Hold The Phone! Another Estate Sale In NJ

[jetcone]

This is one hot Estate Sale company

no butter churners, milk glass , or spinning wheels for this group!

 

I want that drill press!

 

Hmm I will be driving by then......I'll race you Launderess.

 

 

[tolivac]

Looks like it would be interesting to look and paw through the goodies-the old drill press needs work and a motor.

 

[brianl]

If anybody is really serious about going, we can meet at my place and go together.

 

[launderess]

It's A Trap! It's A Trap!

Don't fall for it guys. BrianL just wants to get the competition into his lair and then you all will end up like Blanche in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"

*LOL*

L.
Ducking but not running, more like a slow retreat but covering my flank!*LOL*

 

[gansky1]

The Maytag is post mid-sixties so I'll bet the Easy came first, then the wringer. Possibly when a new Easy could no longer be found.

This does look like a fun sale, the kitchen will be lots of fun I'll bet!

 

[wiskybill]

Well....

as luck would have it will be in Philadelphia area on Sunday morning. Helping a friend of mine move some furniture from here to there. Ironically its from an estate sale here a couple of weeks ago.

Should have time to get to the sale before it ends. Hope Brian hasn't snatched it all up by then!

 

[mickeyd]

The Easy is also from the mid-sixties. You can tell by the enlarged lettering in the logo. Before that, the letters were shorter and wider.

 

[gansky1]

Easy age...

Interesting, what a fun laundry room they had then! Two washers - oooh, maybe there's a fun automatic in another corner!

Keep us posted guys, looks like fun and we want pictures!

 

[mickeyd]

With two classic gems like that, a TOL Easy Spin and a Maytag Cadillac, maybe they were washer people, just like us. Wouldn't that be cool!

 

[launderess]

Fader Grandeur

That is what comes to mind looking at those photographs of items for sale.

Yes, the former owner or owners of that home were elderly. You can tell from the B&W pictures of Armed Forces members in boxes along with other family snaps. Also simply by looking at the stuff. The Koolerator, wringer washer, Easy Spindrier, vintage radio and television and so forth all point to someone or persons who started keeping house around the 1940's or 1950's. Judging from that Roper range maybe even before that.

Does not look like their days ended happily as you can see the potty chair/walker in one snap. Also from the state of the place it obviously had not been kept up. Often elderly persons living in these "wealthy" New Jersey suburbs are house poor. Many of these "bedroom" areas became hot areas to settle in after the George Washington Bridge was built, and increasingly as more persons fled NYC for Jersey after the War and on into the 1950's (white flight). Over the years assesements on the property goes up but many seniors income does not.

Judging from the hat boxes and costume jewels the lady of the house had good taste.

Don't think they had two laundry rooms. Just as each machine either died or was replaced it was moved into storage. The kitchen has a modern new range so am going to guess there is a "new" washer and dryer somewhere.

One thing that really makes one sad is the absence of any infant/children's items speaks that perhaps there weren't any wee ones.

 

[brianl]

Hey Laundress...

Funny what you posted yesterday, I would never lol. I hear what you are saying on your last post, I knew a few like that. The housing prices go up, but the incomes do not. Money is tight with us as well. I think the average income is around 60k or more perhaps. We happened to luck out, but are house is less than 1500 sq ft, and built with sheet rock on cement. Makes for a warm house in summer and a cold house in winter. Virtually no insulation. Since our bills are higher, I wonder what a senior might have to go through on a fixed income like that.

Back to washers, I really would love to have that Easy, as I need to give Eric's back to him eventually lol, but I'm not sure about the wringer. Maybe if the price is right on it, unless someone else wants.

Seriously though, any members in the area, I would love to get to meet new people and show them my collection and maybe make a little day of it.

 

[brianl]

Anybody going this weekend who has a pickup truck for large items? I may need your services and can give you some money for your troubles.

 

[mickeyd]

Hope you ALL have a BALL

at the Hyacinth Bouquet's Candle Light Extravagaza Reunion. Daisy's feeding me chips & beer, and I can't get up. Toodle-oo.

 

Cheers,

 

Onslow

 

[launderess]

Address Is Up

And the house is right down the street from *Two* cemetaries.

This just get's more Twlight Zone by the day!

Maybe Miss. Elva Keen lived there! *LOL*

"Hello? Where are you? I want to talk to you."

 

[launderess]

More Random Thoughts

Quick peek at Google Maps shows the property is just off Route #46, easy as pie to get to if one is anywhere near northern New Jersey or central for that matter.

OTHO not all pictures shown on the estate sale's website are from this particular do, can't be, but long as the stuff is there who cares?

As for the larger appliances (washer, Roper range, etc...), Google Maps shows a small shed/garage structure at the back of the property, but it looks too modern and small to hold all the stuff shown in various estate sale pictures. Given that the house was built in 1932 that stonework seen in the background *may* very well be the home's foundation. In which case all that stuff is in the basement/cellar and would have to be hauled up and out of the house by either the front or back door. Besides just cannot imagine anyone storing (or using for that matter) those washing machines in a garage given NJ's winter climate).

Though the property is quite big (largest on that side of the block from what one can see), the house is small as with most in that area. If it get's crowded (and it very well may given it's a built up area and local residents are bound to wander in), things will be tight. My advice for anyone thinking of going is to do so early and perhaps on Saturday for best selection and "quiet" shopping.

 

[brianl]

Prices on washers...

Looks like the seller wants to price each machine at $250. Just got an email response little earlier. Maybe a little too much for my blood.

 

[launderess]

Asking Ain't Getting

Sellers make a big deal on their website about how hard they work to get the best prices for their clients and so forth.

Being as that may cannot see anyone spending >$100 for those appliances much less >$200. Sale only runs two days and then what happens to the *stock* is anyone's guess.

If you live in the area I'd stroll over and make your best offer and see what happens. If those washers don't move by Sunday afternoon (and am guessing they won't)seller might see the light.

 

[tolivac]

I bet-sadly if the stock doesn't sell it goes to the krusher.

 

[launderess]

Anyone Make The Trek?

As for myself though the spirit was willing the flesh was weak. Twas a cold morning with light snow and ice falling which did not inspire one to drive out into NJ. Besides given how much BrianL reported the sellers wanted for the washers one had the feeling bargins may have been few and far between.

 

[kenmore700bill]

Brian,
They both will propbably be out on te curb before the house is sold..that is just he way we do it in NJ.
Bill