Dumpster Diving-Garage Sale-Goodwill-Thrift Store & Craigslist Finds

[Muggsmagee]

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Thank you!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Which reminds me...if anyone lives near a college, once the students clean out for the summer, all sorts of stuff gets left behind. We scored a stainless steel undercounter fridge that was riddled with mold, but bleach fixed that, and it is now our bar and overflow fridge), and we scored an amazing fuseball table that we sold to a friend's son for $25. My brother used to help clean out Dartmouth dorms when he was a teen and the students would leave behind beautiful bikes, furniture, TV's...kitchen ware and appliances.


As far as the fleece scraps...what are their sizes? Dog toys are a great idea. I did a quick google search and it yielded a plethora of ideas!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Take a before and after pic! That is my only regret doing some of these projects....no before pics.

As far as painting that rocker...what color are you thinking? I am a color junkie. My first house I painted our bathroom pumpkin orange and our living room prairie grass green! I have now put my love for color into furniture, paintings and throw pillows. They are much easier to change out.

 

[zzGypsy]

best find ever... not mine, but my grandmothers. a neighbor had died and her kids were cleaning out her house, my grandma's house was backed up on the same alley. halfway burried in a trash heap next to the dumpster was a small metal bowl with a flat worked handle, completely black and crusty, but heavy. she collected that and kept it for a while, then had it appraised at one of those antique road show type events (although not a televised one.) it turns out to be an original pewter poringer made by Paul Revere himself, has his maker's mark on it,.. the thing is worth a huge amount, somewhere north of $25,000, if I recall what it was appraised at.

recent finds:
beautifully hand carved wooden goblets, 16 of them, with a tray, for $16
one of those chicken rotisery roasters that you see for $80 new for $5
free: a border collie pup that comes from working parents and shows all the signs of being a talented herding dog

best deal so far: 5 pieces of restored and operational horse-drawn equipment for $500 (hay rake, single row planter/plow, 2 different cultivators, a sickle mower and a 3-point plow) normally these pieces run for $150-300 each, when operable but not restored.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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You win!

That's impressive. It's like the person that bought the $1 artwork at a yard sale, but just wanted the frame, and found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence in it. Sold it for over $1 million dollars! We wish to be so lucky!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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That is awesome. Those estate auctions and sales have some really nice stuff. You are so lucky to find such nice things. Please post pics if you can of what you have.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Do you ever watch "Storage Unit Wars" on tv?

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Which reminds me...if anyone lives near a college, once the students clean out for the summer, all sorts of stuff gets left behind. We scored a stainless steel undercounter fridge that was riddled with mold, but bleach fixed that, and it is now our bar and overflow fridge), and we scored an amazing fuseball table that we sold to a friend's son for $25. My brother used to help clean out Dartmouth dorms when he was a teen and the students would leave behind beautiful bikes, furniture, TV's...kitchen ware and appliances.


As far as the fleece scraps...what are their sizes? Dog toys are a great idea. I did a quick google search and it yielded a plethora of ideas!

I work near a University and someone mentioned that to me the other day.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Years ago I was walking to the bus stop after work and the day had grown chilly as the sun was setting. I thought to myself "I wish that I had a jacket" just as I passed by an apartment building where someone had set a box of clothing on the curb by the garbage cans. Right on top was a nice grey flannel blazer that was in perfect condition and fit me exactly! It kept me warm enough and I got years of wear from it.

The only drawback was that whenever people would compliment me on it I never knew just how to reply, especially when they'd ask "and where did you get it?" There were some folks that I knew would appreciate its true backstory, but there were others to whom I would just reply "oh, I got it some place downtown"...

 

[zzGypsy]

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love those stories...

apparently my grandmother and grandfather stood in line at the appraisal show for a couple of hours arguing about if it was valuable or not, if it was a paul revere or not... the whole "is TO!" "is NOT!" kind of argument you see on sitcoms... and her trash find trumped *everything* else he'd brought to the appraisal combined! definitely a bragging rights event for my grandmother who I think enjoied telling the story in front of him because it always made him grumble under his breath.

and yes, we *do* wish to be that lucky! so far, it hasn't happened with anyone else in my family. <sigh>