Part 2 Antiques Liquidation Garage Sale -- Christmas Edition

 

A few weeks ago I liquidated all of my fall /Halloween themed vintage inventory.  Tomorrow morning I will be selling all of my Christmas inventory.  It will be less dramatic -- very little furniture or high priced items.  Just the leftovers from last year's Christmas season.  But CHEAP, so CHEAP.

These always sold like hotcakes in NW Missouri.

Down here?  Nada.

I sewed all of the crazy quilt stockings by hand.

Now selling them for $4 each.

The last of my bleached bottle brush trees -- on the $1 table!

All the items here are on the $1 table.

Still $1 table.

Yet more $1 items.

I am not planning on getting rich,

just clearing out and making room.

And maybe my husband can park his vehicle in the garage this winter!

My Antiques At An Antiques Shop

My friend Renee owns a little local antique shop.

I try to help her out, because I once owned my own antique shop -- and it is a challenge.

So, when I decided to liquidate my inventory, I gave her a call.

She bought all of my suitcases and picnic baskets...

my dress form (just didn't have room for her in my house),

even the garland draped across her was from me (getting rid of all of my "props").

Folding bench and crazy quilt -- from me.

Didn't she do any awesome job putting it altogether?

Basket cart and little white light?

Mine, and now hers.

All looking for their forever homes.

Antiques Liquidation Sale A Huge Success

 

I knew that I was pricing things TO SELL.  And that was no joke.  Above is what my garage looked like by 10 am.  I opened at 7 AM and people were taking stuff out as fast as they could pay me and get it loaded.  I actually closed the door and put up a "sold out" sign at 10 am.

Empty, sparse.  I will reprice what  little is left.

Then I will haul out all of my Christmas inventory and

get ready for another liquidation sale in October.

Whew.

Fall Vintage & Antiques GOING OUT OF BUSINESS Liquidation Garage Sale

Fall Vintage & Antiques GOING OUT OF BUSINESS Clearance Garage Sale. That is kind of a big title.  But I want people to realize that it is a big deal, and that they should make a herculean effort to come.  I had already mentioned earlier in 2020 that I had made a decision to pretty much curtail my antiques business:{  That meant quitting my antique booths cold turkey (good decision right before covid hit!)  Slowing my ebay selling to a trickle.  No more shows.  And putting a squelch on buying the rusty, primitive junk that I love to sell....and look at.

January 2020 we started to build our "guest cottage" which we still hope to turn into an AIRBNB.  Construction is basically (finally) over. I had kept a tight hold on some of the leftover antiques inventory because I didn't know what we would be using to furnish and decorate the cottage.  But in the last couple weeks I have been schlepping stuff in (and out) of the guest cottage, and it is time to let go of the items that we won't be using.  We are not only clearing out my leftover inventory, but items that I had collected just for the cottage and that now I realize there isn't room, or it just doesn't fit the look. A REAL RUTHLESS CLEARANCE SALE.  Garage Sale prices.

This is Saturday is SALE #1.  All of my Halloween and Fall inventory.  Slashed.  Whatever doesn't sell Saturday I am taking to a flea market and selling for $1.  I am not kidding.  I also have a bunch of furniture in Saturday's sale.  Whatever furniture doesn't sell will go on Facebook Marketplace. 

Some of the furniture is already on FM.  Also, there are stacks and layers of items that need to be sold, so....

SALE #2 will be in a month or so.  It will hopefully purge the underlayers.  And the CHRISTMAS inventory.  I want to get rid of all of it.  I am a motivated seller.

SALE #3 will be early next spring.  All of the springy merch.  All of the pastels, florals, cutesy and sweet items.  All of the garden items.  All of the outdoor items.  EVERYTHING that is hiding tubs that are stashed under the folding tables and out of sight.  All gone.  Including "props", tablecloths, tables --- everything needed for the bones of setting up.  I want it all gone.  So that I can use the shop (which previously was my antiques storage area) more as a workshop, and maybe even have room to put a vehicle in it.  

AND THEN?  Well.  God laughs at our puny plans.  Just look at 2020.  But a rough guess / sketch of 2021?  As I mentioned, hopefully running an AirBNB.  More volunteering / entertaining. And we are expecting our second grandchild -- that will help to keep us busy.  

Holiday Vintage Home Sale

 We are getting ready for our last home sale of the year --

with a Thanksgiving & Christmas theme.

 I still have two hickory log desks and one dining table

left from the ones I bought at auction a couple of weeks ago.

So they will be in the sale.

 Vintage Christmas.

But I definitely didn't find as much this year as normal.

 Some autumnish primitives.

 Local advertising.

 A whole herd of concrete animals and gnomes.

 Holiday sparkles.

We are only going to open Sunday afternoon,

so we'll see how that works out.

Getting Ready For Fall/Halloween Vintage Home Sale

 Another experiment in vintage selling at our new location.

I am having a Fall/Halloween home sale on Saturday, giving my

customers who come to my house a preview/discount on

my Fall merch before it goes into my antique booth.

 Some of it is just fallish vintage finds.

 But about 2/3 of it is Halloween themed.

I didn't have anywhere to sell it last year,

because we had just moved in.

 So I have about twice as much as I would normally have.

 I am hoping to get rid of all of my

Halloween Hats.  I don't think they

will sell as well here as they did

in my "decorator booth" up north.

It's all one big experiment.

We'll see how it goes.

Outside Set Up At Vintage Home Sale

Set Up and ready to roll.

It starts tonight from 6-8 pm.

Should still be hovering around 90 degrees,

and feeling even warmer!

Inside Set Up At Vintage Home Sale

I have wanted to have a vintage sale at our house since

the first of May.  All I needed was a Thursday,

Friday and Saturday without rain.  

Good luck with that.

This weekend is bookended with rain.

Rain Thursday morning, and Saturday night.

But it is the best we have had it in weeks.

So I am taking the plunge.

I am calling it a "Summer Solstice Vintage Sale"

because we are opening Friday night from 6-8 pm,

and Saturday 7-10 am.

Most of the "smalls" are inside,

and already set up.

Only a few pieces of furniture will need to be

dragged outside before we start.

Any "weatherproof" furniture is already out there.

I am having three loose "themes" inside:

birds, western, patriotic.

And plenty of patriotic vignettes outisde.

(Tune in tomorrow for pics of the outside.)

As usual, plenty of dollar items inside and out.