Treasure Chest

I bought this chest from my facebook garage sale group. It was advertised as having children's costumes, dance outfits and formal wear. The seller was basically selling the chest and the clothing was free. Although the clothing wasn't exactly what I thought it would be, I had fun digging through it and hopefully something will sell.

Dance Outfits:

The cheerleader outfit had too many issues, so that ended back up on the garage sale group. The other 3 I listed on Ebay. There were actually 2 of each outfit, a medium and a large. Right now, I am running auctions on the mediums.

You can check out my auctions here.

There were a couple of outfits and hats I had to redonate. Maybe someone can fix them but I do not have the time or the ability.

The best part of the chest was finding the vintage clothing. This was marked in a separate box as formals: wedding dress and capes. I didn't find the wedding dress or the capes and these were the only formal dresses. They both look hand made.

The strap on the blue dress needs repair and unfortunately when I washed it with the pink dress, some of the pink coloring stained the blue dress under the arms. I listed the pink one on Ebay.

I wish some of the dresses were my size. I really love this black and white party dress. The black is velvet. You can see it here

Found some dresses from the 50's I think

I love the white flowers on the bottom of this dress

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Lorrie Deb yellow dress

Youth Fair Petites

This is another velvet dress. I love the bead work on the bottom of it.

If anyone has any keywords or suggestions to get these to sell, please let me know. I don't list a lot of clothing but thought since I had it, I might as well give it the old college try.

Garage Sale Finds

Instead of going grocery shopping, I convinced my sister to check out some garage sales I seen posted on facebook.  (Those sucked but the other sales were ok)

The first sale almost everything was priced a quarter. I wish I would have picked up some stuff there, but I wasn't sure if it would sell or not: floppy disks, an old slide projector($5) and some old magazines. I did pick up a container of mini erasers. I know the vintage ones can sell so I thought I would try these.

The second sale we found by chance. Sarah was turning to go back the other way and she spotted the sale. It looked promising with a bunch of kid's toys in the driveway. Unfortunately, almost everything was overpriced. $18 for a Fisher Price Musical table? I think not. Dude, you are selling your stuff in a driveway. Seriously! I did find a bag of Cowboys and Indians for Sarah and this Wonder Pets Fly Boat. I also bought that truck for Ryker in the first picture.

The sale on Facebook was next but didn't have much. Everything was well picked through but there were several other sales on the block so we stopped. I got some more hot rollers for .50 cents and two OCC coffee mugs for free.

I had to dig through a huge garbage bag of plush to find the Diego doll (for Ryker) and the four (one is not pictured above) security blankets.

The next stop I found some vtg My Little Pony. They are in well played with condition. I also picked up a Barbie car Ryker wanted. I wasn't going to buy it, but he threw it at the seller and the light cover fell off. It was an easy fix but the seller gave me that look so I bought it.

and at the last sale, I found a vintage puffalump with his shirt. I have sold two in the past for around $25.

Later in the day, I picked up a lot of Pocket Puppies off Facebook. This was the same lady I got the Kelly lot from. I'm wondering if she is figuring out I'm reselling the stuff on Ebay?

On Monday, I'm going to meet another person to buy a lot of Little Pet Shop. It's hard to tell from the picture but she says there are pets in there. Here's to hoping they are worth something.

Goodwill Finds and Garage Sales

Friday, I walked to two garage sales. One was advertised on Facebook as having a bunch of good stuff and I was surprised to find some left when I got there. It was after 10 and they had opened on Thursday. I found a Batmobile, an Iron Man figure, Superman and night binoculars.  The books and owl planter were at different garage sales.

In the afternoon, my sister took me to Goodwill. She spotted some Lisa Frank 3 ring binders. Some of her binders can sell for $30 and up.

I also found a Barbie from 1980 in her case.

I don't know if you can see the Disney mug but it has Alladin on it. I found two other ones, Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King. When the cashier was putting them into the bag, she dropped one on the other. I did not see any damage so I paid for them and left. I checked the mugs in the sunlight, and sure enough she had broke them. There was a hairline crack in one and a chip out of the bottom of the other. The store light is so horrible, I didn't see the crack and the cashier was holding the one with the chip. I went back in, got my store credit and bought the sewing bag you see in the picture.

Garbage Sales

Yes, you read the title right. It's not a typo. I went to some garage sales on Friday that I saw posted on Facebook. They looked promising but all the good stuff must have been sold before we got there. The first sale we stopped at wasn't advertised and was probably the best sale although it was overpriced. My sister managed to find an apple basket for a quarter and I found some Diego toys and a vacuum for Robert (although Ryker claimed it) I listed the Diego toys on Ebay and if they don't sell, I will give them to Ryker for Christmas along with the other Diego toys I got from Facebook.

At the next sale, I picked up a bag of baby toys and asked the seller if she would sell me the security blanket separately. She agreed and I have this listed as well.

A few garage sales later and we came across the big one that promised lots of items from 7 different families. It was in a huge pole shed and there were a lot of scrap booking stuff (I would have no idea what to buy so I didn't look at it) and clothing. I never have any luck with baby clothing on Ebay so I didn't look through that either.

I did find this Winnie the Pooh ride on airplane. I was hoping to resell it but when I put in batteries, it only half worked. The propeller spins and lights up but it doesn't play music or identify the shapes. Also, Toys R Us on Ebay (hate that they are allowed to sell on Ebay. Who can compete with that?) is selling brand new ones for $40 with free shipping with purchases over $75. So even if it was working, I probably could have only gotten $20 and packing this for shipping would not be worth it. (I was hoping to get $30 but now since it doesn't work, Ryker is playing with it)

I also picked up 21 peek a blocks. These are a hit or miss. I plan on listing them when I have more or a toy to go with them. I did list the three sports themed ones as those seem to sell on their own.

My sister found some vintage Christmas cards in a free box and gave me these. They sure are cute.

Yesterday I walked to 4 sales before it rained. Those were a complete waste of time. I often wonder why people slap price tags on their garbage. I felt so gross after going to these sales, I needed a shower. At the last one, the sellers were drinking beer and I thought they were going to stab me if I didn't buy something. I got these billiard balls and it looked like a complete set (They were in a small box and I didn't want to empty it out on the garage floor). Unfortunately, when I got home, I discovered it was incomplete and had a few doubles.

Ryker wanted these as well but can you imagine the damage he could cause?

and the best purchase this weekend: a Wilton 3D lion cub cake pan. I saw this on my facebook group, looked it up on Ebay and immediately sent a message saying I would buy it. Complete listings show these can sell between $30 - $50 Active listings have them around $50 Mine is the only listing with free shipping which makes it the cheapest so hopefully I can sell it quickly.

You can also make a tiger or a puppy with this pan. If it doesn't sell by Ryker's birthday, I think I will try it out. On Tuesday, I am meeting another seller from Facebook to purchase some shoes for Ryker and some Little People toys. Ryker has quite the collection of Little People and when he is no longer interested, I will sell them in a big lot. I think they do better that way.