Rummage sale Find of the year.

[burntmuch]

The other day I bought a Fireplace insert. Its the type that has the heat exchangers "steel tubes" that go under & over the fire. It has the fireplace frame with doors & screen. Its got a small blower on the bottom. Got it home & cleaned it up a bit. Had the wife help me put it in. Started a fire & wow it works awesome. Now this isnt gonna heat the house this winter but it will work good for the basement, where I have one medium sized room that I want to heat sometimes. Ive seen these sell for 400-500 bucks. I paid the low-low price of $20.  Its gonna stay in the main floor fireplace till it gets real cold. I ll use it to warm the house on them cool mornings.  Plus the kids can roast Marshmellows. Cause come November. The corn burner will replace it.  Just had to brag on this one. Its my best find since my brand new canteen cup for 25 cents

[DalesCarpentry]

Good find. Was it you that picked up a fishing casting reel sometime back? You got it dirt cheap and found out it was a colectors item and was worth a lot of money? If so you have all the luck. Dale

[pastorp]

When I lived in Florida I liked to go to flea markets. Also in New Mexico but there is nothing like that where I live now.  I kinda miss my monday afternoons at the big one in Sumterville. I could always find something to drag home.

Regards,

[rockbilly]

Rummage sale, garage sale, yard sale or what ever you want to call them can be a source of many treasures. My wife and I use to make them on a regular basis until I reached the conclusion that we had accumulated more “stuff” than we had room for.  I tell her, “these sales are just a bunch of things you can’t use at a price you can’t refuse.”

All joking aside, we have found some real treasures, I have purchased several guns well below market value.  I remember one sale where my wife bought a bag of “costume jewelry” for $2.  There were ten-twelve necklaces in the bag, later when I inspected the items I found one sterling chain, two gold and one platinum.  I estimate the platinum chain to be worth in the neighborhood of $600. based on weight.  These four chains alone were worth (new) about 700-750 dollars.  Another great find were five movie marquee posters for the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds.”   They were bought for $2.00 each, what was attractive they were all autographed by the entire cast from the movie.  They later sold on e-bay for $259. each, and later I seen the same posters advertised on e-bay by the individual that bought them for $500. each, surprisingly, they sold.

Yes, there is a lot of good finds out there if one has the time to look, I know people that make a very good living buying at such sales and reselling in junk shops or on e-bay.

[GRIMJIM]

My mom is the ultimate when it comes to garage sale finds.

She once got a 1967 Gibson es335. Just like BB King's guitar. She talked the guy down to 60 bucks.

[Tommyt]

Rummage sale, garage sale, yard sale or what ever you want to call them can be a source of many treasures. My wife and I use to make them on a regular basis until I reached the conclusion that we had accumulated more “stuff” than we had room for.  I tell her, “these sales are just a bunch of things you can’t use at a price you can’t refuse.”

All joking aside, we have found some real treasures, I have purchased several guns well below market value.  I remember one sale where my wife bought a bag of “costume jewelry” for $2.  There were ten-twelve necklaces in the bag, later when I inspected the items I found one sterling chain, two gold and one platinum.  I estimate the platinum chain to be worth in the neighborhood of $600. based on weight.  These four chains alone were worth (new) about 700-750 dollars.  Another great find were five movie marquee posters for the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds.”   They were bought for $2.00 each, what was attractive they were all autographed by the entire cast from the movie.  They later sold on e-bay for $259. each, and later I seen the same posters advertised on e-bay by the individual that bought them for $500. each, surprisingly, they sold.

Yes, there is a lot of good finds out there if one has the time to look, I know people that make a very good living buying at such sales and reselling in junk shops or on e-bay.

 Me thinks they are Stuff sales you Buy their stuff then later you sell your stuff its one big stuff swap lol
But really you guys had some good finds
 I did buy a small Penn reel and rod a few weeks age for $10 
and I don't go to them I drove buy and saw Fishing poles and had to turn around lol

Tommyt

[burntmuch]

The best way to hit the garage sales is without the wife & kids. If the wifes with ya. She can look for 30 minutes & spend 6 bucks. If the kids are there, that means more stuffed animals. I like to stop ,do a quick walk thru, & move on

[Brett]

The best way to hit the garage sales is without the wife & kids. If the wifes with ya. She can look for 30 minutes & spend 6 bucks. If the kids are there, that means more stuffed animals. I like to stop ,do a quick walk thru, & move on

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Oops, WIR... got to go.

[45-70.gov]

went to a gun show today

got an old pound of  imr 3031  for $2

then offered him  $1  for remaining  5 pounds

some containers were  unopened some were opened

[MGMorden]

My mom is the ultimate when it comes to garage sale finds.

She once got a 1967 Gibson es335. Just like BB King's guitar. She talked the guy down to 60 bucks.

AMAZING find.  It never fails to shock me what some people can find at yard sales.  On the subject of guitars I know a guy who found a 1950's vintage Gibson Melody Maker for $40 at one. 

Though I've personally not had much luck, I'll always stop at one to see if they have anything I'm looking for (namely: guns, guitars, telescopes, old plastic model kits, and M&M's memorabilia ).

[gypsyman]

Well, wasn't me, but years back, a friend of mine, who shot silhouette, went to a garge sale. Rumaging around, picked up a Remington XP-100 in .221 Fireball. Lady at the house said that her husband died years earlier, and some of the stuff was his. This was some toy from when her son was little. Wanted $5 for it. It found a new home.  gypsyman

[Questor]

Shucks, I was hoping to read that you found a matched pair of Purdey doubles, one 12 gauge bird gun and a .470 Nitro rifle.

[burntmuch]

Guys I am loving this thing. Its heating the house right now. 

[rio grande]

About 5 years back a friend found a 1937 Luger, all matching, original (nice) finish at a pawnshop. Under $300 out the door.
When he went back, the salesgirl said she got in trouble over it. she said it was her 'learning gun'.
I found two handmade and signed Jimmy Lile knives, daggers, stag grips,at a pawnshop.  $30 for both.  Sold for $300, worth probably $1000 now.
Found a 12 gauge rather premium H&R at a garage sale.  $10. but transfer bar broken.
Had a friend that did garage sales regular. We'd get off work at the night shift and he'd drive to WalMart and sit in the lot till the sales opened.  His specialty was gold jewelry. He allways seemed to find good gold in with the junk, as with the necklaces mentioned above.  Accumulated quite a bit of it.

[Sourdough]

My wife went out garage saling when we lived in New Mexico.  I was real big in archery then.  One Saturday morning she brought home a beat up old green and brown camo recurve bow.  String was frayed, and needed replacing, and she had talked the lady down from $5.00 to $2.00.  She showed it to me and said it would look good hanging on the wall.  She wanted to hang it next to a print she had of girls practicing archery, that hung in our living room.  She asked me to paint it or something to make it look better.

I took it outside and started looking at it closer.  I got some mineral spirits and wiped a spot, the camo paint came off.  Underneath was a shiny surface.  Using mineral spirits I cleaned the entire bow.  Underneath was a beautiful #55 Bear Bow.  All the scratches and dings were in the thick coat of camo paint.  underneath the bow looked brand new.  I took it to the local Archery shop, to see if he had a new string.  As soon as I walked through the door the owner tried to buy it from me.  He offered me $100.00, I said no I want to shoot it myself.  Suddenly I remembered seeing similar bows in his shop going for $250.00 to $300.00.  I did get a new string.

I started shooting it at the range, and got back into shooting instinctively, the way I shot as a kid, just like I saw Fred Bear doing on TV.  The bow never got hung on the wall near the print.  Today, 30 years later, it resides in a protective sleeve, hanging in a bow rack with my other bows.  When Sky and I go to the indoor range I often take it.  Sky can not understand how I can shoot it so well, with no sights or stabilizer.  "It's just a stick of shiney, laminated wood, and fiberglass", he says.  I am thinking "Not bad for $2.00. 

I did kill a Black Bear with it back in the mid 90s.  Down in Prince William Sound, out of Whittier, Alaska.

[slim rem 7]

 found a stihl 028 chain saw for 50 dollars.. in new condition ..just dirty.. the filter was so dirty it actually felt like a solid piece of wood ...original owner didn t know it was thier...
  i have an nice guest cot thats right comfortable...cost me 10 dollars in new shape..
  south american sugar cane cutter for 5 dollars .. i go through any brush  i want with that thing.. if i want to bad enough..
 

[rockbilly]

The wife and I were on our way to the hospital for a blood test this morning when we past a “Garage Sale” sign.  She wanted to stop so I turned around and went back, she didn’t find anything but I found a real treasure…………..there was a box on the back of a table full of Yo-Yos, Yes, Yo-Yos, I bought 14 old 1950s-50s wooden Duncan Yo-Yos for six dollars.  There were two jeweled “Tournament Masters” still in the package.  I bought them to give to the kids at school but after checking the prices on e-bay I might just hold on to them.

As I said, “one man’s trash, another man’s treasure.”