Thrifting & Estate Sale Shopping Haul | Vintage Bargain Hunt!

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We’ve got time to kill while we wait for the afternoon estate sale to open, so let’s go thrifting! Not far up the road is Seattle Goodwill, the flagship store for the big network of Evergreen Goodwill stores. Thrifting at this Goodwill usually pays off, and this time is no exception, as we pick up the cast-offs rejected by another reseller (much to their surprise!).

We can’t be late for the estate, so we buy our lot of Minton Marlow china and head back! We watch a cute 1939 World’s Fair lamp come out the door, but we finally get in and find surprisingly fun deals in this multi-generational family estate. This 1930s-era home has everything from California Pottery and Fiesta of that decade to cool vintage fashion, accessories, jewelry, home decor… and some surprises. We learn a surprising fact about the family as we comb through their books, and score a pretty bizarre and fascinating sculptural art piece!

This estate is small, but it’s almost all old and collectible stuff! A signed WNBA ball, a huge stack of boxed fountain pens, 1930s art pottery, antique clocks and furniture… this place has some fun variety! We grab a natural-skin 1950s Parisian handbag that our fellow shoppers agree is terrific, a cute spinning cake stand, and a luscious shawl that looks like something Stevie Nicks wore back in the day. Our pile keeps growing, and by the time we’re done, we’re spending over $100 and feeling excited about what we found!

But that lets us out right at rush hour, and we can either stew in a slow-moving car or go back to see if the thrift stores can rival our estate sale success! So we’re stopping at a Value Village we’ve never seen before and hoping that in its piles of art, linens, vintage china and glass, wood and metal decor, and furniture, something fun at a low price will grab our attention! The McCoy Smiley Face mug on the end cap is a good start…

…then it’s home to go over the haul with you! We found some really fun things, a few very fine things, and a lot of great deals that we think our collectors will really appreciate. Did thrifting or estate sale-ing bring the biggest bang for the buck? We’ll get it out to sell and see!

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