Windfalls
07-14-2010, 05:57 PM
#43
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,991
I think I probably hit the jackpot this past weekend. There were two antique sewing machines advertised on Kijiji with a very poor fuzzy picture of one of them facing backwards. The ad said they were 1917 and 1941 models which I was sure was wrong and she was asking $60 for both. When I got there she said she would take $50 and they were both featherweights! One was a 1948 model and the other a 1952. The owner said they had belonged to her mother and her aunt who had both recently died and as she didn't sew she didn't want them at her house. I felt almost guilty as I loaded them (I did give her the $60 she had asked) and she was thrilled. They both sew well and have all the attachments, instruction books and even the original oil cans and grease tubes. What a deal!!! Keep looking especially at ads from people cleaning out estates.
07-14-2010, 06:16 PM
#45
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: currently living in WV
Posts: 1,386
Originally Posted by Shelbie
I think I probably hit the jackpot this past weekend. There were two antique sewing machines advertised on Kijiji with a very poor fuzzy picture of one of them facing backwards. The ad said they were 1917 and 1941 models which I was sure was wrong and she was asking $60 for both. When I got there she said she would take $50 and they were both featherweights! One was a 1948 model and the other a 1952. The owner said they had belonged to her mother and her aunt who had both recently died and as she didn't sew she didn't want them at her house. I felt almost guilty as I loaded them (I did give her the $60 she had asked) and she was thrilled. They both sew well and have all the attachments, instruction books and even the original oil cans and grease tubes. What a deal!!! Keep looking especially at ads from people cleaning out estates.
07-14-2010, 06:18 PM
#46
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Brigham City, UT
Posts: 1,841
I find them most often because they are in the stores where I shop. It only takes a minute to check the racks at the thrift store if you are there on a regular basis. That is the other thing, you need to be a regular. That way your eyes can just skip along the stuff you don't need and wills top on things that are new. Also, get a friend who shops these places a lot and give them a list of things you are looking for. You can offer to repair some of the things she gets for her family in return - or make cookies or dinner for her family after a long shopping day. I used to baby sit her kids so she could go in peace. That is when she found the most stuff.
07-14-2010, 11:23 PM
#50
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: western australia
Posts: 1,793
WOW did well today I went into our 2 local op shops and 1 had lots of bundles of material from 50cents - $3.00 so I bought 4 bundles, the other had a table for $1.00 per roll regardless how big or small so I bought a heap of them to. both shops cost me 28 between them. then I spent $40.00 on plastic containers to put them in, I have colour coded them to a degree, now I just need to finish what I am making so I can start on the next project.
but it looks like the washing machine and iron are in for a work out
but it looks like the washing machine and iron are in for a work out
