Garage Sale Finds

Ready to see my treasures I accumulated last week at my town’s community garage sales?  I found some really fun stuff.  Most of it is pictured here but there are a few bigger pieces that I didn’t get pics of before they were stashed away.  A couple chairs, a desk, 2 end tables, a writing desk, and the couch we got for my daughters room.  I shared a pic of that on Instagram.  I’ll shoot some pics of it in its new home soon too.

My teenager insisted I had to buy this cute bike.  How could I resist those white wall tires and that banana seat?!  And the price tag was pretty compelling too – $5.  The bike came home with us.  My 8 year old is thrilled with it.  It’s larger than her current bike and the wheels are bigger so it goes faster and easier.  She begged me not to re-sell it – I told her it is hers as long as she fits it 🙂

The pink chair shown behind the bike in the pic above this one and this little green chair I picked up for a buck each.  I intended to give them each another coat of paint and take them along to my next even.  My 8 year old claimed them too though, and hauled them up to here little ‘playhouse’ in the top of our playset.  She set them beside each other and declared it a ‘bench’.  She has quite the conglomeration of stuff up there – I told her I need to do a photo shoot of it all and blog about it.  Love that she is playing outside and using her imagination in her play.

Stack of suitcases.  It was a great day for buying vintage luggage 😀

Love this one.  Not sure I can part with it.  My hubby thinks my brother needs this one because of the cool stickers on it.  My brother has loved airplanes and flying since he was just a little tot.

Old fire hose.  I have some plans for this.  Is it terrible to cut it up?  It’s really cool as a fire hose but I would love to use it as a ‘ribbon’ for some projects.

Vintage phone – remember these?  Remember the way it sounded when you dialed these?  My teenager thinks these are cool and we really liked the color of this one.

I seem to have a fetish for old baseball bats.  I have quite the collection now and need to make something with them or display them somehow.  Or resell them if I”m not going to do anything fun with them.

Thinking this would make a really cute flower planter.

Metal file box.  I have a thing for the industrial metal boxes too.

Vintage ornaments.  I kept all the gold and silver and took the rest to Goodwill.

Cute frames and a laundry basket.  I can’t get enough of these baskets it seems 😀

Rock-n-Serve Tupperware in like-new condition.  50 cents a piece.  We use these all the time and ours are not in the best shape anymore.  Thrilled to get all these!

Fabric that was cheap and looked fun.  Always adding more to my stash.

Couldn’t pass up this vintage baby cradle.

Metal seat.  I plan to paint this a fun color.

Box of vintage, plastic numbers.  I love typography so I couldn’t leave these behind.

Old toolboxes.  My husband sometimes claims them but these two he let me have!This was all the stuff I hauled home in my car.  The big stuff I had to have Travis use the truck to pick up.  I will get pics of it as I pull it out to give it makeovers or to pack to haul to an event.

Do you love vintage finds and have you found any lately?

Jill

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