I should have hated this estate sale. There are three things that basically annoy me about estate sales. First, when they’re overpriced. If I wanted to shop at an antique mall, I would go to an antique mall. Second, I can’t stand it when estate sales have a bunch of hipsters there. Not that there’s anything wrong with hipsters. Hipsters are great. It just means that all the good stuff is going to be gone by the time you get there. Third, when the person running the estate sale uses the house as their own personal showroom. This is the most annoying thing you’ll see at estate sales. If you see display cases, you know that’s what’s going on. Again, if I wanted to go to your shop, I would go to your shop. I want to buy old junk from someone’s house. It kinda comes across as devious to me, actually.
This sale had all three, of course. And yet, I can’t help but sorta kind liking this particular sale. You see, I found a set of vintage lockers there. For super cheap. Sarah and I have been looking at lockers on craigslist for probably a month or so. We need somewhere to store all of our winter coats. Lockers on craigslist can be quite expensive. I held onto the kids while Sarah ran upstairs and paid for them. Right in front of her was hipster girl asking about them. “I want them but I don’t have a way to get them home!” Oh man, hipster girl, you mean they won’t fit into the basket on your single speed bicycle? Ha ha! Your trendy earth saving ways are my gain!
I totally know what you mean about the hipster’s at sales. My sister just found out that some old skater we knew in high school is now managing our favorite thrift store–oh and he is getting all the good stuff first and selling it on ebay. He has single-handedly ruined our fav spot!
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Just want you to know that when we estate sale companies, bring in our display cases, it is for security reasons….to keep people from stealing the smaller, higher priced items…sometimes even smaller lower priced items if we have the room…..people rip us off all the time, steal all kinds of things and change price tags…..ALL THE TIME….you have no idea what we see and what we put up with and what we have to be on the lookout for……each and every weekend. So be patient with our display cases, we are not selling our own stuff (we have no time to do this, we are working for our client at each sale). Thanks for considering this! Charlene – Owner of Timesavers Estate Sales.
http://www.timesaversestatesales.com
Come and check out our sales sometime…..we just had an awesome one this past weekend in Hoffman Estates…..vintage, vintage and more vintage.
http://www.timesaversestatesales.com/Currentsale.html