Category Archives: Sale Tales

Fabulous but true tales of life in yard sale land.

Wild Buck in the Manor

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 6 Comments

This weekend was the Olympic Manor neighborhood sale, otherwise known to us as the “season closer. It’s been really good, it’s been really bad, but we have hit this sale for at least the last nine years. The sales have … Continue reading

Bad bad books

Posted by Jenny in Book Report, Sale Tales, Um ... No Thanks | 12 Comments

We hit a neighborhood sale last weekend. Meghan’ll be dishing up the full scoop soon, but first I wanted to take a moment to share a small portion of what has to be one of the strangest and most terrifying … Continue reading

Hang in there, baby

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 6 Comments

Going to sales on Labor Day weekend — is it ever great? Judging from the last three years I would have to say no. But going to yard sales is like playing slots: you never know when your very next … Continue reading

Elvis is my dojo

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 2 Comments

Friday morning = RAIN. I am not sure how almost every single Friday morning for the entire summer has turned rainy, but it’s sort of been making me crazy. Two sales listed had been listed as estate sales. That’s great … Continue reading

Will look good when washed

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 6 Comments

Between being out of town, and a number of Saturday social events, last weekend was my first time hitting sales in over a month! I was excited, especially with nice weather in the forecast and our friend Erica guest-starring. And … Continue reading

Button, button, who’s got the button?

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 17 Comments

This lady does. Yes, it’s insane … Supposedly she collected for many years and wrote down every single thing she purchased. She collected everything. Not really sure if you can see all the items under plastic (that weren’t for sale), … Continue reading

Driving OPEC crazy

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 6 Comments

Okay. Two weeks ago (yes. really, two weeks ago) I hit some sales with Karl and one of my girlfriends and favorite derby skaters, Maliboozer Barbie, who has been threatening to come to sales for the past year. The first … Continue reading

Free pile, smile

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 9 Comments

O.K., so we haven’t blogged for almost three weeks in the middle of summer. Well, I am a married woman now and Jenny took off mere moments after the wedding to head off to Europe. So, now we are catching … Continue reading