Nothing says "family time" like packing up the kids and dog and heading out to spend the entire day yard sale hopping. Oh, who am I kidding? I forced them to go, all of them. But since I put in almost 5 hours sitting at the ball field for soccer tryouts this week, I figured they could spend 5 hours in the car while I worked had fun searching for inventory.
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| Diesel's first time coming "picking" with us, and he did great! |
My friend, Kimberly, told me about the Dixie Highway 90 Mile Yard Sale a while ago. But unfortunately for me, it always conflicted with other plans. I was on the fence about going right up until the time we pulled out of the driveway. It's a really long drive for us to get there, and there is never a guarantee you'll find anything good. In fact, I was worried we were going to drive all of that way and get rained out.
First things, first. In my world of yard sales, people set up at 8:00 and "early birds" show up at 7:45. With traffic, we ended up not getting to Adairsville (one of the cities on the 90 mile stretch) until 10:30, and people were just then starting to set up. Not sure what that was all about, but I'm glad we got a late start. I would've been all huh? and wuh? and "this is a bust."
Our 9 year old played "photographer" today. And I love seeing the day through her eyes! Here are a few of her pictures. At the bottom you can see a picture of some of the things I ended up buying.
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| Sweet iron bed. The guy insisted it was a "twin" but I knew better. Smaller than a twin! He wanted $75 |
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| Loved this. |
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| Some very cool bottles here. We must be on the right track! |
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| We ended up buying all of the insulators here. |
Here is a small portion of what we ended up getting:
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| Insulators, camera and case, skates, dolls, milk glass tea sets - one for iced tea and one for hot tea. etc, etc |
Best deal of the day: the insulators
Favorite find of the day (that I'm keeping!): jadeite sugar bowl with holly leaves on it. Everything else is for sale.
Should've skipped on: antique scale (not pictured)
We had fun and will definitely do it again!
Labels: antique, Atlanta, festivals, garage sale, insulators, Mid Century, Milk glass, old, south, Southern
