Estate, Yard, Tag Sale Connection

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Comment by Charles CT QUALITY ANTIQUES on January 17, 2013 at 8:55pm

Shirley , My poor daughter when she burys me in the ground she will have a huge estate left to her. I will laugh when I look down and she curses me while she cleans and sell it all off .I call it getting even for the teenage years ( Laughing so hard )

Comment by Shirley Grundman on January 17, 2013 at 6:36pm

Thanks guys.  I have two booths in this one Antique Mall.  One downstairs 10 ft. x 10 ft. and one upstairs.  My total rent is $400. a month.  I've been there for 2 years now and have only not made my rent one time.  It's a pretty busy mall especially on the weekends.  I'm a Glass Hound, so I have allot of glassware upstairs in a large window.   It takes spells with selling, so I keep a mix of other treasures available.  I love all the advice I get off this group.  And I am thankful that I can sell, or donate my items.  You see my mother couldn't get rid of anything.  So guess what!  My daughter and I ended up with a huge estate.  I don't want my daughter to have to go through that again.  Well, at least not a large!  LOL

Comment by Charles CT QUALITY ANTIQUES on January 17, 2013 at 6:03pm

Shirley you have a nice booth . I hope you do well and do not be afraid to ajust things up or down in price . best to get half a pie than no pie and go hungry

Comment by Charles CT QUALITY ANTIQUES on January 17, 2013 at 6:02pm

Charlene, Shirley , Vicki, I have been doing this estate stuff for yearssss . Sometimes its just a matter of floor space and once it has been around over 90 days its kind like having relatives living with you ( Hee Hee Hee) You kind look forward to getting rid of the junk and using the space for something positive . Glass takes up a lot of space and all the depression glass and vaseline glass or carnival glass just takes up space . I hear people tell me I will like it then when you have it all  I hear is its not my style wrong color etc.. $200 a dollar a sq ft is a lot.. If  you have to throw out Two 60 yard dumpsters or Tractor Trailers full of it to make room for something that sells that's the way it has to be . Records and books I feel the same way box lot em after 90 day give em away then if no sale away it goes . Most places I deal with as far as garbage haulers I use the big guys .

Comment by vicki hufstetler on January 17, 2013 at 4:31pm

oh, your booth is adorable Shirley! I'm sure they should sell that way! I too don't mind if customer's get a good deal sometimes - It's just that I feel responsible to my clients to make sure there isn't a real treasure amongst the records/books etc. I'm not nuts though - LOL

On the glassware charles - was it old vases and drinking glasses? I find those are the worst to get rid of? I put them in a box for .25 a piece! But we just do households, so we would never have the amount you did - 2 travel trailers full? Holy Moly!

Comment by Shirley Grundman on January 17, 2013 at 4:13pm

OK, I did it.  I put the old records in my booth, at $5. a box.  There's a bunch of 78s and some larger records.  I also put a box of vintage crochet magazines in at $5. for the whole box.  I tied together over 12, 33 albums and put a price of $4. on those.  There's a record set from 1960 by Readers Digest, sitting on an easel, I put $10. on it.  Wish me luck let's see how fast they sell.  Here is two photos of my booth.  The first photo has the boxes of records in it.

Comment by Timesavers Estate Sales on January 17, 2013 at 10:36am

Charles, that is great if they do it that way in your community....here in most towns in Illinois we all have separate bins/cans for recyclables and we separate what we want to recycle and we don't pay for it, whereas we pay for the trash, either by sticker or monthly fees....so we know what is getting recycled. I am sure some of the recycled stuff is not recycled due to quality, or if people didn't clean it or whatever.  The trash just plain goes to trash.  We used to have a place nearby also and I think they still take some things, where we could bring paint, chemicals and all sorts of things like that to make sure they don't end up where they shouldn't.  But it is more limited now, so things like spray cans of paint end up in the trash.....it's hard to say what happens.  I have had good luck with Freecycle, yes there are some weirdos on there or no shows, but overall I have felt good about using it and had good luck.  Now I surely didn't think you were talking about a tractor trailer full of glass when you said 200 pcs. :)

Comment by Charles CT QUALITY ANTIQUES on January 17, 2013 at 8:29am

Shirley , Your most welcome I watch the reruns of Davey Crocket on the T.V . Nice find for sure once in awhile you come across a great find . I have found some items over the years I had to keep . My friends call me Mr. Museum when they come over for a visit .

Comment by Charles CT QUALITY ANTIQUES on January 17, 2013 at 8:24am

 To clear up the issue of the dump when garbage people show up they take your items and in the case of my glass do recycle it . The garbage is sorted glass is separated and so are metals and other items . in my case by tossing out all that glass if anyone wanted it they would have come and taken it . Freecycle I find in most areas does not work and the hassles with them are to much to deal with ..Most thrift stores will not take computer monitors or large donations of glass as they cannot handle 2 tractor trailers pulling up and off loading . Most towns would not let you dump that much on your porch or lawn because it would look like a garbage dump on the front lawn . Waste disposal today is modern and they sort and process garbage some is used in electric generation and some is recycled for other purposes . .One needs to check out the garbage collectors and see what happens to your trash . you may be surprised by how your items are disposed of and in a very environment responsible way           

Comment by Timesavers Estate Sales on January 17, 2013 at 12:42am

Do not put things in the dump if you don't have to......we are all in the business of trying not to at all costs.  Give away to thrift shops....many places have certain pick up days...glass for sure can be recycled. Most towns around here, we have recycle bins for our paper, plastic, metal and glass....put it out for free every week.  No need to put all that glass in the dump when it can be recycled. Freecycle people will take lots of things and no problem, just put it on your porch, cragislist has places to give away free items too. Please, let's do our part to keep things out of the landfill....the estate sale business is a part of that whole process.  There is enough real "trach" in some of these homes that does have to be thown out, withoug throwing glass away, which is very recyclable.   Please.......we are all responsible for this. Yes, it takes a bit of time, but there is too much being thrown away the way it is, and yes, there is pure trash, but many things can be recycled. I am not a "nut" about this either, but try to do my part as best as I can and if every person does, we're all better off and our children and their children and so on.....how much can go into the landfills?  I sometimes shudder to think of all the old large appliances, electronics etc that either do not get recycled or cannot and think of those piling up....some people get a "new" model of something or other all the time.  Then we have these garbage "mountains".  Sometimes we don't see it, but if you ever do, you will sudder to think of this continuing at this pace.......

 

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