[Jo Nuvark]

My Dad and Mom are nutball flea market ferrets. They can find the most useless items, but because they got a great "deal" on the price, it is a treasure. Their home is filled with "heirloom" items that I never saw growing up. My parents insist the stacks of Franklin Mint Limited Edition plates under their bed will be worth a fortune someday. It doesn't matter that the price of these plates have actually decreased.

Actually, I'm collecting true stories for a project and FReepers have some doozies. Thanks so much and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[mdittmar]

Fulper vase with verticle incised mark for $2.50,that was a good day at a Kent Goodwill.

[Fintan]

Sure, I've gone to flea markets thinking I might meet the future Mrs. Fintan.

 

Then again, I've gone to the car wash thinking I might meet the future Mrs. Fintan.

[bannie]

Fleas carry the bubonic plague.

:-o

[nevergore]

I once bought a Beeber at a Flea Market....

[Young Werther]

I attended an estate auction in Cosby North Dakota. A friend joined me and we purchased some interesting atricles. There was an early 20th Century black and white photo of a farm house and it had been hand tinted.

Several years later, I met and married my wife and she was interested in this painting that I had stuck away. I enjoyed my first Thanksgiving with her family and she asked me to bring the picture. Her Mom identified it as the family house in Blaisdell North Dakota and told me that the estate sale had been for her cousin who had owned the picture. Still have it!

[bobhoskins]

I bought a blind lot from a government warehouse auction ... it just arrived yesterday, a big wooden crate labeled:

TOP SECRET, ARMY INTEL 9906753 DO NOT OPEN!

I'll probably get around to opening it tomorrow, might be interesting.

:)

[Lucretia Borgia]

Some of my best stuff comes from garage sales, thrift stores etc. One particular buy was a $10 six legged side table painted flat yellow. Paint stripper and a lot of TLC later, she is a beauty. My dad say table as originally bought and said WHY? After the project was done, he complimented me on my eye for wood.