I love auctions. We go to auctionzip dot com. You can select how many miles you are willing to travel and then type in your zip. Hit enter. the next page shows the entire current month of auctions. You can click on a day, then on one of the auctions listed for that day and see what is being auctioned off. They rarely have everything listed. Most auctions also show pics, so click on View Photo Gallery.

Here is a pic of my purchases. I bought my son a computer desk for $20 on Craigslist yesterday. Sorry for the bad picture, I can't reach the light. For some reason auctions intimidate me. I'm sure if I went to one or found someone to go with me I might be braver.

I haven't been to an auction for a while but have enjoyed them. If you went and just observed a couple of transactions, I think you would not be intimidated long.

Around here I'm seeing garage, estate, tag sale all meaning the same type event....one not necessarily different than the other. I enjoy going, DH does not - which means we don't usually go. I'll pass them by lots of times since calling him then for the truck, or help seems like lots of trouble if I've picked up something I can't bring home myself.

MY SIL bought two Brown Jordan patio sets at an estate sale a couple of years ago for a summer home she was planning - I was so jealous. She has just told me this month I'm getting one of them after all....the legs of the chairs don't work on the dock where she'd planned to use it, legs will go between the dock boards, hang up if someone is scooting back a chair. So I lucked out ;)

I'd like to find an old buffet, sideboard or furniture piece I could paint, use in the garage under a window in front of my car for a surface to sit things on, doors/ storage below to hide things that are out on a counter now....I need to take in a couple and begin to look.

I love estate sales....and auctions and yard sales and flea markets and thrift shops. Almost everything I own came from one of them. I like your spoons. I have several like them. One of the things I always look for are vintage cooking utensils. I love the ones with plastic handles if they are marked USA or even Japan. Some have bakelite handles. I forgot to mention ebay....have bought a lot of stuff on ebay too.

Well I hadn't bought spoons for a long time and was so disappointed in the quality of the plastic and the price of the metal. These today were the third and fourth spoons i have bought recently (one is slotted). There were only $1.00 and well worth the price. I just might have to stop by there again tomorrow.

I love to go to estate sales and auctions! Check the website, estatesales.net, for listings in your area.

I love estate sales, yard sales, garage sales, moving sales, etc., etc! I don't go as often as I used to, as I have so much "junk" as it is. The past couple of years, I have had a REASON to go to them, as I pick up sheets, fabric, etc. for our church quilting group.

Oooooo hounds, thanks for the site. I've never heard of that one, I'll be checking it out.

Jewels, that is why I like the vintage utensils. They are much better quality than most you find now. I don't really like the old wooden handles that have paint....the paint comes off over the years and often they are chromed or something and they peel off. I honestly have at least 6 crocks full of them and my favorites ones have turquoise handles. It is something I always buy when I find them for a couple of dollars or less. I bought one yesterday....a ladle. It has a white handle with orange and brown flowers printed on it. Matches a spatula and a big spoon I bought last week....at an estate sale.

I have visited estate sales in the distant past. At my stage of life I am trying to eliminate, not add to my 'stuff'.

Seems like that up here, where the economy is horrific, if you don't get there(garage sale) in the first hour, all the good stuff is gone. People just flock to them. Goodwill is a joke, a bunch of worn out old junk with prices higher than new. I honestly have no idea how they stay in business and who buys that junk. The only deals there are the books which are dirt cheap.

The Goodwills around here are very busy. My girls love to go there and find tshirts and long sleeve tshirts from different places. I usually give my stuff to Amvets and yesterday I saw a picture in Goodwill that I really thought I gave to Amvets.

saw on tv recently a sale of all sort of things in one place...what was really neat part of the sales went to charity..they showed things like furniture to kitchen cabinets...

Estate sales were a grand form of entertainment and a great way to furnish our house when my husband and I were first married. Once he retires, I predict we'll be back at it. I still have a china buffet, a game table with chairs, and several dressers that we purchased over 20 years ago at estate sales. Today I went to one in a 1960's era ranch but only found a couple like-new square cake pans for $3.

There's a prominent estate sale company in this area that seems to get most of the business, but I've almost given up on going to their sales because, so much of the time, all they have are left overs of whatever the family didn't want. Some of their sales are so sparse, the items really should have been donated to Goodwill or sold in a garage sale instead calling it an "Estate Sale" with false advertising stating, "House Full!!"

I went to an estate sale today. Ugh! Nothing but junk. House was smelly too. I saw a man loading his van with ancient Life magazines. That van was packed. I didn't stay long.

Check out gsalr.com to see garage sales in your area on a map. Pick your favorites and then hit print and you will have directions from each one to the next. There is an app as well. I like to buy old kitchen things too. I bought a nice slotted spoon with a bakelite handle for 50 cents last week. I also bought a beautiful commercial Rowenta iron for $2. You just never know what you will find. I've bought some cast iron pans from flea markets that looked rusty and unappealing for $1 and $2 and brought them back to life.