Saturday's Sweet Treats

Today I found three cool pieces. This top one is a 1950's car manual. It was free but it is so cool.

I found this cool suitcase at a garage sale. I got it for $1.25. Again I am not sure what year it is? 1960's maybe?

Anyone?

And last but not least and my personal favorite. My grandma used to have one of these. It is an old dart board! Check it out! It may be modeled after an old vintage dart board or it could be vintage itself? It is hard to tell but is well used on the inside. The front is in awefully good shape if it were truly old. Anyone have ideas? Input?

Finds Of The Day

I've found some pretty cool finds today.

First item. Vintage luggage. Not sure what year this would be....any ideas? It cost $1!

Next item is a Revere camera model 85, 8 mm projector. It is from the 1950's and is selling on ebay from $50 to $150. I got it for $5.

It has a reel and I was stoked to see that!!!! That is harder to find!

A 1976 scrabble crossword cube game. Looks like a fun game to play too! It was a $1.

A 1937 book called Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts. I could only find one of these online and it was selling for $125. I bought it for .10 cents. It is not in mint condition and I may actually try and sell it.

A 1953 Scrabble game! Not in very good shape though. But more just for my personal collection as most things are. I buy them and of course wouldn't think to actually sell them!
Two creepy magazines that sell for about $5 a piece. Each were .10 cents. They are from the 1970's
And some cool old staples/stable boxes!

All totaling to the price of $8.30!!!!! Yay!

Today's Treasures!

I love Saturdays. Saturdays have so much potential because of garage sales.

Tip # 1: Look in the paper or online at your paper and figure out what garage sales are worth your gas. Then go online to http://yardsaletreasuremap.com/ and you can put in all the garage sales you want to go to and hit "Optimize Route" and it gives you the best way to hit all of your garage sales and save gas! (Make sure you don't completely trust the garage sales listed on this site for near you - they may not exist. I'd trust the paper, etc. more)

At one garage sale I found one cool item. Does anyone know my current two favorite things? Come on, guess. 1. Obviously, vintage items. So frekin' cool and if you know me 2. OWLS!

Well how about two in one!?!?! I found a vintage avon, owl, perfume container! So cool!

For me, the best sales are estate sales...estate sales that are best for me are unfortunately when elders die as they often have more of an interest for vintage items. Today I found the perfect estate sale where a daughter was selling her mother's things. I brought a kodak projector and a Sears 8mm editor and asked her how much they were. I could tell she had no clue what to offer because she said "What do you think is a good price?" I said "Well, $3-$4 each?" And so I got both amazing items for $6!

Below it is evident Abigail likes vintage items too!!! :)

Tip #2: If you aren't sure what the vintage item is exactly but are interested, search the crowd for the best person to ask. I was at the garage sale and was curious as to what the 8mm editor was (as I didn't see what written anywhere) and I held up the picture to an old man in the home and he said "Oh, that is a 8mm editor! You hold up the film to the screen there and you can edit the film, etc." And thus I immediately wanted this unique item that was still in its ORIGINAL BOX!!! ((This was the item pictured above))

These were two awesome finds of the day!

Collection of Vintage Games

Here is my collection of vintage games. This top yahtzee is from 1973, but the one below it is one from 1975. I found the 2nd yahtzee game today amongst some other really neat treasures!

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My Collection of Vintage Cans Thus Far

Hello there. This is my first post. Mostly this is just for a few select friends of mine who enjoy vintage items like I do and for my mom who will enjoy looking at my collection - catches of the day, etc. I often find some new "deal" everyday (except Sundays and Mondays) and I can post them then or at some point.

Most of these tins are older than 1985, some way older. A few are a bit newer than that - mostly I just got those because I couldn't pass them up! :)

Enjoy.