Estate Sale Finds In 2006!

[Chad Hauris]

I used to love to go to farm auctions back when I lived in Ohio, you could even bid half a dollar sometimes and get an old record player or TV. It was fun to listen to the auctioneer too...I think I first started going to auctions back when I was 14 or so.
Here in Texas it is usually fixed price estate sales but most of them are pretty reasonable. Last week an estate sale vendor gave us a Curtis Mathis CTC-17 like set. The one or two vendors that don't trade fair, I don't patronize.
It is almost always an antiques shop which specializes in estate services that conducts these sales here too. Usually any left over items will be donated to charitable thrift stores.