Garage Sales and Flea Markets

Justin and I have officially signed a lease for a new apartment. We move in July 1st (as I said in my last post) and are a little nervous. Moving into our apartment on Franklin St. was simple! We decided to leave all of our furniture back in Holland because our roommate would furnish the apartment. We didn't realize we would move after a year and new all of our stuff. What's the pickle? We have hardly any furniture. Ah! So, the last three days have been full of garage sales and flea markets. What did we learn? People tend to sell a lot of baby crap at sales. Yep. Baby stuff. This is not something we need nor are looking for. Bummer. We had a few random purchases. We bought a replacement blender for $1 and an 8-set of plates or $1. Not bad, in my opinion. Our best sale was going to a Flea Market in Macedon, NY. This market had been closed for over 5 years and is now trying to get rid of everything in the building. EVERYTHING. Both Justin and I were so excited. The craigslist ad we saw said that we could fill a brown grocery bag for $10. Being the "flippers" that we are? Well, let's just say we thought we would end up having tons and tons of things to sell when we left. We walked into the bright yellow building and didn't know where to start. We joked around with the manager and grabbed our bag. It was dark, cold and musty. The whole building smelled of water damage and there were SPIDER WEBS... 0_0 I hate spiders. Being the optimists we are, Justin and I started sorting through the bookshelves and bins and bags, oh my! After I touched anything I would immediately wipe my hands on my jeans and I couldn't stop sneezing for the life of me. After about 20 minutes of searching I walked up to Justin and he admitted that he was disappointed. We talked about leaving, but then, I found it... the coolest thing in the entire world. His name? Rusty the Knight. I called (okay, maybe it was more like a scream) to Justin and had him investigate. With his ecstatic approval, he opened our brown bag and Rusty, that's his name, the Knight was our first "big" buy. We ended up staying for an hour more-- we filled our bag and then some! With our $10.00 we came home with: Rusty the Knight Giant Paper Clip Holder Bag of Buttons Box of Stamps Bicentennial Plate Two Boxes of Film Fabric Swatch Two keys Slammers Case Wood Chair for Dining Room Foldable Wine Rack Cork Screw- Ended up being trash Wooden Wall Art We're selling some of the stuff we found, but it was a great load to get after such a disappointing beginning! We went to 10-15 garage sales within the last three days and had a lot of fun trying something different. :) Side note: My Italian class starts on Wednesday-- watch out! I might start blogging in Italian.