There were only 8 garage sales that started today and there wasn’t much to be found.

I purchased a group of six vintage green handled cookie cutters at one sale for $1 which should sell for $15 or a little more. My only other purchase was four Coca-Cola souvenir spoons from 1991 for $1. This was the kind of purchase you shouldn’t make. I bought them more just to ba able to buy something than because they are really salable on eBay. With a good deal of luck they may go for $5. I have to stop making these “frustration purchases.”

Tomorrow I’ll leave home at 5 AM for the two hour drive to the Shady Hollow Flea Market in Detroit Lakes, MN and we will switch to the flea market/antique shop mode for a day. Hopefully the pickings will be better than today’s were.

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There were fourteen garage sales that opened in Grand Forks today. That’s about average this time of year for a Thursday, despite the Holiday weekend. Overall, those fourteen sales were good to me.

At the first sale I went to I spent $2 for a fairly nice red and white enamelware/graniteware kitchen pan with a checked design on it’s sides. Hopefully a $15 to $25 item on eBay.

A few sales later I bought a vintage souvenir photo album from Wall Drug in the Black Hills of South Dakota for $.50. I haven’t had a great deal of luck with photo albums in the past, but, for only $.50, I thought it would be fun to see what it might do on eBay.

The next several sales produced nothing of interest until I walked up the driveway of a small one-car garage with an elderly couple sitting outside, I momentarily thought I’d struck the mother-lode.

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