Today Amber introduced me to north eastern Pennsylvania's most competitive sport: ESTATE SALES! I never imagined they were such an important part of the local economy and boy are they competitive. In search of cool things for Project Hillside Amber came up with several estate sales for us to visit. I must admit, it's a little creepy and a little sad at the same time. For any family reading this, when I die, don't ever sale my stuff at an estate sale, please, just take it, put it in storage and let it collect dust. I don't want vultures in my house trying to pay pennies for my belongings. After learning you must get to these things at 8:00am we had an early morning, starting around 7:00am. After my morning southern style chicken sandwich I was set and off we went in the BURB, hoping to find treasures. The first house was huge with tons of good stuff and equally as much creepy and junky stuff. I was sad to see this dead persons high school and college diploma's for sale - at a whooping $3. Doesn't anyone in the family want these? We spent $8 and I got a miniature wooden globe for my desk and Amber got some 30 year old jig-saw puzzles that we think will be neat on the coffee table.
The next stop was the mother load. Initially, it seemed like all junk. A house on about 5 ares of land, very rural, and a muddy driveway. Amber's sensors went off, she detected a treasure inside. Sure enough we found a mint condition Victorian style sofa with 3 very nice chairs. This will be PERFECT in the sunroom. Like Rocky climbing the steps and jumping for victory I fired the Suburban up, hit the muddy slope, making old ladies dodge out of the way, whipped it around throwing mud everywhere, and backed it up. We proudly loaded up the treasure and off we went, even $100 less than they wanted. BINGO!
Here is one piece, we'll post more photos later.
