On Saturday my friend arrived at 7:30AM and we loaded into my car and headed out for tag sales. I’d found 11 for the route. The first was way north near the house I grew up in. It advertised canning jars.
It turns out it was one we’d been to last year and I’d gotten a lot of DVDs there. As I’d already been through all the boxes, I skipped them. But there were lots of nice books so I spent a good amount of time going through them. I found 4. None of the canning jars were the size I was looking for but I found garden stakes and 20d nails. We were there for about 45 minutes going through the books.
The next 3 I just found odds and ends. The 4th one I found this shelving unit for $3. It just fit in the Subaru. I need shelving for when I ever get to organizing the cellar, after freezers are moved, after the freezer room is finished. Probably years from now…
The 5th one was the mother lode! I’ve been following The Seasonal Homestead for a couple years and in this episode she talks about getting an 18 qt roaster to cook down sauces without having to use the ovens or stove top. I thought this was a great idea and sent the link for the roaster to my sister as a Christmas suggestion.
Little did I know she would order it immediately nor that I would find 2 of them in very good condition at a tag sale 2 days later! They are older but have been well cared for. The woman was older and said she wasn’t making big family dinners any more. (She was also selling huge stacks of dinner plates and silverware.) I got the 2 for the cost of one. She said they worked fine. I need to clean them up some and then I hope to use them to make spaghetti sauce in the next couple weeks.
We got them loaded in the car and went across the street to another sale.
There I hit another mother lode! It was a trailer with hundreds of DVDs laid out. I’ve been buying DVDs to replace the videos I have as they take up less room and you get captions and special features. I found 37 DVDs and paid about 80¢ each for them. We were there for at least 45 minutes.
The next tag sale didn’t have much but the next to last one did. I got this cast iron sauce pan and cover for $20. I also got the cover next to it that I hope will fit some of my cast iron. There were a few jars and 3 jar mugs too.
I didn’t find much at the last one but my friend found a lacquerware tray and a matching vase with a sort of Asian flair. She’d found a few odds and ends during the day.
We were home and had the car unloaded by 1PM. I spent the next few hours inventorying and putting away the DVDs. Labor Day weekend is one of the cornerstones of the tag sale season and I was delighted to not miss it.
Sunday I plan to finish the New Herb garden before it gets hot, as a heat wave is moving in on Monday, in the 90’sF. In the afternoon I have another concert in Old Deerfield.