I have GOT TO QUIT!!!!

[norgeway]

Going to estate sales!!!!!This was the take for this weekend! A Presto Control Master Oven, a West Bend Electric Ovenette,A 1941 PA Geier built straight suction hand vac labeled Reo, a Zenith Royal 500 Transistor Radio that plays great, a 1957 4 quart Mirro Matic pressure cooker a Westinghouse mixer from the late 50s, their small mixer, basically a portable on a stand, but the best thing was a 2004 model Tri Star with everything even the bill of sale and the book and it does not have a scratch....It was 100.00 but Saturday everything was reduced to 1/2 price and we were there at 7 am....So I got it for 50.00! Also a ton of cookbooks and all the recipes the lady who had the Tri Star had, some hand written on WW2 era Army stationary!!!Oh yes, a new set of Stanley Home Products knives will the wall holder.

 

[norgeway]

Missed a few

Pictures....

 

[frigilux]

But Hans, if you stop going to estate sales you'll deprive the rest of us getting to see all the great stuff you pick up!

Love that transistor radio. The local cookbooks, as well. They have awesome comfort food recipes from the past.

Congrats on a very successful estate-sale haul!

 

[stricklybojack]

Sweet..

.
TriStar...one of the few vacs i would like to add to my ridiculously oversized collection {sigh}.

 

[gansky1]

You did well!  

 

That Tri-Star was worth getting up early for, even standing in the rain would have been worth the effort for that price.   Incredible performers.  My grandmother had a similar oven as the Ovenette, it was used on the back "freezer porch" in the summer months rather than the Tappan gas range in the kitchen. I forgot all about that.  How fun.  

 

I love the recipe boxes they're like a scrapbook of the owner's kitchen life.  Seeing their lives on slips of scratch paper, newspaper & magazine clippings of culinary favorites, handwritten cards of new dishes served at parties and family functions, even wedding and funeral announcements sometimes.  I once found a magazine clipping of a kitchen remodel labeled "my dream kitchen".  The best was two sequential $2 silver certificates, folded up and forgotten in the Lamb section.   Have fun going through those.

 

 

 

[mikael3]

Your actual problem...

... is that you live in a place with such fantastic yard sales!  I’ve never been that lucky.

 

[kevin313]

Hans - these are all wonderful finds!!! Don't stop going to sales, just build another shed!! You'll have a lot more fun that way!!

 

[turquoisedude]

Don't quit going to estate sales - you seem to be in an area where there is still soooo much good vintage stuff up for grabs!   Quit when the pickings run out and wind up just being into used baby stuff and Tupperware like most sales feature up here. 

 

LOVE that Westinghouse mixer - I've never seen that style on a stand before!

 

[philr]

Nice finds!

And don't forget that you still haven't found a good digital camera, so that's a good reason to keep going!

 

;-)

 

[rp2813]

" . . . used baby stuff and Tupperware . . ."

Paul, that is so true about garage and yard sales.  If I see clothes strewn across the lawn, I just keep driving.

 

Estate sales may involve higher prices, but at least there's usually an abundance of interesting stuff.

 

Hans, I don't know what type of camera you're using, but the pictures look like those my cell/dumb phone was producing before I realized the always-exposed lens needed a cleaning.

 

[tolivac]

Hans goes to the BEST yard and estate sales!!Keep going to those.The ones my way are boring things like clothes,baby toys and furniture,and knick knack type stuff.Drive by those---now when I see a vacuum cleaner handle in the midst,or a pile of books-then I stop.But alas those piles of books end up being kids and baby books!!Haven't found a vacuum cleaner or good stuff in a long time.I may stop going to these sales if the toys,clothes,baby junk is all they have to offer.The "Restore" place--same ol USELESS stuff!I am starting to think in my area the good stuff is put on Craigslist or EBay.The Dreck stuff is sold at the yard sale.

 

[whirlcool]

The problem we have with garage sales is people price stuff as if it just left the store yesterday! KA stand mixers with missing attachments that are obviously used $389.00 FIRM! Usually just a lot of junk. A lot of it you just take one look and think "Why isn't this in the garbage can?"

Most of the time after going to a few of these you just head back home wondering why you even wasted your time at all with these people. I've never seen any electronics, appliances or anything like that at garage sales around here. It's usually tons of old clothes, cast off beat up furniture and tons of old knick knacks.

We downsized when we moved to this house and we just don't have a lot of room to add new stuff. If something new comes in, something old has to leave. Where do you guys store all these finds?

 

[tolivac]

Maybe I can find more things at the DUMP rather than the garage sales.Netted a couple boxes of chemestry and scinetific books at the dump-brought them home-sometimes when taking trash to the dump-I bring things back!