about those yardsales! Now I should be off to continue stripping of the pink paint from that dresser!
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