We spent the day shopping along 90 miles of rummage sales, otherwise known as the IL Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor. We left at 8:00 AM with a set amount of money and came home at 4:30 PM with $2.00. What a way to spend a Spring Day!
The first big kitchen score of the day is the pressure cooker I found in Lexington, IL. It's a Mirro-Matic 4 Quart pressure cooker. eBay is selling them for $10.00 - $15.00, this one was only a $1!! I mentioned to the lady selling the cooker that I'd never used one, but was looking forward to testing it out. To my astonishment, she went in the house and brought out her recipes for the cooker and gave them to me!! I'm looking forward to making the Country Style Potatoes!
Another good find were the Vintage Star Wars and Smurfs glasses from Burger King. I loved the Smurfs as a child and was tickled to find Baker Smurf and Smurfette. The 1977 Star Wars glasses were only $0.25.
I think that one of my favorite purchases was the umbrella for the patio, only $5.00!! I can't wait to test it out this month! The other glasses in this photo will be making another appearance here soon. I've got a drink I want to share now that I have pretty glasses to show it off!
Towards the end of the day, I talked this iron skillet down to $5.00. It doesn't even look used, but I can fix that! The small skillet was in a Free Box. It's a Hammercraft 6 1/4 Inch Skillet. I can't find a date yet, but I'm thinking it's at least 50 - 60 + years old. Anybody know?
I loved playing Lego's as a kid. I remember spending time in the toy room with my little brother building houses. These Lego's will be a great addition to the set and they were only $0.50! We also got a Bionicle Lego set.
A crossbow for $5.00. Next step.... arrows. He's looking forward to testing this out!
Rummage, garage, yard, parks, sidewalks.... sales everywhere! By the end of the day I was even getting better at haggling over price!!! Check out a few more of our good deals!!
I loved playing Lego's as a kid. I remember spending time in the toy room with my little brother building houses. These Lego's will be a great addition to the set and they were only $0.50! We also got a Bionicle Lego set.
A crossbow for $5.00. Next step.... arrows. He's looking forward to testing this out!
Rummage, garage, yard, parks, sidewalks.... sales everywhere! By the end of the day I was even getting better at haggling over price!!! Check out a few more of our good deals!!
1 comment:
Not sure if you're interested in this sort of thing or not, but that LEGO set is clearly one of the earlier ones - it's a "vintage set", as we call them these days. You should probably avoid mixing that in with the rest of the LEGO parts that you have because that set is considered to be a collectible (of course, I don't know if the one you bought is complete - I just know you got a great deal on a "vintage" set). Checking peeron quickly, it looks like you found this set: http://peeron.com/inv/sets/120-2
there's no "for sale" price listed, though, so it's anyone's guess if it's worth something or not.
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