2013 Urban Safari Hunting Hauls (Garage Sale, Thrift Stores, Craigs, Rummage...)

[mikeMc6]

Also, in my experience I steer clear of community garage sales and similar. they often have neighborhood only sneak peeks the night before, same thing with muti-family sales...best stuff gets poached before they open by the sellers themselves. Anyway...

[mikeMc6]

Ok so with a newborn I've hardly been out but I'm starting to again. Below are three pictures of recent scores grouped by location. Stripped down spider car $5 at the local american legion flea market, made my day if not week. The group of megos was from a toy collector, knew his stuff, I paid a lot so I'm keeping one or two pieces and selling the rest here on mm to recoup the high price I paid. Third picture is of a beatles 2nd state "butcher" album I picked up a few days ago. My wife needed me for chores, kids had to be driven to school, work needed me too so i said to myself, "I can only got to ONE garage sale today" and I pored thru the listings on craigslist on newspaper (there are typically 100-150 yard sales a weekend during high season out here in a fifteen mile radius- no joke! Anyway I had a good gut feeling about this one sale, dropped my seven and nine year old off at school ten minutes early ("don't get abducted!")* and sped to sale 35 minutes before posted time. Record guy was there ahead of me, he was flipping thru front of box I thought screw it I will flip from the back of the box this is my only stop and there it was......
Take a good look at this record, with original shrink wrap around it, if you see this record at a garage sale it may be the infamous Butcher beatles record that was covered over...on the right hand side you can BARELY make out the black triangle of ringos turtleneck that was pasted over (look at pic and see if you can see it. I can!). I sold a beat up one last summer for $480 and this one is NM! If I'm lucky I may break a $1000 or more on ebay. I Could buy an alter ego (wish!) but its all going to pay off household bills. Oh well!**

*There are volunteers who watch them around back as they wait in line to enter school at opening
**And this ain't bragging. I have otherwise been having a HORRIBLE garage sale season. But I am excited to show off my high and low picks on this thread in the future!

[johnnystorm]

Not just yours, Chris, PA is about the same. Saturday I hit three community yard sales, over 150 sales total, and after an entire day of looking I came up with NADA. Not even a single loose action figure! I swear though , when I finally figure out how to rule the world using baby clothes and little tykes cars...also, I never want to hear how PBS has no money, based on the sheer amount of Elmo stuff that's out there.

[Earth 2 Chris]

This weekend I hit part of the "400 Mile Yard Sale" that runs Highway 68...I found absolutely nothing of note. I swear...this state is BONE dry.

Chris

[mikeMc6]

This will be my new favorite thread!

[shazam7208]

Great stuff...goes to show you should always tell people what your looking, never know what they might pull out! What a great price too! Congrats!

[Den82]

Everyone so often I will see something that is not toys or video games and buy it.

This weekend it was these:

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The house was packed with people all looking for that hidden gem, yet they were right under their noses and nobody even looked twice. I bought them for $20. More than I wanted to spend, but they're currently $41 with fee shipping and another five days left.

[Nostalgiabuff]

nothing major today but I did find a minty Mego Tarzan flesh colored body suit in a box of happy meal crap, for a nickle. i actually thought it was CTVT until i got in the car and looked more closely and saw the Mego tag. My Tarzan finally has his flesh

[Den82]

This was in the box. The sword is just something I had already, but it looks kinda like the one he came with.

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[Den82]

OK. I only went out Saturday, but it was really good.

First one was a church rummage sale. I got to it before they opened the gates. The best thing I napped there was a $10 bag with a GI JOE SOTW German Solider w/ jacket, bunch of Joe clothing and accessories and one of the vintage metal footlockers (not to mention one modern 12" Joe).

Next was better. Random garage sale stop. Looked crappy. So crappy, I wasn't even going to stop. But I figured why not? I asked if they had any old video game stuff. No. I then casually told them I also look for old action figures from the 1970s like Star Wars, GI JOE, etc. The guy said no. But then the old lady told me to wait one second because she thought she had a box of stuff like that in the basement. She came out with all of this:

It's taking a MUCH needed bath. The Flash Gordon is almost complete. The CHIP is totally complete (broken leg though). Mego Trek clothing, accessories. Most of the Lone Ranger stuff looks to be there and there was also very oddly a GI JOE German pistol! Sadly a lot of the Lone Ranger clothing was shot. I mean, looked mint, but fell apart just touching it.

$10 for the whole box.

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Not a million dollar score, but for $10? Beautiful. I love this stuff, it proves two things: This stuff is STILL out there and secondly: if you don't see it, ask. You never know what people will come out of the house with.

[Splitty]

---^ hee hee. I still have a prized John Schneider album. I think it may even be a Christmas one!!
and 4NDR01D, you have no idea how much I want to see all that stuff. They sound tantalizing.....



OMG.
I had to share this early (before the month collection pic, because hunting is SCANT right now!), to give inspiration that there is STILL HOPE.

The rain has been closing down garage sales and forcing us to used stores! The local Goodwill is on my CRAP LIST, because they now fill their store with absolute junk, and ship all retro decor, old electronics and any good toys off to another city to be posted on the web. They are useless now.

And all the other thrift stores have been closing.....except good ol' Value Village. Their inventory is scant and overpriced, and they annoyingly bag the toys, but occasionally...... GOLD.

I freaking found a WHOLE BAG of Horvath 2-Faced Dunny's for $1.99 total!! In the Kids toys!!
Including the one I've been wanting with my whole heart for a long time, but didn't want to pay the $50 for it on ebay.... SPIDER BOOM!! Woo-Hoo!! s-p-i-d-e-r b-o-o-m




If these dunny's had been dropped at Goodwill, either they would have been shipped off and sold online or they would have been scattered to the four winds and destroyed in that demolition zone they call a toy section. It's like a pre-school where no one ever cleans up.

This is the first time I've been glad for bagged toys (normally they have a bunch you don't want with the good one, and overpriced).
I just hope Value Village never goes out of business. They're my only hope, Obi Wan.

[Rallygirl]

I hit five garages last Friday at a nearby block sale. I got a big bag of misc. dice for fifty cents and a Shaun Cassidy album, complete with it's poster, for twenty-five cents. Not fabulous, but now I can really annoy my nieces when I pop open the lid on the turntable.
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[4NDR01D]

cool stuff, glad to see that yard sale season is upon us again. My finds lately in no specific order:

-A pretty rough copy of Hulk 180 (1 panel Wolverine's first appearance), unfortunately missing back cover page.$1
-2 vintage 12" joes and approx. 30 pieces of Adventure Team era clothing for $15.
- a Monster in My Pocket cereal premium. First one I've found in over a year and I search constantly for these things.
-a stack of about 30 Mad and Cracked magazines from the 80's/90's for $5.
-a Russ Berrie "oily jiggler" of a pig in mint condition for .25 cents
-a bunch of old 50's squeaker toys for .25 each
- a Imperial toys Gorilla (aka King Kong) .25
- a stack of 15 records for a buck each (Buzzcocks, Electric Prunes, Donovan,etc)- I passed up a ton of classic rock as they were doubles and/or I just dont have room, left for somebody else that can use them.
-I've been picking up a fair amount of 50's & 60's anthropomorphic kitchenware (a watermelon cookie jar with eyes, cats with little hats (Py Miyao, Lefton, Napco) that type of thing)
-Rare boardgame called "The Sassy Experience" made my 90's teen mag Sassy. Very similar to "Girl Talk". This sort of thing has a real following so hoping to sell for a bit.
-A 14" carnival chalkware kewpie doll statue. $20
-1968 Mattel Dancerina Ballerina doll w/ box. a same era Mattel Tippee Toes doll w/ box. I went pretty high on these ($100) as I'm pretty sure that Dancerina doll is hard to find and sells well.
-couple nice flatsy dolls for $2 each.
-A very nice chalkware Marwal Bust of a beautiful Polynesian woman and added a couple Tiki's to the tropical room.
-a pair of 60's paint by number kitty paintings for $1
-as always, assorted brickabrac.

[justzeg18]

I went to a junk auction locally 2 weeks ago and for 20.00 I bought this box:


Because it had this in it:



It was in pieces, and the only reason I noticed it is because I've scored, and repaired one in the past.
This thing is damn near perfect.

The box also had this other stuff in it:

Randomly, there were mego pieces in there. A robin belt, 12" wonderwoman tiara, and a Thor hammer.

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[Splitty]

Wow. I have truly not been out garage saleing once this year until just now. There just haven't been enough quantity with good enough descriptions to bother this year!
However, when I saw a Craig's g-sale ad with a pic of a Nyform Troll in it this weekend, I scuttled to it. (:P
I can't believe he was still there, as the entire place was full of EARLIES!! }:( But nobody wanted him. People are weird.

This may not be the largest haul, but it is pretty! Everything was pretty cheap. The Nyform Troll was $5, and the Halo Legacy helmet was $5, crystal $1, King outfit $2, everything else was a quarter to .10 cents (even the awesome vintage Halloween candy bucket!).
The vintage Renwal family play people (.25) will pay for the entire lot of stuff, so everything free!!!! Yay, free troll!!



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