Yesterday we went to an estate sale auction a few miles away. my goodness....what a lot of crap...er, i mean stuff. LOL
Little old people sent to live in nursing home by children. all their possessions sold to the public. the house didn't look large from the front....but it went on and on in the back.....seemed like there were 15 rooms. the poor house was in sad shape, too.
There were about a dozen antique furniture pieces that brought a couple hundred dollars each. and there were many, many clocks of various kinds. they were pretty cool and brought a few bucks.
The yard was full of beds, many tables, many more chairs, riding lawn mower, 3 large trailers FULL of bric-a-brac.....a lot of which was ready for the trash barrel in my opinion. nevertheless....someone took most of it home.
I scored...
Nine of these brown glass jars with lids. this is the smallest one. there are 4 different sizes, at least 2 of each size. i promptly dropped the lid from a large one when i got it home and broke it...dang! i guess that jar will be a flower vase. hahaha
These were on the trailers with boxes of other stuff. the auctioneer was having trouble with anyone even bidding a dollar on boxes of stuff....so they kept adding things to it...in the hopes of selling it all. unfortunately, they added my bottles to a pile of crap and i had to bid on it all to get them. i scored them for $4.50....along with about 4 boxes of junk. i just took the jars and told them i didn't want any of the rest. he said you have to take it all....i told him to just auction it again...i didn't want it. so they added another box to the growing pile and auctioned all the rest of it off again. hahahahaha i was not bringing all that junk home.
I did score 2 old, heavy leather chairs. the other chair is a rocker...same style and look. they will have to be reupholstered and refinished but are very nice. even comfy. i got both chairs for $11...had to fight a lady for them....she stopped at $10...good for me. i was prepared to go about 20 or so.
And we got a small 2 door frigerator for hubby's office. .... only $30
I was surprised it went that inexpensively. i was prepared to spend $50. it's about 3 foot tall and works fine. i don't think i've ever seen a small one like that with a separate freezer. it's a Kenmore.
And they had a nice cedar chest that i coveted. it had a trim around the top that was very nice. i thought of putting a cushion on the top of it and it would be great seating with storage underneath. but there were lots of folks interested in it and it went for $60...more than i wanted to spend.
Other things surprised me....a large...about 15" tall cast iron bell went for $100....2 guys were fighting over it. a gorgeous blue and white chandelier...rather large went for a few bucks, too.
All in all a fun time. they sold food there, too, so we had lunch while we waited for our stuff to be sold. we seem to be getting into the auction mode and go every week now. the country's answer to flea markets. hahahahaha
Later
Little old people sent to live in nursing home by children. all their possessions sold to the public. the house didn't look large from the front....but it went on and on in the back.....seemed like there were 15 rooms. the poor house was in sad shape, too.
There were about a dozen antique furniture pieces that brought a couple hundred dollars each. and there were many, many clocks of various kinds. they were pretty cool and brought a few bucks.
The yard was full of beds, many tables, many more chairs, riding lawn mower, 3 large trailers FULL of bric-a-brac.....a lot of which was ready for the trash barrel in my opinion. nevertheless....someone took most of it home.
I scored...
Nine of these brown glass jars with lids. this is the smallest one. there are 4 different sizes, at least 2 of each size. i promptly dropped the lid from a large one when i got it home and broke it...dang! i guess that jar will be a flower vase. hahaha
These were on the trailers with boxes of other stuff. the auctioneer was having trouble with anyone even bidding a dollar on boxes of stuff....so they kept adding things to it...in the hopes of selling it all. unfortunately, they added my bottles to a pile of crap and i had to bid on it all to get them. i scored them for $4.50....along with about 4 boxes of junk. i just took the jars and told them i didn't want any of the rest. he said you have to take it all....i told him to just auction it again...i didn't want it. so they added another box to the growing pile and auctioned all the rest of it off again. hahahahaha i was not bringing all that junk home.
I did score 2 old, heavy leather chairs. the other chair is a rocker...same style and look. they will have to be reupholstered and refinished but are very nice. even comfy. i got both chairs for $11...had to fight a lady for them....she stopped at $10...good for me. i was prepared to go about 20 or so.
And we got a small 2 door frigerator for hubby's office. .... only $30
I was surprised it went that inexpensively. i was prepared to spend $50. it's about 3 foot tall and works fine. i don't think i've ever seen a small one like that with a separate freezer. it's a Kenmore.
And they had a nice cedar chest that i coveted. it had a trim around the top that was very nice. i thought of putting a cushion on the top of it and it would be great seating with storage underneath. but there were lots of folks interested in it and it went for $60...more than i wanted to spend.
Other things surprised me....a large...about 15" tall cast iron bell went for $100....2 guys were fighting over it. a gorgeous blue and white chandelier...rather large went for a few bucks, too.
All in all a fun time. they sold food there, too, so we had lunch while we waited for our stuff to be sold. we seem to be getting into the auction mode and go every week now. the country's answer to flea markets. hahahahaha
Later
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