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I’m currently 18 years old and have been going to yard sales ever since I was a kid. On a Saturday, about 3 years ago, me and my family stumbled upon a church yard sale and decided to stop (we couldn’t resist honestly church sales are the best!) I was looking around at everything and at first I didn’t find anything I was remotely interested and then after looking under a big pile of clothes I found a matching vintage suitcase set! I had been looking for a vintage set like that since I was planning to travel in the future. I looked for someone who was in charge of the sale and found a lady and asked her how much they cost. She told me $5 I couldn’t belive the words that came out of her mouth. I was so excited! So I bought them and took them home with me and ever since then I have used my luggage alot! It was definitely the best junk iv ever bought!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea of this book!!
My husband and I ALWAYS go junking!! Our greatest find was a “twin bed” metal headboard that we now use as a garden “stake” for our sunflowers.
Our second greatest find was a small homemade chair that we were able to repaint and repurpose as a “chair” to hold a container plant in our garden.
I have a favorite local ‘junk’ shop that I can hardly drive by when I’m in the area. You just never know what they will have. I also love to repurpose items. I have a tall, slim vase (narrow at the bottom and slightly wider at the top) that holds steak knives on our dining room table. My latest find was a Large ‘brandy’ type glass for 50 cents. I am thinking of filling it with pine cones and a strand of battery lights. I may add some bulbs at Christmas.
The pile of “junk” in the picture that was taken (just above the springs) – my first thought was ‘wind chime’.
My favorite thing I found is my 3 wheel bike with a big basket on the back.
I like to find yardsticks. It is especially fun to be 100 miles from home and find a yardstick from the store that I used to visit as a child
My favorite is an older fainting couch in wonderful condition. It’s cream colored and has been a really comfy place to read. I bought it at a yard sale a while back and they delivered it!
My favorite find was a baggy full of lace I bought for a dollar. It had a variety of vintage lace so lovely
Best times were with my mom going thru old dumps in the woods of rural mountains of Massachusetts… finding antique bottles and washing them and then learning about them. An amazing treasure hunt through early history.
I love my old Wagner ware chicken fryer!
My favorite junk finds are from sorting through what’s left from my grandparents or mom’s belongings. The best treasure is an old margarine tub filled with a huge assortment of antique and regular buttons. Both my grandmother and mother were master seamstress. I can also look at the buttons and see the remnants of their past projects.
We found a great 1960 Boles Aero park model trailer and are working to redo it. It will be our guest house very soon.
My son found me a old Cast Iron Farm Sink in the garbage pile at a farm were we were making hay. We asked for permission to take it and they told us to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We found many neat things!
I enjoy yard sales, garage sales and looking at what others call junk. One mans junk is another’s pleasure. I enjoy numerous categories.
mY FAVORITE JUNK FINDS WOULD HAVE TO BE MY OLD METAL CHAIRSIN BRIGHT COLORS AND MY OLD MILK CANS THAT I RESCUED.
Oh my…. We were on our way to Round Top and stopped at a Antique Mall in Austin and I found a Steif Bear for $20. it was amazing and it is one with the sound box.. It was my best find… 🙂
My favorite junk find would have to be my light blue ice box.
My favorite junk find came from a Goodwill store in Omaha, NE. I happened to pass by the elevator that brought items up to be sold from the basement to the main floor and spied an old looking buffet in awesome original vintage distressed condition and quickly asked a cashier what was going on with it and she told me that because it did not sell out on the floor that it was now being taken back down stairs to be gotten rid of, I have no idea what that meant because it is a beautiful piece. I promptly asked the cashier if I could buy it and she asked me how much I would pay and I told her $15 and they loaded it in my car and to this day it is proudly displayed and used.
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