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The bottles, insulators, and mason jar thread and other cool finds (even bunnys fans)
February 4, 2012 at
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Well it was an estate sale but kind of like a hoarders place. The lady and guy running it said there was about 1/4 of what had originally been in there. I got a big industrial westinghouse fan for $3 and an assortment of telegraph insulators an old glass clorox bottle for $4. My wife got an antique mirror they had priced at $25 for $10. she said she could tell by the glass it was old.
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You know what? The stuff you had to leave is just stuff. Your happiness is way more important.
You WILL get the time and money to replace your antiques!!!!
FTFY
I'm sure you're the same way. If it is pretty to you who cares if it is worth $1 or $100.
If it is worth $$ all the much better.
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There is this cool consignment shop about 15 minutes away from me. a couple bought an 1800's huge Victorian in the city and made it into a shop. All the consignments are antiques and her prices are very very low. I go in and sell things to her outright and then she resells. The place is stocked wall to wall, upstairs, downstairs.....there is never an empty spot.
Get your butt to NY and lets go bargain hunting!!!!!!
You know what? The stuff you had to leave is just stuff. Your happiness is way more important.
You WILL get the time and money to replace your antiques!!!!
FTFY
Been there, done it - walked out with just my clothes - I never looked back and regretted it
I'm sure you're the same way. If it is pretty to you who cares if it is worth $1 or $100.
If it is worth $$ all the much better.
When we talk again you can give me some ideas on colors and things you like
There is this cool consignment shop about 15 minutes away from me. a couple bought an 1800's huge Victorian in the city and made it into a shop. All the consignments are antiques and her prices are very very low. I go in and sell things to her outright and then she resells. The place is stocked wall to wall, upstairs, downstairs.....there is never an empty spot.
Get your butt to NY and lets go bargain hunting!!!!!!
We have a place here that does Estate sales on the weekend - you go early and look everything over - and then you get a number - and you already know what you want to bid on - and you sit, and sit, and sit, and sit - until the whee hours of the morning - until the lot you are waiting for comes up for bid - it might be 2am, 3am, or 4am, before your lot comes up for bid. We used to do this, it makes for a long arse night of sitting on some hard arse chairs
Been there, done it - walked out with just my clothes - I never looked back and regretted it
Me too
I look back and....he was so right. I look at things like this so differently now. I guess it's due to the real life important situations that surround me. And I am glad that I learned that lesson.
Is soap and hot water the best way to clean this fan off ?
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We have a place here that does Estate sales on the weekend - you go early and look everything over - and then you get a number - and you already know what you want to bid on - and you sit, and sit, and sit, and sit - until the whee hours of the morning - until the lot you are waiting for comes up for bid - it might be 2am, 3am, or 4am, before your lot comes up for bid. We used to do this, it makes for a long arse night of sitting on some hard arse chairs
Is soap and hot water the best way to clean this fan off ?
Money is not eveything Mr. Scampsters.
Money is not eveything Mr. Scampsters.
You get my point it goes back to not necessarily being rich and being to afford whatever you want without risk of losing your home.
Moot look on Estatesales.net
You get my point it goes back to not necessarily being rich and being to afford whatever you want without risk of losing your home.
Moot look on Estatesales.net
I collect the stuff for my own pleasure but I would sell anything I have in a heartbeat to save my house, family emergency....etc. It's kind of like....insurance
And someday it will be my daughter's
Personally if i buy something for 5-10 and ive recently seen them sell for $70 -80 i probably wouldnt hold out for getting that much. I might even go as low as $50 10 x profit is plenty for me. Maybe ill find another , maybe ill find 10 more at $5
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Do the consignment thing at an antique store. Your taking up space at a dealer or go the fleamarket route , or rent a booth in some big warehouse. and have your stall open at weekends. Really depends how much personal time you want to commit. The more time the more control you have over price.
Sorry pic is kind of high def Zoe i have a couple of others if not clear. From what ive read green is really rare and one is being sold for close to $500 not same as mine though.
They are apparently called 7up green - Hemmingray - 9
For the more common as least valuable I bet there are a million things someone with imagination could come up with. I like the lamp idea. Here is another that I came across that would be simple to make.
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Is soap and hot water the best way to clean this fan off ?
There are some items I have I would never ever considering selling - items handed down thru the family - too precious to me.
For the items I like to collect, I manage to find them at the Thrift Stores pretty darn cheap, and I have no intention of selling them
Here is the best thing one can purchase cheaply right now if you find them on sale - CD's in their original wrap - anything current - or anything that is older even - and take them to a second hand CD Shop - a good one - not a fly-by-night place - and you will find they will give you more than what you paid for them on sale - and I mean buy them at the most rock bottom price you are able to find them. CD's are on the way out - but people are NOT going to stop buying them. Which means CD Second Hand Stores - will have the upper hand in "pricing" for these. People will still want their hands on the "CD" - not just downloading music. There is a really good 2nd Hand CD/DVD store near me - and WOW...JUST...WOW is all I can say about their selection - and OMFG what they have available. The more pristine the CD, the better the price you get, in the original wrapping, you just upped the ante for what they will pay you. I've watched people walk in their with their CD's unwrapped, and seen what they have been paid for them. And, seen what wrapped one's have been paid for. This is the next "boom" if you are able to afford to purchase them and turn them around. The next sleeper no one is looking at.