Treasure is out there! If you’re willing to hunt.
I’m finding that in this economy people are continuing to clean out their houses looking for valuable things they can drag to the lawn and sell! If you’re in the northeast, don’t miss this weekend’s Stormville Airport’s Ultimate Yard Sale and the first weekend [...]
I hunt without a gun.
We garage sale hunters are out each weekend looking for treasure. Writer Jonathan Berr has a great piece about the Antiques Roadshow on AOL’s Daily Finance. It’s a fascinating piece about a fascinating show looking for fascinating pieces. Many of the items that are brought to the show are, [...]
Wake up, Muffy! It’s Twenty-Ten!
Genius Lisa Birnbach is back! And I just ordered my copy of her True Prep! Thirty years after Lisa’s international best-selling phenom The Official Preppy Handbook, she and designer Chip Kidd are taking a contemporary look at how Wasps have adapted. And if this month’s Vanity Fair brilliance [...]
We’ve read recently about all the garage sale buys that people have taken home and discovered they are worth a fortune…like the woman in Omaha who bought a chair at a garage sale and got home to find $3000 stuffed in its cushions. That’s a fantastic payday. I garage sale much for the [...]
Garage Sale find expected to grab $40,000 at auction. (AP)
Holy smoke, Batman! A Batman No. 1 comic book that was discovered hidden in an old dresser bought at a garage sale in the early 1970s is going up for auction this week. According to MSNBC, the original garage sale buyer, Ron Jaeger, [...]
A weekend hunting treasure.
This morning I was on my favorite Hudson Valley radio station, Star 93.3, talking great garage sale finds with the fun Mark Bolger and sassy Kimberly Kay. (Vote for her on Regis & Kelly’s guest host competition!) Mark asked me what my weirdest garage sale find was of all [...]
$200 million return on $45 garage sale grab.
Rick Norsigian is my kind of garage sale shopper. He bought a collection of 65 glass negatives at a garage sale for $45. Today, his find–a never before seen collection of photographs by Ansel Adams–will go on display in California. They are estimated to be [...]
New Jersey Garage Sale (aka Teresa’s foreclosure)
Teresa Giudice, the Real Housewife of NJ foreclosure princess who is $11 million in debt, is selling the overblown monstrosity of a house for a few dollars shy of $4 million. But if that’s out of your budget, can I interest you in her grill, her boat, [...]
LeBron James pendant – Paid $5, worth $10,000
Yard saler Vaneisha Robinson thought she was buying costume jewelry when she paid $5 for this diamond studded pendant. When she had it appraised, she discovered it is worth almost $10,000. According to the AP, 20 year old Vaneisha said she used to wear the [...]
Last weekend, I was back on the fabulous Cindy Dole’s radio show, Home Wizards, to talk about my summer passion: garage sailing! Tis the season, and I’m trying to head out every weekend this summer to hunt for treasure. Cindy’s helpful show also features other handy home hits, like these great moving tips and [...]
