headline: 8 trillion people attend seward auction

we knew early in the week there were 2 auctions on the same fair grounds on the same saturday in february. silly us, we thought we would be the only ones (or maybe just one of a handful of ReSellers) that would want to take advantage of this rare occurrence. um. wrong. dead wrong. *shaking head* 

when a pressed wood table (pressed wood, people!) and 2 chairs (two! not 4!) went for more than $200 we knew it was going to be a gigantic waste of time (not to mention a real buzz kill to the weekend) to be at either auction all day.  so, about noon, we called it. no more standing around being reactive...it was time to get all proactive with our saturday. we headed to one of our secret honey holes! *faint roar of cheers and hoops-n-hollers*

 

just look at this freakin cart. the wheels. oh, it's like cheddar on a cheese biscuit! i just love those wheels. and it collapses. gah!

2 house mailboxes...a sewing table minus the sewing machine and a white shelf that blends in with the white snow behind it. super sweet pieces, i'm very excited about.

brent found all these wonderful pastel bathroom items. we've sold a couple of the toiled kleenex boxes before and a nice minty green set of laundry basket and wastebasket. (brent, i call not it on cleaning the wicker)

3 sewing boxes (the lady thought we were purchasing the stuff inside i think -- nope, lady, we like the boxes, thanks!) they all latch securely...always a bonus. i can't leave behind lights like that one above. serious love for this sort of industrial....and they remind me of my grandpa spieker. so...any guesses as to if i will be selling that lamp?

i know. no words. 

a moment of silence for the totally awesome chair.......

the hassock is actually one of the very few things we got for a good price at the very over priced, over hyped auctions. it's in sweet condition.

a freakin apple picker! and it's orange! i saw it. grabbed it. and since we were in the very back room...i had visions of carrying it like a torch and jogging to the front of the store and then trotting around the whole store with it held high. -- why? why the heck not. i'm stoked. not sure this will be sold. (i see a pattern forming here)

brent has an eagle eye for typewriters. eegads, not sure how he found this in all the clutter, but he did and it's a nice one.

fun nugget: we almost left without the chair, white shelf and red sewing table. yeah. i know. we're awesome. in our defense, we did leave them in the back room (per our usual routine) so we don't clutter up the front of the store. and then we proceeded to spend another hour in the store and buy more stuff. and when it was time to go, i had to go to the bathroom something fierce so my mind was already out of the store and down the road.

i'm a part of thrift share tuesday!