Estate Sale Love

Yesterday Russ and I went estate sale-ing, as we do most Saturdays. On a usual weekend we typically find a good handful of vintage, scattered around various estate sales. More often than not, if we do fin vintage items they are extremely over priced (FYI there are a lot of vintage-hunters here in San Diego). Most Saturdays we head to about five or six before we feel we have got our moneys worth.

Yesterday however we went to two sales. The first claimed to be an estate sale, while all they had were a few measly tables out on their lawn, with stuff the Goodwill wouldn’t even want. At the second we hit jackpot. As we drove up to the sale I could see the backs of yellow upholstered mid century modern chairs through the enormous bay window, I knew we were about to find gold.

The house was filled with incredible, drool worthy, early 1960’s furniture. If I had the budget for it, I would have taken the house as-is, with everything, including the orange shag carpeting. Unfortunately we are young newlyweds, and aren’t really in the market for the caliber of antiques they had in this home. I did however walk away with some great smaller finds; 7 boxes of stockings, all my size (2-3 pairs per box), the only thing Russ picked out which were some great swing compilations on vinyl, a new alarm clock (I had been using my cell phone to wake me up!), some genie slippers, and some odd conditioning heat cap…..which I still need to investigate.

That is all that is pictured. I also got some incredible brown leather driving gloves, light blue cloth napkins, sparkly blue 60’s place mats, a kitchen scale, a cooking encyclopedia…..and….my new pride and joy…..a stand mixer!