Who Likes garage sales and thrift stores?

I love garage sales / thrift stores / junk stores, etc

I buy a lot of sheets, particularly those which have stains that won't wash out, and "recycle" them into square dance skirts !

other sheets which aren't appropriate for that, wind up as "impromptu yardwaste bags" --- take green stuff that I don't want to compost or feed to chickens, down to the "eco" recycle place where they shred and turn into compost to sell

old sheets are also great to store "spare" clothing in, just pile the clothes on and roll !

I buy dishes that look nice but are cheap, use those to take "potluck" food ... then no big deal if they get chipped or taken home by someone else ...

also use dishes like that to feed cats, dogs, chickens (I get macrame type hangers, put the dishes in them, suspend the food, water, and oyster-shell in those, then they can't kick dirt that high and contaminate food, etc)

clothes for working in the yard come cheap that way !

someone is always selling curtains ... since the renters keep destroying OUR curtains this is a blessing ... have gotten rugs to cover places where someone has spilled something that the carpet-cleaning pros can't remove

got fish-bowl type "cookie jars" which are wonderful for feeding the free-range chickens ... they are deep enough that the wild parakeets can't get their necks in (but chickens can) and the slanted openings mean the food doesn't get damp when it rains

this suburban area is "garage sale heaven", there is always someone moving in or out ... I'm still looking for a toaster-oven though ...

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Since this topic has been brought up how many of you refuse to pay full price for something for what seems like forever because you can always find them at GS then you finally give in after months of looking the next week at GS you see 10 of them.

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Oh, they have been my obsession for several years now, lol! Now that I've experienced "chicken keepin'" I don't visit the forums, ebay, etc near as much I probably have a little over 100 traditionals (full size) 30 classics, and over 100 stablemates. Hmm, wonder which ones you have...lol!

Ok, sorry I got so off track, just do this to me next time I talk about Breyers

You are blessed! They do not have many yardsales here in my area.......really miss them...but I go back for "week-end" visits....(Friday, Saturday...)
I go to the flea markets and once in awhile they will have auctions here, I'm not a fan of auctions...I think things tend to go to high...
"I brake for Yardsales..." LOL

I love beauitful table linens. The good stuff (do they really make good stuff any more?) is very expensive. I haunt estate and yard sales for old table linens. I have irish linen and damask in all sorts of colors with beautiful matching luncheon and dinner napkins. I pull them out on special occassions. Nothing like a table set with white linen to make you feel civilized.

Fayetteville has alot of yard sales in the summers, guess the military folks move in and out alot. We have a re-sale store that's just ok, the one in Aberdeenis called Habitat Store and it is phenomenal, full of gorgeous furniture and just about everything eelse you can think of with fairly reasonable prices, a goodwill, and MANY thrift shops. If I am looking for something in particular I like to prowl those shops, otherwise I come home with more stuff to add to the other stuff I keep saying I will either use, save for a gift or craft with at some point!! I am such a compulsive packrat!!!! I craft so much that I am alwasy looking at something like "now what else could that be", lol!!! A sickness, I know!!! Dr. Phil here I come, the hoarder!!

I'm an electronics geek so I go out looking for old vacuume tube radios. I find them working or not, completely dis assemble them, clean everything, replace faulty parts, reapair the cabinet and sell them on craig's list to people that love them but can't fix them.

No $1,000.00 XM satellite radio can compare to the warm glow and soothing sound of AM radio station from 2,000 miles away.

I haven't done one in a while....starting to get that itch again.

I love SAVERS, Red Feathers!!!
When Big Brothers and Big Sisters get my stuff that's where it goes...
My best scores at Savers are a TY plush cat called Licorice, and a full set of Ghostbusters things including Ecto1! I got a full sized Slave 1 and a Landspeeder.

At a yardsale, I've gotten a microwave steamer that I had been looking for because ours had broken. And some ancient Beanie Babies that I didn't want to pay all out doors for, and a Queen Alien action figure.

I buy clothes for myself at Savers, and Tshirts to paint on at Salvation Army.

It amazes me that you can find things that still have the tags on em.

I love GS and thrift shops. With the girls to outfit and things needed around the house and farm they are great places. I have a crotched shirt/dress I found when my oldest was about 1 1/2 yrs old. She wore it for a shirt and my youngest wore it first as a dress and now as a shirt. I paid $2 for it. I have one GS that I go to every year for 5 gal pals for the farm.