Thursday, July 15, 2010

Thursday Thirteen - 13 Things That Always Appear at Estate Sales

Estate Sales in Houston are mostly Thursday / Friday affairs so I can only shop them in the summer time.  Some are Princesses and many  are Frogs but most all of them contain the following:


  1. Chicken Soup books.  Never has so much money been made pedaling banalities. 
  2. Christmas Decorations - they  often occupy an entire room
  3. A Readers Digest Condensed Book or two.  Or Three. Or Four.  Or maybe more.
  4. A couple of community cookbooks
  5. A fur something or another.  That always baffles me - it doesn't get cold enough in Houston  to wear fur in very often
  6. Artificial Flowers - the dusty, plastic type
  7. An angel figurine or two. Or Three. Or Four. Or maybe more. 
  8. Dusters and Mumus.  There seems to be a law that everyone over the age of 60 must have own at least 1 duster.  I hope I don't receive any when I turn 60!
  9. Cassette tapes.  Often the cassette tape player is missing but there is always a stack of cassettes.
  10. China figurines.  Dollar store variety at a low end sale, British bone at a high end. 
  11. A textbook dating back to their college days.  Doesn't matter how long ago it was, there is always at least one textbook.
  12. A collection of calculators (some of which do nicely on E-bay)
  13. Bath sets.  Never opened. 
It's always interesting (and sometimes very sad) to see what possessions people decide to hold on to. 





6 comments:

colleen said...

We are a species of pack rats!

Grandma Honey said...

The bath sets, unopened, does not surprise me at all. Does anyone ever use those things? They are sure often given as gifts.

Michelle@Gotchababy said...

good observations....funny how similar belongings can be!

Michelle@Gotchababy said...

good observations....funny how similar belongings can be!

Americanising Desi said...

i completely agree with colleen!

http://2short2sweet.blogspot.com/2010/09/dying-to-be-dead.html

colleen said...

One person's junk is another person's treasure!