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Across the Fence:  Can't wait for tag and yard sale season!  |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
603 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 09:51:08 AM
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I love yard sales. I'm going to be on the lookout for some baby stuff this season.
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"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 09:59:56 AM
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I have to brag that here in So. Cal the yard sales AND the Farmers Markets run all year long. It is HEAVEN!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" |
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
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Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 10:19:46 AM
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Linda, you tease! How can you be so cruel...and can we come to visit?
I'm also waiting with baited breath Annika! I'm tired of snow & more snow! Even the thrift stores are looking sad this time of year.
I need to "host" a garage sale as well!
Rhonda
I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance even if I'm the only one...
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 10:49:39 AM
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I'm so envious of you, Linda! Yard sale season looks a hundred years away today - 4 inches of snow possible tonight! :(
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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PlumCreekMama
True Blue Farmgirl
730 Posts
Heather
Iowa
USA
730 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 10:49:49 AM
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Two towns around here are having garage sales at large venues the weekend after this. I hope I have time to go to at least one of them- would love to make it to both.
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 11:09:44 AM
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we don't have very interesting yard sales around here, I am not all that particular either. Years ago I used to go on yard sale adventures with a loony friend of mine named Dave. He is the king of yard sales. He collects screws, nails, wingnuts, metal things that he has no idea what their purpose is(the man loves to polish}. The last time I went on a tear with him he haggled for half an hour with someone about some kind of wobbly kitchen chairs, and after he got the seller down from 50 dollars a chair to 15, he said, nah I guess I don't want them that bad. I was surprised the guy didn't clobber him. Later that same morning Dave's big score of the day was a huge box of rusty steel wool. It's worth $50 he screamed at me, and I got it for 5! He would gladly stop at any sale featuring old rusting cans of nails, broken tools etc. My daughter has been living at home again for a few months, and every time she's with me if I spot a yard sale or a junk store and the car starts swerving toward it she calmly says - Don't make me kill you. We have a huge barn here filled with boxes of who knows what from when we moved here six years ago and then junk that my mother had saved and on and on....Of course my children are magpies as well, they just haven't stored up enough junk yet...Nothing more fun than the possibilities...Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 12:30:12 PM
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You can come anytime! But here's the catch...the deals are harder to find. There's a lot of dealers that get really abusive with sellers here so a lot times people aren't into making some serious bargains.
They can be found though, there's an area her called "The Palisades" where a lot of movie stars live and the garage and estates sales there are amazing! I have got some SERIOUS deals. Like anything you have to be willing to spend the time and barter your stockings off!
Always worth it though.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 1:34:11 PM
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I am soooo ready for yard sale season. It's getting warmer here, and by the end of the month we should start seeing signs going up! Mind you, I am in need of nothing, but like Annika said, it's the thrill of the hunt.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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LauraH
True Blue Farmgirl
305 Posts
Laura
North Creek
New York
USA
305 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 5:15:43 PM
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 6:31:34 PM
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Okay girls the 4th of July I have a huge one it covers my whole orchard, a bunch of of us get together and do it up, you wouldnt believe the bargains that left here, it is a good day for one because so many are off from work that day, I went thrifting today found a few things but nothing antique
Farm Girl #96
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17403 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17403 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 6:58:34 PM
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Linda, that is one thing I do miss about Calif....yard sales all year long,,,, heck, we die-hards wouldn't even leave the Pasadena Flea Market when it would start to rain & neither would the vendors!!!!!
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
mjf#72
Sisters on the Fly#472
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 7:11:03 PM
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Alright, Miss Wilma. Yet ANOTHER day you'll be getting a visit from me!
I have a confession, I don't like to go to yard sales around here because, well, usually it's just crap..and the people who have them are usually weird...I can't honestly say I've ever come up with something really fabulous, just weird looks, or the "itches". There's a new trend around here, too, that people having yard sales also sell food like hotdogs and hamburgers from the grill. Um, excuse me, but I don't know you, I'm buying stuff for a quarter at your house that you've drug out (for the 10th time) from your basement, and I'm not sure I want to buy food prepared by a total stranger without a license. Maybe I'm a bit touchy...I'd just rather thrift, it's MUCH less personal :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 7:21:50 PM
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Annika-
We are seriously going to have to have that garage sale! I have car tires, lawn equipment (Folding chairs, and gardening tools) a couple hoses that I don't feel the need to take with me to Montana, a sprinkler, an electric lawn mower with power cord long enough to mow the whole yard and I am sure I can dig up clothes, books, maybe a piece of furniture or two.
I have a huge backyard- I could clean up all the doggie messes and we can set up back there and put balloons out to draw walk-in customers...what do you think?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 7:25:08 PM
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I know, right? My other favorite is the goofball who lives next store to me...she takes advantage of the other people WAY up the street who take time to post signs for their yard sales, and knowing full well that they have to turn around down at our end, halls junk out to the yard where it sits for a week or more. I've overheard her telling a potential "customer" about a pair of acid washed jeans from 1982, when asked about the price, "oh, I spent a bunch a' money on them when I first bought em, so I need to get at least $8.00 out of em" and the customer puts them back in the box where they will stay for another year. She also tells people, "if that don't work, just bring it back and I'll give you your money back". Oh, and she sells food :)
CLASSIC.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
777 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 7:36:34 PM
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I am a yard sale addict, too! Nothing I like better than a country drive and "happen" upon a yard full of goodies. In my younger more foolish years, I've been know to do a U turn on a 4 lane ... all for the joy of a yard sale! Now I just drive a mile down the road and turn around! LOL But I still HAVE to turn around!
Jonni, you crack me up!
Blessings, Lea
www.farmhouseblessings.blogspot.com
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 7:49:21 PM
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I am looking forward to all of you coming I have plenty of sleeping facilities, and I promise you whether its tators and beans or hotdogs and hamburgers they will be clean , but we will only do that for the ones staying over, Lea do you know about the mile long yard sale that goes on up here and travels 68 and 80 alway down thru western kyAnnika I am looking hard for you
Farm Girl #96
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http://misswilma.blogspot.com/ |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
22944 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 8:19:21 PM
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Sounds good to me- though we _need_ to get together soon!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2008 : 8:44:24 PM
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I am going to be. I need to "decorate" my house a little more..not a lot...but I am looking for a few specific things at great prices. I feel like my home is boring and flat...I need some texture and color.
Cheers,
Heather
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