Are you having a charity yard sale in the Martinsburg, WV or Eastern Panhandle Area

If you are having a yard sale to benefit charity in the Martinsburg, WV or Eastern Panhandle area, please let me know. I'd love to advertise your sale right here on my blog. Just send me an email at garagesalediva AT verizon DOT net with the name of the charity, a link to the charity website (if available), yard sale location, date(s), time(s), and if possible a photo or two of some of the items that will be available.

Oh, The Places You'll Go

I went yard saling a couple of weekends ago with my favorite yard sale buddy, Cheryl. What makes a good yard sale buddy? Hmmm... well, let's save that for another blog post. ;)

So, we went to a few sales that were incredibly small. I always wonder at these incredibly small sales how much $$$ the individual would make even if they sold every single item. It doesn't seem worth it to me, but hey, whatever floats their boat.

Berkely County Relay for Life had a huge sale in the Martinsburg Mall Parking lot. Everything was "donation only." This presents a challenge for people like me. I want to give a donation, but I don't want it to be insultingly low. At the same time, I do want to score a deal on the items that I'm purchasing. At the Relay for Life Sale, I bought a quilted purse, some Kelly doll furniture, an electric light (that didn't work when I got home- agh!), a HUGE box of pencils, and a couple of Strawberry Shortcake things. The Kelly doll furniture is for prop use. I am entering the photo contest this year at the Strawberry Shortcake Collector's Convention. The furniture is the perfect size. I was most excited about that huge box of pencils. As a teacher, I probably purchase between 500 - 1000 pencils a year, with my own money.

At the Spring Mills Flea Market, I was pretty disappointed to find that most of the vendors still had their stuff covered up or were only beginning to unload at 9:00 a.m.. I'm not real impressed with this new flea market yet, but that is fodder for yet another future blog post. The only items I found there were some vintage My Little Ponies, a gold purse, and a beat up vintage CPK. He needs some major work, but I think he'll be cute once I get him fixed up.

We went to the Bartles' family yard sale. This sale was huge. They had tarps laying everywhere and EVERYTHING was 25cents. I wish I had been able to go to this sale on Friday because I think I could have scored bigtime. I did get a complete Lemon SSC doll, a LPS, and a pretty blue tin.

Also on Rt.11, at a townhouse, I found a lavendar sweater and three cans of Avon Bug Spray. That stuff works wonders! My husband is an avid hunter and it's all he'll use. We usually pay at least $6 a can from an Avon dealer, so at $1 a can, I bought all she had with a smile on my face.

Near downtown Martinsburg, we stopped at a house with an unadvertised sale. They had a TON of great baby stuff, but alas I wasn't in the mood to look for stuff for the Care Pregnancy Center that day. Instead, I found some great books for my classroom, including a copy of The Places You'll Go. I plan to read it to my exiting 8th graders on the last day of school.

Anyhoo - I didn't come home with much, but that was due to the weather. We only had a couple of hours because the wind was incredbile and the sky was black due to an impending thunderstorm. That's okay ... we have all summer left. Besides, we had a wonderfully relaxing lunch at Habanero in downtown Martinsburg. Yummy.

Relay for Life Yard Sale

There will be a Relay for Life yard sale to benefit several teams, including the team that I'm a part of - Spring for a Cure!
May 8, 2010 9:00 a.m.
Martinsburg Mall

2010 YARD SALE SEASON NEWS

Hello, Bargain Hunting Friends!

In my opinion, the 2010 Yard Sale Season for my area has officially started. Wooo hoooo!! I have big yard sale plans for the morning, so wish me luck. I went last week, to only about five sales, and found some awesome stuff. I hope to post pictures from last week and tomorrow on my blog tomorrow night, so stay tuned.

Winter: The Season of Drought

It is about this time of year that I begin to have SERIOUS yard sale withdrawal symptoms. There aren't any yard sales in my area from about November to late March, due to cold and snow. Are you suffering from Yard Sale Withdrawal? Signs of YSW:

1. You find yourself making numerous handwritten and mental lists of items you want to find at yard sales.

2. You daydream about that first warm Saturday, planning what time you'll leave and who you are going to take with you.

3. You find yourself in the thrift store . . . wishing that you were paying yardsale prices.

4. You dream at night of finding that awesome treasure for 25 cents!

5. You are on Ebay every day. Bidding. Lots.

Pictured above are some recent Goodwill finds. I've been buying a lot of small toy items because I have a new hobby of making custom Strawberry Shortcake dolls. The bag of Bristle Blocks toys is an incredible find! My siblings and I used to play with those for hours. They are EXTREMELY hard to find. The Betsey Clark Mug is a gift for a friend, as is the CPK rattle. The other stuff is for custom doll making. I know, it's not a very exciting lot of goodies. However, I don't like Goodwill Prices. I'm suffering with a bad case of YSW.

Lots of Thrifting Fun

Here are some pictures of my weekend finds from a local flea market and thrift store. I have more time for thrifting these days, so there should be more regular posts her on my blog. I've set a goal to attract twenty followers by January 1, 2009. Wish me luck! :)

Anyhoo - About the finds:

#1 Toys: I found two vintage Strawberry Shortcake items; a rag doll and a Crepe mini. I also found some older Little People, a pair of CPK shoes, a Baby Bratz, and some My Little Ponies. I bought all of those items for resale. The little animals, the Strawberry Shortcake purse, and the dress from the Kelly doll are mine to keep. I can use the little animals and dress for custom dollmaking. The SSC purse is so cute that I plan to use it at the convention next year.

#2 Books: I love cookbooks, especially older ones from the 70's. They include "real" ingredients.

The chapter books are for my classroom and the Bill Clinton books are for my dad. Don't ask. He's crazy.

#3 The scrapbooking goodies: All I can say is Wahhh Hoooooooooo!!!!!!! This lady at the flea market not only gave me wonderful prices but she gave me her phone number. She has "more than 8" rubbermaid totes full of never out of the package, never used scrapbooking goodies. She's a retired consultant for a stamp company and has over 100 sets to sell. I can't wait to dig through all of those goodies.

Please keep checking my blog. Now that I have more time to go thrifting, I imagine that I'll be updating at least weekly.

Rebecha

Yard Sale Haul from Last Weekend

Finally.... A yard sale post!


I didn't go to many sales, but I found something at each one. I was rained out before the day had a chance to really be fruitful. I'll yard sale in the rain until it reaches monsoon status, and then I take my toys and go home. LOL

My deals for the day:
Two crochet books for my momma
A vintage Care Bear bank for my sister
Two brand new rolls of hallmark wrapping paper
Hello Kitty figures and keychains and a Christmas CPK for a friend
A friendship poem for my bathroom
A red Liz Claiborne purse
A super cool dish shaped like a lettuce leaf

No matter how many dishes I have, I can't resist one more. :)