Category Archives: Sale Tales

Fabulous but true tales of life in yard sale land.

Memorial Day weekend sales

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | Comments Off on Memorial Day weekend sales

We have generally found that there aren’t a ton of sales on the Saturday of a holiday weekend (like Memorial Day or Labor Day). But last Saturday there were a good handful so we went out for a few hours. … Continue reading

West Seattle Junk

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 1 Comment

As Meghan reports below, we had a pretty good time hitting the West Seattle yard sales. I didn’t come away with any really amazing scores, but I did get a handful of interesting books and records and other small odd … Continue reading

West Seattle sale report

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 1 Comment

Jenny and I hit the third annual West Seattle community sale on Saturday. It was advertised as 100 homes and I would guess that we hit around 45 sales in a little under 4 hours. We left a little early … Continue reading

Taking the “Early Bird” concept to a whole new level

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It’s not very often that I show up for a sale too early. I’ve mentioned this before, but we hate it when we have a sale and pickers show up 2 hours early – or in some cases I have … Continue reading

Embrace Your Inner Caveman

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 3 Comments

On Saturday I ended up half-assing sales and started out super late, something I rarely do. At 10:00 I figured I would go to a few sales near by and call it a day. The first sale was an old … Continue reading

Phinney Neighborhood Sale Day Recap

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 3 Comments

After trading a few emails Friday afternoon about how excited we both were to hit some sales, working out the time and would we both need to get money (a common theme), we chose to go to the sales an … Continue reading