All the great estate sales seem to be hundreds of miles away from where I live (northeastern Ohio, near Cleveland). The small town I live in does not have that many estate sales; those I have seen here don't have TVs, stereo consoles and such. There are folks in this town who have lived here most of if not their entire lives, so I would expect that after they pass on, their relatives would have an estate sale just to get the stuff out of the way, but as of yet (I've lived here 11 years), I haven't seen any sales anywhere near comparable to the ones Doug, et al. find in Chicago. Maybe the fact that Ohio is the easternmost state of the Midwest has something to do with it? Hmmm.
When I saw the pictures of the items for sale at both of the estate sales referenced here, I was reminded of the huge job I had as far as moving stuff went when I moved here in late 1999. I had brought perhaps 80 percent of the stuff with me that I'd had at my previous residence; since I was moving into a small apartment (one bedroom), that meant just about everything I brought here had to go. Go it did, mostly to the trash. Oh well. It will make it a lot easier if I ever have to move again; when I downsized the first time I had gotten rid of most of the stuff I knew I either would not have room for at the new apartment or would no longer have any use for. Seems to me, however, that in both estate sales shown in this thread, the houses were being cleared out 100 percent, as if the owners were moving into furnished apartments or nursing homes, or, as in my case, they were moving into an unfurnished apartment and would buy all new furniture.
BTW, while I did see a '70s-vintage Magnavox 19" color TV in the photos of the Naperville estate sale, I could not find any roundies in either batch of pictures, although I did see a stereo console in one. I looked high and low several times at both sets of photos, but the early '60s Maggie roundie mentioned here was nowhere to be found. Since there were perhaps 100 photos in total (for both sales), perhaps the roundie is there, but I missed it.