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What are the best everyday items you can buy at estate sales?
Online resources like mytypewriter. com and ebay.commake buying a ribbon simple and inexpensive. As far as cosmetics are concerned, look for machines with service grim but that don’t have any rust or corrosion on the body. Service grim is easy to clean and often allows you to pick up a quality machine at a discounted price. Whether you are crafting the next best-selling American novel, every line lovingly hand typed, or you just want to bank a cool $300 selling a Hermes sea foam 3000 that you got at a garage sale for $3, we hope that this typewriter exploration puts you on the path to success. Happy typing. Michael and James Fry are brothers and the owners of Brown Button Estate Sales. ^
A true estate sale includes every last thing that might be in someone’s home and there
We’re continually on the hunt for inspir- ing pieces of art or vintage ephemera to hang inside our home. Finding really inexpensive unique
are so many utility items that you can
frames at estate sales makes our growing collection cost quite
purchase for a
fraction of their new value. Knives are a great example. In a box of loose utensils, you might find a $50 to $100 Hinckels or Victorinox chef’s knife for $5 or less. A little sharpening with the new-in-box Pampered Chef knife sharpener for $3 and it’s good as new. Cleaning supplies are abundant at estate sales. Sure that bottle of 409 is partially used, but for 75 cents you are getting what is left for half of retail. From laundry detergent to toilet paper, car wash supplies to Comet, you can save money purchasing these items slightly used at an estate sale. Just watch out for the 90 percent empty containers. Lastly, quality yard tools with solid wood handles can often be purchased under $5. Yes, maybe the rake has a bent tine or two and the shovel has a little dirt on it, but that’s just to let you know they’re broken in.
a bit less to display. Most sales will have a box or two of 8in. x 11in. or larger frames for a few dollars each. My personal favorites are the vintage black painted thin wooden frames with the original mat. In many sales, the kitchen in one of the prime locations to find useful items. Quality utensils like a Kitchenaid can opener or an OXO cork screw can be purchases for a fourth of their original price. The last category on my list is quite possibly the most boring item you could find at an estate sale. It’s not exciting, no one is going to wait in line for it, yet every single one of us purchase them all the time. My number one pick for most useful item to buy at a sale is—the light bulb. Specifically LED and floodlights. Those bulbs can cost between $4 and $10 new. Estate sale prices: 25¢ to 75¢ each.
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