Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough

You would think that after our five days in junking heaven, I would be just a little bit tired of treasure hunting. At least for a day or two, right?

RIGHT?

C'mon, you know me better than that!

We got home late Friday night. Bright and early Saturday morning I was pestering Mr. VJIMT to head out with me to a yard/estate sale or two. Especially since the kids were still away and there would be no pressure to buy any Barbies.

There were actually only two listed, so I knew our adventures would be quick. He was hesitant at first, but reluctantly agreed to come with me.

This is the trunk of my car after stop #1.

And this is what was in the trunk of my car. Which HE found for a song in the basement of the estate sale I dragged him to.

I think he was glad he went!

Fortunately, there also happened to be a screwdriver in the basement and he was able to take it apart so we wouldn't have to make two trips.

My finds were a little easier to pack into the car… like this chalkware wedding cake topper from the 1950s.

It's in pristine condition -- no paint loss or chips!

The colors in this pretty embroidered table runner caught my eye. Love the red and green combo.

Giddy with excitement at our scores, we headed to an indoor yard sale at stop #2. Which happened to be around the corner from our house.

There we found this interesting front from an old cash register.

But even more exciting was this old yellowware batter bowl, at an insanely affordable price.

I had been lusting after many of these yellowware bowls in Bouckville, but they were well out of my price range. Especially unchipped, as this one is.

I wanted to add it to our collection sitting atop our kitchen countertops. All of these were purchased well before the year 1995, or whenever Martha decreed it “cool” to collect them. And thereby jacking up the price.

The seller had two others she was offering as a set, again at a very reasonable price. The larger one is 12 inches wide at the top; the smaller 10 inches.

I passed them up.

Then I obsessed over thought about them for a couple of hours.

Then I went back and got them (to sell on Etsy, I told myself).

Yeah, right!

Comments

[Pam]

Darned Martha....I feel the same way about Jadeite....I cringe everytime I see some of the prices they have elevated to in the last 10 years....used to pick it up for a few dollars. Love the cabinet! Good scores!

[Laura @ 52 FLEA]

Great little cabinet and wonderful yellow ware finds! I have a large collection of yellow ware which I mostly found...dare I say in the 70's and 80's? Oops...now you know! :)

[Ellen]

Love the cabinet and the yellowware bowls too! I built my collection of those up in the late 80's - early 90's - back when they were affordable too. :) Every so often I'll come across a few around here at prices you just can't walk away from.... but I have yet to put one in my Etsy store! I know I should quit hoarding them and share... but it's soooo hard! :-)

[One Gal's Trash]

That sea foam green hutch is just the cat's meow. Yummy stuff!
xo
Pam

[Into Vintage]

Your trunk always has such great junk! ;-)

[Jackie]

Oh these are lovely finds all stuffed in there. I always get stuck driving the car with the inopperable trunk. Sometimes it opens... but never when you want it to. The key/remote both don't work. But every once in a while it will just pop open on its own...at an inopportune time. I'm always worried of putting something in there and never being able to get it out. The horror!

[Nelly]

Tell the Mr he done good and so did you Glad I dont go to the same places as you or id be so envious you got there before me lol